my summer, motorcycle, hume lake, and more...

so i haven't written in....oh several months. it has been quite the eventful summer. let me start with where i left off. Hume SD. about 2 weeks after school got out this past semester i went to work for Hume Lake...running a full on Hume summer camp down at pt lomas campus. we did two weeks of jr high and two weeks of high school. we averaged about 600 a week with out largest being 800 high schoolers. kinda crazy. but freakin SICK. I loved everything about it. we did everything from recreation to afternoon activities(mission bay wakeboarding, kayaking, sailing, mission beach surfing beach, skate park, etc.), to making sure whatever needed to get done to make sure the camp ran smoothly, to just hanging out with the kids.....so awesome. time of my life.

after that i came back to Escondido and kept working construction/finish cabinetry/metal work...so definitely a variety of work, but the pay was decent. :) thus, my motorcycle.

it is a 2000 Kawasaki ninja zx900r.

she is sexy. and i am in love. :)

I took off work a little early this last Thursday(Aug 7th) got my check for the last two weeks, went home, changed, went to the bank, cashed in, pulled out the drug money, and headed down, and picked up that gorgeous piece of metal.

rode it all night, and went out to the cost the next morning, came back home, then left for Hume that afternoon. and have been here since. so sad. i cant wait to get back and take her out.


So I get back tomorrow, wed the 13th, and then the next day Rock For Justice is is going to warped tour down in San Diego at cricket wireless(coors amp)....we were able to get a non-profit booth there that we will be letting give a damn share with us. it should be pretty sick! if you're going to the SD warped or the LA warped(Sunday the 17th) we will be at both. Come say hi!!

Hume Lake is beautiful, as always. I have missed my home away from home. it has been too long since I've been here. a year, i think. to the day pretty much. ha. yesterday was my brother Nathans birthday, so he's freakin old now. 29. awesome. my family went for a sunset hike out to this massive point/mountain called buena vista. it's this huge rock mountain overlooking the majority of peaks around it, looking back toward buck rock, and out towards Fresno. there was a crapload of smog in the valley, so the sunset was epic. intricate layers of orange, yellow, red, and blue.


right now I'm just relaxing in the snack shop hanging out with friends and writing in between.

also, I got an early birthday present. ha....its a canon SD750 mini elf.

i lovveee it.

many picture albums are in the future.

ok. out for now.

Falling Slowly

These are the lyrics for one of my favorite songs as of right now...
from the motion picture soundtrack "Once"

Falling Slowly
Glen Hansard

I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

something different and....good.

So the school year is coming to an end, and the good times are to be reminisced and remembered always, and the bad times to be learned from, but not dwelt upon. The easy times to be grateful for, and the hard times most undoubtedly grew character.

This semester has flown by so incredibly fast. I have been through so many things and have learned so much. about myself, about my friends, about the world, about people in general...and I have come to a point where I love them ssooo much and long to help them.

School was the hardest it's been so far. So that was extremely difficult, but like I said...I learned a plethora of things.


There are things in life that can give you almost a...well, natural high.. Things such as a sunset. a mountain bike ride. surfing. a breathtaking woman. the power of jesus. a fast car. etc. anyways, you get the picture. I enjoy all of these very much, and its not every day(well, most of the time) that you get to experience these things. I love how when you do experience a happening such as the previously mentioned, you feel elevated...amplified...exhilarated. you feel as if you could reach out and hold the moon, the sun, in the palm of your hand. you feel as if you just conquered the world ad nothing can bring you down. imagine. something so beautiful, so stunning, so breathtaking and so...worth your time...and that you are hardly deserving of it..you feel as if you discovered something so untainted and unblemished and unstained and angelical.


this is kind of how I feel..

They Came In The Darkness

it is quiet now
they came in the dark
their voices shrieking like birds
their animals pounding the ground like thunder
their smell infiltrating every last nostril

swiftly in
swiftly out
darkness, temptation, depression, oppression,
nimble, and weak, humble, and tired,
they came from the darkness,
and took what was left

hurry now comarado,
the time is nigh
take nothing with you
there is no more time
leave all,
and grasp the fullness of the time
there can be no light where we are
we need to make haste

if we linger much longer,
all hope will be lost
if we wait for the dawn,
we shall have slaughtered ourselves

but nay, there is yet hope for us
if we fight with all that becomes,
and if we battle with such vigor,

then revolution.
then revolution.

take back what has been taken,
and show them no mercy
for they have shown none
yet show them justice,
for just is what we are.
we are vicious, but just.
we are truculent, but equitable.

take all.
win all.

they came in the darkness.
we waited. waited. waited.
and took them in their element.

where are they now?
no one knows exactly
for darkness sees all,
and darkness covers all.

they came.
but never left.

we fought.
and live.

they struggled.
we succeeded.

they came.

they lost.

conclusion of an intense week

so this week was hell...and the fire alarm just now started going off...right on. how awesome. anyways, I think I'l stay here. so I think that professors all get together and just collaborate as to how they can get all of our hardest classes to have exams within a day of each other. how convenient. With a bunch of homework due this week, a probability and statistics exam on Wednesday, and an organic/biochemistry exam today(friday), and the all-nighter that I pulled last night studying for it, my eyes have this idea that they think they can close........nay. that cannot happen yet. despite the fact that they feel as if they weighed 38 pounds each, I still have that stats class at 11:30, and then a soccer game at 3.

New Adventures

So I dont really...well, ever, actually...write. But I thought that I should try some new sort of discipline. And this is what I came up with. I am going to try and write a few times a week, simply sharing my thoughts, and daily adventures...as exciting as they may(or may not) be.
I have only twice ever kept a journal of some sort. I got this fishing themed
journal when I was about 10 or so, and that lasted maybe a month(and about two pages of scrambled, illegible writing. Then when I was about 13, my sister Rachel got me this really cool parchment paper artsy journal that had little pieces of...plants...I think...all mixed in with this really neat homemade looking paper. pretty sweet. I remember I journaled on 9-11-01 about the towers...and that took up not even a page. Then maybe 2 years later I picked it up again when I started playing guitar. I used it a lot for jotting my thoughts and chord progressions for songs when I was writing. and that ended when I was about 17? Now I'm 20, and I think that it's about time for something a little bit more, well, serious? dedicated? real? or not real since it's all uploaded on the internet to some server. :)

Nevertheless, This is me, and I truly do enjoy writing, but I never do. I think I have a hard time starting stuff. But I do know that when I put my heart into something, I follow it to the end. Thats all for now, and I think that this is a somewhat decent start to something I hope to be rewarding in some way or another.