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| just thought i'd post just because.
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| This following list is taken from one of my friend's (katrina's) xanga:
You Know You're From Silicon Valley When...
Your combined household income is $140,000 and you can't afford shoes for the kids
You think anything slower than DSL is barbaric, but can't get it in your neighborhood
You know what DSL stands for
You and your spouse almost come to blows deciding to hit Peet's or Starbucks
You think that American food includes sushi, naan, pho, pesto and pad thai
You met your neighbors once
When asked about your commute you answer in time, not distance
Even though you work 80 hours per week on a computer, for relaxation you read your email and peruse eBay
You have worked at the same job for a year and people call you an 'old-timer'
The T-shirts you value most were for products that never made it to market
You can name four different programming languages and you are not a programmer
You remember the names of the three closest cheap sushi joints, the
location of all the Fry's in the area and which companies your friends
work for that are going public in the next year, but don't know the
name of the mayor
Standing in line at Starbucks you wonder why the employees don't call a head hunter
You work 6 miles from your home and spend two hours a day commuting and $40 a week on gas
Winter is when your lawn grows too fast and summer is when it dies
The median price of a house is $500,000...for 1200 sq. ft. with no yard because it's a town house
You live on some of the richest farm land in the world but most of what you eat comes from South America on a boat
Your best friend lives across town but you hardly ever see each other
because after your commute you're too pooped to spend another hour
driving to their home
You have a master's degree in engineering but half the people in your
department either didn't go to college or have history degrees, except
if you have a master's from Stanford, in which case everyone in your
department has a master's degree from Stanford
You cringe when you see people in suits at your office, wondering if
someone in management will make you stop wearing bunny slippers
You plan your vacation so that you don't have to drive back from the airport in commute hours
You don't go to sporting events unless you are given tickets by your employer
You could sell your home and live like a king in 99% of the rest of the
world, but don't because it would be difficult to move back.
You have at least three computers at home.
You own at least one domain on the Internet, probably several.
You think it's normal to see chip-design software or relational databases advertised on freeway billboards.
You know that California isn't just one big beach.
You know that not everyone in California surfs.
You know there's lots of skiing in California.
You know your rotating outage block number at home and at work, and listen for them whenever there are rolling blackouts.
If someone refers to "SunnytogaDeAnzavale Road", you laugh and know what they're talking about.
You take your out-of-town friends to see the techie gadgets at Fry's. But you don't let them buy anything.
You know how to recognize re-sealed returned electronics at Fry's.
You don't ask the staff any questions at Fry's. You know they hire idiots and pass the savings on to you.
You watch dot-com boomers go back to the states they came from, and the
traffic gets better by the month. But you are home so you're not moving.
You own a Sport Utility Vehicle and have never taken it off-road. You
wouldn't know what to do if you tried. Same with all your friends.
You don't know how to drive in snow. You're a road hazard when you visit the mountains.
You think the horn and middle finger are essential driving tools.
You think bicycles don't belong on the road.
You think any car ahead of you doesn't belong on the road.
Your out-of-state friends are impressed at how much money you make... until you tell them how much you pay for housing.
You know that a "fixer-upper" home could cost a half-million dollars.
You do a "California stop" at stop signs. And you think it's only Californians who call them that.
You aren't bothered much by earthquakes because you're ready for them.
But the thought of tornadoes and hurricanes terrifies you.
You clearly remember where you were when the Loma Prieta quake hit.
You know several funny stories about swimming pools in the quake.
You can't recognize a thunderstorm without seeing lightning first.
You cringe when a Southern Californian refers to highways like "the 101". It's just "101". No "the".
You call low clouds "fog" even if they're hundreds of feet off the ground.
At least once you have gone to San Francisco for the day wearing shorts
and a t-shirt because it was a warm clear day in San Jose. And you
froze your little *@#!% off in the fog, drizzle and wind.
You say you're from Silicon Valley because no one knows where San Jose is.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Silicon Valley.
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| Congratulations Class of 2005!!
even though we may not be able to hang out at break
next to the ampitheater, or go to quizno's on fridays after school, or
laugh at (or not) mr. mo's lame jokes, or ever have the same people in
a class again, we will still have the memories of all the times we had
together.
i'm sure one day at a reunion we'll look back to our
days at bellarmine and laugh at how stupid we were for doing some of
the things we did (like using matani's debater lingo that virtually everyone
at our school has picked up: "that will win you out" or "that's a major
loseout"), but these memories are the memories we could not have had if
we weren't bells. these are unique moments in our high school career
that will stay with us for years to come. i don't mean to be melancholy
about this whole thing. i just want to say that you should have all the
fun you can now because we'll have less time in college to screw around
(so my parents and everyone else is saying).
but for now, if anyone wants to chill over the summer, holla!
enjoy: graduation pics
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| today was an interesting last day of school. spent 3 hours trying to
get a lug nut that we found out was a wheel lock off a goddamn wheel.
played marco polo with horns in the parking lot cuz adrian and jon were
trying to find us. went to search for the right socket at 5 different
places, figured we were too cheap to buy a ratchet, and left the car
with a flat tire. drove the car with a flat tire to the gas station
where we found 4 pretty big punctures on the side of the tire. tire =
owned. good luck to them with the tires.
star wars tonight. may the force be with us.
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| Thanks for prom, Tiffany!
Prom was lotsa fun. the band played pretty weird music some times
though, but we managed to pull through and do our own dance moves
(albeit i looked really silly  ). also, watch out vegas, cuz me and
tiff will destroy you.
Here are the pics if any of you are interested.
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