peacemongeroo: September 2009

9.20.2009

Enough for Now

One of my favorite bands is The Fray. I can (and have) listen to their albums on repeat for hours. Amazing melodies with incredibly beautifully written lyrics. They have this song called "Enough for Now" that I have listened to and "sang" along with at least 78 times since the album was released. By "sing" I mean today I realized every third word was not an actual word. Something like "Vlear to no for now" when it's actually "That's enough for now" (I'm serious, I would actually sing that). So I looked up the lyrics...and then the meaning of those lyrics. Break my heart Fray!

Step 1: Song
Step 2: Lyrics
Step 3: Interpretation
Step 4: Go hug your dad. And grandpa. And grandma. And mom.

9.17.2009

Quote Burrito End Quote

Went to grab some grub and of course I'm craving a burrito. No taquerias in this city, but found a Mexican place. Ordered a burrito that cost me $14.07 and ate it with a knife and fork. How dare they call this a "burrito"

Same with this place called Shake Shack, maybe you've heard of it. You wait an hour to pay $20 to eat a burger the size of my palm, fries, and a small shake.

Food here is fabulous, but burritos and burgers cannot compare...

Origins (written in 2008)

I started a blog when I was a freshman at Cal. I figured it was time to get a xanga to keep in touch with my home-ies (high school friends). I was trying to think of a name and started gazing around my dorm room. Dani (the source of many of my inspirations) had slapped a bumper sticker on the front of our door, and like any good social floormate, our door was propped open. "PEACEMONGER". But of course, that was taken by some hippie fisherman (I don't really know, there are no posts on peacemonger's xanga). So I made it oOpeacemongerOo because I was still a teenager that thought wOrDs LiKe tHiS were so cool. But xanga is not case sensitive and reverted it to oopeacemongeroo. That looked dumb, but peacemongeroo sounded cool. Then I became a Peace and Conflict Studies minor. Coincidence? Not sure. Then I switched to Blogger because xanaga ads were getting annoying, I am a Google Apps fanatic, and Blogger is better.

I admit, I'm not an avid public blogger. I have four blogs that I use, so this one ends up getting the highly edited updates of my life, funny stories, and "ooh shiny!" moments. But I hope you still enjoy it.