the last few days have been very odd for me and i keep meaning to blog about them for a little perspective. this may end up being a long session so i might break it into 2 or 3 parts. check back if i end in the middle of a thought. joshua does that to me all the time...we will be in a conversation and all of the sudden he stops talking and...
so back to my ramblings.
my sleep patterns have been screwy the last few months because of demands at home, a little frustration/depression, and the fact that i tend to be a night owl taking morning classes. i know that sentence is out of balance but my english professor is not reading this so i will leave it.
a combination of reading about george's escapades in cali and watching several movies about the socal area have me reminiscing about my days living in san diego. a few nights ago during a very late night movie marathon i watched SWAT whiched opened with the scene of those guys robbing the bank wearing kevlar and shooting cops with armor piercing rounds. it really happened in la. the guys robbed a bank of america and killed a few cops. that memory brought back others of the news footage of the car chases that would shut down the freeways seemingly ever other week or so. the media always had a helicopter there almost before the police air units showed up. they would replay the incident on the nightly news a few times just to make sure we all saw it. i was not living in san diego when the guy stole the tank but i have watched that several times on those police chase shows. at some point one of those chases ended at the border after some idiot not remembering the 30 minute wait to cross raced to mexico with his kid then held a knife to the toddler's throat to bargin for passage. i was also in san diego during the rodney king riots in la which actually effected san diego about as much as they effected dallas. some kids left class at ucsd and sat on the 405 blocking access north but that was all. my grandmother was visiting her sister in van nuys so i was a bit nervous about the entire area burning down. there are many more fun things i remember about sunny california, like the helicopter that landed on the freeway during rush hour and held me up for 2 hours, but none of them are experiences i would like to go through again. i guess the point i am trying to make is this...how did all of the nut jobs end up in on place? i remember now...they heard a voice telling them to go west and they were stopped by the ocean. so why all of the fuss about california? if there is any confusion please take it up with george as she is the current expert on la.
joshua has been talking about new zealand. if things fall through with the current company or go so well we are not needed for day-to-day operations he wants to work in new zealand for a bit. i told him new zealand was fine or oregon. i had a blast on my short trip to the oregon coast. more on that in a bit.
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uhhhh, right. helLA, suckifornia (as mary is helping me to dub it) is a laugh a minute. hardy har har. so i guess i shouldn't tell you that the noho shootout happened just a couple of miles away from where i live now, should i? duuuuuuuude, there's even an entry in wikipedia for it! i figure they've had their due for a while and all the excitement can head back to the 405 for the moment. it can pick back up again once we get the fuck out of here. we're plotting as we speak.
i almost forgot... check out the work requirements for NZ znd AUS. from what my old boss, who is an immigrant, told me, their restrictions are even tighter than the ones the US has in place. that could just be for resident status, but i hear a work visa is pretty tough as well.
in which case oregon is purrrrty.
yeah, well, i've been driving on the highways out here lately and I haven't had to stop ONCE since we got back from tulsa! heck, i was even on the 405 for about 10 miles and never stopped! granted it was at 130pm while everyone was still at work and hadn't left for their post-work cocktail.
here's a link to the wikipedia entry for the noho shoot out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout - 2 robbers, 370 cops, 2000 bullets fired - making wikipedia... priceless :)
google maps says it's a 5 minute drive from home!
New Zealand looks soooo gooooorgeous. I've always wanted to go there. Way before it became all trendy. Yeah, that's right. I was into New Zealand before it was hip! Too bad you have to spend something like 20 hours in a plane just to get there. My legs ache just thinking about it. If you want to see rolling hills and sheep, there are other places.
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