Evidentally, chimpanzees are carnivorous...
I've come to the conclusion that I want to cut my hair off, it is annoying. This shall happen sometime in the next month.
I found the local NPR station streaming online, office work is much happier now.
I've put in over 3 days worth of work between yesterday and today, I am tired.
I have tomorrow off, I plan to sleep in.
I cut the finger nail too short on one of my left hand fingers and it hurts, I can't play guitar for a while now cause I'm a wimp :(
Mike Rowe is my hero.
I have seen too many Christmas decorations out for the end of October.
My parents left yesterday, I guess life is back to "normal".
I'm very ready for Thanksgiving.
And Christmas.
I wish I were more intellectual, I'm gonna work on that if I get the time. You know, read books and stuff.
______ of the day: "Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band" - 'Lookin out my back door' by CCR
The exhausted Ogukuo
30 October 2007
24 October 2007
Here's the order of my list in the order its in
So you know how sometimes someone will get a brilliant idea and blogs about it? Well, this isn't one of those, I'm just bored. I think I'm gonna try list form a la Paul.
- I've noticed my blog linked on a few other people's blogs, I guess that means I should write more often.
- I too want a puppy, they are cute. But only a puppy like on toilet paper commercials, not one that gets into mud and poops and all that stuff that requires work.
- I too think I look like Ben Folds, scary.
- It recently dawned on me that I will be residing in 3 of the major dutch settlements, Ripon, Sioux Center, and (in the future) Lynden. I do not know how I feel about this.
- My parents and brother show up tomorrow. I haven't seen them in close to 6 months.
- I haven't had a haircut since last seeing them, hmm.
- Last post featured Straylight Run, today's selection is Paulson, very very neat stuff.
- I also just listened to Pedro The Lion (I know, I'm a decade behind the times). They are interesting.
- I was in a half-constructed house this past weekend and it reminded me how much I enjoy house design and that whole process.
- I'm designing a house, kinda. It has a waterfall in it and a meditation/yoga room. Its very Eastern influenced. Its also almost 6000 sq ft :S. I think I need to scale it down a bit.
- I have not been in the Bean for 5 days, life is turning gray.
- Gray or grey?
- I just ate my last Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate with White Mint Filling chocolate Square from Andrea :(. They were very yummy tho :).
- I have 3 months worth of bank statements, credit card bills, and student loan stuff on my desk.
- I am very thankful for automatic withdrawls for important payments.
- I hope there are competent musicians around Lynden, I will very much miss being in a band when I move out there.
- Today is my last day of work until next Monday, yay!
- This list is too long.
______ of the day: "I'm hiding from things I can't explain" - Ultra-High by Paulson
The listless Ogukuo
- I've noticed my blog linked on a few other people's blogs, I guess that means I should write more often.
- I too want a puppy, they are cute. But only a puppy like on toilet paper commercials, not one that gets into mud and poops and all that stuff that requires work.
- I too think I look like Ben Folds, scary.
- It recently dawned on me that I will be residing in 3 of the major dutch settlements, Ripon, Sioux Center, and (in the future) Lynden. I do not know how I feel about this.
- My parents and brother show up tomorrow. I haven't seen them in close to 6 months.
- I haven't had a haircut since last seeing them, hmm.
- Last post featured Straylight Run, today's selection is Paulson, very very neat stuff.
- I also just listened to Pedro The Lion (I know, I'm a decade behind the times). They are interesting.
- I was in a half-constructed house this past weekend and it reminded me how much I enjoy house design and that whole process.
- I'm designing a house, kinda. It has a waterfall in it and a meditation/yoga room. Its very Eastern influenced. Its also almost 6000 sq ft :S. I think I need to scale it down a bit.
- I have not been in the Bean for 5 days, life is turning gray.
- Gray or grey?
- I just ate my last Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate with White Mint Filling chocolate Square from Andrea :(. They were very yummy tho :).
- I have 3 months worth of bank statements, credit card bills, and student loan stuff on my desk.
- I am very thankful for automatic withdrawls for important payments.
- I hope there are competent musicians around Lynden, I will very much miss being in a band when I move out there.
- Today is my last day of work until next Monday, yay!
- This list is too long.
______ of the day: "I'm hiding from things I can't explain" - Ultra-High by Paulson
The listless Ogukuo
21 October 2007
Last time that I saw you...
I am blogging instead of organizing an outline for an inservice I am conducting tomorrow. I got a killer title for it tho, "How to Properly Deal with Anger". Ok, its a lame title, probably will be a lame talk as well. I feel kinda dumb, cause everything I'm talking about is probably known better by the people I am talking to.
I'm also listening to Straylight Run right now, they are my happy place. I've only got 'The Needles The Space' right now, but I think I'm gonna get their earlier albums next week if I can. I recommend them, if you like good music.
I'm starting to realize alot of things that I don't want to realize. I've done a pretty good job of hiding life from myself so far, but it seems like it is becoming more and more immenant. Part of me says "great! its time to give up all of this and start acting all grown up" and the rest of me is saying "no, we're gonna fight as hard as we can to avoid real work of any sort". Someone wise once quoted someone not-so-wise as saying "life is unraveling and being woven together". Well, I feel like I'm much more on the unraveling end right now. I've decided to make some pretty big changes in my life over the next year or so, but all I can see right now is what I'm leaving behind. I know what lies ahead is awesome and going to be wonderful, but I don't know how its going to be awesome and wonderful. Mostly what scares me is the complete and utter uncertainty of those changes. I've set up some very safe havens for myself both here and back in CA, but my new life is going to be anchored by (relatively) very little. Don't get me wrong, very little things can be the most important things. Especially when they are as important and special as they are in this case. And, to carry the analogy way too far, smaller anchors for change give me the most room to swing on my own and figure out the rest. If you don't understand, thats ok, the point of this post is that I don't understand either. In theory, once I get a few more of the major details figured out, I'll be much more on the woven together end of life. At least thats what I tell myself...
_______ of the day: "I'm gonna lay here alone/close my eyes and wish for home" - This is the End by Straylight Run
The unwoven Ogukuo
I'm also listening to Straylight Run right now, they are my happy place. I've only got 'The Needles The Space' right now, but I think I'm gonna get their earlier albums next week if I can. I recommend them, if you like good music.
I'm starting to realize alot of things that I don't want to realize. I've done a pretty good job of hiding life from myself so far, but it seems like it is becoming more and more immenant. Part of me says "great! its time to give up all of this and start acting all grown up" and the rest of me is saying "no, we're gonna fight as hard as we can to avoid real work of any sort". Someone wise once quoted someone not-so-wise as saying "life is unraveling and being woven together". Well, I feel like I'm much more on the unraveling end right now. I've decided to make some pretty big changes in my life over the next year or so, but all I can see right now is what I'm leaving behind. I know what lies ahead is awesome and going to be wonderful, but I don't know how its going to be awesome and wonderful. Mostly what scares me is the complete and utter uncertainty of those changes. I've set up some very safe havens for myself both here and back in CA, but my new life is going to be anchored by (relatively) very little. Don't get me wrong, very little things can be the most important things. Especially when they are as important and special as they are in this case. And, to carry the analogy way too far, smaller anchors for change give me the most room to swing on my own and figure out the rest. If you don't understand, thats ok, the point of this post is that I don't understand either. In theory, once I get a few more of the major details figured out, I'll be much more on the woven together end of life. At least thats what I tell myself...
_______ of the day: "I'm gonna lay here alone/close my eyes and wish for home" - This is the End by Straylight Run
The unwoven Ogukuo
10 October 2007
Long and boring, worth ignoring
I did not realize its almost been a month since my last post, I apologize. The last two weeks have been increadably busy. I had a work conferance down in Des Moines, which I found quite fun. Mostly cause I've never been on a trip like this, so it was new and interesting to me. I also learned alot about my job, which is very very good, cause I basically have no other training whatsoever besides on the job training. And it was good to be in a "big city" again! Sometimes I really miss tall buildings and not being able to see any shread of natual landscape. Doesn't happen often, but sometimes I miss that. I also had my own hotel room for the first time ever, I think. I jumped on the bed :). I was on that trip for 3 days and then returned to a 4 day weekend. So that means I was away from regular shifts for an entire week. Returning was hard, I was very out of it. But then I worked 7 days straight. Very busy! Between yesterday and Monday I worked 26 hours, with less than 5 hours of sleep inbetween. Thank goodness I have today off, I got 8 hours of sleep last night for the first time since last Tuesday or something. But, its short lived, I work again tomorrow, probably 16 hour shift too :S.
Lesse, in real news (besides me being too busy to make real news), um, oh, observation time!! Hotel breakfast bars can be very interesting places. On the weekend they are always filled with families, old people, and usually random bikers. All these people are casually dressed, socialize in groups, and seem happy. This would probably be, logically, because they are all on vacation. However, during the week (as observed on my last business trip), everyone eating breakfast is wearing a suit or other business wear, eating alone, and usually looking unhappy. Ok, this is a pretty easy observation to make, but I've rarely stayed in a hotel during the week, so I've never seen the business side of it. I just gotta say, if I worked in a hotel, I'd want to work on the weekend when the fun happy people are there. But I never want to work at a hotel.
______ of the week: I enjoy mountains
The Midwest'd Ogukuo
Lesse, in real news (besides me being too busy to make real news), um, oh, observation time!! Hotel breakfast bars can be very interesting places. On the weekend they are always filled with families, old people, and usually random bikers. All these people are casually dressed, socialize in groups, and seem happy. This would probably be, logically, because they are all on vacation. However, during the week (as observed on my last business trip), everyone eating breakfast is wearing a suit or other business wear, eating alone, and usually looking unhappy. Ok, this is a pretty easy observation to make, but I've rarely stayed in a hotel during the week, so I've never seen the business side of it. I just gotta say, if I worked in a hotel, I'd want to work on the weekend when the fun happy people are there. But I never want to work at a hotel.
______ of the week: I enjoy mountains
The Midwest'd Ogukuo
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