misty water colored memories...of the way we were

So i was having a big le sigh moment as i was organize all of my pictures of the last 4 years. Le Sigh indeed. I decided to share some of my favorite pictures with all of you.

Graduation 2004, or as i call it "the first time around." Some of my peeps decided to dress up in chicken suits and ride around on a tandem bike. Sadly the tandem bike fantasy was shattered when they were informed at the gate of the stadium that no bikes were aloud. sadness...
Anyways i came across this pic and thought, GENIUS! seriously though they were so hot inside of those suits because it was i think 100 that day and we sat in the sun as sandra day oconnor waxed lyrical on civil services or something.

My next memory involved Christmas 2004. Look closely and you can see the gigantic drink in one hand and a magic mic in the other. for those not in the know the magic mic is this totally awesome filipino microphone that you plug into your tv and it's a karaoke machine. Anyways at some point my cousin went to the filipines with her husband and they bought one and it has been a christmas tradition ever since.
Here my cousin Brett and I are doing our annual rendition of "a whole new world." I think i was bending my head because i was about to belt out "every moment red letter!!" As you can see alix is in the background texting away. Apparently we were not so entertaining as our one audience member is distracted. Oh i love the magic mic so much.

Another graduation memory only this time it was my master's graduation. we got these awesome hoods but we didnt' actually get to wear them so they just hung on our backs. Well i was like, fuck that and with my cousin nathan's nudging we figured since i was a master of psychology i should do the whole master jedi pose thing.
this was the result. sometimes i hate myself...

My view from my old SF apartment. Isn't it ridic!! Can you believe i lived with this as my background. Ugh the things i miss that i did not appreciate. such is life.

Another great SF "view." So note the run down building across the street from us that says "delicatessen: famous beef jerkey." Well the entire year that i lived there the iron gates in front of this so called "market" were eternally locked. sometimes ivan and i would be walking by and we'd see an old chinese lady at the check out counter counting what looked like dollar bills. Also the first day we moved there we went to get something that we needed and the market was empty and had like a few coke cans and rolls of toilet paper sparsely thrown about. it was really creepy. to make it even more shady sometimes we'd see people ring the doorbell in front of the gate, get let in, and then disappear. We decided that they were doing illegal people trading. Chinatown is a shady place.

I never really got to see pictures that david took of us in Arizona mainly because he didn't download them until last week. Note that we took this trip in april.
the glee in my face is due to the fact that i was really amazed that the cactus looked just like they do in cartoons. it was really wierd. saguaro cacti are some freaky shit. they are also gigantic. apparently it's illegal to shoot a saguaro cactus in the state of arizona. why this is a law i do not know. David explained that in arizona people like to get drunk and shoot things. Oh arizona, such a wierd place.

And i end with my favorite picture probably of life. The background story is that Cathy and Paloma had arrived in vegas the night before we did. Instead of resting up for our arrival Cathy decided that it was only appropriate to stay up all night drinking and gambling. apparently she passed out in the hallway of her hotel and someone called the paramedics because they thought she was dead. she woke up and informed them that she was merely passed out. If you've ever been to vegas with Cathy you know that this type of unsavery behavior is pretty standard. Anyways by the time we arrived she was a hot mess, still in her clubbing clothes from the night before. She passed out in the lobby of the tuscany suites hotel. the only problem was that we needed her signatur to check in and the woman would not budge. So we all had to hold her up on the couch as Ivan put a pen in her hand and forged her signature. A little boy walked by with his mother and said "mommy what is wrong with that lady?" People, I have said it before and I will say it again, this is why you don't take children to vegas!!
Anyways we then carried her to our room after the lady finally gave us our room key and threw her on the bed. she started throwing 5$ gambling chips all over us, $100 worth i think. we collected teh chips, took her cell phone and told her to stay put. she proceeded to pass out once more at which point we felt appropro to memorex the moment. Why i was wearing chanel sunglasses and a burberry scarf, i do not know. I would like to point out that these are the very same Chanel sungless of which Ramit Sethi will discuss in his upcoming book "i will teach you to be rich" in which I make my debut as "my friend who doesn't know how to budget within her means." Shout out to www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com, one of my 3 readers. holler! But in conclusion, this photo embodies vegas to me in a nutshell.

And there ends my trip down memory lane. i suggest you all go through your old pics and relive the memories. and if you find any pics with me in them please email them to me. Also if anyone has pictures from my birthday party this year, "Hot Professors and Slutty Students," please forward them on to me.