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Augest 25th is Bats Day at Disneyland. Oh my sweet Jebus I wanna go. If I can't afford Burn this year I am totally going to that and PAX (Penny Arcade Expo)
Burning Man
I'm just going to give you all a quick run down 'cause a WHOLE LOT OF SHIT HAPPENED.
Day 1
We get to Gerlock to meet EJ who never shows up. So we have no I idea where he is or if he's alive so we make the choice to head to the gate and hope that he is there.
We get to the gate at about 1or 2am get in the will call line and then lock Marilyn's keys in her car. And no she didn't have a spare. Luckly the guy behind us had a slim jim and another guy passing by was a locksmith so about 4 mintues later the door was opened and Marilyn had stopped screaming at me. Later .. pouning about a case of beer (cause we've been in the will call lot for about 3 hours now) Fatty and Ryan (Spanky) got to the bathroom and believe it or not find EJ. It turns out he tried to make a three point turn on a small street and put his car in a ditch. He was at the bathroom getting rid of a plastic bag that he had shit in because they wouldn't let him leave his car while in line. Then we were suck in the will call lot till sunrise. Which wasn't that bad. We handed out life savers at sunrise to people in line for breakfast and ran into some awesome Irish guys and it turns out that there are no life saver in Ierland. Me and Marilyn then watched the sunrise on the top of some random guys RV with some people from the little lost penguin camp (who offered us some couches to crash on if EJ didn't show, cause he had all out tents and sleeping bags and such. We just had beer and food. You know the important stuff.) had a smoke and then the line started to move us into Black Rock City.
Day 2.
We set up camp and met these awesome people from Germany. (3 brothers a sister and her fieance.) We actually still send Emails back and forth to them and will be camping with them next year. And then White Out. Fat dust storm. You really could barly see a foot in front of you. Lasted till past sunset. The wind was so fast the Dust actually stung. Elfie ened up having to take Richard back home and the camp all chiped in money to make sure that she could make it back to burn. After the white out we went out danced and got drunk while looking at art and found a random couch to rest on out on the playa.
Day 3
Regular day. Recovered from hangovers by drinking and then went out and partied and got drunk all over again. Elfie showed back up Woot.
Day 4
Same as day three
Day 5
John Breaks his leg. We offerd him a Shot of Jamesons to kill the pain he told us to go to hell and EJ told him to walk it off. Broke both bones in his leg and had to be carted to Reno to have an operation. Me Marilyn and Ally went with him.
Day 6
Still in the hospital with John. His surgery went fine. Ally gets a kidney stone. After she got better me Marilyn and Ally left to see the man burn. Thinking that we weren't going to make it back on time we stopped to take a swim in Pyramid Lake met some awesome people and watched the sun set. Once we got back to the Playa we found out that they had a white out worse then the first day and had to post pone the man burn so we actually were able to see it. We get back to our camp and everyone else was gone. They didn't know what was going on and there was a rumor going around that they might not get to burn the man so they decided to head home. After all there is no cell phone reception so its not like we could get ahold of each other. Lucklly the Germans took us in gave up their beds so we had a place to sleep and even fed us. And I mean FED US. It started with chips and Salsa then a cheese sandwhich then shrimp pot stickers then brie and mustard and then cheese cake and after that they still wanted to know if we wanted more. And they even made sure that nothing had meat in it for me and Marilyn. Which wasnt to hard apperently because their sister turned out to be Veggie as well. They are probably hands down some of THE nicest people I have ever met. Oh and found out that I was no only out of meds but that Elfie's meds were in the back or Ally's car.
Day 7
We leave before the temple burn. We were offered a place to stay and eat by the Germans but we didn't want to take advantage so we packed up and took off.
We visit John on the way out. Me and Marilyn stop for food in Davis and when we get home I have a message from EJ saying he rolled his car on the way back from burn. All/Most of our stuff is in impound but we really only cared that EJ was ok. So we have no idea what survived. And still don't cause the car is in impound. EJ's car rolling is a story in itself so you'll just have to ask him. It would take to long to type even if it was an epic journey. You'll just have to ask him about it.
And after all that we are all still going back next year. With our own theme camp and maybe fire conclave.
The End
So here is the plan....
Get in a car with a friend of mine and maybe two more if they have the time.
Drive to Texas to have the Epic hamburger that me and Dylan both miss and then have a Guinness and a smoke (yes in the bar and I'm from Cali so thats a treat) and watch a soccer game. Then get back in said car.
Drive to the east coast. Stop in North Carolina to maybe visit/maybe pick up a friend of mine.
Then Drive into Rhode Island. Drop of the car with my uncle there and shower and such. THEN
Fly to Germany! Fuck yes. Spend a few weeks in Germany with a friend of Dylans for free and maybe pick up a Metro card and see the sights. THEN (if we even decide to come home) fly back into Rhode Island and Drive back home from the east coast probably with Dylan's friend from Germany.
The trip was supposed to be a surprise for someone that was close to me but they're not around anymore so I can talk about it. So fucking WOOT! Ah man I'm excited. I've had that bottled up for like almost 4 months. And I was kinda proud of myself I don't think I've ever been able to keep a surprise/secret like that for that long. But I thought it would be worth it to see the reaction. Its the Beatnik cross country road trip I always wanted to take paired up with a few weeks/maybe a month in Germany. EPIC is the only word I can think of to properly describe it.
Oh and I got a new car today. One that isn't a V6 that eats hella gas. So I can get around again without worrying about gas..... So much.
That is all hope you are all doing well.
Get in a car with a friend of mine and maybe two more if they have the time.
Drive to Texas to have the Epic hamburger that me and Dylan both miss and then have a Guinness and a smoke (yes in the bar and I'm from Cali so thats a treat) and watch a soccer game. Then get back in said car.
Drive to the east coast. Stop in North Carolina to maybe visit/maybe pick up a friend of mine.
Then Drive into Rhode Island. Drop of the car with my uncle there and shower and such. THEN
Fly to Germany! Fuck yes. Spend a few weeks in Germany with a friend of Dylans for free and maybe pick up a Metro card and see the sights. THEN (if we even decide to come home) fly back into Rhode Island and Drive back home from the east coast probably with Dylan's friend from Germany.
The trip was supposed to be a surprise for someone that was close to me but they're not around anymore so I can talk about it. So fucking WOOT! Ah man I'm excited. I've had that bottled up for like almost 4 months. And I was kinda proud of myself I don't think I've ever been able to keep a surprise/secret like that for that long. But I thought it would be worth it to see the reaction. Its the Beatnik cross country road trip I always wanted to take paired up with a few weeks/maybe a month in Germany. EPIC is the only word I can think of to properly describe it.
Oh and I got a new car today. One that isn't a V6 that eats hella gas. So I can get around again without worrying about gas..... So much.
That is all hope you are all doing well.
Why I Might Die This Saturday
Drum Roll Please......
This saturday I plan on doing something completly stupid and dangerous that carries with it the high chance of injury and death.
I plan to do poi and breath fire at the same time. The trick will be to breath fire off my poi. The reason this is dangerous? Well I'll be doing something with fire that involves coordination while doing one of the most dangerous circus tricks next to tight rope walking without a net.
If I fuck up I will either badly burn my face, collapse a lung, or at the least loose some hair. But I have been wanting to do this for a long time. I have seen people do it as a duet where one person would breath fire off another persons poi. But I want to move it up a notch.
I wil be practicing until saturday night when I plan on doing this. If someone has a viedo camera I would kind of like to have it recorded incase I pull it off or die. Either way I want proof.
If things go wrong I want you all to know that you were awesome and that it was totally worth it if just for the story and to say I did
Drum Roll Please......
This saturday I plan on doing something completly stupid and dangerous that carries with it the high chance of injury and death.
I plan to do poi and breath fire at the same time. The trick will be to breath fire off my poi. The reason this is dangerous? Well I'll be doing something with fire that involves coordination while doing one of the most dangerous circus tricks next to tight rope walking without a net.
If I fuck up I will either badly burn my face, collapse a lung, or at the least loose some hair. But I have been wanting to do this for a long time. I have seen people do it as a duet where one person would breath fire off another persons poi. But I want to move it up a notch.
I wil be practicing until saturday night when I plan on doing this. If someone has a viedo camera I would kind of like to have it recorded incase I pull it off or die. Either way I want proof.
If things go wrong I want you all to know that you were awesome and that it was totally worth it if just for the story and to say I did
My boss at work who is usually just a bitch turned into a grade a cunt the past few days. She's been showing up on her days off trying to keep track of everyone. The thing about my job at the library is that if we stuck to just our jobs nothing would get done. the LA's have a tun of work to do as it is so we usually pick up the slack and if there is something that they need done, like a project like shelf shifting or looking for a missing book they ask us to do it. Which is fine. But this women thinks that all we are allowed to do is exactly what it states in our job description and sometimes not even that. I really think she has no clue what our jobs actually are. So me and the rest of the DA's have spent the last dew days getting yelled at for things we do all the time. Its a true pain. And the killer thing is that she's not even really our boss. She's our bosses boss. So she yells at us like she's our boss but if we come to her with a question she gets agitated and asks us why we're asking her because shes not our boss. Its just weird.
On top of that just things in general have been kinda stressful with my ex. Well ex-ish. We're trying to work things out but things seem to just pop up all the time. BUT I think I got it down this time (hopefully). You never know though. Working things out isn't the easiest thing in the world
Oh and I'm trying to cut back and eventually quit smoking. Its hard but I think I can do it. Yesterday I only had one and today is 2. Go me. I need to invest in some Cranberry juice to. It really helps out (well me at least). I've also started exercising and talking walks about once every other day. Sometimes everyday if I get the time. It helps relieve a little stress and cut down on the agitation from not smoking.
I need a good juggling website as well. I need to learn some new tricks and I've got no one to teach me. I'm tiered of doing the same tricks over and over. I need something new. Also a good contact juggling site if anyone knows one. I've been working on balance points a lot but I work better if I can see it done.
Tonight is practicing some poi. I found my old poi book that I picked up in a little juggling section of a game shop so I'm gonna go through that and try to learn some new stuff. Then my friend Meggo called me and wanted me to go to the bar with her tonight and hang out so I'm going to try and drag Elfie along with me as well. So it will be a nice wined down. Until work tomorrow. Which actually should be good because none of the bosses are ever there so no one really cares if anything gets done.
Hope everyone else is doing ok.
On top of that just things in general have been kinda stressful with my ex. Well ex-ish. We're trying to work things out but things seem to just pop up all the time. BUT I think I got it down this time (hopefully). You never know though. Working things out isn't the easiest thing in the world
Oh and I'm trying to cut back and eventually quit smoking. Its hard but I think I can do it. Yesterday I only had one and today is 2. Go me. I need to invest in some Cranberry juice to. It really helps out (well me at least). I've also started exercising and talking walks about once every other day. Sometimes everyday if I get the time. It helps relieve a little stress and cut down on the agitation from not smoking.
I need a good juggling website as well. I need to learn some new tricks and I've got no one to teach me. I'm tiered of doing the same tricks over and over. I need something new. Also a good contact juggling site if anyone knows one. I've been working on balance points a lot but I work better if I can see it done.
Tonight is practicing some poi. I found my old poi book that I picked up in a little juggling section of a game shop so I'm gonna go through that and try to learn some new stuff. Then my friend Meggo called me and wanted me to go to the bar with her tonight and hang out so I'm going to try and drag Elfie along with me as well. So it will be a nice wined down. Until work tomorrow. Which actually should be good because none of the bosses are ever there so no one really cares if anything gets done.
Hope everyone else is doing ok.
I'm sorry if the French is bad....
Apollon, pue pieurait ie trepas d'Hyacinthe,
Ne voulait pas ceder la victoire a la mort.
II fallait que son ame, adepte de l'essor,
Trouvat pour la beaute une alchemie plus sainte.
Donc de sa main celeste il epuise, il ereinte
Laes dons les plus subtile de la divine Flore.
Leurs corps brises souspirent une exhalaison d'or
Dont il nous receillait la goutte de l'Absinthe!
Aux caverns blotties, aux palais petillants,
Par un, par deux, buvez ce breuvage d'aimant!
Car c'est un sortilege, un propos de dictame,
Ce vin d'opale pale avortit la misere,
Ourre de la beaute l'intime sanctuaire
-- Ensorcelle mon coeur, extasie mort ame!
Apollon Who was weeping for the death of Haycinthe,
Didn't want to give up victory for the death.
His soul, Adept of the soaring,
Had to find for the beauty a holier alchemy.
Thus with his celestial hand he drains, he exhausts
The most subtle gifts of the divine Flora
Their broken bodies sigh a golden exhalation
Oh which he was catching for us the drop of Absinthe
To the curled up caves, to the sparkling palaces,
By one, By two, drink this lovers beverage!
For this is a spell, a balms matter
This pale opal wine aborts misery,
Hems with the beauty the intimate sancturay
--Bewitches my heart, ecstasies my soul!
Apollon, pue pieurait ie trepas d'Hyacinthe,
Ne voulait pas ceder la victoire a la mort.
II fallait que son ame, adepte de l'essor,
Trouvat pour la beaute une alchemie plus sainte.
Donc de sa main celeste il epuise, il ereinte
Laes dons les plus subtile de la divine Flore.
Leurs corps brises souspirent une exhalaison d'or
Dont il nous receillait la goutte de l'Absinthe!
Aux caverns blotties, aux palais petillants,
Par un, par deux, buvez ce breuvage d'aimant!
Car c'est un sortilege, un propos de dictame,
Ce vin d'opale pale avortit la misere,
Ourre de la beaute l'intime sanctuaire
-- Ensorcelle mon coeur, extasie mort ame!
Apollon Who was weeping for the death of Haycinthe,
Didn't want to give up victory for the death.
His soul, Adept of the soaring,
Had to find for the beauty a holier alchemy.
Thus with his celestial hand he drains, he exhausts
The most subtle gifts of the divine Flora
Their broken bodies sigh a golden exhalation
Oh which he was catching for us the drop of Absinthe
To the curled up caves, to the sparkling palaces,
By one, By two, drink this lovers beverage!
For this is a spell, a balms matter
This pale opal wine aborts misery,
Hems with the beauty the intimate sancturay
--Bewitches my heart, ecstasies my soul!
Only one final left to go! Once this is done I'm gonna be so happy. There will be so much less stress.
That way I con work on things back here and not be going crazy. I'll actually be able to focus and work on making things right. And hopefully doing a much better job at it then I am right now.
But school being over means I have nothing really to do till I transfer. I'll still probably take a class or two. Maybe yoga or ti chi and maybe even a dance class. I promised Drea that I would so since I'm all about the promise keeping right now and I have an open schedule a dance class sounds like fun. I always make my plans around work and thats kinda gay. I should be working to live not the other way around.
I also need to find out when to apply to UCSC. Two close friends of mine really want to go to so that will be awesome. Not to mention the fact that the closest person to me will be attending as well so I'm quite excited.
This will be the summer of change.
That way I con work on things back here and not be going crazy. I'll actually be able to focus and work on making things right. And hopefully doing a much better job at it then I am right now.
But school being over means I have nothing really to do till I transfer. I'll still probably take a class or two. Maybe yoga or ti chi and maybe even a dance class. I promised Drea that I would so since I'm all about the promise keeping right now and I have an open schedule a dance class sounds like fun. I always make my plans around work and thats kinda gay. I should be working to live not the other way around.
I also need to find out when to apply to UCSC. Two close friends of mine really want to go to so that will be awesome. Not to mention the fact that the closest person to me will be attending as well so I'm quite excited.
This will be the summer of change.
Sooooo....
Fire Drums was fun. Met some cool people learned some new tricks and even made my own poi. They're called cannon ball poi I'll post a picture of them later. And as of now the only fire toys I use I've made myself which is awesome.
But as soon as I got back from fire drums everything kinda went to hell. My g/f is having some sort of freak out and wont tell me anything about it. She says she wants to figure things out on her own and doesn't want to talk to me about it because it has nothing to do with me. But what she doesn't seem to get is that since we're in a relationship everything we do seems to involve the other. I would just kind of at least like a heads up about what is going on or what is worrying her but she wont tell me. And now I haven't even seen her in almost 2 days. It doesn't sound like a lot but we practically live together and she sleeps her every night so to have not seen her is kinda weird.
*sigh* I really don't know what to do.
Sorry for the whiny post
Fire Drums was fun. Met some cool people learned some new tricks and even made my own poi. They're called cannon ball poi I'll post a picture of them later. And as of now the only fire toys I use I've made myself which is awesome.
But as soon as I got back from fire drums everything kinda went to hell. My g/f is having some sort of freak out and wont tell me anything about it. She says she wants to figure things out on her own and doesn't want to talk to me about it because it has nothing to do with me. But what she doesn't seem to get is that since we're in a relationship everything we do seems to involve the other. I would just kind of at least like a heads up about what is going on or what is worrying her but she wont tell me. And now I haven't even seen her in almost 2 days. It doesn't sound like a lot but we practically live together and she sleeps her every night so to have not seen her is kinda weird.
*sigh* I really don't know what to do.
Sorry for the whiny post
Going to fire drums this weekend!
Its this fire art workshop in the Santa Cruz Mts. I'll be taking fire breathing and Poi workshops to hone my skills and maybe a contact juggling class or two.
It'll be nice to escape the drama and spend some time with some friends out camping and playing with fire.
Should be back Sunday with stories. Wish me luck
Its this fire art workshop in the Santa Cruz Mts. I'll be taking fire breathing and Poi workshops to hone my skills and maybe a contact juggling class or two.
It'll be nice to escape the drama and spend some time with some friends out camping and playing with fire.
Should be back Sunday with stories. Wish me luck
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