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Name: travo
Interests: You name it, I'm probably interested.
Expertise: Jack of all trades, master of few. Ask me when we're in private, and maybe you'll find out... ;-)
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3/16/2003
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| Hi everyone. It's August. Graduation seems like years ago, and it feels nice and almost nostalgic already that I will never have gym class again, I won't have to sign into the tardy table and schedule my detentions for myself, or find ways to roam the hallways with the universal pass, adding or subtracting whoever I pass that joins me. Quite the unforgettable graduation, with storms and indecisions, beach balls and a blow up doll, and very different speeches, I guess if any year was going to have an interesting graduation, it was going to be this one.
Less than three weeks until I leave for Los Angeles for LMU, my flight is before 7am on the 20th, please contact me if you should like to ever see me again, because I am seriously doubting whether I will ever return, with the exception of the times my family treats me to a round trip ticket. Besides the obvious pain and discomfort I'll feel about throwing myself out into the world and never seeing many of these faces again, I don't feel like that day can come any quicker. I'm anxious to start MY life, away from the usual constraints of it all here, which is probably apparent if you look at my social life recently, which is great. I quit WaMu, had an interesting experience of a horrible failure of an interview for a video editor, and am currently employed doing odd-jobs, but mostly I just spend time with people, read several books that have been waiting for me, and plan for the future.
In other news, I have a new baby sister, her name is Rosanna Irene Josephine, and I'm going to be visiting her and the rest of my family in South Florida between the 7th and the 14th, so any plans should be made around that. I'm excited to be a big brother, even if it's technically half-brother, and I look forward to sharing my wisdom and knowledge with her whenever I can.
The legal stuff for the car was sent in and received about a week and a half ago, hopefully it's legal before I go to college. If someone wants to buy it after it is, contact me, it's in great shape and it won't be expensive, good first car or something. Also concerning legal matters, Uncle Dave ended up in jail for a short stint again, he should be out in October or so, and hopefully he moves out of there for good when he does.
I normally wouldn't mention something as trivial as this in a once-every-six-month entry, but I just saw Sunshine and I felt that everyone reading this should know that it is a fantastic movie, and they should see it as soon as possible, ideally in theaters while it's still there. It deserves the mention. Paul Van Dyk concert on August 17th in Central Park, call me if you want to join the fantastic dance party, a group is forming.
As you can tell, the whole blogging thing isn't really my thing, at least with everyday life. Maybe I'll keep a regular personal journal once I move out and start some real adventures. If that is the case, it's been fun xanga'ing with everyone since middle school, good luck with life, and don't be shy, say hi if/when you think about me. 
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| It's been ages since I've posted on here, Myspace sucked me in for a bit, now Facebook has a firm grip around me, but someone posted a link to the main page so I figured I'd come and have a look-see.
The car is mine, at least as far as I'm concerned, You guys saw that I had bought it in the last post, got it up to NJ in July, still working on getting it in my name and all that, but whatever, it should be done soon. Great car though, it treats me well and is a comfortable ride, and as long as I treat it well the gas mileage is a lot better than one would expect from an old Caddy. Sad that I will in all likelihood sell the car before I go off to college, but for a first car it's pretty damn awesome. Maybe I'll put up pictures here if I care to.
Been having a great year with school, doing surprisingly well for the workload I've taken on. It's not always fun to have to deal with Gershman for three periods in a single day, but at least I'm actually learning something useful in school. Calculus has been cake for me, scored a 96 last marking period, looking to do even better this time. I love my English class, today was spent talking about what TV show was the most popular, my nomination of House won easily, and my teacher spent about half of the period making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for whoever wanted one, mine was awesome. History is starting to relax a lot more, DiG has realized/remembered the meaning of second-semester senior, so our classwork is a joke, we have homework once a week that takes a half hour and counts for a lot of our grade, and I'm looking to have my marking period project be cooking a few recipes of food from the 50's, good stuff.
Can't say much for my social life lately, there isn't a specific structure or anything to it. I take the opportunity to hang out with people and do things when they come, I really couldn't care much less anymore about pursuing some social status, going out of my way for people who don't return the courtesy, or making friends with the people that don't have an interest. I'm really just living life for my own happiness and self-satisfaction these days, I want to be able to look back on these times and smile that I wasn't wasting my time with whoever or whatever. Planned a trip to California in late April to a music festival, www.coachella.com if you want to look into it, can't wait for that. Will probably end up going alone but meeting up with folks I know from around the country and even a few from other countries. It's going to be sick though, I just might have some pictures to put up here or somewhere when that time comes. 
Can't say much about relationships really. Had a little...fiasco...a short time ago which ended very well. Did things turn out for the best? Nobody can really say for sure. Unexpected results, definitely, but who knows what would've happened either way, right? Moving on, been conversing with a new friend a lot lately, bit of a gap as far as distance is concerned, but not a permanent one. Who knows what the deal is with her, but she's really funny and silly, great to talk to, even if it means filling my phone's text message inbox and having to go through and delete old ones, several times over. She's really great and she's a nice girl though, a bit tougher on herself than she should be, but I have my doubts about it all. Besides the usual crap about not being sure how she feels about men in general after her last relationship ended, let alone me, I don't want her to get hurt if things didn't work out, etc. We may have been talking a lot lately, but there's also the part about that translating that to face to face experience, which is always a new experience depending on who it is with. Anyway, I'm not planning on making a move on her anytime soon for the sake of what could be a great friendship between us and how comfortable it is to talk with her, don't want to fuck up a good thing unless I'm pretty sure it'll only make it better. Anyway, I'm not really looking for anything serious for a little while, especially seeing as I'm still stuck in this town for another 6 months, not a lot of time to make much of anything with someone around here, not to mention that I'm pretty much fed up with most of the people around here, women included. Granted, there are always exceptions, but I'm not going to waste my breath, time, or energy mindlessly chasing after some silly girls that I may not ever see again once I touch down on California soil. 
Glenn's at Rutgers, it's always great fun to go see him and hang out, whether it be watching martial arts movies in Thai with no subtitles or walking through downtown New Brunswick in 15 degree weather to get some snacks at the 7/11. He seems to be doing great, and I'm really proud of him, even if he is already injured because of the Ultimate Frisbee team. Cousin Michelle has been living here for about two months now, she seems to have adjusted to WHRHS well, still working on getting her to be as sharp as I am around the house and whatnot though. It took a while for me though, so I'm doing my best to be patient with her, she's lived quite a different life than me. Parents seemed to have relaxed a lot very recently in letting me do what I want, but that could have to do with the fact that I'm going to be 18 in less than two weeks. That alone has been scaring the shit out of me every time I think about it, despite the fact that I know I'll be mentally and physically changing very little between March 5th and March 6th. Looking forward to my plans though, seeing 300 in imax with family and friends, should be intense. It's going to open up a whole new world to me, turning 18, which is probably what frightens me the most. It's a good thing that I've always faced the unknown with a bit of excitement and whatnot, but that doesn't exactly cover the anxiety. Oh well, I guess I'll get to see what it's like to drive past midnight legally. Now to work on seeing what it's like to drive my own car legally... 
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| Oh hey, forgot about last month, almost this month too. Oh well, let's catch up.
Turned 17, got the licence, just wired some monies to a friend of the family in North Carolina, keys, proof of sale, and title are gonna be in the mail soon, just have to go pick it up. 1988 Cadillac Fleetwood D'Elegance, if I'm lucky and google images serves me well, here's what it should look like, except dark blue...
New assistant manager at work has a boyfriend with a hobby in customizing cars, look out Car show 2007! Speaking of the birthday, I got some cool stuff, went to Applebees with somewhere around 15 cool folks, had ourselves a merry time, parents managed to get me a card for my birthday, saying they'd pay for something that I can use, but that has yet to come, as is expected.
California trip was simply amazing. I decided that I'm basically moving there and never coming back, with the visits from time to time, but I think mostly everyone in the universe would do better to visit me.. Looked at colleges and visited the state in general, here goes for a list, in order of preference:
Caltech: Beautiful, perfect place for research, great personality, but very competitive.
Stanford: Beautiful and competitive as well, great environment, very high-class school
Univ. California Santa Barbara: If I didn't care about physics like I do, this would be my top choice. This year, named #2 party school in the nation, recently #12 in academics in the nation, only university in the world with their own private beach, beautiful people and campus, great place for a well-rounded college education, in all areas, and seem to have a good physics program.
USC: Beautiful campus, a lot of activities and extra stuff to do around campus, great reputation.
Univ. California Berkeley: Liberal, but a nice school, great academics, more asians than white people though, that always sucks.
Loyola Marymount: Jesuit private college, overlooks LA and the beach so it has an awesome location, but it didn't seem to appeal to me like the others have, mainly for living conditions and facilities in general.
Cal. Polytech. San Luis Obispo: Mostly a farmers school, nice people, but a lot of not-pretty people there...
UCLA: Will not be applying to, I'd prefer to be a little off to the side from the city...
Got some cool stuff from all over, got to hang out at Venice Beach, see all of the craziest people in the world walking next to the hottest girls in the world. 
Anyway, school is school. Figures, with the exception of math and an elective I got all A's, my last physics test prevented me from getting a solid A+ so I'm a bit irritated. Currently working on writing up shite for my independent study for next year, while still keeping up with everything else in my life, exciting nonetheless. Have to figure out what I'm going to do about several events for the summer and work, not sure how it's all going to work... 
Prom friday, most likely will be going solo with a few of my buds, hopefully we can figure out some plans for afterwards and have a good time, that whole deal has been a bit disappointing, albeit educational. Note to self, even waiting until a month before is a bad idea, I'll remember for next year.
It might be another long time before you guys hear from me again. Comments might make me post, so say hi!
I love it when I write things and then forget to post them for a few days. Prom tomorrow night, all is well. With that, more information another time. | | |
| February is almost over, wouldn't want to disappoint the few people that I mildly entertain by updating.
Parents are shitting on the big event by changing the deal they made with my brother and saying that I have to pay for my insurance when I buy my own car. I think that's funny, seeing as they told their firstborn that he didn't have to pay for insurance until he got a ticket, which happened months ago, and he has yet to pay a dime as far as I know. Whatever, I think they'll somehow forget about it and let me off the hook for a while, let me fix up what is soon to be my baby...
Been having some new experiences, some better than others, been doing plenty of thinking, had some periods of time when I was on the edge of losing it. Trying to work though all of it, and a light at the end of the tunnel pokes through the darkness from time to time, so I still have some hope about a thing or two in my life. I'm just about fed up with girls/women, and at the same time I have been developing a new outlook on that whole area of love, sex, friendship, and all of it. It's more a work in progress, but we'll see what comes from it all. For now I'm just gonna concentrate on fixing whatever shit I need to, whatever laziness or inequities I was able to ignore for a long time, just have to crack down completely at some point if I expect any sort of results, get over all of the upstairs shit that's getting in the way. With prom coming up soon I think some new opportunities will arise, just have to scope some situations out.
California is looking mighty nice right about now, for whatever I choose. Thanks to Lauren, I probably won't try for a cook in the air force, apparently you don't always get your choice, and I'm certainly not doing the other stuff there. I'll be looking at tons of schools out there though, of all types. Culinary, film, business, traditional for physics and/or computer sciences, all of it. I have to figure out a way to pay for all of it though, hopefully without taking out loans...
Quick summary of some smaller stuff, work is fine, didn't get to go to the Flogging Molly concert earlier this month, made some awesome creations in the kitchen recently, including some awesome truffles, and have developed a love for sushi. Can't wait for summer, besides the fact that school won't be bothering me, I can't wait for the trips, the shows that are gonna be around, living life like it should be lived, everything...
I think that while there are a few people that manage to keep kicking ass, a few people that are becoming better people in general, most of the human race is going down the tubes. I don't really know what else to write, I guess it's time to stop procrastinating and get working on whatever... Leave comments if you kick ass. | | |
| Hey guys, what's up? LOL 
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What a failure of a weekend. With the exception of friday, nothing worked. Oh well, 50 more days until I'm mobile and won't have to worry about so much of this shit anymore...
By the way, A Clockwork Orange and The Motorcycle Diaries are fucking awesome movies. Go see them now, only not the first one if you're too much of a big blubbering vagina to look past shocking images in art to see the true message.
DJ's brother is visiting again, general awesomeness there, always nice to have more people around to pacify the big man...
Sophie is getting so huge, and speaking of her, here's some pictures of the first night that we got her:
She's enormous now, and her eyes have changed to brown, but she's still the best puppeh in the world..
Shit with her, eh, don't really know what to say. Past a lot of it, working on moving past some certain parts of it all, time will tell..
Kind of confused with certain people, wondering what certain things means, wondering if I mean something or other to them, whether or not I should go for it, wondering when the hell I'm gonna get the chance... If you think you're part of that, do me a favor and be a bit more clear about what you want from me.. To be completely honest, I wish all of these people would just shut the fuck up and get past their bullshit about the opposite sex and have a good time.
Work is pretty much the same, manager might be moving to a different branch, not sure how that'll change things for me, hopefully for the better. Pay increase coming in April, always good. School is pretty much the same, learning stuff in a few classes, doing what I need to pull an A or B in everything else...
Birthday in less than 2 months, planning a trip to California for spring break to look at colleges, that should be a fucking time and a half.. 
Need to get myself a membership to a gym, after the birthday I have very little excuses left to be inactive... If you people have any suggestions or guest passes I can take advantage of, I'm open to suggestions..
Looking to expand my music library some more, if you have any reasonable suggestions for me, I'm open to hear them. I'm just about at 4000 songs for 350 hours, I'd prefer to get around 6000, closer to 800 hours or so..
I think it would be a safe bet to say that I slept more this weekend than I have in the past two weeks or so, and it was fucking beautiful. Except for the lazy bums around my house constantly calling me up to do the shit they are too lazy to do themselves. Maybe I wouldn't mind taking the box for the christmas tree back down to the basement, but I carried it upstairs and put the whole fucking thing together by myself, so kiss my ass.
Ok, I got shit to do before I hit the sack, you guys know what to do... | | |
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