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Name: Leta
Gender: Female
Interests: EVERYTHING under the friggin sun, go ahead, bring it on!
Expertise: History, music, engines, cars, car maintenence, computers, teaching, economics, lierature, human development, making your day a lot brighter, anything you can throw at me....
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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Member Since:
10/26/2003
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| Society has taken one step forward, and one step back.
Obama has become President of the Untied States. We have elected someone qualified, worldly, and oh yes, non white to the white house.
Prop 8 has passed. We have approved second-class citizenship and bigotry.
I don't need to write about that the passage of Prop 8 is wrong, unjust, demoralizing, because I know my audience and I know that we're not the ones that think irrationally and use the bible as our scapegoat for homophobia. I know most of the people here won't cherry pick the bible to death and instead, if they truly believe in prop h8te, to put the bible away and justify it that way.
What I can do know is continue the fight against the ban of same sex marriage, educate the uneducated out there (like what Liz's blog said), and keep on fighting. Keep reminding them of what discrimination truly feels like.
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| This weekend was the first time I experienced the full extent of the valley heat. my goodness it's unbearable. The place that I currently live in does not have ... I repeat, does not have air conditioning, so it friggin' sucks! I can't wait to move into the new place that Will (my friend that I met abroad and have been great buddies since) bought in Los Feliz, that has the bare necessities such as heat and A/C. Not to mention I will once again have my own bathroom and bedroom. I sound like a brat, but hey, a gurl needs her basics.
I need to stick to the plans that I've made. So far, I've accomplished most of the goals on my new years resolution list, including working in a place I love, being happier in life and being a better person. But there are other departments I have lost track in, such as the studying I want to get done for business school, and going to the gym more frequently and eating out less. The quest for coming down to healthy wait has halted. I guess I've been just depending on restaurants and fast food establishments to provide me with meals since cooking a meal costs just as much and takes twice as long to clean. But it's hard to be health conscious while eating out, since flavor is often sacrificed for nutritional value. At least with home cooking, you know what you put into your food, and plus the leftovers can serve as lunch for the next day.
I've also been living out of my duffel bag for the past 3 weeks, since I've been spending weekends in Vegas and Nor-Cal, and also part or most of the week at Anthony's. Those were the best weekends I had, but I wish they weren't back to back. I finally got to see Carl-man in nor-cal and he had the opportunity to give me a glance in his fab nor cal Sunnyvale life. go Verde! It shocked me how CLEAN the place was, not to mention seeing Kanye and Rihanna GLOW IN THE DARK and other fabbies such as Yukari, Joan and Celeste. Next item on the agenda is to make a San Diego trip and visit everyone for the weekend.
Ok, gotta get back to work.
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| It's amazing how life can literally change in a blink of an eye. I was pretty content with my life in San Diego, and I was about the same when I left. I really had nothing to complain about except hating my job, but it was income. Life has been nothing but great to me in LA. I really, truly from the heart love my job (except when it's rush order time and people are driving me up the wall with their demands and deadlines.. Those sales people drive me up the wall, they just don't understand how long a retouch takes!). The people here are great, and for once in my life, I get to be those rare few that say that they love coming to work. I'm blessed that life is working out.
I'm trying to find a new place to live though. The one I live in now is ok, but the ventilation is pretty bad. It gets really stuffy and hard to breathe at times, which is not a good thing. I also have to share a bathroom with these people who aren't the cleanest people which those who truly know me, know that something like that would make me flip a cork. And also, the commute from Glendale/Eagle Rock off the 134 fwy to Burbank is probably the worst around 8:30am, since EVERYONE ELSE is trying to get to work that time. I try to make it work, but leaving 45min early still gets me into work about 2-3mins late. I'm thankful that my boss doesn't care what time I come in as long as it's not HELLA late and that I complete my 8 hrs of work each day. So I'm in the process of trying to find a place that's closer, more ventilated, with people that I know/like/will cook for me in exchange of my cleaning services. That's another thing, I can't cook, and everyone knows this, so eating has also been a nightmare, but thankfully LA has a handful of places I can eat at.
I've also met someone! ::GASP::... ::JAW DROPS::. can you believe that? Cuz I sure can't. I've met a normal, straight person who's just easy to get along with and not to mention, pretty darn cute. He works in the same building as me, in packaging design and one day we went on a date, and from then on, it's been nothing but sparks flying through the roof. He's been nothing but great to me, and most of my friends and even my parents have met him, and they all give him a stamp of approval. He's younger then me, but then again, all the successful divas are with younger men, what can I say, I got it like that.... HAHAHA I'm totally kidding. Ok, maybe not, I'M KIDDING YES I AM!!
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| 2008 so far has been nothing but a whirlwind change. to start, I end up getting "forced to quit," a.k.a get fired because of all the piled up drama that's been going on there. It was a shock to me, cuz I even though I hated the job, I put a lot of work and effort into it. But you know what, getting fired from the law firm was the best thing that could ever happen to me. If i never got fired from the law firm, I would have never landed the job that I truly love!! I got a job at a fashion advertising firm. I am a marketing media and design coordinator for Merisel, Inc. It's the type of job that I'll love doing everyday, being on Photoshop all day and writing press releases, FINALLY! and I start this Monday too! exciting!
However, this job is up in Los Angeles, which means I'd have to move up there and move out of the heffa house, and San Diego in general. I'm sad. I'm really sad, I mean I'm happy that I found the most coolest job ever, but leaving everything that I've gotten used to in the past 4 years is a difficult thing. Not to mention taking care of housing issues and what not. At least I have one of my friends to move in with. but still..... so sad. But not to worry, I won't be a stranger to SD. I'll be here ravaging the place as usual.
This whole experience has taught me to take each moment in life and make the best of it. See everything as a blessing instead of a curse. Here's to a new beginning in LA! come and visit me bitches!
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| Honest to blog -
2007 was a major transitional year for me (I'm sure it was transitional for many of those who graduated with me in June). But I must say, where 2006 had a lot of negative experiences, 2007 was full of positives, which I'm blessed for. To recap my following year:
- Did better in school
- interned at the bestest place ever, clear channel
- saw many many concerts and met many celebutards
- lost 10 lbs (yay for being 140 instead of a hefty 150! . .. took a friggin' year to do that. I need to go on the biggest loser for better results. those bitches lose on average 14 lbs in a week!)
- successfully graduated from college
- maintained a fabulous group of people to live with
- partied like a rockstar
- bummed for a month
- playing video games and discovering the greatness of guitar hero and karaoke revolution
- learning how to play the guitar from JP
- discovering different types of music from JP
- got a decent paying full time job
- made tons of new friends
- joined a gym (24 hr fitness here i come --> on my way to being totally mayjah!)
- controlled my anger issues
- learned that I have nothing to complain about in life and to appreciate what is around me
- took the time to enjoy life
Even tho it doesn't seem throughly exciting, it all has personal meaning to me.... yay so boring i know. I hope 2008 brings the same kind of positivity.
goals for the new year:
- be healthy, and weigh less then JP and Dan
- find (better paying and long run career oriented) job
- be a better person
- travel more
- go to nor-cal to visit the bitches up there
- learn how to play my guitar
2008 will make us harder, better, faster, stronger
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