It’s Holly

1. Are you going to school this year?
Yeah, about that. Kinda forgot to register. I’ll try to fit in some late start classes. And by late start I mean next semester.

2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
Ahem, see question 1.

3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
Anything that doesn’t require studying (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightwave). Anything I can dig my hands into.

4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
Math, English, Science… isn’t that everything? lol I don’t *hate them, and I still do well in them, just don’t enjoy them.

5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
Mr. MAZZ!!! Good old Mr. Mazzarella at El Camino. It was the only class in high school I ever did any hard core studying for – AP Poli Sci. Hated the class. Hated him for a while… but he made me realize that even if I don’t think it’s the most interesting subject in the world, I can still succeed at it through hard work. I kept getting 2′s and 3′s on his in class tests, which meant I was doomed for failure on the actual AP Test. He didn’t tell us his tests were just stupid hard, and I ended up getting a 4 on the real test. He taught me a lot, and bought us pizza to bribe us to study. He’s the bestest ever.

today marks the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech. so while i’m getting ready for work this morning i turn on Good Morning America (it makes me feel all intellectual and whatnot) to hear Charles Gibson introducing Samuel L. Jackson, who is going to give his rendition of the I Have A Dream speech. “…Beautiful”, I think to myself. I love that speech. Anyway, the beauty was shattered by Charles Gibson’s little intro. Whether he wrote it or not, I don’t know, but someone should be shot on site. I can’t remember the exact wording of the whole thing, but here’s the gist:
“…40 years ago today, a quarter of a million people marched with Dr. Martin Luther King with the same vision… You could see people from the Lincoln Memorial and stretched down reflection pool… people were hanging from tree branches…”

now, I understand his need to emphasize the mass amount of people that were there, but do we REALLY need to use “hanging from a tree” as an analogy? i’m only half black and i’m offended. i’m not a big fan of lynching, or images and words that may conjure up images of lynching. i just thought it was an interesting choice of words, considering the topic was black civil rights, and Samuel L. was standing right next to him, lookin’ hard as hell in his black Kangol. hmph. maybe it’s just me

i miss my baby. He’s off to Paris for a year. I was bawlin’ at the airport. The boy is like my left hip. Now I’m just waddling along without him. I miss ya, Jono. Don’t have too much fun out there without me. :[

1. When was the last time you laughed?
About two seconds ago.

2. Who was the last person you had an argument with?
I don’t really do arguments all that often. I can’t remember the last one I had. It was probably me and jonathan last night arguing over Cingular calling plans. don’t ask.

3. Who was the last person you emailed?
Client at work.

4. When was the last time you bathed?
An hour ago. My hair’s still wet.

5. What was the last thing you ate?
A martini. Does that count? I’m actually about to eat my egg and cheese burrito right now, so I’ma go.

no one appreciates anything anymore. i know i have my moments, but i’m getting better. i was talking with some folks yesterday about how i’m happy to be in traffic at 5PM on a friday afternoon, because it means i’m driving from a job that pays me enough money to be stuck on the 78 West in the truck i’m able to pay for in order to get to a roof over my head that has enough food for me to eat. ya’nemean? take a minute and appreciate where you are. you could be butt nekkid in the sahara thirsty and starving.

you gotta go through the bad to realize the good. gotta kiss many a frog before you find the prince. you gotta burn 70,000 calories to lose 20lbs. (off subject, but so true). i’m feeling a bit cliche’.

side note: i found out yesterday that the most reliable psychic i’ve ever met is sick with double pneumonia. so sad. love and prayers go out to robaire.

i’d like to personally apolgize to all the men that have been fooled by women via weaves, fake nails, miracle bras, contacts (ahem), j.lo style butt pads, corsets, spandex and closed-toe shoes masking claw-like hammertoes. I’d also like to place blame on every man that’s ever made a woman feel like less of a woman unless she’s sporting a weave, has long acrylic nails, wears a heavily padded bra, didn’t have vanessa william’s eyes or j.lo’s ass, had a little pudgy belly, thighs rubbed together and didn’t have enough dough to get her mani’s and pedi’s this month.
it’s like some sort of vicious cycle we go through. you want someone who’s “real”, but not “real real”. I say we all sport afros and don’t wear make-up, but that’s just me. hell, I don’t wear make-up anyway, it makes me break out.
it’s a two way street. women lie and mask their real faces to please men. and the men are pleased – then pleasently surprised when he sees her outside of the night club, without the black lights and the fog machines, and she has a slight resemblance to a *real woman, and not a doll. oh, the dichotomy of all that is fake and real. i don’t know why i wanted to write about this. i think i was just looking for an excuse to use the word “dichotomy”. hopefully i’ve used it correctly.

1. How much time do you spend online each day?
lmao!!! I had to laugh at that one. I’d say a good 15-18 hours of my day is spent online. Pathetic? Sure! Do I care? Nope.

2. What is your browser homepage set to?
about:blank at work and nothing on the mac. Why wait for a page to load just to go to another page? bah humbug, leave me homepage alone.

3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? If so, which one(s)?
Geez, which one’s DON’T I use might be a better questions. On the regular basis: AIM (tendou2rd) and MSN (hollyglows@hotmail.com), and sometimes Yahoo (hollyglowsbright).

4. Where was your first webpage located?
Oh, the memories. That would be here. Then here and now where you’re at right now. I get around.

5. How long have you had your current website?
This one? About a month. Before that at tina’s site, about 2 years, and before that who knows.

so this is what happened. i’m doing this website at work for some guy selling orchids. the new layout you see here was one of the proposed templates for his new site. he didn’t like this layout. i absolutely adored it, and therefore, made it my own. cutesy, no? i’ve never done pink before. jonathan’s using me like a $2 crack whore…. i’m hosting him. soon he’ll be blogging like the rest of us. fun times.

i absolutely cannot stand when people use “caps lock” on the keyboard to capitalize words.
The sequence:
1. Hit caps lock
2. Type letter
3. Hit caps lock
4. Type rest of word.

The sequence:
1. Hit shift and letter at same time.
2. Type rest of word

why? what’s so hard about Shift? see, that saves a whole two steps. I’m all about efficiency. most of the time. Jonathan hates it when people type letters on the left side of they keyboard with their right hand. “Left index finger for T, I said!!! Left index finger!!!” Does that make me a keyboard snob? A QWERTY freak? I don’t know. Put your fingers on the home keys(A-S-D-F-J-K-L-; for those of you never had a typing class) and let me know your pet peeves.

i went to lunch with mario at chevy’s. they have really good complimentary tortilla chips and salsa. so you know our cheap asses just kept asking for the chips and a couple glasses of water. anyway, mario has this grand idea to open “the perfect restaurant”, where he would have the best food from all the different restaurants and serve it at his. pretty good idea. he said “i want chevy’s chips and salsa, red lobster’s biscuits, and the cheddar cheese toast from sizzler as the appetizers”. that’s a damn good idea. don’t y’all go stealing it now. lemme copyright just in case. � There. leave it alone. So i’m going to add to his perfect restaurant, and include the following:

calamari from Vigilucci’s on Carlsbad Blvd

cream of forest mushroom soup from the MiraCosta cafeteria (don’t knock it ’til you try it… ol’ cafeteria lady Maria be throwin’ it down at MCC)

What else should the perfect restaurant have? Drop a comment.