So, I have returned, like the dragoon. I had a 1 week trip to San Diego, as you might have ascertained from the title, no shit, eh? And so this post will be more or less dedicated to that very trip. So I left the day after my math and last final by plane. The plane was supposed to be off by 6, so I had to bother my dad in the middle of the night for a ride…it got delayed horribly, we got moved to another plane, so we didn’t get to SD until like 8 or some shit. It has been at least 8 years since I’ve ridden a plane, and my memories of such are dull. Planes are nauseating, but as much as I feared, so I was able to work a bit on a crossword during flight, although the landing was rather bumpy, more than usual I was told. The in-flight entertainment was, unexpectedly, an episode of The Office, Fun Run to be exact, which was rather entertaining. After the flight, I was rather needing of fresh air, but we pretty much almost got immediately on the bus. The bus ride is an hour and more long, which is REALLY FREAKING LONG. UCSD is so far away from the airport, and it doesn’t help that La Jolla has fucking so many roundabouts, all in a row. It is not fun after a nauseating plane ride to bob and weave about the roads in a fucking bus. Chalk that up as a point against SD, it’s HUGE, and the damn roundabouts are a damn curse. And having to pay 2.50 for a one way trip? The buses in SD are fucking expensive. That is failure in public transportation right there.
SD has a lot of trees. There are trees everywhere, except maybe downtown, but once you get out, there are trees everywhere. Especially in La Jolla, there are trees. In UCSD, there are so many trees, and green fields and shit, Berkeley just can’t compare. SO MANY TREES. Which is rather ironic, considering the water down there is total shit water. It tastes like it’s from Satan’s ass. That is what happens though, when your water is piped all the way down from Northern California. For showering too, the water, it felt rather…oddly, not like the water at home. So, with my dislike of the water in SD, I was rather relying heavily on bottled water, I pretty much about decimated near a box’s worth of Crystal Geyser, supplied by Elvin’s relatives. Thank you very much for keeping the piss machine fueled. >>;
UCSD dorm bathrooms are nothing to write home about, they don’t even have paper towels! Of course, those being the only dorms I’ve been in, I’ve nothing to compare to >>;. Many of the other campus bathrooms that I saw had automated aspects of the bathroom, most common being paper towel dispensers. They seem ages ahead of the Berkeley bathrooms…of course, I’ve probably seen more bathrooms of UCSD than I have of Cal. >>; They also have an eclectic collection of faucet knobs. There were push faucets in the playhouse, which was rather off putting, considering it’s a university, not an elementary school. The faucets in Elvin’s building were rather uniquely shaped as well. Speaking of bathrooms, the SFO bathrooms are wonderfully clean and pristine compared to many…but they are crowded as hell. >>; Of course though, big international airport, what else would you expect. They also have this sexy beast: the Dyson Airblade. They are so cool, when I saw one I knew I had to experience the bathroom to give myself a greater justification to wash my hands and use the Airblade. The SD airport bathrooms were less crowded the first time around, but their facilities paled in comparison to the SFO ones…
So this girl which I will refer to as Sir (she’s a paranoid one) accompanied me on the trip. During the flight there she was crushing me while she was taking her nap >>;. How…annoying. And of course, how can I let her off without listing off a list of her major fail during the trip. Most prominently, her hair, which she streaked with purple dye. It’s red. And dyed hair, it fails rather hard. Furthermore, streaks remind me of underwear and unclean bums. Brown streaks. Yay! Furthermore, she could not get up onto the bed at Elvin’s, since he raised it to max height to accommodate himself underneath it. Elvin’s room is small, so we could barely fit, leading to his position underneath the bed. Of course, that meant the midget had to struggle onto the high bed. And she was too lazy to jump up, so she did it the hard way, climbing up the end of the bed. She almost fell off once…Elvin took pictures too! But she deleted them off his camera, but hopefully he will be able to restore them and post them up onto Facebook so the world may bask in her fail! She was also tripping over many things while walking, and tripping over her words while talking. After me pretty much saying “automated bathrooms” at least once a day glorifying in bathrooms down in UCSD, she still tripped over the word “automated,” for at least half a minute, I’d judge. Such fail. She also lost her battery laptop, some money, and I think her iTouch by leaving it in her old dorm room before she left. Her laptop’s pretty much useless without the power cord anymore, which pretty much almost kills the portability function of it. Oh, and she totally just forgot to take a new change of clothes to the shower once, and had to come back with only a towel, not to mention she was using the boy’s suite bathroom? She really failed hard there. I’ve probably forgotten countless snapshots of her fail, but enough about her. I bore of her. I’ll add them on later, there’s more shit to get onto.
So as I’ve noted before, 4 people were stuffed into Elvin’s little single. Sir was given the bed so I could laugh at her plight of getting up onto bed/falling off of the bed. Elvin and Cindy were under the bed on her inflatable mattress, and I was on my sleeping bag right next to them. For some reason I envisioned that there would be more space between us? Apparently not, we were right next to each other pretty much. With four people in the room, the air got stale as fuck, so we had to buy an air freshener for the express purpose of sweetening the air. >>; It was pretty damn hot there too with 4 people, a lot hotter than I expected. My damn sleeping bag insulated a lot better than I thought, along with my windbreakers, so the first couple of nights it was way too hot for me to sleep comfortably. We went to Ross though, and I got me a nice pair of pajamas like what I assume the normal populace wear (i.e. not sweats), which are amazingly comfortable and soft and not insulating at all! I also got this really nice soft plushy pillow to sleep on, and subsequently my sleep got so very much better. I even married my pillow, Elvin totally officiated the thing, and I am now going to divorce the damn crap since I lost my driver’s license in the hustle bustle of getting through security in SD Airport. Ironically, less people at SD than SFO, so I should not have been in such a major rush, but now I have to get a replacement, and this will be majorly bitchy. How annoying…
The food in SD, it was interesting, I got to experience dining hall food and some “higher end” crap. >>; “Higher end” meaning non-Asian chain restaurants that aren’t fast food. >>; Dining hall food isn’t that bad, but then again, I haven’t had to suffer the apparent ignominy of eating the stuff everyday. The food there doesn’t seem to have a lot of green vegetables though, at least, not as much as I think I’m use to eating. And Elvin needs to eat more green vegetables, because he doesn’t. That does not sound balanced. I also ate at TGIF for the first time that I can remember, the fish and chips were quite filling. I also ate at Chipotle for the first time. Their burritos are rather too fat for one’s mouth, and it got rather messy, with the rice falling out of the tortilla. It was also a bit spicy for my liking, but it wasn’t as spicy and messy as…the buffalo chicken flatini from Croutons on campus. I was not aware it would be that spicy. Oh, but it was, but it was. And there was SO MUCH SAUCE in the damn thing, it was like a swamp. Never again am I getting anything remotely close to buffalo. Fuck the bison and the yak. I also ate at California Pizza Kitchen, which I’ve never seen in the Bay Area. I got the Spaghetti Bolognese (how the fuck do you pronounce that?) with mushrooms, and it was good. I also tried some of Elvin’s pesto penne as well as his carne asada pizza, and it was delicious. I have an idea what I’m going to get if I ever go there again…I also hope that eating that much pesto won’t give me diarrhea…I also had the opportunity to try Tapioca Express food. I turned it down, since the food didnt look appetizing at all. It’s all fried stuff, and the combos apparently have spicy fried chicken bits and canned vegetables (oh god ick). I don’t see how anyone can stomach the shit. I’d rather have dining hall stuff than that. I also at “Great Khan Mongolian BBQ” or whatever the name was. I don’t see any distinction between Chinese and Mongolian here, beyond the fact that the noodles were spicier, and you get to pick out what you want in your noodles with a buffet of raw meats and vegetables. It’s not even Mongolian, according to Wikipedia, but Taiwanese in origin. Oh well, it didn’t taste horrible, I suppose, beyond the spiciness.
We took the taxi to the airport, after we figured that we may as well pay the 40 instead of paying a sou less for taking the taxi to some bus station in the middle of nowhere to catch the earliest bus to the airport. I hate early morning flights because the buses don’t run at the time we need to get to the airport. The taxi ride was my first taxi ride in the US that I can remember, because I don’t remember any other ones. >>; I took the taxi once or twice in Hong Kong though, but that was ages ago. Taxis are way too expensive, although it was SO MUCH quicker getting to the airport, I have to say. The plane ride back was much smoother. It was also much quicker, we apparently got back half an hour earlier. That pilot was probably a pro. I was also able to take a gander at the airplane bathroom, and that thing is so cramped, you would not be able to swing a cat in it, as they say. The flushing is quite violent too, even without the water in the bowl. The plane was showing Fun Run again, I assume the airline just bought the rights to the episode to show on all its planes or something. When I got home, I took BART all the way back to SL, and lugged my roller, my sleeping bag, and my pillow back home on foot. Not many people walk around town with a pillow in their arms. I must have been quite the sight.
GODDAMN this post is long. I think it’s the longest I’ve written.
Listening to: Starcraft music. I’m taking a listen to some of my older shit…
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