Hold Up! And Wait a Minute!

Let Me Put My 2 Cents in it!

well, well, well... is it too late to apologize?

my M.I.A.-status is just...unacceptable, my bad.

So lemme run through the past week and a half. DANG!

introducing...

DA SUPER POST

(i'm trying to channel the past week and a half's energy into one post, so dun be intimidated by my exclamation points and upper case bodacities)

So i wrote my teaser post (by the way, i know y'all liked my sessy face with the pasta) after coming back from our last Cal Studies trip...it was sad...

after six weeks of road-tripping and strawberry-eating, and "learning," it's over.

i'm gonna miss it...but it was the absolute perfect way to end high school.

we took some long-exposure shots at night:

we went on ferries...and partied on the car roofs (don't show the administration this photo):

we set up tents:

we made friends:

[shoutout, alsworth!]

and we stealth-planted 10 strawberry plants in urban's backyard...except now it's not stealth anymore because i told you. 

Okay, so last Wednesday we started planning for a presentation we threw together for Thursday night to showcase all we had learned. Natalie, Miles, and I were in charge of slideshow and it was maybe one of the more stressful times in my life. Regardless, the slideshow came out G.R.8... i don't really think i'm going to upload it anywhere, so for all you Cal Studiers...have fun watching it.

Friday was the last day of school...kinda went too fast and i didn't even realize it was the last day at urban. 

That night i was really too stressed out by polishing my speech that all i did was watch A Very Brady Sequel on television and practice my speech. it was a great friday night. 

Then, Satchurday June 7, 2008 (a.k.a. 06.07.08) was Graduation.

WELCOME 2 GRADUATION

douglas wanted to get all "artistic"

doing my mic-check

some people who crashed my graduation

the hoodlums.... who decided to honk the horn during someone else's speech...

represent, scubas!

hmm...my speech. instead of quoting the "best" part, i will quote and color my failed joke...

"And yet, Everything seems to be happening right now… in 2006. Goodbye to lower classmen ease, of myspacing without consequence, of reading the “easie..”, pardon me… of “reading” the easier books on the 9th/10th grade summer reading list. "

honestly, it's so painful to rewatch my speech during this part...total silence. but in my head it was a good joke...come on, who really does summer reading?

then i posed with the family.

and the leaders...except Winchell.

and these fools. i swear, even before i get off the graduation stage, they're standing there with plates of cake...like little thieves/stalkers/paparazzi... they've been trained well.

and the scubas.

and papa jang... thanks for coming, sir. really today we were talking about how hard it must've been to mobilize RKJ and everything. mad love.

and a good picture with Adrienne and Clifton and RKJ's carriage.

AND a bonus pic with Riley...although this creepy paparazzi dude like crept up and also started taking pictures of us...i have no idea who that fool was.... i apologize.

some more shoutouts to Alsworth.

i don't even know who took this, but they could improve their skills... my bad with the hateration.

i don't know who took this either but they could improve their skills... SIKE. i DO know who took this... yea...my gmama's skills are not that prime. 

then me and the diva. 

and my gmama in her pimp glasses, cane, and Uggs. yea her feet got swollen and her feet could only fit into them uggs. thank you, australia. 

then headed on over to the slanted door to take photos.

and some more

and finally this other hobo. 

then the camera actually died. so we took no more pictures until the end to see if some emergency battery juice would help it out. so we got photos of some dessert:

and some more dessert

and the fam:

so this restaurant's bathroom was so Grade A it's not even funny.

can't even describe it. i would've photographed it except the camera died and only creepers take photos of bathrooms.

THEN, the perfect day didn't end yet. we went to see Kung Fu Panda as a fam...and it's kinda embarrassing because it was the second time i had seen it in one week... and douglas and i charged the camera and brought it on purpose to document my buddies:

then the mother wanted to get closer
and yea...
so douglas called "dibsies" on vanessa hugens which leaves me next to diva zachary efron.... whose cardboard cutout automatically smirks to the poser on his right... i hate you zach.

and other news on the diva front, i pulled a Mariah Carey and changed my clothes from graduation to movie theater. and again for Grad Nite...

so we were dropped off at 8:45 at the Mervyn's Parking Lot Off of Geary... and that was kinda sentimental because ever since i went to SFDS, we were always dropped off at Mervyn's parking lot for field trips and outdoor ed...so peace out

then there was a henna tattoo artist. and i did not really want to show off some flowery sunburst hippie henna so instead i asked the lady if she read harry potter...and she said no. so i described to her the visual qualities of the Dark Mark. Then homegirl tried to show me some of her skeleton templates but i just told her i'd trust if she free-handed a skull with a snake-tongue. and she did it. it was SOOOO cool... i was so proud of it.

UNTIL natalie and I took photobooth pics of it and her elbow smudged half of it's delicate skull off....

mine is the one on the bottom.
R.I.P.  and now it's fading. 

then there were some break dancers...
and some more photobooth pics...
yea there are more pictures on facebook...i'm just not really wanting to upload everythang.

So the next day on Sunday i kinda sorta slept in...my bad. and then i went to choir and KCDC... then yea. kinda a relaxation day... because the next day was...

CalSO... which is my Cal Orientation. 

so i had to wake up at like 6:45 because the moms and I picked up Cecily at 7:30 and we carpooled on over to Berkeley.

it was super hot in berkeley and there are so many hills on campus...and oh boy, i was sweating like a mofo. so then i became ultra self-conscious because of my possible stank. 

but yea...we were split up into our separate colleges, and i'm a part of the College of Environmental Design...there were maybe fifty of us during this particular orientation... two of us were Landscape Architecture majors (including me), two were Urban Planning majors, and the rest were Architecture majors...kinda interesting.

then had some other activities...went to Papamingo, a froyo place near campus...their flavors were original, green tea, and pomegranate. except instead of saying that directly, they'd list flavors as "Papamingo Plus Pomegranate".... so i had to be real and ask them if that meant papamingo with pomegranate seeds mixed in, or pomegranate-flavored yogurt. 

and so, i began my time at Cal by sounding like an idiot.

good works, good works.

Okay, if you readers are fading by now, i am fading now as well. so i will bullet point the rest.

Tuesday, June 10th

• woke up and met my orientation roommate (i was sleeping when he sauntered in...at 4am)
• left berkeley
• rested
• picked up cecily again to head to stinson/bolinas for Lucy's grad party
• got stressed out on the frakkin' windy roads to bolinas
• got lost
• got found
• went to party
• left lucy's to sleep at anya's house in bolinas

Wednesday, June 11th

• woke up
• went into town to shop for some food
• ate french toast, cleaned up, and left BoBo town
• drove home

Thursday, June 12th

• woke up
• drove to christopher's house for Wash's graduation
• brought a jug of juice, chewy bars, and some mochi for provisions
• got stopped before entering the football field because the graduates were coming by...so we stood there and rang the cowbells for all the graduates (Congrazzzulazzzians Judith, Nico, Kevin, Katrina, V Mama, and whoever else was there that we supported that i forget now but i still care about)
• gave a shoutout to Jerusalem
• Ate at Burma Superstar
• When i was in the bathroom at Burma Superstar i blew my nose and my nose started to bleed...bad (it was a hot day, people).
• exit bathroom with my fingers pinching my nose, paper towel held to the nostrils, and Jeriel and Christopher laughing at me.
• Christopher comes back from bathroom with a stolen roll of toilet paper to aid my nose.
• came home
• blogged like a nerd!

oooh wee it's been a long time that i've been away.

i've missed blogging. but i've been so jam packed that now is really the only time i could blog.

hopefully, we're resuming the normal schedule. 

OUTTIEZ!!!