| 8 July 2002 11:34 pm PST Monday No sleep for me tonight. I am heading back home on a 6:25 am flight. That means I'd have to leave here by 4:45 to get to the airport in good time. I need to get there early because security will surely be tighter after that July 4 shooting. Staying up this late shouldn't be too bad. That's about the time I usually go to bed, so I figured that I may as well just stay up that extra hour or two. I'll sleep on the plane. I've actually been in LA for nearly three weeks. My brother doesn't mind: I'm a free dog-walker! (Dog walkers usually run about $10-15 per walk out here.) What's scary is what happened to me at Saddle Ranch the other day. My brother introduced me to one of the waiters, and I'm like, 'oh I recognize you.' He looks at me and says, 'yeah I was about to say you look familiar.' I'm becomming familiar to LA bartenders! Freaky. I knew it was time for me to go back home for a while. The funny thing, though, is that I'm probably coming right back out here with my younger brother in a week or so. I don't want to pass up a chance to go to Magic Mountain. I don't know why, but all my trips keep falling through. Chicago was a no-go. Paris was cancelled because flights looked bad. Now I'm not going to Hong Kong anymore. I was supposed to go with my mom, but something came up in Manila, so she has to go there to take care of it. She is still going to Hong Kong for 2 days, and I could come, but I have no intention of flying across the planet for only two days. I'd probably end up spending more time on the plane. It's not worth the hassle. I'm not terribly upset about not going to Hong Kong because I've already been there. Yeah, I'd love to have some of the best dim sum on the planet, but at least I've been lucky enough to taste it to begin with. All I know is that I have to get out of the country again before I start school in the fall. I mean really *dramatic sigh* I've only been abroad once this year! Hehe. I actually went abroad 4 times last year, plus a trip to Toronto. That's pretty impressive. I don't take this stuff for granted, though. I've travelled more this year than some people will travel in their entire lives. I've been exposed to a lot of things, which has opened my eyes to how so many people can be both different and similar. Made me more open minded, and somewhat more tolerant of people who are closed-minded. I figured that, in general, they haven't been exposed to enough and since most people are afraid of what they don't know, they overcompensate by being, well, jerks. Luckily, I'm not one of those people, though I imagine I could have been if I didn't travel and experience so many different things. I'll never take that for granted. It's three wishes time. If a genie granted me three wishes, I'd like: 1. A clean house. All my stuff from college is back and chilling out in our living room, my room, and the library upstairs. That's on top of the regular clutter everywhere else. I have way more stuff than I thought, so in order to make space, I'd need to clean out my room right now (there's tons of stuff I don't need in it), reorganize everything, and put it all away. That's going to take a whole lot of time, so my first wish would be for it to be done and done well so the rest of the house looks neat. 2. A pony, with all the extras. You know how every little girl wants one? Well, I didn't, so I'm reclaiming my rightful wish now. Why not? It'd be a gorgeous deep brown stud, large, fast, and reliable. Of course I'd want a stable top keep him in, an unlimited food supply, a nice, already broken in saddle, and someone to clean up after him. 3. To be able to play the piano very well. I used to take lessons when I was a kid, but that stopped. Don't remember why, but I have a feeling it had to do with my lack of discipline. I shouldn't have let it go, but oh well. |
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