Jour Quinze

So I'm skipping yesterday's blog for two reasons, one I totally forgot to take photos and two I'm super behind and want to catch up on my veganism and not teeter out like I did last time!

I'll sum it up for you though, Film Production meeting (awesome), Photoshoot with Jason Corica (awesome), Watching madmen with Micah B (awesome), drinking one or two too many old fashions (awesome)(at the time).

I woke up Monday morning at 6AM on Micah's couch and without a hangover thank god. Because it turns out old fashions + Chips and guacmole + more old fashions + sauteed veggies + more old fashions = Drunkity DRUNK CRUNK DRUNK. ....who knew?

So I made my way home in walk of shame clothes from Not a Walk of Shame (I miss those days) home sweet home. To a still not purple wall.

Today for breakfast I decided to switch it up and go for some hipster vegan cereal. And low and behold I found out that Puffin's one of my favorite cereals is NOT Vegan. BooOoOOoOo. So instead went for some apple cheerios, fruit. YUM.

The big news for today is Sean is coming into town this weekend!!! yay!! So stoked to plan rio and have an all around blast with one of my favorite people. Chant it with me, rio. Rio. RIo. RIOO!!!!!

Today for lunch I ordered from Swingers, a place that I've been meaning to re-try for a while. I went once a million years ago for Trevor Cushman's birthday party at like 2AM and had a blast, but that was like three years ago. And I have to say, I was NOT let down.

And while we're on the subject: YOU'RE LIKE A BIG BEAR.



I got some vegan nachos, not because I necessarily wanted them, but because they were there. (and also because I ate fruit for breakfast.) and you know what. They were prrreettttty bomb. Not like blown away, socks knocked off like Hugo's, but still dank. Yeah, figure out those adjectives in zagat form.

And today is day 15, which makes it the halfway point of veganism! WOO! Go, Sassy, go! Go Vegan go! However, I do feel like I don't think I'm going to stick with this....there's just certain things I miss..like cheese....mmmm and eggs....mmmmm.....Although I DO think I'll continue blogging, it will just be about being a vegetarian instead of being vegan, I mean to the same effect right? It's still savin da animals!

Now I finally have the opportunity to talk about my french class....mostly because I have nothing dramatic to write about in this thing. ...OR that I care to share with the public (ooooo, maybe something IS going on that I'm not telling you about! TWIST)

Back to French. You might ask, why am I taking college classes? I'll tell you why. there's a trick that I'm totally okay with admitting that if you want to defer your student loans all you have to do is enroll in school part-time, so I have been attending Santa Monica college since finishing up at Chapman University in 2008. Wow look at me go, belonging to TWO universities, sooo smart! (not really, just broke. Well..kinda smart, but definitely broke.)

It has been shocking to me though, the level of education that the majority of the kids I interact with have had. It's really appalling. In one history class I took about half of the class didn't know what Pangaea is, and we're talking about grown adults here. And yet the government still wants to keep cutting funding for our education system. Yes, that's smart guys, just raise a breed of brainless sheep to be patriotic and vote for Sarah Palin.

In one of the classes that I was in, these two kids just sat in the back talking, almost OVER the teacher. Not only was it distracting, it was just remarkably rude. And the teacher just let it happen. Finally I was the one that turned around and told them to Shut the Fuck up (only slightly nicer then that.) I'm going to quit now, it just makes me so sad to think what this country is doing to the general population in denying them the education that they deserved.

But don't forget to vote for Mitt Romney this fall! We sure do NEED OUR EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TRIMMED.

On another note, did you know cell phones are totally allowed in classrooms now? Instead of writing down homework, kids do this.

WHERE'S MY PURPLE WALL!?!?!??

Over & out.

Jour Cinq

Good Morning Vietnam!!

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I've got to stop watching the news when I first wake up....or just wake up earlier so I can watch more of it. Every now and then I try to give fox news a try...and after suppressing the immediate urge to throw up I click the channel away.

Today we learn that Barack Obama is not only out of touch with the country, but spends to much time at Harvard. Something that's simply hysterical said by a multi-millionare who himself went to Harvard. Can someone PLEASE start paying attention to what's being said? PLEASE please please! Just last week the supreme court ruled that cops can strip search you for ANY reason, meaning if you're arrested for a parking ticket, YOU can be stripped searched. Corporations are people, Bush won the election...can we get rid of the supreme court now? They obviously are 100% out of touch with what their job actually is.

MOVING ON, today has been decreed as hippie day! well...just for me...and not even by choice. Mostly because my jeans I generally wear with this top are dirty and I forgot to do laundry last night because I was super busy....super duper busy *battlestar gallactica*

Okay to my defense, I only put in a couple episodes before writing my webseries. AH I am so excited to release it, and I wish I had photos that I could put here to like be all witty about it, but oh well.

Anyway , for lunch we got Mandarette which is pretty decent Chinese food. However we live in LA, so lets be honest, it's only going to be okay. That's one draw back for me about the city of Los Angeles, there's just no decent Chinese food.

In all the places I've lived (NYC, DC, DF) there's always been baller chinese food. My favorite place ever is called Chinatown Garden, it's in Chinatown in DC and I head straight there whenever I go back home. They have an AMAZING Vegetarian menu on top of an AMAZING not vegetarian menu. I don't care what you say Yelp. This place is Bomb.Com

Last time I went there with Lisa over X-mas we got stuck sitting in the window alcove which was annoying and super weird because they were like two feet away. Right away I picked up on how up-tight this couple looked. Like just polite missionary style (if ever) couple. So me and her launched into our regular talk...which involves you know, sex, vaginas, expletives. Not loudly or rudely, but just as is. Sure enough, the couple moved within minutes and we had a delightful window alcove to ourselves.

For lunch I made myself a DELICIOUS feast. Yeah I know I just went on a tangent about bad Chinese food, but whatever, hungry, don't care. Only problem is afterwords I realized...the spring roll I had might have had egg in it....or was it an egg roll? I don't know!!! This could be my first accidental break, it was totally un-intentional, my hunger just overcame my desire to save chickens and read the label.

Then for dinner....mmmm...are you ready? are you ready? M Cafe. (thanks paul!)

Now I HATED that restaurant before, I don't know why. I just did. Maybe Vietnam flashbacks from the old job that ordered it so much. But now I am obsessed with it. holy god, their vegan club.YESYESYES. Tempeh Bacon, Veganise, Tomato's, Avocados, carrots, organic lettuce, vegan cole slaw. YUMMMMM!!

End the day right with a visit from a friend to the office and then....MANI PEDI'S!! YEAH! WOMEN'S LIB!!! Okay, I just have to say, if you're reading this and you live in the city of Los Angeles, go get your nails done at Moon Nails NOW if not sooner. That place is like god's gift to women (besides president santorum of course). It's only $37 and it's worth every penny. And today I had the pleasure of being joined by Sammi.

After a few hours of spa pampering, discussing careers, men(boys), politics, friends, life, we very appropriately made our way to the Glendale Galleria to do some shoopppppppinnggg!!

Why I like the Glendale Galleria: It's the grove, BUT ITS NOT THE GROVE. Designed by the same master creators, there's parking, there's the same stores...it's not as crowded, it's not as "coveted" it's not as pretentious. Oh and also once I saw a petting zoo there. It does have a lot of weird quirks...like a bathroom attendent...ostentatious decorations....but whatever, I'll give it that.

Another reason why I liked Glendale Galleria....THEIR EPIC H&M Oh my god, I could get lost in that store and live there if I had the chance...I went for two things. Hat & Black sweater. I only got one but that's okay. I got some rad pants & sunglasses too

Quote from Sassy, "Don't let me spend more then 60 dollars. Quote from Sammi, "Don't let me buy a grey t-shirt"

Welp that's cool. ANNND enter LA Friday night. I suggest that we check out the 4100 bar as I hadn't been there for a while. Honestly, I'm trying to find a new haunt, as we've already established Birds is no longer a variable because of sleaze factor. 4100 however did not make the cut.

I mean it was fun, there seemed to be a diverse enough crowd, but something about it just didn't feel right. Not in the sense that it was sketchy, it just did not have the vibe I wanted to be the place I frequent on Saturday nights. Maybe it's just to generic...yeah that's it. It's just a bar. SO if you want to go to a bar bar on a friday night with decent priced drinks, go to 4100!! How's that for a pitch?

However, I did have a blast with Sabrina and her friend Laura who just moved here. Ahhhh to remember those days. One thing I did not enjoy though was TWO guys, count them, one, two, who while walking past me LIFTED UP MY SKIRT.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.

Have we progressed so far as a society that it's now suddenly okay while drunk to violate women? Who raised these boys? It's lucky for them I wasn't angry Sassy last night or else I would have gone off on them like a motherfucker. I wish I had in retrospect, but it happened so quickly I didn't even have time to think about it. Men, here's an image I want you to remember.

So next time you think it's cute to lift up a girls skirt, or slap her ass, or rape her or trample on her freedom as a woman, remember she was once a girl, hanging out with her grandma, so excited and nervous to go dance in her adorable ballet recital for her parents. TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT.

On that note, I ended with two hefewizen's down (orange's are vegan!) and one gifted vodka tonic per a co-worker I ran into. Friday night complete and beyond satisfactory due to amazing friends :)

God Bless America.


Over and Out.