down down down time

well, i have certainly been resting up the last few days here in B-town. the weather doesn't help any either. just when i thought i couldn't handle any more grayness, it started to rain today.

oh the upside, i have been able to catch up on a few season's of america's next top model. why i love that show so much, i really can't say, but it's v. addicting when vh1 shows episodes back to back. Here's a blog from one of the ex-contestants which is actually pretty entertaining: www.livejournal.com/users/elysesewell/

I heart going out to breakfast in SD

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Which is why I went to the Mission 3X during my one week visit. mmmmmmm.

This clip is of Ann and Karl chatting during breakfast yesterday. Fascinating conversation! :) miss you.

hi, my name is jorli and i am addicted to making short videos

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yesterday, i wandered around la jolla most of the afternoon. the waves have been ridiculously huge this week, and although they were biggest on wednesday, i still went down to take a look. it was predictably overcast at the beach, and at least 20 degrees cooler than a few miles inland. the other pics in this clip are from the stephen birch aquarium.

be sure to turn your volume on before you hit play.

Grandma Alice - testing the vlog frontier

Kevin Wickham suggested I start video-blogging. I'm not really sure how this works, but I'm determined to figure it out.

This video I took yesterday when we were trimming my grandma's christmas tree. My grandma cracks me up. Actually, this video was a little bit longer and funnier, but i'm having technical difficulties. I'll work on this later. (Director's note: my voice is waaay louder than it should be in this b/c i was holding the camera. I will try to be quiter in the future.)

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*influx*

After a week of feeling lost and aimless without the use of my computer (for the most part), I am happy to report that my power cord is functioning again. It is probably on its last leg, but at least it is working for now.

Right now I am at my fav coffee house in Golden Hill - influx. Here's a few pics. The reed looking things on the top are planted outside and are fun to pull apart and put back together. They are like nature's legos. okay...clearly, i don't have a lot to do right now.

i love snow.

it didn't stick though. just my luck. oh well.
I'm sure I'll get over my snow infatuation sometime, just not anytime soon.

nightwatch man

i was just coming home tonight after getting a drink, and i came across our building's nightwatch man hanging out in his little alcove. he was just sitting there munching on a bag of Cheetos, and it nearly made me stop in my tracks. I just said hi and kept walking, but it made me think - what is this man doing here, eating Cheetos and watching some building that will never be burgled in this sleepy little town? he's at least eighty years old and i wonder what made him end up here of all places. it just bothers me for some reason, but what do i know? i'm tired and sleepy.

Miracle

As you know, my digital camera has been dead, dead, dead for about 6 months now. It was stuck in the on position, and no amount of fresh new batteries could make it do more than whir and sputter.

So imagine my surprise when I put some new batteries in it yesterday, and it came back to life. It is working perfectly now and I am beside myself. Who know why this happened, but I'm not going to question it.

This could really not come at a more convenient time as I have recently become obsessed with Vice Magazine's Do and Don'ts (www.viceland.com) - thanks to my brother giving me a compliation book of them last month during my visit to SF. I am inspired to now snap shots of notably dressed strangers at every turn and mock them in this forum, although I am still a bit afraid to actually take their pictures on the sly. If I could be half as funny as the guy that writes that column for Vice, I think I would die happy.

BTW, these pics at the top are 1) my fav chair, bought for only $10, that just hangs out in my bedroom for no reason whatsoever and 2) the bizarre glass passageway in my building that looks like it should be in Versailles or the Tavern on the Green or something.

thanksgiving

I am stufffffed. Well, actually it's been a few hours since we ate, and I am recovering nicely. Quite a dinner Ames and I made though. I wish we coulda taken pictures. I was not worried about most of the cooking, but was terrified to make gravy. Everyone always talks about how hard it is, but once we got through the whole giblet/no giblets debate(we decided on none), it was no trouble at all. I don't know why people whine about it so much.

Later we saw Walk the Line. Loved it. I think I should put on some Johnny Cash right now.

Oh, and last thing. I bought my ticket for Chile yesterday. So i'm really going. Jan 1st through February 15th. Phew.

Homesick

(pic of Raya with her chocolate turkey from See's candy.)
Just got home from a trip out to SF. Man am I homesick now. Probably more so because it's pretty unlikely I'll be moving back to California anytime soon. At least I got to see a lot of friends and family. And I'll be back to SD next month. And, yes...I realize that it's my choice to live so far away (but that doesn't mean i don't regret it a little sometimes).

Okay, quite recap of my day. It was long.

wake up waaay too early
car to rental car place
bus to air train
air train to SFO
plane to Dallas
air train to other terminal
shuttle bus to really far away terminal
realized that we are at wrong terminal
take the bus back
miss plane!
rest, get a latte, check mail
air train to other terminal
plane to Indy
shutte bus to car
car to Trader Joe's
swing by Chipotle
drive an hour home
shower
study
get distracted by blog (right now)
sleep (soon, I hope)

that's all for now. TO EVERYONE I SAW THIS WEEKEND, I MISS YOU TIMES A HUNDRED! ALREADY!

Nobody Puts Baby In the Corner

Last night was a refreshing night on the town in B-town. I had no intentions of going out, but after a few very potent glasses of sangria at the Latin MBA club pre-party, I put on a twirly skirt and headed to Second Story for salsa night. It was my first time there, and it seemed very much like a scene out of Dirty Dancing. More specifically, I felt like Jennifer Grey at the beginning of the movie when she really sucked at dancing. No matter though, it was loads of fun anyway. It was nice to get my mind of school and interviewing for a minute, and focus on other matters such as how badly I speak Spanish. I'm still a little worried about my upcoming trip to Chile in January. Thank heavens my classes will be in English!

CARssssssssssssssss

Right now, my life consists mainly of studying or practicing for interviews. Quite the exciting life I lead.

Oh, here's a pic from Halloween though. Much to my chagrin, I dressed up (Happy Birthday Amy!). That night turned out to be pretty interesting, and not just when I ran my head into a pole on the front porch because I was laughing so hard at Bmac's Scarface impression. ("You want to know something about girls?...They like ice cream.) Our team dominated flip cup, which is one of the more important skills I have learned in the last year and a half.

C H I C A G O

(1:26 PM - Monday) In Chicago right now visiting Candice, Paul and Benny (the anonymous looking pug pictured below). The sun just came out after much rain. Having a hard time adjusting to not having a million things to do. Perhaps I will get used to it.


Okay, so I adjusted just fine to few days of relaxation. We spent most of our time watching episodes from the first season of Lost and playing Diner Dash. In this pic, we are playing Trivial Pursuit at the bar just down the street. I deviated from the beer routine I have adopted in grad school and drank rum and cokes like the good ol' days when Can and I lived in PB.

This weekend was productive in one respect...it has confirmed that I must live in a big city when I graduate. Crossing my fingers on that one.

Ouch!

Last night, I got shot in my dream. It was one of those long, complicated dreams that doesn't make any sense when you wake up. (Well, I guees most dreams don't make sense.) For some reason, my friend had to shoot me, but he shot me in the left hip to minimize the chance that it would hurt me. Then, I refused to go to the hospital for some reason, and just had this little whole in my left side for the rest of the dream. Weird. I guess I'm glad I don't remember my dreams very often.

Estoy Enferma and other things

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Here's a pic of me and Ames' balcony. This was our inagural bruch (a few weeks ago). Ames is on the left, Wags is on the right.

Yes, yes, i've sucked more than normal at my blog. So, here's a quick summary of my life lately. I'm sick, last weekend i thought i broke my ring finger (but it seems to be healing well enough now), I was in an MBA fashion show and i managed not to trip and fall, and most days, I am very stressed out about interviewing for full time jobs.

Oh, the plus side, I love my apt. Especially the balcony. I really like my classes. And next week I'm going to New York with some friends from school to visit companies and to have fun. I'll prob have to study while i'm there, but whatever.

Sorry this posting is so boring. I'll write more often.

Nice catch Dad

My dad just e-mailed me this pic of him and this fish he caught. (Fishing is his new pasttime. He gets many less broken ribs fishing than playing soccer.) The funny thing is that he caught this fish off the beach right near his house in Cardiff. Who knew they had fish that big right there in the surf? I was always too preoccupied with the sting rays to worry about fish, I guess.

This blog is just hobbling along

So, good news. My neighbor just paid me $140 to trade parking spots with him. Granted, the parking spot I had was pretty sweet, and I'm not the best perpindicular parker. (Note: I do excel in parallel parking.) Still, his car is much bigger than my little Focus, so it was the nice to do, I guess. Let's just hope I don't crash into the pole next to my new spot.

Incidentally, my room is going on 4 days now being insanely spotless. I'm not sure how long I can keep this up, but it sure is fun for now.

Not much else new. Lots of school. Every night before I fall asleep I've still been reading from a non-school book. Too bad the one I'm reading right now is insanely depressing. All the people are starving and killing babies - it's horrible. On a lighter note, I just finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay which was super.

Slow Cooker Overdrive

I am clearly too busy lately to blog. Or to have fun doing things like say...sleeping properly. What is taking all of my time, you may wonder?

Crock pots. We're doing this case on crock pots and I am just over it. We're presenting tomorrow though, so that's a relief. Have to be at school at 7 in the AM. Damn it. I really can't even say if our presentation is any good either. It could really go either way. I'll let you know.

"And Always Searching for Beauty"

I saw this painting by Joan Snyder and figured it is a pretty good representation of my life right now. I'm all o v e r the place. Run ragged. Even during sleep, which I can count on to be dreamless pretty much always, my mind has been throwing me unexpected adventures lately. Enough already.

The Back-up Pilot

--- i apologize in advance for this being an uncharacteristically long posting. i was on the plane and didn't have much to entertain me -----




I have no desire to talk to people on planes. This is a little strange since normally I talk on and on with anybody who will listen. I think the difference is that you can't escape the conversation on planes if you want to, unlike if you are at a bar or a party or something.

Yesterday, while I was waiting to board my connecting flight to Chicago, this older man sat down in the seat next to me. (There was clearly many other open seats in the area, so I right from the start I figured he would be a talker.)

Without so much as a hello, he pulled out a leather American Airlines embossed ticket holder thing and said, "It's good to know that there will be someone else to fly the plane if anything happens to the pilots."

"Hmmmm," I answered, but I thinking, What?! Is that supposted to be impressive? Or perhaps comforting? I found this comment extremely annoying. First of all, plane crashes or pilot catastrophes are the last thing on my mind when I'm getting on a plane. I'm much more concerned with things I can control, like what do I have enough reading material and how charged my ipod is. Still, that is exactly the kind of thing that would freak out a person that is afraid of flying.

He went on to tell me that he was on his way to the Bahamas. That he went there every month in fact. "Wow, that's nice," I said. I really don't know how to respond to comments like that. Congratulations?

I'm sure I sound pretty cynical, but I don't understand people that try so hard to impress strangers. Such a waste of your efforts.

Oh, on another topic. Last night, my mom and Casey and I went out to dinner in SF after they got off of work. We were talking so loud that the table next to us had to move. That's happened before, but not for awhile. So all you guys that always tell me to keep my voice down when I'm telling some story really loudly, keep in mind that my loudness is genetically predisposed. Actually, if you've met my mom before, then you already know that.