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I went running last night. It about took the life out of me. It felt like it had been a month since the last time. We went up to the Australian Outback Track. There were Wallabees everywhere. We had to avoid them cause I think they were carrying some sort of engineered virus. All the 'carriers' looked like high-school aged mutant zombies. Luckily I was bigger than all of them, so they stayed away. I was sleek and cunning as the best Hyena possible. I didn't have a watch to tell me exactly how superb I was, but I was. trust me. My angry claws gripped the pavement
like velcro and would I would speed away like a car tire. On the last lap I tried to use up every last bit of positive energy and sure enough I did. about half way thru the last lap I felt the last drop evaporate off my brow as I quickly slowed to a trickle. I tried to hurry, but I was spend. It was a good feeling on the walk back to my cave.

I felt compelled to stop by Stan's Donuts this morning. I got a 'Chocolate Halloween Delight, and a Coconut Surprise. I don't know why he has out his Halloween supply, but when I took the first bite, I realized why. It was like going back in time a full week. I was still dancing around in the fitting room of the Harry Potter Store. The sprinkles on top of the donut reminded me of Scary houses from Scooby-Doo. And the whole assortment of sprinkles made me think of the Last
time I had Lucky Charms Cereal. The little candy moon's and ghosts were a joy to think about and a pleasure to eat. and the purple and orange sprinkles were just bedazzling. I wonder if I stop by there tomorrow if it will be the same experience. Don't worry, I'll let you know.

Wandering around Westwood was weird today. I kid you not, I saw a real live ninja. I think it was a she, but not sure. its face was covered. I had to laugh at it when it walked by, cause it didn't seem to threatening. I though of pushing it in the street and laughing at it, but I didn't cause It could have been the mysterious 'Lizzard-Face' Ninja. I didn't want to risk it so I continued on with my donut experience. Later I saw a bunch of freaks.

Lunch was sponsored by Jamba Juice.

I'm listening to No Doubt right now.

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Not much to update you all on. I've been super busy at work; making me stay late and go to bed early. Yesterday they gave me my own project to work on. I don't know if I like that cause that just means more responsibility for me! What are they thinking? And right before the Holidays too. And on top of that project, some of the others have been telling me that they have more for me to do when I have a free minute. Good Grief Charley Brown.

So last night I went Christmas shopping. I was in line to check out and some of the stuff I was holding made it obvious that it was for the holidays, so the ladies in line and behind the registers were getting really excited about everything I was doing all of a sudden. I figured it was because they were girls and cause I had gifts.

I also went to a movie last night with a friend of mine. At the last second they said "I hope its not to much of a chick flick". "?" I thought, followed by 'What have I done?'. It wasn't after all, but it made me nervous for a second. I don't think I've ever seen one of those...'Chick flicks'. Not that I remember anyway.

Steve my desk neighbor at work has toned down on talking to himself out loud. I wonder if hes OK. He did switch from a Scottish to a British accent when he swears and yells at imaginary people. I wonder if there's an adult version of 'Child Protective Services' that I can call for him.

Lunch was sponsored by The Corner Bakery.

I'm listening to some song titled 'Don't Stop The Music', by Rihanna.

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The Move Premier of Beowulf was last night in Westwood. They were setting up all day. At night they had fancy lights and lots of short little Asian kids who would do everything they could do to get in front of me and then block my view by holding crap up or lifting each other up in an awkward manner. After they started taking pictures of themselves, and the flash would go off right in my eyes, I had enough then started making loud mumbling comments and making weird faces in their pictures, but would ignore them when they looked back at me. I saw a few famous people who I barley recognized. Anthony Hopkins was probably the most famous. Then some hot blond chick, then some weird long hair dude, and some tall black guy. Thats who I saw.

At FHE they were having Craft Night. I brought paint for the kids to use, but My part of the adventure only lasted a few minutes before I felt my stomach telling me to leave and to find food. Sorry FHE. Not only that but I have other art projects that I'm trying to finish before I take on more.

After that I went to watch TV at Cheryl's Flat. At first I didn't care what was on, but then after a few seconds I realized that CS was forcing me to watch Dancing with the Stars. There was nothing I could do; I had already started eating, which means I couldn't move from my spot till I was done. OK, just kidding I wasn't forced. I was actually somewhat interested in watching it cause i hadn't seen it this season yet and I can't watch it alone or with dudes cause that could be considered GAY.

Lunch was sponsored by D'Amores Pizza. It was just as delicious as the last time I went.

I'm listening to Depeche Mode right now.

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Friday was the return of the welcomed treat of Movie-Night. It was fantastic! We watched the extended version of Lord Of The Rings. We scheduled an earlier start time, but having to run to the store, Jeff and I were still late, and thus a little late on starting. The food was great. I can't wait till we do it again. Before the movie started I had to make a disclaimer about my attitude of Froto and Sam; namely how gay they act together, and that I would be making derogatory comments throughout the movie as to their sexuality. (I felt that I had to warn everyone of this because the last time I decided to speak as two gay characters, during the Harry Potter movies, I was mistakenly mis-understood while I was speaking as Ron and expressing RON's deep romantic love for Harry. Some people tried to accuse ME of having this expressed love but NO, I spoke on behalf of the others, not myself. I was just the middle man.)

On Saturday morning I was rudely awakened by a handful of early morning text messages. I really need to turn my phone off at night, especially on the weekend! But with the early morning start, I had options. In a stroke of genius, I somehow decided to be super productive before the day really got started(around 2pm typically). In the morning I took my car to the shop to get new tires; the first step to getting it registered. While my car was being worked on I walked over to Veteran and convinced Jeff to make Pancakes. While I was on my way over there I was talking on the phone to the Parents, so I was Super-Multi-Tasking.

When I finally got my car back, the driving difference was like going from at cat to a cougar. Still roughly the same shape, the performance became quick, sharp, powerful, and outstanding. I had to drive in lower gears because my car wanted to go as fast as each gear would let it.

I told you all about my exciting new choice to purchase Harry Potter books, right? I think I bought them on Thursday, during work. And already on Saturday afternoon I received my first installment of Harry Books! Unfortunately it was the 5th one and not the first. I proudly displayed this choice book in the middle of my bed for me to gaze at dreamily while I attempted to clean my room. Now all I need to do is clear my bookshelf off from crap so I have a wonderful resting place for them all. Do you also remember that I mentioned the Harry and Hermione Book-Ends that I got from the Harry Potter store (Halloween costume store)? Well, I changed my mind about giving those to one of my unsuspecting siblings, I now need those for my new book collection.

I finally got an Activity Co-Chair. Its Catherine. BUT, I'm still annoyed at the B-Rick for being so damn Slow, thus making our lives more difficult. What's the point of surprising us with callings and releases? They made me promises two months ago and haven't followed through yet. On Sunday I told One of them that I knew they were blowing smoke up my 'A', and I didn't appreciate it. Then later that night Cheryl pointed out that I'm a little to mean to some the bishopric, so if other people are noticing it readily, I better tone it down I guess. I don't think I'm being mean, just forcefully honest in my convictions.

Lunch was sponsored by In N Out.

I'm listening to Smashing Pumpkins right now.

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It was a personal triumph for me to leave work leisurely on time yesterday. I didn't have to dash, sneak or pretend. A few of the guys there have been lobbying for my assistance at work, so I had the choice (kind of) to come and go as I pleased.

Josh was in town for the day. He was taking refuge over at Greenfield as I got off work so I went over there to hang-out while he was in town. He decided that because he was up here, we needed to do something 'Fun'; like ice-skating or bowling. Not that we don't do anything fun, but he was having fun with it cause it was his very own idea. So after a short 30 minutes of deliberation we decided to go bowling, which turned out to be a very nice idea. Another problem arose when we had to again deliberate as to who was invited to come with. As we decided that, we also realized that there were only 4 dudes going, which wasn't to 'Hetro'. So we each got on our phones to call girls. You'd think that it would be easy, I mean who wouldn't want to go 'Last minute bowling' with 4 of the coolest guys you'd ever meet? I know, right!

So we round up some troops, but we can't go straight there, we first need to fill our tanks with food. Food from Tommy Burger to be precise. Mmmm, some the the greasiest burgers you'll ever find (its a good thing, not bad). Any paper they touch goes clear from the grease just dripping off of it. They just slid right down. The added chili is there just to remind you that you ate there later that night. We then make it over to the bowling lanes. Perfect timing! The League games were just ending, so we took over two neighboring lanes front and center; I wanted everyone to see how 'Good' I was.

Things that were funny while bowling: Jeff had surprising good technique. Not the best score, but his bowling teachers at the Byu would have been proud. All the girls there had great form too [wink + 'Heeeeeey']. (he he he, that was a joke, I'm being funny) And a surprising ringer Heather, one of the twins, beat all of our scores without even blinking! She just couldn't do wrong! During the second game she hit 8-9 pins, spare, strike, spare, 8, turkey, spare, 9, 8's all over the place. I begged her to go and buy lottery tickets cause she was on fire. No matter what she did she'd knock every pin down. Lin was there to, she was fun cause when she did good she'd jump, dance, and bounce all over the place; kind of like Tigger from Whinny the Pooh, or a bouncy ball. I didn't do that bad. It took me a while to get into my groove and perform acceptably. Mike got to know the gutter pretty well. He was practicing his Ball-Spinning, and Eyes-Closed techniques.

I just bought all the Harry Potter books, well books 1-6. I'm getting these for myself for Christmas. (tis the season, right!) It will be gift set 1 of 3-4. I'm just having trouble finding the proper Harry Potter wrapping paper. I can't wait to go through and read them again. This time I will be able to visualize ME as Harry; it will be so exciting! I can't wait to tell you more about my Wand Waving adventures.

I'm listening to Arckid right now. They are a new and upcoming band from the New York Indie-Rock scene. They're great.

Lunch was sponsored by In N Out. Their Root Beer is to die for!

Evening snack time was sponsored by Diddy Reese. Shame on them for being so close to my office.

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I left work a little early last night. I told Kristen I'd help drive her to a car dealership. It turns out this dealership is on the opposite side of town. We were going during rush-hour on the 10 freeway. I don't know where everyone else is going, but they were all in my way. It was frustrating. What was also frustrating was the fact that I almost got on the wrong freeway to begin with, and also took a painful 27 minute detour. Oops, my mistake. Traffic was super slow. I think we could have walked there faster, honestly. But anyway, so we are getting close and in a stroke of brilliance, I get in the Car-Pool lane to avoid lots and lots of cars. Well I didn't know this, but apparently Rush hour car pool rules state you need 3 people in the car, but nothing happened, It was just pointed out to me. Then, I didn't know this, but The car pool lane on the 10 east of downtown doesn't have any exits! No seriously, I'm driving furiously to make it to this dealership before they close and I see us come up on our exit and I'm to afraid to jump out of the HOV lane! I got real nervous cause of the huge fine, and my lack of car registration, and stuff like that. So we ended up going 4 or 5 more exits before I worked up the courage to jump over the double yellow lines as I darted toward an exit, U-turned, got back on the freeway going the other way to find the exit we needed. Lucky for them they stayed open till we got there, otherwise every single one of the cars on the lot would have have huge key scratches on everyone of their car door panels, possible in the shape of Jim's keys. But we didn't have to worry about that.

Halloween was last night. A bunch of us went up to In N Out burger all dressed up. It was fun. There were quite a few people dressed as Bumble Bee's this year. All varieties were represented; slutty Bee's, crazy Bee's, Drunken Bee's, Retarded Bee's, and a 'To large to be a Bee... should have been something else' Bee's. I was representing the Harry Potter pretty well. I didn't don the dress robes, but I still did well in the tie, glasses, and sweater. Jeff was pretty good too, he was Charley Brown. So after In N Out, we went to someone's house who was having a party. It was at a house. It looked like the type of house that someone would try to sneak Alcohol into during their high school years. But I didn't know any one there really, and we didn't stay that long. I think we were the only LA First ward kids there for a while too. Not that that should make it weird, but whatever. So remember from Monday's story of the Church Halloween party? ... the kid who decided to show up as one of the dudes from Broke Back Mountain? Well, he was there, and this time his costume was Greg Louganis the Olympic swimmer. All he was wearing was a speedo and a gold metal. [the following three lines have been censored]. But we left instead, and went to Greenfield to eat pumpkin pie and watch a movie.

I'm listening to a radio interview with Slash the former lead guitarist of Guns N Roses, which I will be listening to a bit later.

Lunch was sponsored by Jamba Juice and Snickers.

Oh Ya, and Emily thinks Christian Bale is "Ohhh, Sooo Tasty". I think thats disgusting. Right Emily?

Oh, and at work, everyone is telling me that we have tons to do, and we're super busy. But you know what that makes me want to do... thats right, Leave Early! But we'll see.

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I hung out with Matt a little bit last night. He's my H.T. comp. He's a good guy. We were meeting at someone's house. I have a tendency to be late when we meet-up so I took precaution and left more than 45 minutes early. Good thing too. My gas tank was on empty and traffic was absolutely ridiculous. The second I turn onto Pico Blvd. It was like being in the Disneyland Parking lot on a Saturday during a Holiday Weekend! We were barley moving. It took 40 min to go 2 miles! Good thing I had a few extra Pumpkin Chocolate-chip Cookies with me to help me pass the time.

I helped Jessica last night learn a computer program that I was in love with at one time. Its called AutoCAD. Its the industries best computer drafting/designing program. (But the extravagant price tag makes a lot of bosses not like it. Kind of like mine.) So I've used it all through school and have learned lots about it (for the last 4-5 years). We use something different at work. Its slower and more tedious than AutoCAD I think... not that you'd care anyway. So last night as I was showing Jessica how to rev up its engine, it was like a breath of fresh air for me compared to what I use at work. I could feel its power just by pulling back on the throttle of the mouse. Typing on the keyboard was like hitting the accelerator of a new car.

In the last few days I think I've reached a drought with my emails. I used to get so many more than I currently do. I don't know if thats good or bad. I guess bunches of them lately have been crappy Junk mail. Why don't important people want to talk to me? I email them! Also, of the 9 people who's blogs I check every day, why don't they post new stuff every day? Don't they have stuff to say? I think this weekend I'm going to try to make a graph of my emailing this weekend.

Big night tonight. Does everyone have their Costumes ready? I'm not sure if I want to go to the group party, or the West Hollywood Parade. Both should be 'interesting'.

I'm listening to All American Rejects right now.

Lunch was sponsored by The Corner Bakery. It wasn't as good as it normally is. I ordered noodles, and they brought me some Cheesy Spaghetti. I wasn't sure if I should eat it cause it had bacon chunks in it, and scattered vegetables. I was about to send it back when I realized it was Halloween. I figured they were trying to make their food look scary. Cheesy sauce with bacon, bread crumbs, and Pea's all over spaghetti noodles... you're right, it was scary. But I ate it anyway.