Priceless

Thank You Letters $ 8

Sorry Brownies $10

Alcohol $300

Hospitalization $ 500

Ambulance $1500

Housing License Repeal $5520

The memory of swimming in pools of my own vomit, reminiscing whether or not I would die there in that hospital waiting for my roommate to pick me up and take me home

The throbbing aftermath confronted with a 24- hour hang over, counseling, essays, meetings, and millions of alcohol pamphlets all concealed with a curtain of smiles and the belief that I am okay

The humiliating confession of my vulnerability and weakness to the broken faces of my parents as they see the thousands of dollars in damages for my poor decisions that has caused fights between me and my conscious, reputation, friends, family, and loved ones that has only amounted to a lost in trust within myself and within my friends

Priceless.

nose bleed.

I was standing there; head down, naked from head to toe with hot water beating down against my back, watching the never ending drops of blood fall from the tip of my nose. I stood in that pale beige stall for what seemed like hours, lost in this strange sense of time where nights were days and days were nights and life seemed to become one long continuous cycle of mechanical tasks. There was no distinction from sunset to sunrise or from sunrise to sunset. And with each drop passed another day that I could have had. Another day where I could have made a memory, but instead I am left with this infinite day.

I find myself watching people. Watching people come home and people go home and people leaving and people running, but all the same people going somewhere and I am no where but here. My days filled with nothing but air. My heart forgotten. My breath slow. But there is an inconsistency to my predictable life that is the basic foundation to my existence.

It is the waterfall of crimson red from the tunnels in which I breathe. It revives my being, reminding me that there is life in the warm blood that rushes with a fervid force throughout my veins. It is an opacity that will not last. It is the reason why I know that this day will end whether it be tomorrow or the next day or the next year. It will end because there is something finite to this infinite bloody cycle and it is that that makes my heart remembered and my breath strong.

skit 1

enter kat.

K: Why hello there, friend!

alex: Hello, Kat!

K: You know, I wish I had two cans and a piece of string so we could connect them and talk to each other.

alex: Well,what do you know! I just happen to have two cans and a piece of string.
(pulls out cans and string)

K: Wow, that's fantastic. Now, I can talk to you whenever I want!

end scene.

Lemons.

What do I see?
Vibrant yellow lemons
Each cut into perfect thin slices
And there are millions of them.
And why are there lemons, you might ask.
Because my dad likes to cut lemons. Lots of them.
And for what?
Optimism

You see, each lemon has a little slit in the center of its yellow sun where it will be placed on a polished glass by a dishwasher’s cracked hands, filled with cubes of glistening ice and cold water by a nervous busser, and finally taken by the delicate, but fastidious server to the gentleman in a cashmere sweater who is sweating profusely.

Naturally the more lemons that are used, the more customers there will be. So at the beginning of each day, my dad cuts four extra large lemons into slices of 12 each. And he continues to cut them every hour. This isn’t so bad… if we were an established restaurant with a steady inflow of customers. But we’re not. So by the end of the day, we are swimming in bright neon lemons, breathing in the citrus with our permanently pursed lips and crying because it’s stinging our eyes.

No one wants to tell my dad to stop cutting the lemons. No one wants to tell him that he’s wasting money and that those lemons are probably just going to be stored in the fridge for the next day when they turn brown at the edges and hard on the outer skin. And why not? Because we are all hoping for the same thing: for this restaurant to be successful. We’ve put our hearts and our hopes and we’ve sacrificed so much for this restaurant. We’ve given up the concept of family for this restaurant and now all we can think about is the success for the restaurant because we can’t bare to think of anything less of that. It would be too heartbreaking. So here we are holding our breath and listening to the incessant chopping of the cutting board hoping that a hungry prospect will gallantly walk through those cream colored doors.

A tribute to the late Mr. Puma

I'm afraid to report that my white puma bag that I am so widely known for in ARCH class has finally collapsed into critical condition. It is unfortunate to say that after many failed attempts in surgery I could not save it's only strap, but alas it is not useless yet! Although an amputee, Mr. Puma will remain at a restful peace upon my wooden shelf.

Let us take a moment to remember his most eventful life...

He was first found by Kathlyn in an Isetand department store and bought for 7 dollars (though worth much more!) Then carefully wrapped in a red suitcase where he then traveled across the Pacific and found himself visiting family and after a week or so, he found his new home in San Luis Obispo where he attended college in Calpoly.

He often enjoyed going to movies, shopping, and other such fun places. He began his work with the responsibility of carrying daily necessities like wallets and food, but as he grew in strength, he began to carry textbooks and notebooks. However in his young age, he carried too much for his small frame and that was the beginning of the end for Mr. Puma.

Take care, Mr. Puma! We love you dearly.

to write love on her arms (valentine's day 2008)

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard,
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart,
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things,
Like a shoebox of photographs,
With sepiatone loving,
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart ,
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy,
And sometimes life can be deceiving,
I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together

MMM, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together 

jack johnson
better together

On the subject of blogging...

"You know what just occurred to me? You're just a kid.
You haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about."

-Good Will Hunting