labor day weekend fun-ness

on thursday night, sarita and i decided to go for a bike ride and we went to the new soccer field and stanford. then sarita gets a birthday surprise from jason (he came to visit for the weekend). but now jason must think that all we ever do late at night is bike around since that's what we were doing the last time he surprised her.

on friday i hung out with sara, kristin, and sam. sam said that he had never experienced so much girl talk before in his life. haha... later on, sara, kristin, and i went to the old pro where we ran into a very drunk michael f. and his coworkers. he gets a bit cocky when he's drunk but i think it's hilarious b/c when he's sober he's so shy and quiet.

on saturday, sara, michael h., sam, and i went to an a's game. they lost to baltimore. sadness. they were on a home game winning streak. sam taught me a lot about baseball and baseball strategy. on the way home, we saw an accident happen on 880. a girl braked (i'm going to assume that braked is a real word) really hard and lost control of her car. she tried to over-correct her steering wheel and went from the 4th lane all the way to the 1st lane and hit a car. i guess that technically the car hit her. kind of like a "T". michael pulled over and we stayed with them until the cops came. both drivers were fine but pretty shook up. the girl's car is pretty much totaled and the guys car will need work done. he was saying that he lives in hayward but works in redwood city and was worried about how he'd get to work. hopefully his insurance will pay for a rental. the airbags deployed in both cars. craziness. and the girl's car's front wheel was in a 45 degree angle, was leaking oil and other fluid, and looked undriveable. but a cop drove it to the shoulder of the freeway. i was pretty impressed that the car could do that at all. after michael gave his info to the two drivers, we went home. so eventful! later on that night, kristin, sharon, esther, and i went to boss, a korean club in sf. there was a $15 cover (BOO!!) but we know the bartender so all the drinks were free (WWOOOOTT!!) they don't carry seagrams so i couldn't have my usual 7&7s (boo) but they had fun music (yay!). they played sexy/back three times. which i thought was a bit excessive. but they also played a couple 80's songs. overall: good day.

on sunday i went to anna marie's bbq. good times. i hadn't seen her in a few months and got to catch up with rachel. she just finished archaeology field school so she had alot to say about it. and i was able to sympathize since i when through the exact same thing last year. when i got back, kristin, sara, and i went to the nut house and felt like we were intruding on a wedding reception. a bunch of ppl descended upon the nuthouse for a wedding afterparty. apparently, they used to come to the nut house all the time and wanted to wax nostalgic. i was ok with it since they picked good songs on the juke box.

weekend rating: good times and fun had by all. well, except for those two in the car accident.

lack of human interaction

kristin made a surprise visit to me at work today. that was when i realized that i have no human interaction. today especially. i was the only one in the office since everyone else was in a meeting. when krisitn came, i literally jumped out of my chair and skipped to her. and then she started to teach me how to dance. she taught me the two-step and the cha cha cha. that was pretty fun. then we just sat around and talked. as i was petting her hair. it was after i started petting her that i realized that i need more human interaction.

another sign that i need more human interaction is that i keep talking to telemarketers. today a lady from DHL called to ask if we wanted to switch from fedex/ups to dhl. i let her keep talking and quoting prices and giving her false information. it was a fun 10 minutes. yes. definitely need more human interaction.

non-drowsy medicine should be NON-DROWSY

i officially have a cold. before it was just my throat and weird voice. now coughing has been added to the mix. the hydrogen peroxide experiment kinda worked. gargling it in a 1:1 solution with water helped my throat. but putting it into my ear didn't prevent a cold. but maybe it was b/c i didn't do it often enough. and i'm my own test subject so who knows. maybe it works better on others. sarita told me to take a shot of vodka and follow it with a couple glasses of water. i tried that too. i don't know how well it worked on my throat but it helped me sleep. i've also been taking a yucky, unnaturally blue, "non-drowsy" cough syrup. it put me to sleep yesterday. which is not good. today i took it with caffeine. so i haven't fallen asleep but i haven't been awake either.

over the weekend i ran into nancy wong, the dermatologist i used to work for back in high school. she was painting a watercolor of a landscape when we saw her. and she won the most recent weekly photo contest. such an artsy doctor! she gave me and sarita a raffle ticket. and i just got a call saying that i won! woo! i get $100 from the pacific art league to either buy a piece of art or take a class. i think i'm going to take a class.

i think i'm getting sick

so i'm getting sick. i have a sore throat and a mini cough. yesterday i drank alot of airborne but i don't think it helped me too much since i woke up with a sore throat. this morning i bought hydrogen peroxide and i put some in my ears and i'm gonna gargle with it later. i wonder if this will work. lots of people online are saying that hydrogen peroxide is the best thing for colds and such.

yesterday, i had problems bringing food from the plate up to my mouth. for some reason, lots of the food i ate decided to take a detour onto my shirt. maybe it's a sign that i should do my laundry.

i tried making hummus from dried garbanzo beans (as opposed to canned) yesterday. i didn't know that after you soak the beans you have to cook them. instead, i soaked the beans for a few days and then tried to blend them. i thought it was unusually hard but i went with it. until i tasted the "hummus". EW! i tried to make it taste better with cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and garlic. but still. no. i had only ever made hummus from canned beans and i guess they take care of the cooking part for me. booo... i really wanted hummus too. ah well. maybe next time.

weekends are when fun happens

i've forgotten how good back to the future is. last night i watched back to the future 1 and 2. they're pretty much awesome. someday i'll watch the third. and i'll watch the commentary too. i heart commentary.

on saturday i went (back) to the old pro and rode the bull. i also ran into a bunch of paly guys. hi glen, hans, matt, greg, and rob! even though you don't know that this blog exists. i didn't last. i slid off. which means that someday, there will be a rematch. WATCH OUT!

random hs reunions at the old pro is interesting. always good to catch up with people you haven't seen in about 6 years.

lately, i've been drinking alot, staying out way too late, meeting new people (shout out to michael, travis, phil, and mama d and her other homeless friends!), and having alot of fun doing it.

sara and i have pretty much been dating for that last month. we see each other almost every day, we walked around shoreline and watched a pretty sunset, ate at date restaurants, and did other date like things. the best part: we don't annoy each other to death.

yesterday, sara, her friend brianna, michael, and i went to sf to go to ozomatli. but we got there too late and weren't allowed to see them. which sucks b/c ozomatli is so good to see live. so we left. instead, we went to the stinking rose for some yummy-ness and a candy store. i really like candy stores. i bought chocolates that look like rocks. and michael bought us each a truffle. too bad sara and i got ours confused. i guess i'll never know what a champagne truffle tastes like and sara won't know what a peanut butter truffle tastes like.

whoa.. long time no blog

i guess an update of my life is in order.
my parents' company burned down in april and we're in the process of working the whole insurance thing out. thankfully, nobody was injured in the fire and we have some good people helping us out. shout out to uncle rick!
i finished my certificate in archaeology and GIS in may/june. which is nice. since i'm currently in the hate part of my love/hate relationship with school.
right now i'm working with my parents doing all sorts of office things. but i'm also looking for a job someplace else. geographically, i want to find a job in either san francisco or new york city. and maybe DC or alaska.
i've started walking the dish. yesterday i saw it move. pretty cool. i've learned a few things about myself while walking. 1) i have no endurance 2) when i run, i inhale twice and exhale twice. it's weird and makes me sound like i'm dying 3) my walking speed is the same as this one guy's running speed times 3. i've nicknamed him speedy gonzalez.
last saturday i went to holly's housewarming/superhero costume party. i was scientistwoman b/c the only thing i could find as a costume is my lab coat. duff man won the costume contest. sara used my graduation gown as a cape and her friend tomi wore my hardhat. i'm not very good at last minute costume making. there were 2 quailmen, a duff man, she-ra, a businessman, a supergirl, and surprisingly 4 ppl were in lab coats.
last sunday was my cousin julie's sloshball bday party. it was fun as always. except when i got home, i realized that i had a sunburn. also, someone threw away almost an entire pan of 5 layer dip. who does that??!! i would have taken it home if it wasn't in the trash first.
this weekend sara and i are gonna make a trip down to LA for a wedding. that should be fun. we originally wanted to go down friday, wedding saturday, vegas sat/sun, and drive up on sunday. but now we're carpooling with other people and it's become complicated.
on to current events:
the terrorism threat in england is pretty scary stuff. but i like that it was stopped before anything happened. it gives me hope that separate agencies are talking to each other instead of hoarding information. and it's going to be a bit more inconvenient to fly but all the security precautions are making me feel a bit safer.
lieberman should accept defeat and not run as an independent. it's kinda like giving up cigarettes but replacing it with cigars.
LC and jason from laguna beach (and later her spin off, the hills) have broken up. which leads me to say this: LC should have taken the internship in paris over staying in a beach house with jason all summer. really. for a girl who wants to get into the fashion world, she made a crappy career move.

long time no post

it's been a while since i last posted. it became 2006, i had a birthday, and other stuff that i can't remember. but here's a few things that i did recently that i deemed blog-worthy.
i went on my first ever paid archaeology dig thing. that was exciting. except that it had rained the night before so i had to dry screen mud. basicly push mud through a giant strainer. i was so tired by the end of the day that i would see things that i should have taken out like charcoal and instead smushed it up so that it'd "disappear" or "accidentaly" let little shell pieces fall through the dry screen. and the mud was so compacted, it took forever to actually screen a full bucket load. wowzers was i tired and sore the next day.
i got stood up for a job interview. i was supposed to meet a guy so he could interview me but then he called me a couple hours later saying that he found someone else. then the next day i get a call from him again saying that the person he hired the day before doesn't know english well enough (it's a korean company so they probably had the whole interview in korean and the topic of english somehow never came up). so we set up an interview for the next day. 45 minutes before the interview, he called me and asks if we can have the interview sometime after 2. I say that's fine and wait for his call. but he never does. how rude is that? i was not happy about that at all. b/c i decided to go to the interview instead of doing another archaeology dig. so instead i cleaned the house. angrily.
i love the police blotter. i just read one from half moon bay.
"Miramontes Point Road., 6:26 am: Officers responded to reports of a boisterous customer at the Ritz-Carlton. When they arrived, the apparently intoxicated man introduced himself as 'Crazy' and said he was the hotel owner. He was booked into San Mateo County Jail." hahaha!!
it was my cousin's engagement party on saturday. that was fun. it was a cocktail party and jake brought whiskey. which i drank. alot. and later paid the price. but the party was fun because i'd never met pete's family. he's half japanese so you can tell which half is which. i guess you can say that for julie too. but i already know julie's family. we met one of pete's cousins who transfered to usc and is a communications major. she instantly became alice's role model.

an unnatural facination with houses

someday, i want to live in lots of different types of houses. i've lived in a house, dorm, and apartment so far. but there are also times when i want to live in unconventional houses. even just temporarily. i want to make and live in and igloo. but then again, i have a romanticized vision of the arctic. that's a big reason why i can't go to alaska/the arctic in the winter. it would ruin the vision in my head of everyone living in igloos and eatting whale blubber. i know that people don't live in igloos anymore. but.... yeah. i've still got that romanticized vision. and i'm going to have to make an igloo someday and get that out of my system. but today, i discovered a different kind of house i want to make and live in. a yurt. i wouldn't want to live in it forever. just long enough to get that out of my system. but since it is used by nomads, i can collapse it and take it camping too! so yes. i've found a summer project.

best concert EVER!

last night i went to the kuumbwa jazz center (koo-um-bwa. not koom-ba-wa like i pronounced it up until last night) where i saw four lovely ladies playing the best guitar music ever. the show was called la guitara. it's basically an all female guitar concert. the organizer, patty larkin made a compilation cd of 14 different female guitarists. the styles ranged from classical to cajun to alterna-folk to folk.. such fun to listen to. muriel anderson played the harp guitar and the classical guitar. but somehow, she was able to make it so that the classical guitar sounded like a banjo, mandolin, fiddle, i don't even know what else. so fun to listen to. and she seemed to enjoy herself up on stage. kind of making fun of herself and just having fun. it turns out that they guy i sat next to is friends with muriel anderson. when she first started out, he was a concert organizer and she called him up and he let her crash at his place. i thought that was pretty cool. and kaki king was also great. i don't know what instrument she played. it kind of looked like a zyther. but i don't know. i was sitting behind tall ppl. like stupid person. but to get the full effect of her, you have to watch her music video from her website. she was the only person i knew before going to the show. but i like her enough to say eh, well.. the rest might be good. i also went to amazon.com to listen to 30 second clips of the other ladies' songs. although only listening to 30 seconds can get a bit aggrivating after a while. especially if you're trying to do it on my SLOOOOOW computer. anyways, so yeah. kaki king apparently originally started off on drums. so when you see her video, you see her strumming and "drumming" on the guitar. very cool to hear. and mimi fox was fun to hear too. she's really got really into her music and was able to just go off and have fun. her eyes were closed but her mouth was mouthing the sound that the guitar was making. silent onomonopeia (my favorite word, by the way). and the last person to play was also the person who organized the tour and the only one to sing, patty larkin. she sang songs that she had recorded and played guitar and was fantabulous. her songs were interesting too. made me wish i had a spare $100 or so to buy all their cd's. in the end, they all came together and they played the duke ellington song caravan. b/c they were playing the a jazz club and seemed appropriate. they also came out to do an encore. it was a song lead by muriel anderson on her harp guitar. good stuff. i ended up buying the compolation cd. which is awesome. and all the artists seemed approachable. but i couldn't say anything to them. i wish i had though. b/c they were really approachable and seemed like nice, down to earth ppl. also, i wanted them to sign my cd. but by the time i bought it, they'd already left. the cd line was crazy long.

ps. how is it that i just now figured out that there's a button on top that lets me link to sites?

a virtual funeral

all i can say is wooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww.. it's a mix between kinda funny and really really sad. and slightly political. computer games are not things the chinese gov't should regualte.

so anyways, i got a friend request from a guy on myspace the other day. apparently we went to paly together. except that with me, it's more or less "out of sight, out of mind". and his pictures aren't clear enough for me to know who he is. it took me alot of searching effort to even figure out his name. anyways, his myspace made me decide that today was the perfect day for me to look at ppl who went to/graduated from paly. i limited my earch to ppl between the ages of 23 and 35 and found a bunch of ppl. including james franco. i found it interesting that he only has 75 friends. i would expect more.
i felt slightly stalkerish looking at ppl's sites online. but at the same time, i didn't really care. i got to read up on ppl's lives after college. or the past 5 years since graduating, whichever is more applicable.

an interesting email moment

a couple of weeks ago, i signed up for bella greeting cards b/c i forgot a friend's birthday and wanted to send her a belated birthday ecard. they're cards aren't that bad. but you need to pay for them. i got the card and i canceled it as soon as my friend got the card b/c there's only a two week free trial period. to cancel the subscription, you have to write out a cancelation request form thing. and today, when i checked my email, this is what i got from their site:

Sandra,

Your account has been cancelled.

Just out of curiousity is this Sandrah Oh the actor from Gray's Anatomy and Sideways?

Regards,

T.*

I emailed the woman back and said thank you for canceling my subscription but no, i'm not the actress. but i did sign the email "Sandra Oh (the unfamous)". because, you know... i'm not famous.
kinda made me wonder about identity theft for a bit. b/c if i can't be famous, i'm going to be paranoid, DAMNIT! but yeah. identity theft is up there in my "scares me shitless" list. that and germs (i mean biological warfare. i'm not a antibacterial hand sanitizer bottle a day person) and disappointing ppl.

*The name of the emailer was removed in the off chance that she decided to google "interesting email"+"sandra oh"+"bella greeting cards" and went back about 15 of google's "O"s.

job hunting is not fun

i've been job hunting since moving back to palo alto. and even though i say i'd take any job, i've come to realize that i won't. i've never had any desire to work in retail, i'm perfectly happy never working for another quizno's, and i'd rather not have a menial job somewhere that i could have gotten while still in high school.
but then i try looking up jobs and if they want an anthropology major, they want an MA or PhD. or they want a senior level executive or all other jobs i'm nowhere near qualified for. and then i started news link hopping until i saw an ad for jobs in korea. i signed up for that board and have now recieved a bunch of job listings by email. here's an excerpt: "This school wants a brand name college graduate" (is ucsc a brand name?). all the jobs so far have been related to teaching english and you don't need any certification. and the thing is, i'm pretty sure i won't take these jobs. it's a bit of a commute. and a commitment. i don't want to go there, get settled, and then get fired. not to mention how behind i'd be on days of our lives! actually, i think that it would be interesting to work in a different country. but people there will not like me for my poor korean skills and my lack of teaching experience. ah well. i'm off to find out about more jobs i'm uber unqualified for.

at the risk of sounding like a total alcoholic...

i think drinking alcohol is fun. i don't do it excessivly. more or less social drinking. although i have had my moments of bowing down to the porcelin god(dess). my two top favorites have to be fat tire and guiness. they are very yummy. but today i found a new beer. unfortunatley, it's seasonal. it's a pumpkin ale. if you can get it, try. so spicey and yummy. tastes so much like nutmeg! mmmmmmm... like a liquid pumpkin pie.. minus the crust. my least favorite has to be a hefewiezen. the only good thing is that if you order it at a bar, they'll give you a slice of lemon. and lemons are yummy.
on another note, i've been reading alot of non-thinking books. so instead of reading about the first hominid to walk, i'm reading the shopaholics series. it's alot like a chick flick in print. yayness. along with any other shopie kinsella book and one called jemima j. ...someday, i'll read mentally stimulating books. until then, chick flicks in print, here i come!
also, i saw shera! sheera? shira? rina's baby! woo! such a cutie. she looks alot like mordy. you can still see bits of rina though too. such a cutie.

just thought these were so funny!

Stupid Celebrity Quotes

"Where's Austria?"
David Hasselhoff, Baywatch star, when told he has five gold albums as a singer in Austria.

"Beyond its entertainment value, Baywatch has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has has such a significance for so many."
David Hasselhoff

"Good looking people turn me off. Myself included."
Patrick Swayze

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign

"There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964."
Roger Daltrey

"I feel my best when I'm happy."
Winona Ryder

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
Mariah Carey

"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
Miss Alabama at the 1994 Miss Universe pageant, when asked "If you could live forever, would you and why?"

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states."
Raquel Welch on Larry King Live

"I don't know all the certain words to word it."
Vanilla Ice, on why he hired a ghostwriter for his autobiography

"I can do anything you want me to do as long as I don't have to speak."
Linda Evangelista

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man."
Samuel Goldwyn

"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads."
Vlade Divac, Basketball player

"Every city I go to is an oppurtunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii."
Tony Bennett, Singer

"Where the hell is Australia anyway?"
Britney Spears

"In an action film you act in the action, in a drama film you act in the drama."
Jean-Claude Van Damme

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
Lee Iacocca, Chairman of the Chrysler corporation

"Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other."
Donald Trump

"You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin"
Laura Dern, about the special effects in the movie Jurassic Park

"I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time."
Mariah Carey on hearing of the death of the King of Jordan.

"To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god"
Celine Dion

my favorites have to be mariah carey's, miss alabama's, and raquel welch's comments. too funny!

i don't want to grow up, i'm a toy's r us kid

so i've moved back home. back to the world of parents and no clear idea of what's going to happen. i've been applying to jobs and waiting for replies. i'm also going back to santa cruz every other weekend to take classes at cabrillo. b/c i like certificates and with these classes, i can get a lab work/archive certificate. which would go nicely with my field survey and excavation certificate. the only thing is that my schedule gets all kinds of messed up since it's6-9 on friday and 8-5 on saturday and sunday. so on saturday especially i was so sleepy in class. but at least it's every other friday and not every day. this way i can have a job on the weekdays. once i find one. and until then, i have grand plans to get my tivo working. who knows how to hook up tivo? i've got close to 80 hrs of days of our lives i need to transfer onto vhs.

over the weekend, i watched the last two episodes of a tv show that won't air. it's called "welcome to the neighborhood" where three families in a cul de sac get to choose their new neighbors. there was a latino, black, gay, asian, punk, wiccan, and stripper mom family. each episode, one family gets voted off until there's a winner and that family gets to move in. the neighbors are christian white families. One is a very christian white family who have issues with the gay family with a black adopted toddler. the show can't be aired b/c there were too many lawsuits and abc, owned by disney, decided to just settle instead. it would have TOTALLY been a great show though. i watched the last two and wish that i could have seen the first four. but yeah.. i'd rather settle than deal with GLADD, NAACP, etc..

on another note, in my sad and pathetic attempt to donate to the katrina victims, i've beeing drinking at nola's. they have hurricanes and every $3 goes to katrina. as well as 20% of september's earnings. i was also meaning to go to trader joe's bake sale until i realized it was last saturday.

odd... but there's a backpack that conducts energy. that would be pretty cool if it was big enough to conduct energy and store stuff and not be too bulky. i think it's still in the planning stages though.

sandra has left a heartbroken quizno's for the world of the unknown

today was my last day at quizno's. it was the best ever. b/c i knew it was my last day and they knew it was my last day. and quizno's is slow so i didn't have to make many sandwiches. most of the day i spent stnading and sort of cleaning. then 4:00 rolled around and i threw away my cup that quizno's gave me so i can drink as much soda as i want, clocked out, and left. FOREVER!! i couldn't stop smiling from when i threw my cup away to when i walked home. NO MORE QUIZNOS! yay! then i went home, showered, waited for my friend megan to come over so we can go to safeway. there we bought marshmellows, chocolate, grahm crackers, firewood, lighter fluid, and beer. then we realized we had left some things back at my place. so we went back and got coat hangers, chips, and a few random alcoholic beverages and headed out for seabright beach. we were on the road when pat called us. she was already at the beach. then we sat, shot the shit, drank, and eventually started the fire. pat had to get back early so i burned my shoe laces, tounges, and a pair of pants. all these were clothes that i wore under my quizno's uniform and it felt good to do it. such stinky clothing. a bit later, tim and his friend dave stopped by and i burned another pair of pants. then pat had to go home to see if her husband fed their kids or not. and holly and matt showed up. and as tim and matt left, jeannette came. then i tossed my last bit of clothing - my shirt into the fire. so much fun. although it was a bit drawn out. i kinda wish i had done it one right after the other. but ppl kept comming at random points of the evening thati couldn't. then at 10 the ranger person came and said that we had to leave b/c the beach was closed. luckily we had hidden our beers and he didn't catch us. we were innocently roasting marshmellows at that point. then we left the beach and i dropped jeannette off at her car and holly and matt downtown. megan and i went home to sleep. yay for burning quizno's clothes! yay for no more quizno's!

on a side note, i'm leaving santa cruz by the 31st and if you know anyone who needs a full mattress and box spring, a desk, wood filing cabinet, fold out couch, 2 lamps, 2 rolling chairs, or a table, tell them to contact me. b/c i'm selling.

rina had a baby!! (name tba)

rina had a healthy and happy baby girl on saturday! yay for mordy and rina! according to sarita, they have picked out a name but aren't telling anyone just yet. the pictures show happy parents and a cutie of a baby.

to all you days of our lives watchers: i LOVED the past couple days. seriously, i've watched the friday episode maybe 4 times and today's twice already. WOO!! kate's gotten what she deserves and today foreshadowed more bad stuff to come crashing down on her. WOO! and it made me wish i were alone in the apartment b/c then i could really say "WOO!" outloud and be more animated about the show. but daniel doesn't know the full extent of my obsessiveness about the show. and i figured that wasn't the best way to introduce it to him. although it's my passive mission to get him to like the show and kind of understand what's going on. i watch the show while he's on his computer in the same room. sometimes anyways.

wow.. long time no blog

ok, i just check and the last time i blogged was when i graduated. so i guess this is the time for me to give the internet world the latest in sandra news.
right after i graduated, i started my archaeology technology program at cabrillo college in aptos. it's broken down into three classes: survey, excavation, and lab. i finished survey and excavation already. i start lab on monday. it's been pretty fun. and the ppl in the class are pretty cool (for the most part). and like all anthro/archaeology ppl, alcoholics. every friday we all went to the seabright brewery to just hang out. which would have been super fun if i had been able to go every friday. but i had sucky quizno's to deal with.
the survey class was all about map making, reading maps, how to do surface searches for artifacts, and all that fun stuff. we had a three day camping trip to los padres national forest to survey. that was pretty fun. the excavation class was the actual digging part. we were at the redman hirahara house in watsonville. you can see it from hwy 1. it's the old victorian that's falling apart. it's the first japanese american site to be excavated. which was exciting. we at first wanted to see if there would be a clear anglo level and a clear asian level. but there wasn't. but that's ok. we found a ton of stuff anyways. lot of glass, buttons, tools, ceramics, gravel, dirt, and clay. and in the lab class, we're gonna sort everything into categories (interior decoration, kitchen, architecture, etc) and then identify things. like going through the sears roebuck catalog and saying "oh! here's the shirt that button came from!" but yeah, you should see us. it's a group of 30 ppl all wearing hats, long sleaved shirts and pants, doing various excavation things. we're an odd sight to see. all covered up and all.
aside from the class, which runs from 8-5 monday to friday, i also have quizno's. so by the time i come home, watch days of our lives, and shower, i'm half asleep. which is great if you don't want to talk to ppl ever during the class. but yeah. ...good times... the only thing i've kept up with is my soap and email. and seriously, in that order.
also, i now have a roommate. which is cool. b/c he can pay half the rent and i don't have to go insanely into debt over the stupid rent. he's quiet, from wisconsin, 20 and we never see each other. he wakes up and leaves for his internship before me, comes back when i go to work, and sleeps before i come home from work. it's like living with an invisible person. odd.
right after this program ends, i'm leaving santa cruz. which will be interesting. so yeah, if you know anyone in santa cruz who wants furniture, send them my way. i have a couch, tables, chairs, a desk, bookshelf.. yeah. it'll be interesting.

GRADUATED!!

yay! i graduated! (finally!) i went to two graduations. one for the anthro dept. and one for my college. the anthro dept one was pretty cool. i got to see alot of the graduating anthro ppl. that's where they gave out awards and honors. i didn't get any but cheered for the ppl who did. my friend won the physical anthro essay writing contest. he won $500!! he wrote about primate play. such a cute topic. afterwards, jessica, carol, claudette, and i went to a bar for "lunch" with the lab manager. richard is the coolest person in the world. i want my office to look just like his when i grow up. and he knows everything about everything. the coolest guy ever. after "lunch", we dropped richard off at school and the four of us went for real food. i thought my food had too much peanut sauce but whatever. it tasted good cold. later on, claudette and i went to her high school's graduation. the school she teaches at is so small and hippie.. there were two graduating seniors and the graduation was on the beach. it was a potluck beach graduation. everyone got to say what they liked about empire academy and other people can say what they like about the person. so for a bit under 20 students, the graduation took almost 3 hrs!! i ended up snacking on chips and salsa while waiting. it was nice to put a face to the stories that claudette would tell me.
the next day was my college graduation. ucsc is broken down into 10 different colleges so my college had a couple hundred walkers. since i'm a transfer student, i didn't know many people that i graduated with. i knew a grand total of 6 people. one of them is me. we got to sit next to anyone we wanted so that was nice. seeing as i really would have gone crazy sitting next to strangers. but yeah. ashley and i sat next to each other. i had a random politics major i didn't know next to me but next to him were max and sam. they're also anthro majors and i do know them. it made me wish that he didn't sit between me and sam. ah well. anyways, the graduation took place at the upper quarry. so while most colleges had a nice ocean view, i got a rock wall. i guess if ppl were bored enough, they could go mine for limestone. but yeah. there were no chairs!! there where stadium style seats but it was wooden planks on dirt. ashley and i were saying that our moms must be so annoyed that they paid so much for our tuition and they had to sit on dirt while wearing fancy clothes.
after the graduation, we went to lunch at margaritaville. where none of us had a margarita. i had camarones el diablo. jumbo prawns in i think chipotle sauce. it was very spicy. they had very good salsa for their chips though. after lunch, i went home in a food coma and took a nap. after the nap, i went out with jessica and carol to celebrate our graduation and end of school (for now). we later met up with claudette, ashley, ashley's sister samantha, richard, and his partner kai. richard and i played a horrible game of pool. i could not get that stupid eight ball in. either i suck at pool or i just wasn't sober at the time. i think it's a combination of the two.
yay graduation!
now i've got to go to bed so i can wake up on time for summer school. (WHAT?! ... yeah, i don't know either)

sandra the stalker

so guess what i just spent about two hours doing? stalking the actors of days of our lives. on myspace. sad, i know. anyways, i found three. jason cook, ashley benson, and amanda musgrave. also, i have amanda musgrave's aim. i've never talked to her. b/c really.. that's creepy. jason has a ton of chicks as his friend. with alot of his comments saying "hey, thanks for the add" or "you've been hit with the sexy truck" with picture of a truck. all three have pictures of themselves and of them on the set. which i thought was cool. and made it that much easier to know for sure that they were the actors of dool. but yeah, after all that searching, i didn't request an add. maybe i will but i don't know. maybe i'll message them. wow. hello. my name is sandra oh and i'm a dool obsessed stalker.