(chris’s) blog

I’ll be in the Davis/Sacto/SF area tomorrow night until Dec. 31st. Gimme a call if you’re in town.

My sister’s puking in the bathroom at 3am. Should I “help” her?

Unfair this life. I want all my Camarillo people to move to Davis, or vice-versa. Haha no, let’s be in Davis. Camarillo’s only good if you get down with Jesus and ironically not brown people named Jesus. “Like all rich people, we’ll need guns to shoot poor people.”

I’m glad to be back home. It’s comforting and easy, and far away from Wellman Hall and Olson. When I first came home from college, the first couple of times, maybe two years worth, I expected the comfort of the past: the ease I felt my senior year of high school, the comfort of old hang out spots and friends who know you very well and know where you’re coming from. But that isn’t it; that’s not what you get when you return home, and it took me a while to figure that out.
The world continues on regardless of your kicking and screaming. When you return home, you’re returning home to the house built by your parents with your past influences, their own experiences being without you, the influence of your phone calls, and the changes in the world. The house I came home to this Christmas break wasn’t the same one I left, but somehow it’s home all the same.

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I found a photo in the photo-taking process. Meta-photo?

In my literary criticism class, we studied the artistic movement and philosophy of structuralism, which states that a structure (think abstract) defines a system, which then spawns interactions.

I was thinking about YouTube specifically, and Web 2.0 social interaction sites in general, and I think, with the prevalence of computers, our tool for building systems and structures, we have created a social structure from which we hope (and this is the basis of a good social website) interactions will spout. It seems funny that we’ve been doing it this way. I think historically, systems evolved from the interactions, and perhaps with YouTube and Facebook, etc., we’re seeing the system dictating the interactions more so than anytime before. Perhaps it isn’t a complete reversal, certainly not: Facebook users can still protest, YouTube users or users of any site can misuse or ignore features of the site, features of the system, thereby changing the real world shape the model was supposed to be projected as. I guess.

I saw someone who looked like you today,
Even had the same umbrella,
But they just kept walking on by.

And then I got to thinking,
What if it was you?
How rude to just pass me by!

I walked inside and kept thinking
I’d run into you, and I’d know what to say.
I’d act indifferent and I’d say that Yes,
I Do Wear This Sweater In The Shower.

But I didn’t pass you inside,
And I guess that wasn’t you on the outside,
So maybe I guess I don’t hate you, but
you really treated me like crap.

(Photo by radicalxdude on deviantart)

Photo by radicalxdude on deviantart

my roommate brenden is cute in the same way a baby is cute. he claims, he claims, he can still feel the effects of a single cup of coffee. and i just bought myself a french press.

I’m half-surely going to Portland between Christmas and New Year’s. If anybody has been there and has recommendations about places to go, I’d love to hear them.