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[Feb. 26th, 2007|06:31 pm] |
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Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations on housing for 1. May 15-26 and/or 2. Fall! Oh man, just thinking about standing in USC makes me smile! |
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[Dec. 25th, 2006|07:33 pm] |
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i am bored. i need some facetious human interaction. |
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| sos please someone help me |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:34 pm] |
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hello there.
i know no one likes spam but hawaii folk. lol. bad pun joke! anyhoo, if you guys have some free time (aka 4 min.)and have philanthropic hearts please help me by filling out this beauty if you do and you need some incentive other than helping out a desperate friend, i'll do a pre-approved 4 min favor for you. yeah you wish...but no. like make u a mean sandwhich or take notes for 4 min for you. the like.
oh, and to thank you for reading this, here's a pic of a cute lil ol duck! they're the cutest things. i saw a few on discovery's show, dirty jobs. quite a good show.
ok, like you care. oh, and 2 weeks of school are done. what have i accomplished? 20 hrs of watching the us tennis open. yup, im wasting this life away. |
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| ok, go! |
[Aug. 4th, 2006|12:19 am] |
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1: who wants to go to the friends and neighbors day with me? the sat after move in day (8/19) for funness/giving/breakfast bagels probably. http://sait.usc.edu/volunteer/fnd.asp let me know if interested and if so, which program.
2:ok go music vid. AMAZING. you gotta see it. i won't explain it anymore since i can't do it justice. amazing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
ahhhhhhhhh, so good. ok i just shut up.
excited to go back to la (8/15 night) |
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| Hello, and how are you today? |
[Jul. 9th, 2006|01:14 am] |
i hate unnecisarrily (yeah, i can't spell, go fuck yourself lol...op, verbal roadblock!) mean people. esp those that make snide comments loud enough for the topic-person to hear. no, my life goal is not to serve you and only you. being a bitch isn't as enjoyable and slack as you think it is, jackass. Yes, I will bring you your half side of tomato sauce, but the 20-top is also biting my head off, so you have the same priority as them. wait your goddamn turn. thank you for your 3% tip when i took your ugly group's pic with 5 different cameras. i love how you posed drinking a heiniken. you are so cool, so cool. i want to have your babies.
go fuck yourself.
i'd say to rot in hell, but i'm sure your life sucks enough with that branch up your ass.
Translation to response of "good"
Oh, and how are you doing? No, I really care. I'm not being sarcastic. Answer me! |
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[May. 12th, 2006|03:02 pm] |
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To everybody I came in contact in the past few days, I wanted to start off my summer with an apology.
The last two days were amazing but also some of the worst days I've experienced at USC. Thank you for spending your precious time with me. I'm sorry that you all had to see me during my highest cortisol levels. Packing killed part of my heart the last two days, as I'm sure you may have own. You probably have experienced its rath too. With no sleep and the realization that I am incompetent and irresponsible, I'm sorry that I put stress upon you. I know you may be laughing at me since moving out took a larger toll on me than finals. It's not like finals didn't kill me either, but I guess the mix of the two gave me the feeling of inescapable loss of time, the inability to do what I need to do, and dissapointment in myself. I had several panic attacks and I'm sorry because I know that it was contagious. I want to thank everyone that helped me whether it was directly saving my ass again and again or just being there for me. Thanks to everyone that constantly heard me say that my life sucks and responding yes it does or no it doesn't. Either way, does or doesn't, I needed someone there to listen to me.
There are a few of you who I especially want to apologize to and thank for your support during some of my hardest times at USC. You know who you are. I'm sorry for all the burdens that I put upon you, especially during a time that was equally, if not harder for you.
Lastly, have great summers! I know you all will because you are good people. Thanks for the last few days and for the better times too, making my sophomore year what it was. |
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| hellooooooooooo there |
[Dec. 20th, 2005|02:35 pm] |
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so you may ask, how has crystal been spending her winter break so far? with 1/2 a wk gone and only 2 1/2 more, she musta done a hella lot! well, to answer anyone and everyone's dire question, i have been baking cookies. now now now, it has been more than just baking everyday cookies. no. i did not waste all my hawaii time with merely baking cookies. well, actually yes i did.
yesterday i spent the whole day in my house baking since i woke up til i went to bed. what a fabulous existence. yesterday totaled 31 dozen cookies. i baked about 80 dozen cookies these past few days. that comes out to...960 cookies! i ended up screwing up multiple times, of course. so my first screw up was forgeting 3c of flour. the next day was mixing up t with T so i put in triple the amt of vanilla and had to triple a double recipe. then yesterday it was putting in sugar in the amt that was supposed to be flour, so i put in 7c instead of 3. that was a crazy hard fraction to separate and figure out. and i burnt way too many and so many are anemic.
eh, but in the end we now have a hella lot of mac nut shortbread cookies and chocolate chip rice krispie cookies. so if ur in the neighborhood and are cookie hungry, we can have a cookie party because i love cookies too.
mmmmmm i hope my love for cookies is not all together butchered. that would make me cry.
recooking those anemic ones
slacking on the job
if they fell i woulda been beaten!
have u ever seen so much butter? thats the one i screwed up so i had to make 2 double batches and a single. so that's 5 batches of creamed butter for the shortbread cookies.
i think a cookie monster needs to look a bit more insane.
this is back at the cali home. we love cleaning dishes! dishes jenga.
ALSO:
i missed the pipeline tournament cuz i kept putting off driving so far. went to see a corpse bride (why did the trailers look so good?) and am eating eating eating! (zippys, flamingos, kapiolani coffee shop, zippys, home, kapiolani coffee shop, hanaki) chinatown tomorrow! |
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| damn you gennia |
[Oct. 21st, 2005|04:12 pm] |
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Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same amount of people as *minutes* it takes you to write the facts
tagged by gennia
1. i think im the most contradictory and paradoxical person ever, but i think everyone thinks that of him/herself
2. role models: arthur ashe, cookie monster, conan o'brien, billie joe armstrong. why are they all male figures? i guess males are just superior.
3. i feel dumb. like the unintelligent feeling of being incompetent at most anything.
4. my fave foods: cookies, eggs, (i think i got over my intense cranberry phase incase you actually look at my facebk profile...ha!)
5. im reminiscent of last semester, sr. yr. highschool, kindergarden, but life still has its highs
6. every yr i tell myself that im getting old and will be 80 soon.
7. i am petrified at life after my school period ends. how can u live when something that has been a part of u for 19 years is taken away?
8. i only have ones and a fifty in cash. hopefully that will change soon.
9. i used to own sea horses. yellie and blackie. rip.
10.i wish i could be a better person.
11.i miss hawaii despite expectations.
12.i feel bad that ppl remember my face (i think its more my voice)and i cant remember theirs. sorry if that happened to you already.
13.my first grade teacher yelled at me and said that i will never die of a heart attack. im slow. but i think its quite possible that i will die of heart problems seeing how my heart is acting presently.
14.ppl have the common misconception that im athletic and stong. why do ppl not know me?
15. i really wanna go clothes shopping right now. i feel like im in lack of self expression.
16.idk what i want to do with my life and i feel like a failure because of it.
17.best feelings: hitting a tennis ball on the sweet spot with perfect form and placement, seeing the color purple...the real color purple, listening to the song that connects with you at that very moment, getting and giving much deserved appreciation, nostalgia, breathing....really breathing
18.i want more in life.
19.i feel like crying.
20.i am not listening to the rules. i do not have 16 lj friends. thanks for reminding me of my friendlessness lj.
but i tag everyone who reads this, unless you already did one. if you already did one, enrich ur life outside of lj. that is my only request. |
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| back to school back to school to show daddy that im not a fool |
[Aug. 22nd, 2005|11:07 pm] |
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I *heart* you!!! so...
1) Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2) I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3) I'll pick a flavor/color of jello to wrestle with you in. (Maybe.)
4) I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5) I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6) I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7) I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8) If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written!
random question: when am i ever gonna post pics, huh? |
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| To: Future Roomies |
[Aug. 15th, 2005|01:08 am] |
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To: Future Roomies,
I thought I'd send a semi-formal flyer out since I don't seem to be able to talk to you guys too much. Shuinn and I were wondering how yall think we should set up stuff. Here are a few things that we were planning to bring over to fill our new room out. We were also wondering what stuff you guys were thinking of bringing fr home if you could. If we're missing some stuff we can also go out and buy some up in cali.
Shuinn's planning to bring:
a few Pots
a Frying Pan
some Plates
a few Mugs
a ghetto rice cooker
Crystal's planning to bring:
a rice cooker, assumably less ghetto than shuinns :)
a Brita
a black ghetto, not ultra comfortable fold out futon bed/chair
a lamp
what else do yall think we need? utencils? more cups/bowls/plates? more pans? radio? dvd player? a unicorn? ok, comment whatever. see you soon.
hello to non-roomies.
i come in on tues night!
i just got itunes :)
i can now (not really) surf |
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| ATTN: BROOM SQUADERS |
[Aug. 11th, 2005|01:10 pm] |
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Broom Squad reunion Aug. 20?
You know we gotta!
its made broomers friends and now neighbors too :) |
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[Aug. 5th, 2005|10:08 pm] |
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In the early days of environmental regulation, it was as if the corporate ship of state, having sailed magnificently to postwar ascendance, was suddenly having its electrical wiring nibbled by mice. Environmental lobbyists, pressure groups, competing scientific studies, and politicians became a nuisance; their evidence was specific on present problems but frustratingly vague regarding the future. Was industry supposed to turn its back on "growth" and "progress" because the eggshells of raptors were thinning, or because an obscure species of fish would be wiped out by a hydroelectric project? Why should it spare the few remaining native forests to save the spotted own when jobs and prosperity were at stake? Business missed the point.
After Earth Day, 1990, industry created new myths about environmental waste in order to change its image. These myths illustrate the gap between the mindset of industrial economics and biological knowledge. The critical myth is the assumption that we can "clean up" our environment. In other words, we can admit that industry was a little sloppy in the past, while being assured that it can do better in the future....It is an attractive idea because it mimics what we do in our own households: put waste into a bag and set it out for the municipality to haul off and worry about. The analogy is not sound. We can transfer our hoursehold waste from one small, "artificial" environment to the larger environment, but where then, does the larger environment, the natural world, transfer the accumulated mountains of waste? The biosphere represents our source of wealth. It is the capital which we draw down to support our lives. Whenever we pollute or degrade that system with toxins or waste, wwe are destroying our natural capital and reducing our ability to sustain our civilization. It is that simple.
Paul Hawken. The Ecology of Commerce: A declaration of Sustainability.
random question: do we still have raptors? i thought they were dinosaurs. please do not laugh at me. |
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| An End to Birth |
[Aug. 1st, 2005|10:11 pm] |
Because every species contains a vast amount of information about the world, how it evolved, how it continues to develop, and how we may find a harmonious place within it, the loss of a species is the loss of a biological library....The lost tamarins of Brazil's Atlantic clear-cut forests cannot speak to us through the tropical plywoodpaneling in a mobile home; cannot explain that our new habitat wiped out their own. They will not be heard from again. The poet and essayist Gary Snyder writes: "The ending of the lines of so many creatures with whom we have traveled this far is an occasion of profound sorrow and grief. Death can be accepted and to some degree transformed. But the loss of lineages and all their future young is not something to accept. It must be rigorously and intelligently resisted. Defend all of those plants, bugs, and animals equally?....Some archly argue that extinction has always been the fate of species and communities alike. Some quote a Buddhist teaching back at us: 'all is impermanent.' Indeed. All the more reason to move gently and cause less harm. Large highly adapted vertebrates, once lost, will never return in the forms we have known them....The scale of loss is beyond any measure the planet has ever known. 'Death is one thing, and end to birth is something else.'
...we are losing 27,000 species a year, seventy-four per day, one every twenty minutes, due in no small part to the 500,000 trees that are cut every hour in tropical forests...
At the present rate of extinction...we may lose 20 percent of all the species on the planet within the next twenty to forty years...It's also worth noting that many species, even though not yet at risk of completely disappearing, are being so severely depleted genetically that their ability to reproduce and adapt is increasingly impaired. The loss of evolutionary potential is being called the "death of birth." This is tantamount to marching backward through the Cenozoic Age, losing millions of years of evolutionary development in a matter of decades. We will face what naturalist Jack Turner calls the "final loss"--that point in the not-too-distant future when environmental degradation on the planet will no longer require our active participation.
tear.
Paul Hawken. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability.
Hawken is brilliant.
There is a way.
More to come. (fuck you, too bad)
Random comment: Joe, you have not suffered a death of birth. possibly just a death, a miscarriage. You can birth again. Many times even. Your potential for birthing is not dead. ummmm idk if this works. so hmmmm, yeah. i was thinking about this while surfing...if what i was doing could be called that. i now have hip bruises, ass, and rib bruises. i am so hip. |
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| Sofa Queens |
[Jul. 24th, 2005|12:33 pm] |
so you know how i tell my kids not to swear on my courts. for some reason they have an infatuation with not listening to me; thus "swearing". ie. thats so f---ing stupid. or he's such a f---er! shouting bull shed! bull shed! haha what losers. nah theyre cool. they better not become cocky punahou tennis players. now that would piss me off.
since im such an awesome coach i let them choose a cool name for their teams, right. one was the better than kyles team, the other was the sofa kings, later changed to sofa kingdom. and i put much enthusiasm into coaching, calling out team names for encouragement etc. dammit, so fucking dumb... they rubbed that one in for a wk. think about it.
then water wars. i like died. figures, i dont have a strong competitive nature or scheming ways. my kids fucking got me in all of my classes. haha, uncool. kids arent supposed to be involved in the wars, just pros against pros. and i could like only take their hits. i couldnt hit um back or else i wouldnt get paid. it was funny, they tried luring me down to the courts. they were like "coach christie coach christie (they know my name is not christie...pfft) come down come down!" i knew something was real sketchy so i was like, no. and they gave all these hillariously bad excuses. "oh, the food fell over! you must come down, uh...immediately. yeah, cuz we're too incompetent to put it back up. cough cough." stupid shits. haha. but those kids did get me when i was watching another coach get hit when he was sneaking to douse water on the boss-man. bachi all around.
Damn, some ppl really got the sneaky brains. climbing on roofs, double sabatouges, pretending to go for one coach to lure an alliance member into vulnerability. sweet.
does anyone want to take tennis lessons by chance? i was thinking itd be fun to take group lessons fr me. $3/half hr? fine, maybe not. |
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| i have a lot of time to think in traffic, sorry. |
[Jul. 13th, 2005|09:39 pm] |
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so...tell me if anyone else ever feels this way.
i think i just realized that some of my friends arent really my friends. i actually dont really like these ppl. im not saying that i dislike them or anything, but i just dont esp like them. i dont say that in a mean way, just as a stated discovery.
i finally realize that some ppl are just not crystal-friend material. they can be oober cool or really good people but it doesnt mean that we will click and have a good time together. i can have an interesting or friendly conversation with them but it doesnt mean that i wanna hang out with them if i had the choice.
i think i always thought that i had to like or befriend ppl if they're good or have at least some good/cool qualities. but no, theres so many people in the world that if i dont thoroughly enjoy being around some ppl, its no biggie. theres other ppl that i would actually love to hang out with instead of only fakely pretending to. idk if that makes sense. im not saying fake pretending to have a good time is bad. it must be done. you must interact with people you dont connect to. you must interact with people who behave or have beliefs that disgust you. and sometimes you have to act jolly about it too. or at least civil. you must not let this weigh you down.
and i think i realize this now back in hawaii because i am reunionizing (is that grammatically sound?) with a lot of the aforementioned type of ppl. theres some ppl that i wonder, "why did i consider you a friend? i could understand acquaintence. maybe its because i saw you everyday said hi each time, and sometimes had a conversation with you. not because you wanted to, but more because i was the only person there. sometimes we would laugh but most times when we hung out it was a neutral feeling of bleh. and now i see you again. it feels the same. we now only hang out sometimes because we feel an obligation to and that is just weird? unnecessary?"
so now i sometimes hang out with these ppl. maybe i hung out with them because there werent many options? god, this must sound horrible. and i dont mean this for all my friends. god, no. i mean if you're one of the ppl where we dont have a friend-chemistry oh well. im sure u noticed and really dont care either. but basically all of my friends are actually my friends. i think i just didnt realize that some of the ppl that i labeled friends realized this situation and didnt really consider me a good friend. so yeah? the end.
for all of those loyal, loyal rystalc-lj fanatics who have read this far (generous probability: 0.3 persons) im sure you're wondering, is this pensive bitch talking about me? and the answer is no. well, im talking to all the ppl i know that sorta/sorta-dont read this lj (i think i have like 5 lj friends that never sign on cuz they dont care and have forgotten their passwords or think that their jobs are more important that lj. pfffft). i actually like hanging out with all of your guys' random coolness. and you're probably one of those really awesome ppl that make my days and weeks and years wonderful. but i just had to share my bewilderment of how some parts of my existance seemed of null. not really in a bad way, just blank without meaning.
note: this entry was not meant to be negative. i am serious. you might think im being sarcastic but im not. when i say that my friends are truly not my friends its not in a hateful way, truly. it was just a big insight for me that you probably thought was dull, insipid, boring, blah, cookies in yo' mouth!-ish. that made no sense. good day. i said good day! |
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| wo hun li hai! (i am very awesome...yo!) |
[Jul. 11th, 2005|09:53 pm] |
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ni hao ma? wo jiao crystal.
yin jing. (penis)
hao ji le! (excellent!)
wo zhong biao le. (i have a sexually transmitted disease)
wo huo da le. (im mad as hell)
haha...
so...i borrowed a book from the library on how to speak mandarin. why? cuz the chinese will soon take over the world and i need to tell one of those 1,306,313,812 communists (July 2005 est.) wo shiang da pao (lets make love). wait, thats not right. i mean ke bu (frightingly ugly person)...? whatever. so this book is aweosome along with teaching phrases like "what time is it?," they include the most random phrases ever.
i.e. "be happy!" "who cares?" "bull shit!" which reminds me...it amuses me so to reprimand my kids for swearing. haha! they're like what? i have to do push ups for the word crap? but i allow them to use the term bastard. thats ok, yeah? push ups for the word ass too! muhahaha...
which leads me to: "rear end (ass)" <--question, do some ppl only know what the fat end that they sit on as the term ass so that they need to put it in parentheses?
"im drunk!" "fuck your mother!" "have you finished speaking yet?" "IQ of zero" "fat legged woman" "are you on the rag?" haha...on the rag!
"ive come!" "you gave me syphilis" "perverted"...some of these remind me of ppl. oh, and joe! i found "push me" and "touch me" but i couldnt find "till i can get my satisfaction" sorry. zao le (damnit! i screwed up).
if u wanna know the translation to any of the above hit me up! please, not in an abusive way. i discourage my kids from participating in violence. or giving violent threats. and using the word crap. but not bastard. or cuckold. althought they probably dont know what the later means. but now they keep shouting bull shed! i do not kid.
sorry for not writing in awhile. not like anyone cares. wo fei wu. (i am a useless person)
random goal: tomorrow i need to use the word defecate and feculence. why? because.
random question: if you had to wear the same outfit everyday (clean, that is) what would you wear? what outfit do u think i would wear. just wondering how well u know me on a monumentally insignificant level cuz i think i just figured it out.
the phrases that i have used above may or may not apply to the writer of the statement(s). please do not take these statements too seriously or reproduce them as being stated from the author. i mean the chinese ones. the english, pfffft, slander all you want. i state this because i do not have an std. or at least one that i am aware of. and no, i am not mad as hell either. just fyi. |
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| The End. |
[Jun. 9th, 2005|12:39 pm] |
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so yesterday i was supposed to partake in the amazing activity of Homemade Miniature Golf/Relay Race. Of course it rained. So instead I saw the Pacifier. Haha, don't judge. yes, it was as bad as the previews made it out to be. yes, the evil couple was comprised of the only asian ppl in the movie. they were north korean spies. haha. neighbors. called the chuns, who were actually played by a chinese lady and a japanese man. haha. god, do we look that stupid?! guess so, then i had way too much fun playing Walk Tag with my friends. The End.
random anger fit: WHY DOES NO ONE UPDATE THEIR LJ? it makes me cry. i dont know what my friends are doing. tear. new crystal-created rule: not updating, call. hahaha! The End. |
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| im such a forgetful one |
[Jun. 4th, 2005|11:43 pm] |
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i forgot how much i missed seeing hawaii boys. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
random question: what's your favorite organ and why? |
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