Round 1

We registered for 3 classes today! One is only 1 unit and its online so maybe we registered for 2 1/2 classes. The important thing is we got that "introduction to psychological statistics" class, which you need to take most of the other psychology classes. Then i'm taking developmental psychology while at the same time angela is taking variations in human sexuality. Then once again we are taking "Psychology: the major and the profession" online.

Oh and also today i played disc golf with alex barker in golden gate park this morning. The course is so cool with a bunch of trees and wilderness. It was fun, but my arm got tired fast. I was doing pretty good, then as my arm got tired, my game went downhill.

This is the Conservatory of Flowers:

¡Frijoles!

dinner is cooking right now and we got beans rice and tortillas. Pat left to go down to mission viejo today and gave us his left over fruit and eggs and stuff. We ate most of his stuff for breakfast and lunch.

We had lunch at Zachary's, a pizza place in oakland that gets rave reviews. some have called it the "best chicago pizza on the west". A few weeks ago we had eaten at Little Star(San Francisco), which had really good chicago style pizza. And after having both, it was unanimous that Little Star was better.

Later that night after eating Latkas, instead of playing scattegories and other games, we took someone to the ER. Pat, Angela, and i went to our friend Mara's house in Berkeley and while we were there her boyfriend, Pablo, crashed his bike on his way to class and knocked out his teeth. None one else had a car but pat so we took him to the ER. i don't know how he is doing now, but think i he is okay, he was handling it pretty well when we dropped him off.

Spanish

Yesterday we went to school to talk to the spanish department about minoring in spanish. From what they told us at orientation, basically with budget cuts, they don't want you to minor and not allowing double majors. At 120 units, which is the graduation requirement is, they want you out the door. I'm not sure how serious they are about this. I don't really care so much about the title of the minor, it just want to be able to speak spanish. Are they going to boot me out the door when i get to 120 units graduated or not!? I want to take spanish, but i don't want it to somehow hurt me in this stupid school world.
Anyways, the lady at the foreign languages department gave me a web address to a test i can take online to help to place me in the appropriate spanish class. She said that unfortunately i cannot meet with a spanish faculty advisor until the semester has begun.

I checked the class schedule online today, all the classes are filling up!
I'm not going to stress about it too much, i've been here before, and it is what it is.

Laundry day

Believe it or not, this is the first time i'm doing laundry up here! at $1.75 a wash and $1.25 a dry, i wait until i have absolutely no clean underwear left to do the laundry.
Also, due to budget cuts in such, there's been a lot going on with school. Nothing I have any say in, but nonetheless a lot of things have been changed. First school tuition has gone up. Second, they have cut down the number of classes pretty significantly. I'm sure there has been many more but those are the main ones. So, because they were cutting classes, they just released the fall 2009 class schedule today, so we can now finally look at the schedule and try to figure out our classes for next semester. As of now, it looks like this is going to be frustrating because there are a lot fewer classes, with no fewer students.

Cookies

Tonight we made cookies from scratch. They came out looking delicious. The only thing is, we don't think they were sweet enough (sorry gregg). Earlier today we saw the movie "(500) days of summer". It was a really good movie, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yesterday we job searched on the internet, sent our resumes and cover letters to a few places. It's really weird nowadays. I feel like you just send in your resume and hope for the best. They specifically ask you not to call them to follow up, and that they will contact you if you qualify. It's a pretty hopeless feeling.
In a completely unrelated topic, i was surfin the web earlier today, and i came accross a blog by a guy who lives without money. He hasn't spent or recieved a single cent. His name is Daniel Suelo. He lives in caves, picks berries, hikes around, travels through towns, all without money. He's been doing this close to 10 years. Sounds a little crazy, or a little hippie-ish, but the reasons behind it make sense. His life with money was filled with stress and unhappiness, and rewards outside of monetary compensation meant a lot more. I totally am with this guy in theory, I just don't have the guts to hop ship.

Baking!

Our first attempt at baking came out a success (at least to us, i don't know if it would to anyone else's standards). The item we baked was a vegetarian tamale cornbread casserole. It's basically a lot of corn, a lot of beans, a lot of cheese, and a lot of cornbread (with some other ingredients). Our baking future just got a little brighter!



Maybe it doesn't look so appetizing...oh well.

Past Few Days

We've been spending a lot of time at the park just enjoying the good weather. Pat and hollyn came over from berkeley and we had a picnic and tried to fly a kite. The next night we went over to berkeley and hung out with pat and his hockey friends, kevin and charles. Oh! and we got Fenton's ice cream (the best ice cream in the world) too. I got cream caramel almond crunch, a.k.a heaven in a cup. Angela got a close runner up with Banana Nut, which tastes like a banana nut muffin! Pat got coffee cookie crunch, which is also amazing. Then, Hollyn, oh boy hollyn, bless her heart, decided to go with half bubblegum and half rocky road.




Then today, we went to the Renegade Craft Fair, which is a bunch of crafts, apparel, jewelry, posters, and all kinds of other stuff made by artists all around the world. The stuff was super cool and unique. I think we are gonna go back tomorrow.