One Step Closer

Had my picture taken yesterday. And by the time I got home the pictures were ready to pick up!!! Plus Mu told me the people from the bookstore called and the announcements I ordered Tuesday which are supposed to take a week to make were ready to pick up too!!! I finished one report and have set up a day to finish one of my group projects. I am putting the finishing touches of the Rotaract conference with the help of Chaminade's Rotaract club. Things are coming together!

Graduation

You may have noticed you have to scroll farther down to get to my posts. The graduation countdown has begun, and you all can view it at the top of the page. I will give updates as things progress. Yesterday I got my cap and gown, ordered my announcements, and registered to walk...again (apparently you have to register in about 3 different places). Today I am getting my hair cut in the morning and going straight to the studio. It kind of all just fell in place.

HI!!!

So I know I've ben gone a while so here's the abbreviated update.
I moved into the new place. It's pretty cool.
I started my internship at the UH Women's Clinic. More on that later.
This is my last semester. I actually have to go into the real world now.
I got older. The big 22. Pictures on flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/xtremegeorgia/
Still with my personal trainer. Have lost 25 lbs since August. I look good!
Still at Bubba's and Vinos. Have been part of the crowd pushing for more healthful options on Bubba menu. Succeeded in my own way by bringing back the plain shrimp with cocktail sauce.
Joined Safety Tem at Bubba's. Mostly for the bigger discount, but also because I love safety.
Eric gets back from Iraq this week in time for the Vanilla Ice concert.
Went to pro-bowl, yay!
Didn't ditch Dave with the truck after he helped me move. I know you all had your fingers crossed.
That's about it for now.

The Gift Giving Season

I'm going to post this here in the assurance somebody will tell somebody else when they say "Hey, What do you think I should get George this year?" and they will tell somebody else and so on and so on. It's my Christmas Wish List!!!
*A haircut*
A gift-card to Wal-mart (the store not Wal-mart.com)
A gift-card to Lush
*A professional haircut*
A gift-card to Ed Hardy (I'm really not holding my breath on this one)
*A New Bra*
A gift-card to iTunes
*A nice haircut*
A gift-card to PayPal
A gift-card to Buca Di Beppo or any restaurant with a location in Honolulu I may eat at
And if you can find a grocery store in my area (Safeway, Foodland, Foodpantry, StarMarket) that will let you buy a gift-card online, that would be AWESOME!! *No Krogers, Publix, Targets, Food Cities, Food Lions here

I just want you all who saw me this summer to know that I have lost a lot of weight and whatever clothes size I wore this summer, I don't wear anymore (well, shirts are still Smalls or small-cut mediums), so clothes are probably not a good idea.

ALSO! I am not paying shipping on Christmas presents this year. I can't afford it. If your present can fit in the standard envelope without making it more than the allowed oz. for $.39, fabulous, you're getting a present. If you are coming to see me before next Christmas, you'll get your present then. If not, then either find some one who IS coming to see me and have them pick it up, or wait till I move back to the mainland (or go without). I will understand if you feel the same about me.

The move

Getting ready to move. I don't like packing. It sucks. Especially since I really can't take any furniture with me. I wish I could just go away, and have my stuff at the new APT when I get back. I really don't think DW would be down for that kind of slave labor, no matter how cute I am. BTW: Check out the new pics on Flickr!

Happy Holidays

As I was on my way to get a smoked salmon bagel this morning, some crazy lady was explaining "You only have yourself in this world, NO ONE ELSE MATTERS!! You are alone!!" to everyone walking by. When she got to me she just looked at me and yelled "F@#K YOU!!!" Happy Holidays from the crazy lady I guess. Every one eat lots of food tomorrow!!!

Grrr....

I am TIRED of NATURAL DISASTERS!!! First a flood, then an earthquake, now more floods and landslides. When will it end?

Spin Cycle This

The other day (Wednesday), I was cleaning my room like a mad woman. As part of cleaning, one MUST do laundry. I did my laundry. Since our dryer doesn't dry our clothes all the way, I went to go put an extra 75 cents in the dryer before my time was up so it would go just a little longer only to find some douchebag had put my clothes on top of the dryer before the time was up. I think I know who it was, and next time they do their laundry, I'm going to open the door, close it, and not restart it. Do it about three times so it wastes their money too.

See, I think (like 85% sure) it is these new neighbors who are SUPER annoying. They play their music really loud during the day which I really can't do anything about since it isn't "quiet hours." I hear it in my apartment about the same level I would play it in my apartment (If I listened to Mariah Carey). PLUS!! I came home on Tuesday to find two of them smoking pot in our stairwell. I have no problem with people who choose to burn, but I say do it in your own home so everyone else doesn't have to smoke pot, too. Additionally, they like to peek in on us all the time. When the power was out, we had out front door open, talking to the resident manager about something, and they were fekking shining their flashlight into our apartment to look at us. Then their friend's car got towed (which it plainly states cars will be towed if not in appropriate spot) and they stood outside my window at 11pm yelling into the parking lot while I was running a 103 degree fever and trying to sleep.

I just had to let it out. They annoy the crap out of me.

Staple Items

From the front page of the Honolulu Star Bulletin on October 16, 2006:
"What started as a lazy rainy Sunday on Oahu became a scramble for essentials, like ice, beer and batteries."
Just think about it. Not water. Not bread. Not rice. Not candles. Man, thank god we had beer already. We might not have made it out alive.

Baby, you rock my world!

So as many of you heard, we had an earthquake yesterday morning. It started as a little rumble and then grew till it knocked stuff off my desk. The power died and, as it was raining all day, we were extremely bored. I comprised a list of things to do when the earth just won't stand still and Civil Defense says "stay inside!":
1. Get in the doorway. In all seriousness, emergency procedures should be top on your list.
2. Get an emergency kit together when you reaize how unprepared you are. Our biggest fear was the water and when the siren goes off, you better know EXACTLY what route you are taking and where you are going.
3. Unpack some of the emergency kit when the threat is over.
4. Find an edible combination of cold canned food.
5. Play scrabble.
6. Put on silly costumes and dance around.
7. Wait half an hour to get INTO the grocery store to buy water.
8. Clean.
9. Read a book.
10. Try to get your phone to work.
11. Start drinking.
12. Take a shower with two bottles of water.
13. Corn-row your hair.
14. Drink some more.
15. SOLITAIRE!!!
16. Cheer LOUDLY when the power comes back on.

Um.....Ew.

I must first disclose that I have a subscription to PlayGirl (lots of shirtless, not as many pantless men). In the Amature section on October's issue, there is a 40-something year old from dear old JC. I had a laugh sesion with the roommmates because damn if that wasn't the funniest thing I have seen in a long time.

Boned Again

Campus health care was already so/so, but now the free HIV testing on campus has be done away with. Students without cars now have to go off campus to clinics that are extremely difficult to get to if you don't have transportation. I thought it was a new step in HIV awareness campaign to get younger people to go get tested. It seems a little contradicting to me.

NEW PICTURES!!!

Some.... Just some of the many from at home. Check them out at the Fickr. Oh yeah, baby.

Croikey!!!

A sad day for animal scientists everywhere. Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, has passed into the great wilderness beyond. Apparently, while filming off the coast of Australia in the great barrier reef, his heart was punctured by a stingray. Of all the things it could have been, I never expected a stingray. I was expecting the "most poisonous something in the world!" or a "huge croc!". Sad day. It's ok to shed a tear.

The U is Silent

My Cultural anthropology teacher says nu-cu-lar and not nu-CLE-ar. It drives me nuts. How do you get to be a person going for their PhD with out pronouncing this word correctly? I can't listen to him. I clench my teeth too much.

And Then There Were None

A chapter in the book of George has come to a close. I have taken the piercings out of my back. I just got tired of people I didn't know coming up and touching me. I mean seriously. It was very FCUKING annoying.

It's a Glass full of YUM!!

I REALLY like the new 7Up. I'm not really sure it is all that different or natural, but I still LOVE it.

Tsunami Who?

I had a very strange dream last night about a tsunami that hit Waikiki and made its way to my house. There was also a lesbian chef and a strange reporter for Time magazine who also happened to be a car salesman.

Well, the tsunami part got me thinking. I live at sea level about a mile in from the ocean. MAybe I live 10 ft. above sea level. At most. When the earthquake occured off Tonga, Oahu was placed under a tsunami warning. This is where I got concerned. The warning was only anounced on the news at super early in the morning once. The little tsunami siren we have which could wake up Jesus indicates you turn to the am station and listen for the weather announcements. I didn't know about it until I woke up and the warning had been lifted. It didn't go off. I asked Kristen about it later that day and she told me they don't crank that sucker until the water on the shore is retreating in a threatening manner. Now, we are over due for a hurricane or a tsunami or some major ocean related natural disaster by at least 10 years. Don't you think it would be a good thing to have an earlier warning system, especially somewhere as populated as the state of Hawaii, namely Oahu? I mean, nothing happened this time but it could have and we wouldn't have had time to move up the mountain.

PS~ I never had tsunami nightmares until I moved here.

AMAZING!!!

I forgot to water my plants for four days and I thought they were goners. I watered them yesterday before school and by the time I got home, they were lush and perky again. AMAZING!

That's my news... What's yours?

Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act

So here's the short version. Disgusted by the picketing of soldiers funerals by the Westboro Baptist Church, Congress passed the "Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act". Basically you can't hold demonstrations within 300 ft. of the entrances to our national cemetaries 1 hour before of after a fallen soldier's funeral. Penalties include up to 1 year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

I have discussion questions for this for my speech project as I am presenting this for my current events project. I got four of them easily, but had trouble with two of them. Tell me what you think.

Discussion questions:
1. Do you think Congress's decision to prohibit demonstrations at military funerals at national cemeteries is a violation of the First Amendment?
2. If Congress passed an act designed to protect fallen soldier's funerals, do you think all funerals should be protected?
3. Do you think messages such as the Westboro Baptist Church's should be protected under the First Amendment?
4. Do you think the Westboro Baptist Church would have had such an impact with their message if the government had left them alone?
5. The WBC has very focused religious beliefs which include a message which is offensive to the majority of the populace. Do you believe the Act has gray area in protecting some for religion while prohibiting others from practicing theirs?
6. Do you think the penalties for picketing at soldier’s funerals will stop groups who are as radical as this group is?