Hello FBI/ CIA/ NSA Agents, feel free to leave comments.

Yep that's right, I'm on the FBI watch list. Why you ask? Well, I don't actually know for sure, but I've got a damn good feeling. I'm taking an intro to Middle Eastern History class, and for that we had to buy two books. The Middle East: A Brief History of The Last 2000 Years by Bernard Lewis and Tailban by Ahmed Rashid. If that alone didn't put me on the list, then today's trip to the public library did! I've got a paper due on Monday, and ended up checking out six books on Islam/ Muslims including a translated version of Al - Qur'an. Cool huh? Well if there are some government fuckers reading this, you're violating my civil rights by tracking me, you fucks. War is not the answer.

Now that that is settled...

Had a good weekend. Friday I went to dinner with Scott and Nicole, from work, then we went bowling. It was a lot of fun. I had not been bowling in years. Saturday I worked all day then went out with Matt, Mike and Mike. We had dinner and watched the Robin Williams Live from NY dvd. It was fucking hallarious. I laughed so much, it hurt. Sunday I opened at Costco and made it to Adam's house by about 2:30. We watched the game and had some BBQ. It was intense with all the Raiders fans around, so I left as soon as I could.

 
Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster

 
So I got a C on my first US History test. I'm not too worried since he drops the lowest test grade at the end of the quarter, so hopefully this will be the one that gets dropped. Next time I'm going to opt to take the essay exam instead of the multiple choice. I can bullshit an essay much easier than I can bullshit a multiple choice test. Other than that things are going really well in school. I'm a little behind on my reading, but the fact that I'm even doing ANY reading this qurter is amazing. I usually just skim through books and listen to lectures and make my way through classes, but this time, I'm actually reading the books.

My only problem with school right now is that I'm totally focusing on other things. I'm constantly think about next school year, away from home! I'm totally stoked to be living on my own next year, I mean I'll be living with friends, but I'll be away from the family, which is deffinitely something I need right now. I've also been thinking about going to DMB shows, and I really want to go to the Dave and Tim show in Wisconsin, but I just cannot afford the 300 bucks it would cost me to fly out there. There's also Shayna's and John's wedding in November. I'm totally excited to go to that. Not just because they're getting married, but all the homies will be there too, so it'll be aweome to hang with everyone, even Vonda. There's so much happening this year, and my summer is going to fly by since I only get a month and half between schools, but I really cannot wait fot it.

 
Well, it's Monday night and here I am. So much has happened since I've last blogged I'm not quite sure where to begin.

Going down to LA to visit Justin was absolutely awesome! We drove down on Sunday the 29th and mde it to LA by about 4:00pm. We started partyng at Justin's house that night. The sad thing, we were so tired from driving and everything, we were all passed out around 9:30, 10:00 that night.

It worked out pretty well since we were all up by 7:00 the next morning. Justin had to work, so Matt, Anna, NNN and his sister and I went to Disneyland. I was excited like you couldn't believe, cause I had not been to Disneyland in 8 years, I was stoked. As soon as we got there, we made resrvations for the "Blue Bayou." That's the eating place inside of Pirates of The Carribbean. We couldn't get a table till 9:30 that night. We hit up all the standard rides and had a blast. They still had all their Christmas decorations up and the Haunted Mansion was all done up in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" style, it was bad ass. After Disneyland we headed back to Justins and partied a little bit.

The next day we hung out and waited for Justin to get off of work as he only had to work a half day. We hit up Del Taco, and The Dollar Store and Ralphs an prepared for a New Years Eve bash! We ordered up some Islands to go and Justin's roomate Jen picked it up for us. We successfully completed a double-deck game of Kings that night. I also smoked some. It was a good time. At New Years we started popping out poppers and blowing our noise makers.

The guy next door to Justin came over and started making noise with us and told us all to come over and party with them. I was all kinds of messed up at this point and made my way over. I'm not one to dance, simply for the fact that I'm white and I can't dance. However, when I'm drunk, I'm a dancing machine. I went over and shook my ass all over the place, and that is where the quote of the weekend was born. I was dancing with one girl and she goes "Ooooh, look at James, he got the moves. Your mamma black right?" and I was all "Naw, look at me." To which she replies "Well somebody was freakin in the cabin." It was seriously the funniest shit ever. I ended up partying over there till like 3 or 4 in the morning.

On New Years Day we all went to Denny's and Amoeba Records. From there we went to Erinn's appartment which was cool. From there we headed to the Sherman Oaks Mall and then Target and then to Justin's place. Justin, NNN & his sister, Matt Anna and I all smoked and put on "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." It was bad ass. We also had some El Pollo Loco, it was one of the best meals I've ever had.

The next morning we headed back home around 9:00am. It was a great trip!

The rest of the weekend we all just hung out and had fun. I went back to school the following monday. My classes are great.

I'm taking three history classes and a music class. I'm taking US History pre 1877, Intro to Middle Eastern History and a History seminar on the holocaust and then I'm taking Music in Multicultural America. I've already done two weeks worth of classes and am having a lot of fun. I feel A LOT better than I did last quarter. I actually feel like I have direction right now.

I was un-officially, officially accepted to Humboldt State. I received a letter in the mail saying I was welcome to a reception/ introduction with my family for newly accepted students, yet I have not received an official letter of acceptance. So I'm assuming I'm in. =)

I hope everyone is doing well and that everyone had a good New Years. I'll trying to update this thing more regularly. My music class is part online part in class, but everything is due through the website, so I'll at least be online more often to turn things in for that.

 
I'm still alive, I swear....