yet another crazy away message turned poem

I don't think I can say it any better than the title of this post so here you go. For your amusement and bemused wondering:

red roe rubies:
such sweet silliness
that there, though through
unstable, utterly
volatile vixens, visibly vexed
wolves would wildly want.

© 2008 Emilio Gandara

the Reals

Hey all! Here's the latest haiku series. You may or may not know but I occasionally will do a series of haiku instead of the usual daily kind. This one was special in that it follows a story rather than a theme. I present you, the tale of numbers.

why would a number
have any reason to fear?
they can be consumed

in the realm of Real
there is a lack of nothing
naught is but a thought

yet the negatives
live a cursed fate and war
bearing the curse-mark

and so they battle
positives and negatives
endlessly dying

until finally
the king of the positives
stepped forth to battle

the legendary
the never-ending ruler
is infinity

but to oppose him
negative infinity
came to decrease all

one by one they ceased
at their own hands or the kings'
only kings remained

a final face down
two endless powers clashing
a new king is born

fear is but a thought
in this world there is Nothing
he is the new king

© 2008 Emilio Gandara

Hope it made sense and you all enjoyed it :D Hope I'm not breaking too many haiku rules XD

You are not safe in the elevator

So, hilarious. Last night I went to Jill's place with a few friends and we hung out and saw Newsies and ate cookies and just had a good time in general. Afterward, Steve dropped me off at my place at around 2:30AM. Well as I was going up the elevator to my 8th floor apartment, it stopped at, I think the 4th floor and a guy and girl come in the elevator. The door is practically opening when the guy gets reeeeally close to me screaming in my face 'nobody loves me!!!' and then goes on a quasi-unintelligible rant about how he went to a gay bar and got no attention. Subsequently asking loudly not only the girl he was with but probably myself too 'do you know what it's like to be gay... in a sea of gays?' Well the girl was rather drunk too (ok that's a soft way of putting it, they were both hammered) and she answers 'not really, no'. But that's all the short trip up to the 6th floor gave us a chance to share. Then as they're stepping off the elevator the girl extends her hand for a hand shake as she wishes me a good night. Of course I oblige and wish her a good night in return. The door closed and my elevator ride continued for two more floors while I laughed in disbelief that what just happened actually happened.

Alternate title for this blog: Drunk Elevator Quotes

Now Listening to: Death And All His Friends

you should watch (or maybe you shouldn't): IOSYS magic

picnic among other things

Today was the company picnic that I almost melted at. Yeah, that one in particular sans the somewhat bad grammar. It was pretty fun. Went down with most of the people from the team and had a good lunch. Of course since it was an all-you-can-eat, I ate more than I should have but oh well, no problem. I'm sure I sweat half of it off the following hour. I also got some random carnival prizes (without playing carnival games coz apparently people weren't really playing for them or something in that vein. hah. Of note was the diablolo, which works like any plastic, surplus toy would (read: it doesn't). Or maybe I'm just not very good with it. Today was also pretty nice at work coz I actually had things to do for most of the day and then got to leave a half hour early!

So yeah, here's a cool little run down that I'm gonna start doing at the end of blogs (if I remember):

now listening to: Corneria from Star Fox (Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST)

ordering you to view (though in reality this is only for immi lovers like I):

Growth Group

I won't go into much detail but growth group was excellent last night. Growth Group is a small group from church I go to and we hang out and study the Bible. Well last night we had a bit of breakthrough, you could say. I really feel as though God spoke to all of us last night. It was truly a life changing experience. I kept praying that we wouldn't just go about our lives the same way after last night. That we internalize and not forget what we learned. To face our lives, to see ourselves in the mirror and step away from what we know isn't how it should be.

In other news, I've decided to blog like a blogger. What I take that to mean is I'm just gonna do posts about whatever more often than before. This isn't a biography and it shouldn't be. If something tickles my fancy, I'll drop a line or two about it. Put a video or a picture up and say something about it. I like that. Let's see if I can actually do it.

June

As usual it's been a good long while since my last blog actually detailing my life. Even still, I would like to keep this one short and just give a rather quick update of how things are going. I'll assume it's been roughly a month since my last update and since July just started, I'll recap June.

The highlight of June was, of course, my lovely vacations in Puerto Rico. Visiting family and friends is pretty much always a good time. I had a great time, ate a lot, got to see Cris' graduation (which we made a lot of fun of afterward), and had a good weekend in Fajardo (even though we couldn't actually go to Culebra). The rest of June really ain't much a big deal. The co-op's officially over so I've pretty much slipped into a support roll at Sherwin, which is fine by me. I'll still be working there until November, at which point I'll be moving back to Rochester, as most all of you know. I'm pretty excited to go back and finish up and get on with my life, particularly so because it may mean my going to Japan next year and that excites me more than anything right now. I hope I can have Maru-sensei as my prof for Adv Jap 2 as well as 3. She's 最高 (the greatest).

Well now that I've properly digressed, hehe, June, in general was a fun month, also because I was Mr. June at the gym. So amused by that. Speaking of which, my body seems to refuse to go below 170 pounds. Fine enough, so long as I continue to get in better and better shape as I strive for the elusive 6-pack. Yes, that is (shamelessly) my new goal. And with that I leave you my fellow friends, family, bloggers, dreamers and poets.