florence: bed and breakfast...and some

after a long day of river rafting through the royal gorge; a gorgeous bed and breakfast awaits. did i mention that it's haunted? stay tuned.

a big plate

i know full well that i shouldn't be writing a blog when it's past 3am and have happened to glance over some interesting pics on fb; one's that rekindle old ghosts from the past. this whole week has been such an emotional roller-coaster, one which has derailed and spilled into some of my insignificant insecurities. so i will stop there and know that the track i'm on is the only one i can possibly be on; night

retrograde commotion

it's been an interesting week.
i just got back from a trip to puerto rico/impromptu trip to new york city.

it was a much needed trip, one that went as planned even though my friends and i hardly planned anything.
this week, i began a new semester at west la college.
it's been 3 years since i graduated from cal state long beach and being back in school is intimidating. i'm not really sure why though. i don't need to make grades, i already got my degree. but still

i'm not that old, i get that, but i seriously feel like an old bag of bones on campus.
i'm pretty much there in order to claim a scholarship that i received 10 years ago, when i was still high school. i was sent a letter earlier this year letting me know that if i didnt use it by end of this year, the state of california would absorb it.
that was not going to fly

so, fast-forward a few weeks and i'm the newest student of WLAC. i'm taking 3 courses, 12 units total:
chinese 101
digital video and sound editing 210
film production 100

and i'm not going to lie, they're all fun! and i'm actually considering doing a 2-year film program. i'm glad that i forced myself in this position and i'm excited where this will take me.

typical thursday...except!

today, thursday the 26th was uneventful to say the least.
up i was at 4:20am
out i was by 4:30am
got to the metro by 4:50am
finished reading suzanne collins' "the mockingjay" by 5:45
clocked-in to work at 6:00am
...and from that point till now, everything's been pretty much a blur.

the screenplay has taken a bit of roadblock. it's been a week since i've worked on it. i'm not sure what's happening. i think i placed much emphasis in finishing the pilot that once it was done, nothing new has emerged. i keep going back to the pilot.
so i'm looking at this beatsheet in frustration not knowing where this segment is going

i won a pair of air new zealand tickets today though, which is AMAZING! maybe that'll motivate me in the right direction.

who steals an old lady's camry?

obviously someone desperate.

a half-hour after scarfing an enormous portion of pad-see-ew along with my usual large thai boba tea, i walked through the front door of my house with a serious case of the naps. i was headed towards my room when my mom asked if i'd heard what had happened to my abuela. my heart dropped

i asked her, "what!?"

mother told me someone had stolen her car, which at the moment sounded like great news. it had happened last night, so when she had woken up it was gone. she filed a police report and few hours later the cops had found it.
mom asked me if i could take abuela to the south gate police dept, which meant no nap in the near future. i really didn't want to, but that was the pad-see-ew talking.
as i turned back around and walked towards my car, i began to feel better. what was i really missing out on, a nap? please.

well, three hours later, after visiting several impounds in southern california, we found my abuela's camry. nothing serious was wrong with it. the people who took it just went for a joy ride; they even left a lawn chair inside. all in all, things could have been alot worse, God is good.