I've completed my shopping list for my trip and will be outta here in 6 days! Hopefully any weird thing that happens should be taken care of by what I have. I can't wait to do this. I'll be sure to come back safe and see you all when I'm home. Also, thanks for everybody's help on this. I wouldn't have been able to take this trip without the help of everyone. So thanks!
That's all for now. I just have to get through finals and I'll be home free.....
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
A new post!
I'm leaving in 3 weeks for the craziest trip I think I've planned yet. Wish me luck. More to follow...
Oh, the term is almost over too....YUS!!!!
Oh, the term is almost over too....YUS!!!!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
hangovers suck.
Here's my life:
I got a new gun! A springfield xd 9mm sub-compact, and man is she perdy. It's a fun shooter, and was a good choice in my opinion for a variety of activities such as homeland security, backpacking, rabbit hunting, and just all around having a good time. So yeah I think it was a good choice.
School is about over, I have two finals and then it's spring break for me! WOoo!!! (runs off topless)
::ahem:: which means I can go back to playing video games, ah how I miss thee. Maybe I'll actually be able to beat final fantasy 12 this time around!
Lately I've been really tired, and by looking on the internet, I found out that I'm undernourishing myself (boo). In a day my body burns over 3000 calories, and I haven't been eating that much in a day....sooo, I have to reconsider my diet of less meat I think if I want to work out this much...I'm not sure how I feel about it and if there is anything I can do to work around it but we'll see. It also makes sense though because I've been getting more and more tired when I work out and I've been having a harder time completing the same goals I could do with ease a month ago...I don't know
The cast party was last night!! And now I have a terrible hangover (I played beer pong for the first time) but it was good times, I'm gonna miss working with everybody, but I'll see some of them again if I get casted for the next play so I guess its not all bad eh?
Pretty soon I'll be applying to my job in Alaska, as well as working towards getting scholarships for Portland State, and figuring out what I need to do in order to study abroad in Japan. I must say I'm excited to leave Salem, 3 years here is too long, some life progression is going to feel nice and hanging out in Portland again will be kind of nice.
With the economic downturn my hours are being cut at Target, so I'm having to come up with new means to accumulate wealth. Besides re-opening my e-business, I'm going to start...ugh...donating plasma in order to pay off Chemeketa. So i'll literally be paying for my school with my own blood.....but what else can I do?
And that's me
I got a new gun! A springfield xd 9mm sub-compact, and man is she perdy. It's a fun shooter, and was a good choice in my opinion for a variety of activities such as homeland security, backpacking, rabbit hunting, and just all around having a good time. So yeah I think it was a good choice.
School is about over, I have two finals and then it's spring break for me! WOoo!!! (runs off topless)
::ahem:: which means I can go back to playing video games, ah how I miss thee. Maybe I'll actually be able to beat final fantasy 12 this time around!
Lately I've been really tired, and by looking on the internet, I found out that I'm undernourishing myself (boo). In a day my body burns over 3000 calories, and I haven't been eating that much in a day....sooo, I have to reconsider my diet of less meat I think if I want to work out this much...I'm not sure how I feel about it and if there is anything I can do to work around it but we'll see. It also makes sense though because I've been getting more and more tired when I work out and I've been having a harder time completing the same goals I could do with ease a month ago...I don't know
The cast party was last night!! And now I have a terrible hangover (I played beer pong for the first time) but it was good times, I'm gonna miss working with everybody, but I'll see some of them again if I get casted for the next play so I guess its not all bad eh?
Pretty soon I'll be applying to my job in Alaska, as well as working towards getting scholarships for Portland State, and figuring out what I need to do in order to study abroad in Japan. I must say I'm excited to leave Salem, 3 years here is too long, some life progression is going to feel nice and hanging out in Portland again will be kind of nice.
With the economic downturn my hours are being cut at Target, so I'm having to come up with new means to accumulate wealth. Besides re-opening my e-business, I'm going to start...ugh...donating plasma in order to pay off Chemeketa. So i'll literally be paying for my school with my own blood.....but what else can I do?
And that's me
Friday, March 6, 2009
car wrecks and acting...
not a good combination.
I didn't get in a car wreck however, it was just very nearly a car wreck.....stupid jerk.....
Anyways! The play I'm in's last show is tomorrow, so those of you who haven't seen it... ::ahem::!!! should do so! It's an awesome show, and you get to see me play an 11 year old! 2 in fact! If you can't make it though I won't be too upset, so just do whatcha can.
I got my tax return back too, a whopping 700 big one's! What should I do with it? Pay off debt.....nah. Save it?......uhm...nope! Go to Houston to see Miyavi live in concert........::sigh:: if only...... Buy a handgun??? Ahhhh hell yeah! I'm thinking a xd 9mm....buuuuuut I'm not sure...there's a gun show in Albany I might go to if the gun store tomorrow doesn't pan out. So we'll see what I end up with, in either case it'll be badass!!!
Well that's my life, time for bed!
I didn't get in a car wreck however, it was just very nearly a car wreck.....stupid jerk.....
Anyways! The play I'm in's last show is tomorrow, so those of you who haven't seen it... ::ahem::!!! should do so! It's an awesome show, and you get to see me play an 11 year old! 2 in fact! If you can't make it though I won't be too upset, so just do whatcha can.
I got my tax return back too, a whopping 700 big one's! What should I do with it? Pay off debt.....nah. Save it?......uhm...nope! Go to Houston to see Miyavi live in concert........::sigh:: if only...... Buy a handgun??? Ahhhh hell yeah! I'm thinking a xd 9mm....buuuuuut I'm not sure...there's a gun show in Albany I might go to if the gun store tomorrow doesn't pan out. So we'll see what I end up with, in either case it'll be badass!!!
Well that's my life, time for bed!
Friday, February 20, 2009
allright...
Well I've had a little time to relax, my apologies for the rant...hopefully it made some sense. Sometimes I have a lot to say so it tends to get a bit disorganized....
Anyways, state of the planet aside, My show opens next week! So if you want to see it I encourage you to come on down! It's thursday, friday, and saturday of next week and the week after at 7:30. I think it's 8 dollars, but it could be 10.....anyways, if you want to come, please do, and bring your friends!!!
Oh, and one of the actors from the movie Twilight, is hitting on my girlfriend......yeah I'm not kidding.
Anyways, state of the planet aside, My show opens next week! So if you want to see it I encourage you to come on down! It's thursday, friday, and saturday of next week and the week after at 7:30. I think it's 8 dollars, but it could be 10.....anyways, if you want to come, please do, and bring your friends!!!
Oh, and one of the actors from the movie Twilight, is hitting on my girlfriend......yeah I'm not kidding.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
people are retards...fuck
So, as most of you don't know I've had a major shift in eating habits within the last 6 months. I've cut out red meat, I'm starting to buy organic, I don't eat chicken anymore, and I'm reducing my meat intake to entirely fish, but only that one's that are sustainably harvested if I can help it. I'm also trying to buy more locally grown foods. This isn't because of some ethical reason, like I'm trying to save the poor mentally retarded cows, or chickens. But rather because this planet, whether you believe it or not, is overly populated, too populated to sustain people eating a diet of mostly meat products...allow me to explain using cattle ranching as an example.
The amount of energy that is required to produce a pound of beef could sustain one hundred people for one meal. So, if a 365 lbs. cow could sustain one person for one year, then it could sustain one hundred people for one year. This is because energy transfer between food webs, is highly unproductive. That's because the life burns that energy through activity such as growth, reproduction, respiration, movement, etc. It needs to keep replenishing energy that is lost through those practices. So in a typical food web we see a much larger quantity of beings lower on the food web, that is, beings that get their energy through the sun, or through consumption of photosynthetic organisms. Still following?
what I'm saying is If you were to look at a typical foodweb, the amount of energy calories, which is measured in volume, is going to be much greater at the bottom because of the energy that gets lost through above activites. This is called the 10% efficiancy rule. Meaning, 10% of the energy that's available gets transferred to the next level in the food web. The grasshopper eats plants, which gets eaten by a frog, which gets eaten by a fish, which gets eaten by an osprey, which gets preyed on by a cougar.....etc etc.
So If you look at a cow, which gets fed primarily grass and corn, that grass and corn could be harvested for our consumption, and there would be a much larger amount of food available for other people. about ten times more, not counting the land that is used for cattle that could be used for agriculture.
So, using this approach, if everyone on the planet were to assume a lifestyle similar to mine in diet, the amount of land needed for agriculture to supply the world's population would be much less than we are currently using, which means more potential habitat for animals, less starving people in africa, a delay in global warming, the creation of new jobs and a stimulating economy due to new business ventures etc.
Did you know the world only gets 1% of its diet from marine ecosystems? Therefore, there's many things that we could eat in order to get our protein intake that we aren't even tapping into. Instead we're harvesting beef, and well..I just explained about that.
the problem stems from the fact that the Chinese (over 1 billion people) are beginning to have a "western" diet, high in meat products. This is going to put a huge strain on an already stretched food industry, and I think in the near future we're going to see a very bad situation arise from this.
Anyways, I was eating a vegetable sandwich (which is quite delicious mind you) outside of rehearsal today, and one of the actors begins to debate with me about why I've decided to do this. He didn't see my point of view, claimed that environmental science was based on emotion and not facts and dispelled what I said as pure emotion, and not truth.
Other people began to gather at this point and started talking about 2012........fuck
I've been trying to be optimistic about the survival of many the earths animal and plant species that are facing extinction, but the more I know, the more depressing it gets. Also, the more I realize how blind most people are on the subject of science, the worse it seems to be.
People put religion first, dispelling science as myth. I don't know how many times I've heard "the world's going to end soon anyways so why does it even matter" and every time I get closer to just decking that fucker in the face. It's exactly that kind of mindset that's further putting us into the shit hole. This 2012, end of the world, revelation phenonema bullshit.
In science class people were talking about how the general public has no idea about the issue facing our native salmon species. Did you know that over 100 species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest has been driven to extinction? Some of these salmon were over 130 pounds. But yet you can buy salmon at the supermarket for 5 dollars a pound. That's because those salmon are farm raised, extracted from a viable wild stock, or shipper from areas like russia, Chile, etc.
Anyways, sorry to be such a downer, but I don't get how people just don't want to educate themselves on these issues. It's no wonder we're fucked.
The amount of energy that is required to produce a pound of beef could sustain one hundred people for one meal. So, if a 365 lbs. cow could sustain one person for one year, then it could sustain one hundred people for one year. This is because energy transfer between food webs, is highly unproductive. That's because the life burns that energy through activity such as growth, reproduction, respiration, movement, etc. It needs to keep replenishing energy that is lost through those practices. So in a typical food web we see a much larger quantity of beings lower on the food web, that is, beings that get their energy through the sun, or through consumption of photosynthetic organisms. Still following?
what I'm saying is If you were to look at a typical foodweb, the amount of energy calories, which is measured in volume, is going to be much greater at the bottom because of the energy that gets lost through above activites. This is called the 10% efficiancy rule. Meaning, 10% of the energy that's available gets transferred to the next level in the food web. The grasshopper eats plants, which gets eaten by a frog, which gets eaten by a fish, which gets eaten by an osprey, which gets preyed on by a cougar.....etc etc.
So If you look at a cow, which gets fed primarily grass and corn, that grass and corn could be harvested for our consumption, and there would be a much larger amount of food available for other people. about ten times more, not counting the land that is used for cattle that could be used for agriculture.
So, using this approach, if everyone on the planet were to assume a lifestyle similar to mine in diet, the amount of land needed for agriculture to supply the world's population would be much less than we are currently using, which means more potential habitat for animals, less starving people in africa, a delay in global warming, the creation of new jobs and a stimulating economy due to new business ventures etc.
Did you know the world only gets 1% of its diet from marine ecosystems? Therefore, there's many things that we could eat in order to get our protein intake that we aren't even tapping into. Instead we're harvesting beef, and well..I just explained about that.
the problem stems from the fact that the Chinese (over 1 billion people) are beginning to have a "western" diet, high in meat products. This is going to put a huge strain on an already stretched food industry, and I think in the near future we're going to see a very bad situation arise from this.
Anyways, I was eating a vegetable sandwich (which is quite delicious mind you) outside of rehearsal today, and one of the actors begins to debate with me about why I've decided to do this. He didn't see my point of view, claimed that environmental science was based on emotion and not facts and dispelled what I said as pure emotion, and not truth.
Other people began to gather at this point and started talking about 2012........fuck
I've been trying to be optimistic about the survival of many the earths animal and plant species that are facing extinction, but the more I know, the more depressing it gets. Also, the more I realize how blind most people are on the subject of science, the worse it seems to be.
People put religion first, dispelling science as myth. I don't know how many times I've heard "the world's going to end soon anyways so why does it even matter" and every time I get closer to just decking that fucker in the face. It's exactly that kind of mindset that's further putting us into the shit hole. This 2012, end of the world, revelation phenonema bullshit.
In science class people were talking about how the general public has no idea about the issue facing our native salmon species. Did you know that over 100 species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest has been driven to extinction? Some of these salmon were over 130 pounds. But yet you can buy salmon at the supermarket for 5 dollars a pound. That's because those salmon are farm raised, extracted from a viable wild stock, or shipper from areas like russia, Chile, etc.
Anyways, sorry to be such a downer, but I don't get how people just don't want to educate themselves on these issues. It's no wonder we're fucked.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Drying Rack...FAIL!
Yeah I know I haven't posted in a while, I'm terrible.
Anyways, here are the going ons.
I, yours truly, have been accepted to Portland State University! Pretty soon I will be able to leave Salem and put my life into the next gear, which I believe is second..... I'm not sure if I will go there or not because I'm still waiting to hear back from Oregon State but I think living in Portland would be cool. I could see some of my old friends, go to concerts, live on my own, see the sights, live on my own. etc.etc.
If any of you don't know I'm going to be majoring in Environmental Science with a Japanese minor..or major...two majors would be awesome I just need to know the specifics of it. I will also minor in marine biology because the coolest creatures really do come from the sea!
Also, I'm applying for a job to go to Alaska this summer to work in cannery. It sounds rough, the hours sound shitty, but it'll be another adventure, I'll be in the wildest region of America, and I'll walk away with over $10,000 by the end of it. Enough money to live on my own and pay my ass through school so I won't have to work much will I go. The best part is that I know I'll be able to do it, and that alone is just awesome to me. I don't know many people that could say the same.
I'm still working out in preparation for the marathon I'll be running. Pretty soon I'll be getting ready to campaign for sponsors to well...sponsor me on my run in order to have wells built in Africa. Good cause no?
In more recent events, my attempts at being "green" took a disastrous downturn. Allow me to explain:
At work we sell drying racks for a fairly low price. I figured that if I bought that I could greatly cut down on my energy consumption from my bi-weekly laundry runs. So I bought one, set it up and threw my wet clothes on it. When I arrived to the bathroom in the morning it was destroyed....the weight of the wet clothes completly shattered the support bar...go figure. So not only do I still use the dryer, I supported more orders of the product, which means more will be made in China...etc. etc. and that ladies and gentlemen is what I call a FAIL.
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Anyways, here are the going ons.
I, yours truly, have been accepted to Portland State University! Pretty soon I will be able to leave Salem and put my life into the next gear, which I believe is second..... I'm not sure if I will go there or not because I'm still waiting to hear back from Oregon State but I think living in Portland would be cool. I could see some of my old friends, go to concerts, live on my own, see the sights, live on my own. etc.etc.
If any of you don't know I'm going to be majoring in Environmental Science with a Japanese minor..or major...two majors would be awesome I just need to know the specifics of it. I will also minor in marine biology because the coolest creatures really do come from the sea!
Also, I'm applying for a job to go to Alaska this summer to work in cannery. It sounds rough, the hours sound shitty, but it'll be another adventure, I'll be in the wildest region of America, and I'll walk away with over $10,000 by the end of it. Enough money to live on my own and pay my ass through school so I won't have to work much will I go. The best part is that I know I'll be able to do it, and that alone is just awesome to me. I don't know many people that could say the same.
I'm still working out in preparation for the marathon I'll be running. Pretty soon I'll be getting ready to campaign for sponsors to well...sponsor me on my run in order to have wells built in Africa. Good cause no?
In more recent events, my attempts at being "green" took a disastrous downturn. Allow me to explain:
At work we sell drying racks for a fairly low price. I figured that if I bought that I could greatly cut down on my energy consumption from my bi-weekly laundry runs. So I bought one, set it up and threw my wet clothes on it. When I arrived to the bathroom in the morning it was destroyed....the weight of the wet clothes completly shattered the support bar...go figure. So not only do I still use the dryer, I supported more orders of the product, which means more will be made in China...etc. etc. and that ladies and gentlemen is what I call a FAIL.
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