Hey ho, let's go...

Hey everyone!

How are you doing?

I feel fine today, I was pretty productive and did my first interview with Prof. William McKeen, who was really nice and endured my useless questions...and I got some really nice aspects out of it that I had not thought of before.

Well, one reason I feel really good these days is that I have celebrated my birthday on the 12th May and I had such a great day!
First, I wanted just to relax and not go to the library and planned to have a picknick with Celia somewhere around Stanford...but at some point, Celia called me and had a great surprise for me - her classes were cancelled so she asked me to chose any destination, she'd bring me there!! I told her she should pick me up and I'll announce the destination. When she arrived, I got a little box as a present. I didnt't open it immediately.

As some might have guessed, I asked her if we could go to Santa Cruz again and spend the day on the beach...and she agreed...
Off we went, we stopped at Trader Joe's to buy some Californian wine and some bread and cheese and pretzels and nuts and apples....to be fully equipped for the beach.

When we arrived, I knew this was going to be great....the weather was awesome...


First we staying on the rocks and opened the wine bottle....it was really sweet, I mean really sweet. We didn't expect that...but we drank it anyway...I also opened the little box Celia had given me. It contained a piece Velvet Ginger cake which was totally red. I have never seen something eatable that was soo red! Since I didn't have a fork, I ate it with my hands...and it was good...but the color was more impressive than its taste! But I enjoyed it!



We then decided to go to the sandy beach...first, we sat by the trees in the shade....and I wandered around alone and watched the beach and the kids playing....and Celia tried to read since she had some homework to do....but we decided to lay down in the sun and the sand...she read, I tried to read and watched the few people at the beach because I totally didn't feel like reading...

I helped Celia to study some German poems and we really had fun, laughing about the funny stuff they described. And we laughed some more, when the frickin' birds, whatever kind of species they belonged to, let down some poo while flying over our legs...not much...but still it stank like fish....I wanted to hit them with stones, or thought of breaking my vegetarian diet for some revenge chicken...nasty bastards...I think they chose us over all the other people at the beach...for whatever reason...maybe we looked better ihihi =)


It got a bit cold, so we thought that going to downtown Santa Cruz might be a good idea. On our way to the car, a guy who was lying quasi next to us on the beach and was among the people I had been "observing" while being there, approached us. He had some nice tattoos. He asked us if we were from the area and knew a good tattoo parlor because he had seen my tattoo and wanted something similar. I explained that he needed to go to Italy for one of these...However, I don't know if he was really only interested in the tattoo *g*...I told him to go to San Francisco and off he was...

In downtown, Celia and me checked out some shops. I bought something totally stupid - gloves! Who the hell needs gloves in summer and especially in California!? But they are so cute, with ears and a little cat face, and in Austria summer will be over sooner than we want...and then, then I will definitely need them...
Well, after some shopping, where I saw so much cool stuff, but didn't buy anything, (I'm a moody shopper) we needed to go back to Stanford since Celia needed to study for real...and I didn't wanna keep her from doing something.

At home, I quickly changed clothes, ate some cereals and went to the Guild cinema in Menlo Park. This is a really small and old cinema that only plays independent movies and small productions. It has been build in 1926 and some of the interior, like lamps and some decoration, is still original. They even have a curtain that opens when the movie starts - I have never seen this before! Well, I guess I'm too young...

I watched "Little Ashes", the story of young Salvador Dali and his friend, the poet Fernando Garcia Lorca. They had some sort of homosexual relationship that affected them both to some extend. I didn't like it that much to be honest since the actor imitated some sort of Spanish accent on their English. Robert Pattinson, who is English, sounded kind of ridiculous by doing this. I mean it's fake. They should just do this movie in English. People understand that the characters are Spanish and that the movie is set in Spain! And when the Lorca character cited his poems, he did so in Spanish, with a English with Spanish accent voiceover that ruined the beautiful poems...So even though, the movie was kinda crap, I had a great time, enjoying myself there...with only 2 other people!!

And then I went home, finished "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest", which is really a great novel, and fell asleep like a stone...happy and one year older....

However, I got a sunburn on my shoulders...the sun here is really strong and if there is wind you don't realize how strong it shines...

Yesterday evening, I cooked dinner for Celia to thank her for everything she has done for me so far. I cooked some Roman pasta with beans (pasta e fagioli), baked potatoes with rosmary (patate al forno) and a salad (insalata mista - my Italian is still working...). We had some red wine from the neighbours of my landlords, if you remember the pics of the barrels...it was really good...
And then we started watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas since Celia had never seen it...so to make her understand what the hell I'm talking about all the time...and I realized how much I love this movie! I'm laughing all the time during the movie!
She liked it (maybe she didn't *g* and this is the reason), but had to leave in the middle...since she had to get up early...
After she had left, I had a writing frenzy and wrote some lyrics for songs I will have to write as soon as I'm back to my guitars...which I miss sooo much!

Well, I need to lay down...Lynn gave me some berry pie with cream and I feel like a stuffed turkey...

And if some of you don't leave me comments, I'm not going to update this blog anymore since it really demands time and passion, and if no one cares I ask myself "Why the heck am I doing this??"
So DO comment..or you'll have me at your hands!!

PS: If you like Rancid-like sound, check out the band Left Alone. They are awesome! Happy, (dumb) summer sound...great for riding the bike to university in the sun!