Goobelygook

Yes yes ya'll gonna continue with the blog ya'll...

hmm I'm not exactly sure where i left off so if i forget something it may simply not be worth remembering. Let's see:

The greek deli makes crazy ass beef stroganoff. One "small order" is easily two meals MADNESS. It was amazing. I want some right now.

There's these tents that sell food across from the safeway here. It's mostly Salvadoran food cause the empanadas and tacos i had sort of sucked but the pupusas were awesome. I think i ordered the gringo ass options. I saw everyone else got the chicharron and yuca so i guess i'll get that next time.

So I finally got to hang out with the girl i met a month ago at the center for american progress thing. It was chill, she drove me around MD which is her home area. The geography of everything is just so diff. Like it's all brick and the houses are far apart. University of Maryland is really spread out. Not UCSC spread out but here you can see it all where Santa Cruz is sort of islands in a forest so it's not as noticable. We ate at a Fuddruckers cause she was suprised I'd never been to one. She's pretty cool, sorta goofy, sings a lot and appreciated R Kelly's masterpiece "Real Talk." Afterwards we went to this bar/restaurant to meet some of her friends. They weren't there yet so we were kicking it and she told me how her dad was like some super badass back in El Salvador and had some really cool nicknames that I'm forgetting. One of her friends did come and he was sort of standoffish at first but after I threw in some sort of funny jokes he seemed to come around. The DJ played a lot of 80's including "Nothing but Flowers" by the Talking Heads. Great Song. The beer there was ok, they tried to reproduce a lot of western beers but couldn't really nail it.

We got a new legal intern at work so I'm no longer alone in the hallway. He's cool. we're def less productive as a tandem cause we talk too much.

Saturday night I hung out with CatMan's friend Arlene. First we went to the Heights and I got the gumbo which was way better than the chum they fed me, andy and wayne. Afterwards I went home to shower cause I'd just gone to the gym. Arlene told me to text her when I was done getting manpretty which I thought was funny. I met back up with her and we went to her friends house. They were def super hipsterish but nice people. One of them, named Aurora or something totally lives in the apt behind my house and apparently went to Paly. We hung out there and polished off a bottle of jameson jimmy mcnulty style (not really, we used pepsi). They had a cat who's pretty skittish. I was able to pet him a few times but he was overall not down for the petting. We went from there to this super hipster party. Let me stop and say that it's been a while since a real Hipster party for me. between the ucla radio stuff and a few scattered ucsc ones I've kind of been to a lot of these now. They can be characterized by a few things in my mind: 1. obviously lots of hipsters 2. a crowded as talking room. 3. semi empty dance floor. 4. Music is never top 40 but is usually a mix between popular hip hop, michael jackson, 90's r&b and maybe a few actual hipster songs. I think since everyone hates on everyone else's music the safe choices end up being the ones everyone their age listens too, whether it's as a "isn't this ironic we like this too" mood or more direct enjoyment. They did have a keg tho and i still like people even if they're hipsters if they're good people. They wouldn't play anything besides slow carribean dance music tho so it got sort of old. On the way home I stopped at this place called Don Juans. Another Salvadoran(while saying it's also Mexican place). For $7 I got a combo with a chicken burrito, pupusa and enchilada. Kinda madness. I chatted with the kid who worked there for a while and then went home ate it and watched commando.

commando deserves it's own paragraph really. shit is 25 years old. Straight up 1985 release. This was way before anyone ever imagined that Arnold (john matrix [really it was matrix wtf]) could ever be governor. All his lines are terrible and there is zero character development. His villian is just some random guy who was apparently a former member of arnold's unit and holds a grudge for some reason. Arnold shoots like 60 ppl, all while shooting from the hip with various fully automatic weapons. It's crazy how much more we demand from our action movies now. There just has to be way more complex cinematography and at least an attempt at character development to really make it today.

Sunday was chill. One of the guys who lives here's parents were in town from houston. They bought us Dominos which, btw the commercials are not lying about, it is waaay better (still not like great but it's totally edible) and boxed wine. They also made root beer floats which I was unable to partake in. We played Wario Ware with his parents which was pretty funny. After they left we got pretty buzzed and watched the emperor's new groove. not a bad movie, it's got the guy who does Brock from the venture bros, john goodman, and david spade. The football games were pretty nuts too.

I had to use the eggs i had left over cause they were gonna go bad so I made a scramble. It was orignally intended to be an omlette but when you use half an onion, 4 pieces of brocolli, and two pieces of turkey balogna, 3 eggs aren't enough. It came out really good and reminded me of the Hobo Omlette at Teddy's Cafe in West LA. Sigh. Halcyon days to be sure.

Did anyone notice how long the mass effect 2 commercial was? it was like a fucking minute long. swear. they muse have spent hella money on that spot. I know it's not the superbowl but this has to be one of the most watched games of the year anyways.

I finally uploaded all the dc/nyc pics. Dogs in Sweaters in New York was a big success!

This entry is getting way too long but 1 more event! I went to a Yelp Elite event today on U st. It was pretty cool. Open bar, oysters, beef puffs, creamy cheese eggrolls, hummus, and belly dancer. It was pretty awkward being by myself at first. I eventually just went up to a table and introduced myself and said I didn't know anyone here. The girl I was standing next to pretended to fain. I sorta just stared the first time, then she was like"you were supposed to catch me" so she did it again and I awkwardly caught her. It was awkward. She introduced me to some other folks then dissapeared. I met two ppl who were like consultants for software architecture, which to me sounds pretty fancy but they insisted it wasn't. They funny thing about yelp event is you know you can talk to all the strangers about food cause they're gonna be into it, otherwise they wouldn't be there. I met these other two girls, one of whom was going to LA for a friends wedding and I got excited and told her to check out some places. I had to write my name on her hand so she could friend me on yelp and get the downlow. It was funny cause her friend totally whispered to someone in that "I think he can't see me whispering" way that girls do. One of the girls that works for yelp is a UCSC senior and doing UCDC which was super random. We're going to hang out at some point which should be chill. Woo yelp in a new town

anyways i leave you with this vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbtR-Vm6nQ&feature=player_embedded