heh, apparently raquel thinks my new user pic looks like something from a 98 degrees video.

i spent all day hangin out w/ berto today.  first we went on base
to work out and afterwards berto, teresa and I went to PF Changs to eat
breakfast/lunch.  mmm yummy!  walked around columbia mall for
a bit (since we were already there..) and bumped into trish, crystal
and jose, which was pretty cool. 

Afterwards we left the mall and went back to berto’s house where we
watched American History X (pretty deep movie; may have to buy it) and
watched the animated Star Wars Clone series on DVD (hey i was
curious!).  we were laughing at all the crazy dumb stuff going on
the entire time…you just have to see it.

alright, and we decided to go to Ocean City for one day, maybe July 18
or 19.  Anybody interested to go?  Come on…you know you
wanna..

<—– like my new user pic?

I haven’t really mentioned this, but I big part of what I’ve been doing
this summer is getting my brother and cousin Lang into tennis.  They
are both young, so if either of them really likes playing and continues
to learn im sure they would be a much better player than i will ever be.

so far ive just been having my high school tennis coach give them hour
lessons every week or so (at 30 dollars an hour, or basically 15/hr
each), while i have taken them out a couple of time to hit around by
ourselves.  I think just a few more paid lessons and I can just take
over from there.

Before i wasnt very good at teaching people tennis because i can get
impatient and expect too much.  However, I’m slowing but surely
ditching these habits.

My brother is doing fine, but my cousin is really doing exceptional.  Its an awesome feeling teaching them my craft .  I hope I can do a good job.

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So raquel came back for one day because her sister wanted to get a
maryland driver’s license.  its all gravy .  So from
10-3ish i hung out w/ raquel and you know…we headed to the mall to
pick up her paycheck and ate lunch at Fuzio’s (btw their crab soup is
the best!).  that was good times.

I thought i was gonna go hang out w/ berto and heather today too but i
never got a call from either of them.  What is it w/ people not
calling when they say they would?  that’s one of my biggest pet
peeves…eh w/e.

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Happy 4th of July!

Yea, i spent most of the day working at AE.  Sucks!  My feet are sooo
tired and im just physically drained…but i dont work again until
Saturday night, when i will work from 9pm-6am.  O joy!

after work today i went w/ berto’s family to go see the fireworks on base.  Good stuff good stuff. 

Tomorrow is heather last day before she has to go to Nebraska.  On the very plus side, Raquel comes back!

(add daily rant on neck pains)

been spending a lot of time w/ the family these past couple of
days.  Tonight we went out to celebrate my grandmas b-day.  I
got her a foam pad for her bed, just like mines (except i have 2 haha).

Lately ive been mentoring and providing wisdom to my 3 cousins and
brother a lot more.  Maybe because im the closest “adult figure”
for them, as I have grown up in the U.S. while most everyone else grew
up in China.  Well, I hope i can do a good job then.

My shoulders and neck are forever gonna kill me haha…o why…does anybody know a good massage place around here???

Luther Vandross, the great R&B singer, has died.  May he RIP

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Edit:
Work was fine, but i found out i have to work 11:15am-7:15pm on July 4th!  .

O and for those that know her; i bumped into Senora Velazquez (high
school spanish teacher from freshman year) today at AE.  Wow…
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woo what a day what a day.  well first i went to columbia mall w/
berto to get some dvds and i ended up buying a 100 dollar pillow (the
really good kind) to help my neck.  I can return it within 90 days
if i dont like it.

around 4 chris, justin mack, heather, roberto and i all headed over to
westminster, md to watch the DCI drumcore show there.  we got
there REALLY early, so since the show didnt start until 7:30 we walked
around a bit, watching the bands warm up.

the show was overall very good.  The Cadets band had the best show
i think because they had kill bill music, some funky skatting (sp?),
and other shindigs.  What sucked tho was half way through the show
i dropped my cell through the stands!  I was so afraid that i
would lose it but luckily someone got it for me after the show
(apparently they also dropped their phone down there too)

the way back was great fun.  we were all just being really stupid
on the way back, laughing at the dumbest things from movies and the
radio.  The radio was crazy this evening.  At first all we
kept hearing were things about sex, like a guy reading a poem about
gettin it on w/ a girl, durex commercials, and of course love songs (my
duty to please that booty!).  then we couldnt find anything on, so
we turn to a classical station and the song that was playing was
skipping!  on live radio!  afterwards the host of the radio
show was like “sorry folks, i think there were scratches or dusk or
soemthing” haha.  finally we were listening to some guy story
about how he tried comitting suicide by inhaling gun powder, then
lighting himself on fire.  “i thought i would explode or
something, but instead i just burn.  It started hurting after a
while” <—-he saids that in the calmest voice.

yep, what a day…and tomorrow i got work from 10:15-3:15pm, then i’m on call from 3:15-6:15pm.  come visit.