Updates for the next two years

The new blog set up for my updates is loveelderoh.wordpress.com. If all goes well, there will be a post every week. See you guys in two years (or maybe next week if you go to the other blog)!

BRB

I’ve just spent the last several hours arranging things into my suitcase tetris style, and I think I’m done. Though I have a list of things I still have yet to buy, for now I’m done.

I spent today saying goodbyes and giving hugs. Tomorrow, I’m waking up early in the morning to get to Seal Beach in time to say goodbye to my mom and still have enough time to get back before we start driving up to Utah at noon.

It’s been fun but now it’s time to leave this blog on hold for two years while I go save some souls and stuff like that. I’m going to go set up a separate blog right now. The next post here will be the link to the new blog and will also be the last until I get back two years from now.

Bye.

I am tangent master

Forgive me readers for I have sinned. I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to even think about what I want to post about. I haven’t even read a blog entry since June.

I’ve been busy these days running around buying things I’m going to need for my mission. The pressure is on now because I leave on MONDAY. That’s 3 days from today. And I don’t have half the things I need. Isn’t this exciting though? It’s just like way back when I was still in school and I would procrastinate so then I would have to run around frantically like what was the phrase? A dead bird? Some kind of bird that’s dead like an ostrich or something? No, I’m just kidding. I know it’s “like a chicken with it’s head cut off.”

Incidentally, what kind of bird is Big Bird from Sesame Street supposed to be? He looks like a big, yellow chicken to me but you can never be sure with Sesame Street. Like Oscar the Grouch. What is he? Some kind of mutated hobo?

Wow, holy tangent. Getting back on topic, I’ve been much too busy to think about computer business, so that’s my excuse for my decreased activity on the Internets. However, I’m going to be setting up a separate blog for someone to update for me while I’m on my mission. Because I’ll have limited use of the computer, I’ll simply email someone my posts, which will sometimes be accompanied by pictures, and have him/her update that blog for me.

If I get that blog set up, I will put up the link here as soon as possible.

Broadening my horizons

I’ve been rethinking my major for some time and after much reading of major descriptions and requirements, there is now a post-it on the wall at my desk that reads civil engineering(?). I’d like to get into architecture or journalism but unfortunately, my school does not offer an architecture program and I don’t have the balls to go into journalism for fear of living in a box. I am one who enjoys currency.

So for now, I’m considering civil engineering. I suppose it’s like architecture except with less of the imagination and more of the government projects. I should probably find out more about what a civil engineer does. Or maybe I can transfer schools. I’d love to move to the east coast.

When it comes to journalism, I just need more time. I had dinner with my mom today and she told me that one of her customers is a very well known columnist for the Orange County Register so I’m thinking that maybe I could talk to him and ask him a couple things. Then, I can wait for the foreign idea of journalism to sink in.

Deep down, though, I think I want journalism more than architecture. However, the idea of science and engineering majors is already well bred into my brain. In fact, I may have been born in a giant tub of it, so I’m not so nervous about deciding to be an engineering major. It’s the thought of the liberal artsy fartsy stuff that turns my brain into a useless chunk of proteins. You can see why it’s hard for me to really even think about journalism.

So, yeah. This is good. I’m going from your typical science and math oriented asian kid to the indie music listening kid. Broadening my horizons, if you will.

These days

Well, well, well. Seems my days are action packed lately. Actually, not so much action packed as dull errand packed. I’m busy these days trying to rack up some hours at work and running errands after work to buy things for my mission. I need tons of things seeing as how I’m going to be gone for two years without much opportunities to go to the mall.

Socks, suits, dress shirts are on the list along with an international driving record, which apparently you can only get at AAA. And speaking of driving, yesterday morning, I went to the DMV to get my driving record and to renew my driver’s license because it will expire during my mission. I paid a total of $33 for those two, $28 of which were for the renewal (ridiculous!). To top it off, they made me take a written test because I was renewing it too early.

I have to admit that I sweated a bit as I walked into to the room and saw I didn’t know the answer to the first question. Fortunately, the rest of the test was easy as delicious pineapple upside down cake. Another plus: my new picture isn’t so bad. In my current license picture, I do not look happy. No, sir, not at all.

I’m not sure because you can’t really see anything in the very pixelated black and white picture they give you for a temporary license, but I think you can kind of see a smile in the new one.