Off to the races!

I'm going to try keeping this brief because I have a new game to return to. Today was racetrack day in Florida. The idea that we would be watching horse races was interesting for me to prepare for. It's been a long time since I've personally gone to any kind of races, and in the …

ART (and pita bread)

Today started with an early morning trip to the Boca Raton Museum of Art, because Grandma and I had a craving. A craving for Editor's Note: This joke is extra funny with context that The Iron Giant is one of my grandparents' favorite movies of all time, and that we often refer to my grandpa …

Rain, rain, go away

Today has been the most low-key day of my Florida vacation yet. So far I've been relatively lucky in the weather department (humidity not included), but I was inevitably going to run into a bit of... Torrential rainfall. Someone really let Kyogre out of its ball this afternoon. Now to be fair, the rain did …

Rainy day jazz in Santa Barbara

At this point it feels like I'm collecting California high school visits for a checklist. Once again my day has been spent journeying to watch my sister perform with the Redondo Union High School jazz band. The destination? Dos Pueblos High School in Santa Barbara. The event? The 50th annual "Jazz in Paradise" Jazz Festival. …

A symmetrical birthday

Another year, another trip around the sun. Turning 22 doesn't offer nearly as many significant things to talk about as the 'milestone' 21, where drinking and properly oriented drivers' licenses were officially on the table. I won't be starting this post off with a deep, important-sounding remark on the different milestones one hits in life. …

Just rainy day things

Just a quick Editor's Note: This was the post I had mostly written up on Thursday before everything got sidetracked by my Grandmother. Today I've spent just about all of my time working on homework. Considering rain has been the backdrop of a good portion of that time, I figured I would bring this back …

Aches and pains

Overall this Winter Break has been strange. I spent the first week or two sick in bed, and kept the sore throat for some time after. Figured that was going to be the end of my rainy season hardships. But then it actually started raining hard in SoCal and everything fell apart again. Just after …

New adventures (real and fake)

So I broke my New Year writing streak yesterday. Unless you want to substitute in that day I did two posts in one, in which case I'm right on track! But if you don't count that, I have a good excuse. ... It was raining a lot, and that made me lethargic. Plus I was …

Changing of the seasons

If I have any people to thank for just about all of the great stuff that has happened to me over the last three+ years, Bonnie Stewart has to be a big one. Today, current and old members of the Daily Titan staff threw our favorite advisor a surprise party before her retirement from CSUF. …

Another year older, 20 years in

If I had any sense of comedic timing, I would've figured out that a year ago I should have waited a few extra days to create my blog so I could coincide that birthday with my really for real birthday today. Oh well.  Water under the bridge I suppose. And water everywhere for that matter, …