Today was actually one of those unique days that seem really interesting just because you saw something new, or because you didn't something you've never done before.

So, at my State Farm office this morning, I did the usual filing, filling envelopes and shredding confidential documents. (Some of those documents that I file are of people I know...it's kinda weird.) Then Chuck, my boss, called me into his office and told me that he was planning for me to become an agent. An INSURANCE AGENT! That's SO cool. I'm going to be the youngest State Farm Agent in the area/district. Well, apparently I have to take classes first, and those are 8 hour-long classes on weekends.... :( So... that's the only downside. Then, after that I did something called cold-calling. That's where you call people and try to sell them something. Well, in my case I was calling small businesses out of the YellowPages and asking owners/managers if they wanted a "free quote on business and workers' compensation." A lot of the people that I called were rude, and some just plain hang up on me. Now I feel kinda sympathetic for all those telephone solicitors that call for a living. One of the places that I called was Boba Joe's, and I did my whole shpiel and talked with some girl that was employed there. Her voice sounded kinda familiar and so I asked "Who am I speaking to?" not realizing that that would probably be a little creepy for her to tell some random guy her name. Anyways, so she told me... and it turns out I was talking to JENNIFER CAO! hahahaha. I go to Boba Joe's when Kevin's working and sometimes I see her there, so it was one of those awesome coinkidinks. Wow...

So I rushed to school and I couldn't find a frikkin' parking space, and I was in the farthest lot from main campus. So... if there weren't any spaces there, there weren't any anywhere else. I was going to be late to class if I didn't park quick, so I just parked somewhere that looked not-too-illegal. You know those sections of the pavement that have white lines striped across them so that no one parks there? ...well, I parked there. I just figured that if the security officers realized that the lot was full, they'd just let it go cuz...after all I'm a student there and I DO have a parking permit. Later after I was in class, I realized that I had back-to-back classes and that I wouldn't be able to move my car and it would look really awkward for my car to be sitting there illegally especially when other persons' classes ended and they decided to leave empty parking spaces. Cuz, then the lot wouldn't look "full" and I would have no excuse to park there. Luckily after my first class, I saw Kevin...soon-to-be savior. He offered to walk all the way to the parking lot and repark my car, cuz he didn't have any class at that time. Yay.... THANK YOU KEVIN! He's like my CSUF student advisor/friend. haha.

So after my last class I headed with my friend, Kathy, to the library cuz she needed to finish an engineering lab with a partner, and I was going to be going to a meeting on campus in 30 minutes anyways. On the way there, we saw some guy dressed up in a monkey suit promoting something called Island Odyssey. Maybe some of you that are in college have heard of it. Anyways, its a program/business, that takes you to a country-this time it was promoting Austrailia- and provides transportation and full accomadations for everything for a pretty low price. And apparently you have 100% freedom and can do whatever the hell you want to do there, and also earn college units at the same time. Well, the monkey man was cool and he handed me a card, wanting me to convice others to go, and saying that I would make about $100 per person that I got to go. So...if anyone loves me...or wants to go to Australia for college units, give me a call!

So...Kathy and I got to the library and walked up to the foruth floor. On the way, I realized that I need to go back to the gym...I feel so frikkin' out of shape. Well, at the fourth floor I met her partner Lito (sp?). He was cool. He told us freshies a little bit more about the campus... the do's and don'ts... how you can bend the rules and when you can't. Then Kevin came after his class and met both Kathy and Lito.

After that I went to the Titan Tusk Force's first meeting. The Titan Tusk Force (TTF) is kinda like a group that has a hell of a lot of spirit for the CSU Fullerton. It's part of ASI...like ASB at high schools. The people there were really cool and so I joined the TTF. GO TITANS! I made a few friends like Deanna, Angela, and Pam. The first two are people that were, I think, on board of the TTF, and Pam is another person like me that was joining. Her and I are going to be the best freakin' members ever! We already showed dedication by helping carry stuff back from the meeting to their office. Ooooooo, I got free stuff too! YAY I love free stuff. I got a cup, a shirt, pens, a folder, a mega-phone thingy, fake tattoos that say "F" for Fullerton, and pizza. ALL FREE from TTF. It was like paraphrenalia heaven! I'm excited to be a part of it. I get to scream at sporting events and yell at the opposing teams, and watch cool movies at movie-nights in the Titan Theater. Tomorrow, they're showing Sin City in the Titan Theater. Oh... and the movies are FREE! Oh, and I'm supposed to help with a tail-gate party or something like that....but I have a Honda Accord. hmmm.

Tomorrow is DISCOVER FEST at CSUF. It's like a HUGE club carnival with frats, sororities, clubs, and school stuff. You guys, if anything, should know that I LOVE CLUBS and extracurriculars. I'm SO excited! I can't wait! I'm finally just getting started to feel good -well almost good- about attending the CSUF. I wasn't very excited at first, but I think I'll get there by the end of the first quarter.

Yay, Tuesday is finally over! Every Tuesday from now until the end of the Semester will be the longest day ever.

After my morning classes I headed home for a quick attire change right before going into work. I worked from 12:30 until 2pm today. I work at State Farm Insurance on Nohl Ranch and Canyon Rim... for those of you that don't know. And for those of you that DO know, I took Chandler's job when he went to Idaho for college. Anyways, that's beside the point. Well, I guess I'm too darn efficient. I finished all the possible filing (the best job in the world) that was there to do and finished all my usual job tasks. So, since they really had nothing for me to do, I cleaned the windows with some glass cleaner that burned like crazy when it dripped onto my skin, and dusted cars. Okay...not the cars that you are thinking about... I dusted mini cars... they were kinda like Hot Wheels but the style of the cars was from the 50's and 60's. State Farm Insurance sells auto insurance... which is why they have those little cars. And they are all on two wooden racks. One rack is for the Classic 50's cars and the other is for the Classic 60's cars. I can't wait to see what I get to do tomorrow.

So after work, I read a chunk out of a book called Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville. That book is a frikkin' 722 pages long! Oh!, and it's not in easy-to-read English. It's written in the older style, more sophisticated English. So the phrasing sucks and it's not the easiest book to read. Ahh! It takes FOREVER to just get through a few pages. If you don't have Attention Defficit Disorder, and you want to develop it, then read this book, because it's almost impossible to not be distracted. Like, the entire time, my brain WANTED to be distracted from reading it.

Well, at 7pm I had class again at school. It's my 2 hour 45 minute class: History of Jazz MUS302. I'm really ambivalent about the class. I can't tell if I like it or hate it. I love jazz and the material and lecture is fairly interesting. But then again, that lecture is almost 3 hours long and it ends at 9:45pm, when my brain is pretty much set on shutting off ther learning mode. In class I sat next to this random guy (I don't know anyone in that class. There's like 80 people in it) and he either had a B.O. problem or needed a serious Tic Tac. Something didn't smell good... and I had to tolerate if for the entire frikkin' class. I was so happy to get out of there!

On the drive home on the 91 freeway East, the right lane was jammed for some reason...I think it was because of merging traffic. Anyways, I was in the second lane over from the right going about the casual 70 mph (ya know... just enough over the speed limit to be speeding, but not to get pulled over) and the retard in a white Toyota pick-up truck from the right lane pulls out in front of me and he's going like 10 mph. So I swerved in to the next lane to the left, clearing him by only like a foot. And the person that was in the lane I moved into, did the same thing for me. Wow, adrenaline rush! I thought I was going to be in an accident for sure. Afterwards, I was just driving in shock. I'm so glad that the person in the car that dodged me, when I swerved into his lane, was paying attention! Holy Crap! What kind of driver pulls his car out right in front of another car like that!? That person didn't even watch. It's something that you'd expect from an unlicensed driver, an illegal imigrant that doesn't understand traffic yet, or a grandma. Geeeeeeeeez!

So I got home safely... ate dinner and finished off my Honors Critical Thinking class's reading assignment and homework.

Oh, and when I was trying to figure out what one of my assignments was, I tried calling my friend Kathy from my class, but I called the wrong Kathy in my cell's phone book. It was SO EMBARRASSING! She answered the phone and I was like "Hey is this Kathy?" She said yes, so I didn't think that I had the wrong number... and then I started asking questions about the homework and she was like, "I don't think you have the right number," then immediately I realized that I had two Kathys in my phonebook and that I called the wrong one. Then I said kinda awkwardly, "I think I have the wrong...Kathy." hahahaha. If I were her, I'd be SO confused. I didn't even try to clear up the situation by telling her who I was. Hahahahaha.

So, yea, that was my LONG day. I'm so glad it's over! I don't have to go through this again until ...next week.

I hate Tuesdays...

So....

Today was the first day of my second week of school. It's still hard to believe that my wonderful summer is already over. It's still frikkin' hot and it actually still IS summer. Who the hell decided that Cal State Fullerton should start early? Huh? Well, anyways I've gotten pretty used to my schedule so far. Well, I HAVE been there a week and I think that that was all I needed. Well as for my class schedule.... my Mondays and Wednesdays are okay, but my Tuesdays SUCK! On Tuesday I start school at 7am and end at 9:45pm! Well I have a huge gap in between, but it still sucks! That's like my worst day. Oh, and then I have only one class on Thursday and it's a morning class, so it's almost as if I don't have class that day at all. NO CLASSES FRIDAY! So I virtually have a 4 day weekend when you include those magical Thursdays and freedom Fridays!

My Schedule

So THERE'S my actual schedule. Look at FRIDAY! YEEEEEEAH! Sorry, it's a little hard to read.

In my first class of the week, American History, my professor is WAY liberal and likes to call himself a "Cultural Conservative," whatever the hell that means. He told me to change my Major on the first day. (I'm Majoring in Business Administration.) And, he thinks that if I don't, I'll end up in a cubicle with no life. Well, I consider myself a moderate conservative. I believe in capitalism and that whatever one earns, one should keep or give to posterity. Well, that's exactly the opposite of what my professor thinks...so me being the loud person in my class, I stur up controversy in almost every class. Well, actually, I just disagree with him on a few things and then he's actually the one working up the class. He stares just like Ms. Hahn from CHS! But, he stares longer and sometimes when he's speaking to you he stares straight in to your eyes. Like STARES....its like he has a thyroid problem....that's how hardcore he stares you down. Anyways, that was the weird class of the day. I guess it keeps everything interesting right? What would anyone do if they didn't have the weird class in their semester schedule. I'd probably pass out from boredom. Most importantly, what the hell would I write in my post!? Well, I'm sure I'm not the only one with a psycho teacher.... right?

Then, after school I've spent my time putting the finishing touches on jaycarvin.com. It's back up finally. I don't know what happened. I think that my server was down, and it was impossible to fix certain things. But now I FIXED IT! Yea, I know!... try not to gasm.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how the rest of you guys do when you start college! Well, some of you have already started. I know that CSUF, Santiago CC, and Fullerton College started the same day that I did, and Berkeley people had their first day of "instruction" today.

I miss Joanna.

Yay, so this is my first post on this thing. I am SO anxious to have my entire site "jaycarvin.com" back up and running, with this as my weblog portion.

So this morning I went to Eastside, my church to do my whole religious thing and learn about God, and then I headed over to Kody Davis's (that looks weird, but it's apparently correct) church to see off his parents. His dad is the pastor there and Kody's family was moving off to Nebraska (i think) and the Church threw a little send-off party. That was SO sweet. Oh, and people were allowed to go to the front up to the microphone to say things to Kody's parents, and everyone was saying how much they would be missed and what a great part of so many lives they have become. It was REALLY cute. Some people cried, or bawled actually. Yeah, it was pretty emotional.

So right after, I went to Starbucks where I met up with one of my friends from my Honors Critical Thinking class. The homework was really easy, so we finished it in like ten minutes and spent a few hours chatting. It was nice to finally be able to meet one of the friends I met at school, out of the classroom.

So just about right after that was Elizabeth's birthday party at Moreno's, a neat little mission-like mexican restaurant on Chapman Ave. I'm proud to say that I initially introduced Elizabeth to Moreno's. I LOVE that place. On Friday's and Saturdays there is a little mariachi band that plays and they really bring out the atmosphere of the restaurant. Well, tonight was Sunday so there was no mariachi playing, BUT we got our share of the fun from Elizabeth's birthday song! Five guys came out with a small dish of flan with a cute little candle in it, and a HUGE sombrero that was destined for Elizabeth's head, and marachas for that cha-cha effect. So Elizabeth stood in front of everyone with her marachas -to cha cha with- and we sang happy birthday. The guy on the end played a cheap little eukalali that he probably bought from the 99 cent store. It was SO funny.

Then we headed off to Elizabeth's house where the pool and jacuzzi were SO inviting. I didn't get in though because...well I was a little too lazy to change. So I sat on the side and we all told jokes and hypothetical-situation riddles. It was corny but fun. Oh, and then Ashley Benson had to tell the longest humorous short story of mankind about Houdini. I can't believe that I actually listened to the entire thing to hear the lame ending that followed it. Well, I guess there's nothing better than lame humor when you're in college right? So after we got bored and after a few people became prune-ey from the water, we went in and played Catch Phrase. It was SO fun. We passed this thing around that had a word on it and we had to say something (not the word itself or any part of it) to get people on your team to guess what the word actually was. It was kinda like Taboo, but there were less restrictions and the little word-thing would pass back and forth between teams. There was a timer and whoever didn't end with the word-thing in their hands moved a step forward on the board.

Oh, and the cake and ice cream were really good. mmmm. I love ice cream. Fatty goodness!!!!! Oh, and I got to meet Elizabeth's roomate, Lauren.

I can't wait to finally "settle in" to college: to know where everything is and how much time it takes to get there, and when it's okay to park in certain lots at certain hours of the day. Ugh, there is TOO much to get used to.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy "THE DAILY READ!"