Here's to the Past...and to the Future

Greeting's from the Bay...

Let me just start by saying that...it's effin' cold here while those who live in the greater Southern California area bask in sunshine and warmth. Perhaps that should be something to be thankful for...that your ass isn't freezing at the moment! Well, enough about the cold. Here's the top 5 of the moment.

5) I went to the Immaculate Conception Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer (my parish at home). That was interesting in the sense that most of the people there were old people or people who are pretty serious about their faith. I guess I am still pretty serious with my faith. I think that's one thing I miss about Irvine, the people that I shared my faith with were of the same age group.

However, the interesting thing was not about today but rather yesterday. My family usually goes to Saturday Vigil Mass, but not last weekend because of tha Paquiao-De La Hoya fight (which, by the way, was effin' amazing). Therefore, we ended up going to St. Catherine of Siena for Sunday noon Mass. I hate going there late, which we ended up doing. The church is not big enough for the number of parishioners that attend the Noon Mass. We ended up standing out in the hallway for that Mass. That was perhaps the worst experience that I have had for Sunday Mass. We couldn't hear the priest, people were having conversations in the hallway, and kids were running around. The one thing I noticed was this really young couple with their kid. From the way they dressed, it seems like they are probably in their early 20's. Man, that is crazy! I don't expect to have any kids, if I even do get kids, until my late 20's to early 30's. What was even bizarre was how impractical the lady was dressed to take care of her kid. She wore high heel boots, and I just noticed how much she struggled to chase her kid around the hallway and through the chapel. I'm not saying that you can't be a hot parent, BUT you do need to consider practicality especially if you know if your kid loves running around like crazy. Where was the dad in all of this? He was talking to his friends in the hallway during Mass. I may not have kids, but all I know is this...DON'T do what that guy was doing.

4) Hopefully by the end of January, I will be back at school to complete prerequisites for grad school. I'm planning to go to Solano Community College. It was interesting because for the first time in a long time, I was treated like a kid. It felt like I went backwards in time and became a high schooler. First off, I went there early in the morning to sign up for a counseling appointment. As I asked for one since the website stated that I had to go there in person because I'm classified as a "transfer student", the lady not only told me to make the appointment online, but showed me the entire process. She even treated me as if I have never seen the internet in my life. I understand that community college accommodates underprivileged students; however, even they have now heard of the internet. Just my entire time trying to get registered to the school I was being babied around. I guess they're just used to doing that to the many that go there.

3) Speaking of being a kid, Kirs wrote a very awesome blog about 90's music.

Also, Ray wrote a very compelling note about the music of the 2000's.

If you want to know what good music was in those two decades, read and learn!

Really brings me back to knowing music through the radio and music videos.

2) I've been cleaning my room and I have found some interesting things from my past. What have I found? I found an old newsletter from middle school. Man, it was crazy because all the articles were about stuff in 1999 to 2000. For example, The Hot Boyz, *NSYNC, The Sixth Sense...crazy. It even had an article that I wrote for a Bible verse. It was crazy because it really had an Evangelical twist to it (It was an article that degraded the necessity of confession from an 8th grader's perspective a.k.a. my perspective.). My, how much my thoughts have changed through the years. I also found this:



My 18th birthday card. I find it funny because 1) "hear" and "your" are improperly used and 2) I spent 4 years of my life in Orange County. However, I wasn't really a Rachel Bilson fan or even into the OC.

I guess this is where my inappropriateness came from as well. Hooray for being 18.

1) The big news for the moment: I've been TENTATIVELY selected for a job. It's an agricultural specialist position for the Department of Homeland Security. It's really just a screener under US Customs in the San Francisco area (most likely the airport). The thing I'm scared of is oddly not the interview but rather the security check. The interview is not really that insanely difficult because they are only checking if I'm sort of a crazy person that shouldn't be working as a part of US Customs.

However, I guess I have to get used to being an open book if I am to run in public office in the future ;).

Otherwise, even though I will continue looking and will go to school for at least a semester (the security check will take 4-5 months), I think I will take it. It's a good place to start somewhere PENDING I pass the security check.

Hope the finals went well to those that are in school.

Enjoy the Christmahanukwanzakah season! Keep warm, people.

That is all.