Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I'd like a caramel machiato, with whipped cream.

So I started my job on sunday. Coffee coffee coffe. Would you like that with whole or soy milk or non fat? I never thought that making coffee can be so confusing. A cafe americano calls for 3 shots of espresso and a latte just 2.... or did I mix it up again? So the first 2 hours I was learning all the drinks and how to use the espresso machine, and I think I got that under control. The night went pretty well, I think. Got behind the counter, made my first real hot chocolate, and sold a cookie. I even managed to keep my white shirt clean after an almost drastic accident with the milk steamer. It was pretty chill, one of the guys working there goes to State with me and I remember him from a few of my classes last semester. Besides that, the job is pretty chill, make the coffee, do your homework, and relax. These 2 Russian guys (late, early 30's) came in and kept eyeing me. They were the kind of guys my grandma would try to set me up with, some computer scientist or accountant with a thick FOB accent. As I was taking my break one of them approached me and asked me if I am on my break and if I would like to talk with them. So there I was, my first day on the job and already getting hit on... what could I say except that "I am really tired but maybe at another time, thanks." They left. So I wasn't really nervous my first day of this job but something restrained me from grabbing one of those pastries to calm my growling stomach, I didn't want to make a bad impression. But as we were closing up the manager asked me to throw away all the left over bagels and pastries. My night then got a lot better and more exciting and as I packed the remaining food to take home with me he told me not to get too excited, all of the new employees are psyched about the left over food at first but he can't even look at one of those things any more. So now I am coffee shop girl. Ya'll buy some coffee from me and give me a good tip.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

conservatory of flowers

Here some pretty flowers I saw a few weeks ago...

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this is a water lilly, it is big and strong enough to hold a whole human being
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if you look close enough you can see a dragon fly
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my favorite

Monday, August 22, 2005

drunk dialing, a night gone blurry

by popular demand I shall share me weekend adventures. So as most of you know I was home in Los Angeles for a week and those of you that did not call me to make plans, fuck you guys. So ya'll missed out on a very drunk Vica, which as I heard was a sight to see, since I have bare recollections of the evening's activities. So the evening only happened because my cousin Anya took her MCAT that morning. This girl spent like 3 months locked up in her room learning chemistry and this was her night. So the people were Katya, Anya, Marik, and myself. And let me just say that we all looked glamorous, but unfortunately forgot my camera but take my word for it. Lets just say that I got out of my SF hermit shell and did the LA thing for a night. So in an effort to celebrate Anya's freedom and my coming of age, we went to City Walk. I have not been there in a really long time, but for those of you who have never been there here is the scene: Loud Latino music playing in the courtyard and drunk happy couples dancing, little kids running in and out of a fountain, loud loud music coming from everywhere, lines outside of busy bars, bright neon lights, you get the picture. Started off at a Cantina drinking Margaritas but my entourage quickly forgot that I despise tequila, but to my surprise it wasn't that bad. We then went to another bar, I forgot what it was called because this is where I lost my common sense. All I know is that this place was packed, there were 2 guys playing on two different pianos like battling each other out on requested songs. They were loud, obnoxious, and fuckin awesome playing all the good stuff. The waitresses were skinny girls in bathing suits giving shots to men from test tubes administered with whipped cream. After a few horrible and expensive drinks Katya and I decided to go for the shots, a sure way to get drunk. So there I was in this loud and colorful place watching some dude up on the stage imitating Elvis Presley, my head was spinning. I go outside, time for some drunk dialing. Somehow I ended up on the phone with Polishuk, really.. was that you? We don't ever really talk on the phone and I thought you were in NY? Some guy started talking to me while I was on the phone and I found him to be very rude, especially when he asked ME to buy HIM a beer. I told him hell no go buy your own fuckin beer and walked away. I am guessing it was getting late and we were leaving, why?? I was having a great time. For those of you that don;t know me, I don't get drunk a lot and realize each time that I am just how wonderful it is. So as we were leaving I demanded a sticker from the bouncer which said "FOLLOW ME TO THE MOON" and he asked me if I wanted it in the front or the rear to which my jaw dropped and I kindly replied "I'm not sure how I feel about the rear, we just met. I'll take the front" so he nervously places the sticker on my chest, and I think he was a bit nervous, cuz I remember he was putting these stickers on other girls and he was all perverted with them like feeling them up and shit, but I swear he was like scared of me or something and just wanted to give me the sticker and leave. So we walked out and to my pleasant surprise there was a group of very fine looking police officers and started flirting of course and asked them for a picture but I had no camera. We then went with Marik's plans and crashed his friends little shindig to which we were unwelcome by a few individuals, i mean the hosts, but we were given vodka and all was soon forgotten once again. Went to Jerry's, mad tired. Marik's friend came up to every table of girls and I have no idea what he said to him but he kept coming back empty handed. And that about wraps it up, oh and I kept getting strange looks from people, apparently I forgot about the sticker on my boobs and all these men kept asking me to open my jacket to read the sign. Went to sleep at 5am at Anya's and had to be home in PV at 10:30, pack, and catch my flight. Here I am in SF safe and tired. The end.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

some people really piss me off

this does not come from anything that happened to me today or any time recently for that matter. i just don't get a lot of people. and not just people in my realm of friends, because of course i love them and accept all their little(or big) flaws and imperfections. but people that i see walking on the street, in coffee shops, in school, on the bus..... everywhere i feel that i am surrounded by complete and utter idiots. and then i think that maybe i am part of this little world of freaks and probably piss off some other judgmental and pessimistic individual just as myself. So i am no different. i am just coming to terms with my hate of the world's creatures. also i am in a very good mood today. had my sex final today!! And am planning on TAing for that class next semester. Yes, I am a sex expert from now. Spent the day with Vanessa (roommate) selling clothes to Crossroads and walking through the Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park. Unfortunately we got there too late and it was closing. So I am going back there tomorrow because the place is just too beautiful not to see. Most important update, I finally got a job and this one is just a block away from my apartment working at a coffee shop making sweet ole coffee. Should be interesting. I am coming home to LA this weekend and I am going to tear it up now that I have come of age!!


My first purchase of champagne!!
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getting crazy in Muir Woods
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Monday, August 08, 2005

legally drunk

so the birthday weekend has come and gone and yet what i remember most from the big day is not blowing the candles or taking a drink or being pleasantly admitted for free to the club and having the first drink on the house. alot more stuff happened this weekend. i realized that i have amazing roommates, friends who will always be there for me no matter how long or far apart we have been, an awesome family who will sacrifice the world for me, a boyfriend who braves the parents AND survives, friends who bring me wine and cake, the numerous amount of people who call me and wish me warm and fuzzy things and i feel that everything this year has been from the heart. if sincerity exists then i really did feel it this weekend. so yeah enough of the mushy stuff. i also learned that my sister is apparently a magnet for the lesbian community and that i attract middle aged men. i also learned that i cannot hold alot of alcohol.... maybe i already knew that. so so tired, will write more tomorrow.
peace

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

im stuck

so i have been stuck in this state of mind that i cannot categorize. at times im happy, at times sad, at moments a bit neurotic. oh who am i kidding, perpetually neurotic. mostly what this neurosis has to do with is figuring things out about where the hell i am heading in life. i look around and see amazing people doing amazing things, either for themselves or for the world. but bottum line is that every new face i meet and every old one i greet has some kind of goal or trophy in mind. everybody seems to have figured their shit out. and i look at myself, trying really hard not to juxtapose myself with anybody else but its too dificult to do that when all i see in myself is someone who is thoroughly confused, my state of mind and mood constantly ephemeral. some days all i want is to sit and read and feel completely content. other days i want to whip out some paint tubes and compose a beautiful painting, and sometimes i wish i had a meaningful job with meaningful every day tasks. am i ever going to be independent? am i ever going to quit the timidity, the panic, and the uneasiness of the little obstacles in life? maybe moving to San Francisco was not the answer to all my problems, and I was naive enough to think that it was. But I think that once I begin to ask these questions its a beginning and a well worth move. I guess what I am really trying to say, and maybe a bit of denial is constraining me from admiting it. I really don't know what the hell I am heading for in my life. That's basically it. I'm not even thinking about the long term type of stuff like what I want my carreer to be. I am thinking of other things such as intelect, appreciation of art, health, love, sex, travel, feeding the homeless, learning big words, knowing what they mean, friendship, success. Too much time on my hands lets me think about such nonesense.
Currently reading: "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende