The First Entry

Hello everyone!

I have oodles of free time, and lots to say (as usual) so this is a far better outlet than bugging Neelaysh every couple of minutes. Over the last couple of weeks, as all of you have left for your respective futures and new lives, I have been spending most of my free time playing xbox, cleaning the house, chores, going through my various DMV hassles, planning classes and courses to take in the next 4 months, learning to manage the house with my mom at work (meaning paying the bills, talking to car insurance companies, managing our bank accounts). All in all, it kinda got old..fast.

So, for those of you who don't know, I decided to take more than a couple of classes and courses to occupy myself. I'm taking both the intro chem and intro english course for UC credit at a community college, and then taking a class in photography in Santa Clara. I'm also taking an Ice Skating class in cupertino. Now, because i'm sure every single one of you will double take and say wait..what? figure skating?! I'll explain. it is NOT a figure skating class, its just a class to help people learn to skate. thats it. nothing else. Forwards, backwards, skidding, the works. So imagine my surprise when i turn up there, (freezing in my green/white/black harker basketball shorts and senior trip shirt) and the remaning members of the class are all girls. all in tights. all seniors in their high schools. and all staring at me with varying degress of awkwardness. I'm fairly certain they all assume i'm gay..but hey, what am i to do?

Courses at a community college, compared to courses at harker, are THE MOST MUNDANE classes i've ever experienced in my life to date. And i've been to some pretty crappy public schools. I've never before seen a 2 hour chem lecture period entirely spent on reading over the class syllabus (and we ended up going overtime). English class, i'm sandwhiched between these GIGANTIC black guys, who look so ghetto i wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out a switchblade to sharpen their pencil. They turn to me when ever we have our group discussions on our grammar worksheets (grammar worksheets?! are you kidding me?!) and ask in hugely deep voices for the answers....scares the crap out of me.. feel like a tiny pine tree in a redwood forest.

I'm still looking for some suitable cooking classes to join, preferably thai or one that specializes in breakfasts ...though if the ice-skating classes were any indication, that probably won't help my masculinity very much :(.

As some of you know, boredom is intolerable to me far more than it should be for any normal person, and i'm going crazy without anyone to talk to on a regular basis... so i might strain a good many friendships in the next couple of months simply because i won't leave you all alone whenever i get a chance for some conversation...DEAL WITH IT :D