Wednesday, January 04, 2006

in retrospect: 2005 part one

so the time has come... a brand new year... brand new me? ... i think not! hahaha.

... too bad, you all will have to wait for something grand and monumental for me to make some historic change.

2005 has been pretty good to me.

this year began with izelle workin at pasta pomodoro. also, karl and i were back in the saddle again, tryin to start over and rebuild. the beginning of the year did not show much progress for us, but it was truly only the beginning.

meanwhile, i was busy with my final semester of school EVER... and i mean ever... no grad school for me. my classes included the thesis class, the pcn decal, anthropology, developmental psych, and business. did pretty well overall and made some kick ass friends along the way. sadly, it will be rather difficult to see any of them from here on out.

february brought about good times in vegas for our birthdays (kim, jon, and me). it rained, but we still had fun.

spring trodded along... not too much sunshine, but the end of my school career was nearing. i dreaded having to complete my thesis... but it was pretty much on like donkey kong for me. i was set. mtv was to be the subject of my undergraduate thesis. i put in some pretty good hours at starbucks reading and writing. i also began to rely more on the powers of caffeine, which prior to spring 2005 didn't have much of an effect on me... but then again, i never really needed it before.

as april approached, for the first time in my life, i began to feel actual stress. surprisingly, college had been almost a breeze. personally, i think anything can be easy as long as you have fun with it and have genuine interest in it. along with stress, karl and i were doing just ok. nothing big. we were a work
in progress.

finally, may came along and i graduated. f*ck yes!

the summer progressed and freedom felt dandy. i still felt a bit tied down because of working at pasta pomodoro, but it was money in my pocket... so i didn't mind much. plus, karl was working in san jose through the summer, so its not like i could really see him anyway. on top of all that, we were kinda both in our own worlds. on my part, it wasn't by choice. it was more like me having to find stuff to do since karl seemed preoccupied.