How is it possible to have this overpowering sensation of nostalgia for a place that, realistically, I’ve spent so little time in?
I’m of course speaking of my desire to travel to England. All morning I’ve been drinking tea and listening to the Beatles and Oasis and in general acting very wistful. I don’t know why I think that going back there will make me happy–I thought the same thing about leaving Fallbrook to go to college–but every time I look out the window I just feel utterly sick of Orange County and its rows and rows of houses, all perfectly manicured and shown off for their sameness.
I suppose I just want to be somewhere where the architecture is older than I am, where there is a sense of epic history. It’s stupid things that remind me, too… the other day I got inordinately excited when I had to take a roundabout.
Here are some stupid things I do to tide myself over until I can either visit the UK or move there entirely:
- Have an inclination to only listen to music that originates from the UK (Bloc Party, Oasis, the Beatles, Massive Attack, British Sea Power, etc. There are, of course, exceptions.)
- Go slightly out of my way to use a traffic circle or roundabout, if at all possible, to get to my destination.
- Drive a Mini Cooper.
- Wear a Union Jack on clothing and accessories, though not in an overbearing way. (E.g., wallet, underwear)
- Forego coffee for tea.
- Pronounce words differently, such as advertisement with the emphasis on “vert,” or schedule with a soft “sch.”
I’m sure you can find more if you know me well enough…
Death Cab for Cutie is playing December 5 (a Tuesday) at UCI. This is probably one of the first times in recent memory where a band I actually like it playing here. Sorry, MxPx, you just don’t cut it.
Interested? You can get the tickets at the box office for $30 ($28 if you’re a UCI student, limit 2) or see the Ticketmaster link below. I definitely recommend the box office though, Ticketmaster is the biggest monopoly on the planet.
Hit me up.
Official Ticketmaster site. Death Cab for Cutie tickets UCI Bren Events Center Irvine, CA, Directions, seating chart.
I can’t wait to have kids. It’s going to be awesome; I can teach them the wrong words, and show them out to rock out. To accomplish the latter goal:
Lullaby covers of Radiohead.
I haven’t updated this site in a long time, mostly because I forget. I’d like to start again.
That being said, I got my first epic item in World of Warcraft today, that would be my Earthfury Epaulets.
Ottoman Turkish Empire Settlement
I had the very same question when filing with TurboTax…
Today I had my first visit to the Student Health Center here at UCI. The parking, like everywhere in Irvine, was terrible. The nurse was really nice, and I got a med student and a real doctor to look at me, so hopefully they caught everything!
I went in cause I had what I thought was a pus blister in the back of my throat. (Ewww.) Katrina thought it was strep throat, so I went in to have them look at it. The med student took a look first and agreed that I needed a strep culture test. Then the doctor came in, took one look, and started going at the back of my throat with a cotton swab. I started gagging, but she gets done and says, “Okay, all gone. You just had some food debris stuck to the back of your throat.” Kind of embarrassing…
But they did prescribe me some migraine medicine for my headaches, so that’s cool. I also have to go in next Monday to get my mole removed. It will be way exciting.
In other news, World of Warcraft sucks. I pay $15 a month to wait an hour for 500 people to log off to play my level 30 Shaman! Arggh.
You know you’re living in Irvine when you get a letter from your housing office asking your roommate to take down her curtains. Why? Because they’re not white.
Here’s what I posted on the UCI LiveJournal community:
Dear Berkeley Court,
Thank you for asking my roommate to take down her red curtains. I know the community will be that much safer once we have eliminated all color and life in the community.
Signed,
Your Resident
Yep, it sure was a lot of fun. Not only did we do Universal Studios, but we saw a lot of the landmarks in Hollywood thanks to my GPS navigation system. It makes doing things on a whim loads easier.
You can read about it on my iWeb blog page at http://web.mac.com/tdale2/.
Because I did such a terrible job planning our Valentine’s Day/3 year anniversary, today I surprised Katrina by taking her to Universal Studios!
It should be exciting, and off we go.
CoverFlow lets you browse your iTunes albums like they were physical albums.
I haven’t tried it out yet but it looks really cool.
Update: Yeah, it’s pretty cool.
