Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Golden Bear
So I had failed earlier to mention I was nominated for Golden Bear at my school.

Golden Bears are the best and the brightest in their categories, and I was up for Theatre Arts.

There are four levels. Golden Bear, where they give you a pin; Medallion, where they give you a medallion; The highest in each category receive a plaque.

So there I was on stange, already gotten my pin. So then they announced the Medallion winners, and I was one of them.

So I stepped forward and let our principal place the medallion around my neck.

Next thing I know, I hear, "And the plaque goes to...Jared Head." and it was quite a shock for me.

I was not expecting the plaque at all. So that made me the best of the best in Theatre Arts.

So there you go. Does this make me a top 20 person at school?

I hope not, I don't want to get too much more injected into my Ego.
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Saturday, April 29, 2006

Cross Country is back...it's a dream beginning again
I've always thought of Cross Country as one of the few pure sports out there. all you have to do is run. Not like Football, where you run and catch.

Plus, Football is for weak-asses. I can say this even though I've never played full contact Football.

I've played Rugby, so that gives me the god-given right to call every other sport a weak-ass sport. Hell, I broke my collar-bone playing Rugby. If you don't know what Rugby is, look it up on Wikipedia. It's a fusion of Soccer and Football. A sport from Eurpoe the few here in America know of, but I know of and love to watch it on TV.

Almost as much as getting up at 2 in the morning to watch the FIA GT circut, but I digress bigtime.

Cross Country is running at it's purest. 3 miles of you versus yourself. You can physcially be in the best possible shape for a XC (Cross Country for short, that's what we runners call it) race, but lose because of a weak mentality and low drive to win.

XC is about physically pushign yourself and mentally rejecting anything you feel that will slow you down.

Pain is a constant for an XC runner. The best XC runner shut pain out so well, they feel nothing while running. 've only gotten to the level of getting most of my pain out. I still feel pain, so I'm not a great XC runner yet.

My training starts on Monday. It's a little weird, because I'm still training with my high school team, and will also be still training with them for the summer, but when I enter college, I'll be running for my college.

Yes, I decided to continue running XC through college, and maybe even beyond.

Right now my fastest time is a 19:04 back in Septmber of 2005. That's an average of a 6:21.3 mile per mile for three miles. Nearly a constant speed of 10mph. Flucuations in times of a runner as they tire out during a race would allow my first mile to be a 5:20 and then go down equally from there to make a 19:03, which is one second shy of my personal best.

I'm looking at hopefulyl getting itno the sub-18 three mile times by July, and hopefuly eb i nthe Sub-17 thee mile times by the beginning of Septmebr, just in time to try out for a college XC team.

So I hope I get it, and i can't wait for the sport I enjoy the most to begin its trainign on Monday. w00t w00t!
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

So here's my story
Can't check the progress of my story on fanfiction.net as it is having server problems and I can't log in. Last time I checked I had 468 hits with 27 reviews. Not bad for a story with 7 chapters. Check my story out by the way, you can click that little quote thingy at the top of my page and it'll take you right to it.

I don't know if people will like it. Well, people do like it, they review sayign that, but I'm not sure how most people react to it.

My story is very surprising to most people who read it. Many readers start my story expecting another fan fic with original digi-destined and wonderful stereotypes like that.

They end up reading a story about one person hand picked to help prevent a second occurance of massive genocide. It's not a pretty story either, I make sure to let you know how graphic evil can be, but good can be just as graphic if not worse.

Good and Evil can never win. If one prevails, balance is thrown off, and we will be thrown into turmoil. You can't have Evil depends on the existance of Good, but Good depends also on the existance of Evil.

Plus, how many Digimon fan fic stories do you know have a central theme that involves Genocide?

Yeah, not many...if any.

I plan to go on in the next few chapters actually advocating genocide in certain situations. Which I do not do so in real life unless it is the last resort and all other techniques have been exhausted.

People tend to take edgy ideas from fictional characters better, so this could be an outlet for my idea of this, but I dare not try and impose my idiologies on my readers.

Genocide is the correct thing to do in certain situations. I may sound like some kind of twisted individual, but who am I to argue with opinion?

I will argue that genocide can be acceptable. My case in point: Bird Flu.

They killed a hell of a lot of birds.

Speaking of birds, I ran over one today, it sucked. I feel pretty guilty about it.

It flew out of nowhere from the passenger side of my car. I tried to swerve to avoid it, but my tires got to it before I could get out of the way. So I ran over a bird in my new car.

As I said before, I feel really guilty about it.

No, I wasn't trying to start a massive bird genocide.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Thunder from Above
Right now we're having a thunderstorm. It's badass. Lighting happen almost one after the other. Sweet.
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Chapter 7
Chapter 7 of my on going story series is up. Check the whole series out!

"Digimon: The Silent Project"

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Monday, April 24, 2006

tC @ School
I got a lot of looks, and mnay people saying, "Holy shit! Tghis is yours!".

Yeah, I guess people like to see others in new cars. I don't blame 'em!

I noticed today when driving that tC home I felt like I was i na spy car. Dunno why. Maybe it's because I'm a huge ass Bond fan. Maybe it's because the Bond Theme was on. I dunno.

I'm not British, I don't have black hair, I can't drink martinees, but I feel like Bond driving that thing.

Man, I need to get a life and fast.

That was sarcastic.
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tC Pulling Up
Tomorrow I finally get to pull up in the school parking lot in a respectable looking car. My new Scion tC. I can't wait to see all my friends, and see then surprised that I have a badass car for once.
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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Awsome
The tC i got yesterday is awsome. Everyone at my church loved it. Neighboors are snooping about trying to figure out what it is.

I'm afraid that girls will suddenly decide, "Oh, he's got a car, time to go after him."

I'm not afraid of girls, just girls who have excellent divorce lawyers.
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   Holy S$%&!!!
So I received two amazing surprises today, both that will impact the rest of my life immensly.


My dad got a call form my friend at Mandalay Productions to let me know something.

They want me back for the summer. Aparently my work ethic is beyond excellent and I follow directions almost too precisely. Also, I forgot to say on Friday my boos took me out to lunch in "honor" of my last day of working there, saying "You more than deserved a lunch." Apparently, my friend who has been i nthe insudtry about 15 years has never heard of a Production Assistant being taken out to lunch. So I might be thought of very highly by my boss and his co-workers.


So now I have a rock solid job for Summer and probably beyond summer. Coolness.


So today I had to get fitted for my tux for Prom and afterwards went right next do to my mom's flowershop (which she owns, hey, free flowers for anything!) to discuss getting a limo with one of my friends.

She then preceeded to pull me to the back of the shop to discuss why I should not be taking a limo to Prom with this specific friend, and I was prepared to fight it out to the death.

So she turned to me and said, "Why go to the Prom in a limo when you can go in this?"

The door swung wide open, and my mind blanked at what lay before me.

I'm told that I had a blank stare for nearly 10 seconds, and then went into a ecstasy driven frenzy, all because of what lay before me that was now "mine".

Goodbye 1988 Toyota Cressida, hello 2006 Scion tC.

I was in disbelief, shock, ecstasy, and many other emotions all in that small time period.

So I was given a car by my parents, as mentioned earlier, it's a 2006 Scion tC. Colored white, my parents decided to by one that was fully loaded and then my dad decided to add the ground effects kit and lid deck spoiler, so it looks fast as bloody hell.

I can't wait to be able to actually drive it. I have to wait about 989 miles.

The break-in period for my new car is 1,000 miles accoridng to the handbook inside of my glovebox.

1,000 miles. Shit, that's a lot for me. I barely drive 100 miles a wekk. 'Cept for last week, I drove like 300,m but that was with a long ass commute. Now all I do is just go to school and back, about 6 miles.

But, Jesus, a car. A f-ing car. I wasn't expecting it this early, but damn it, I'll take it!

Me and my friends use to call tC's the "hot wheels" of cars.

Now I own and drive a Hot Wheel.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Work, Commentary on Locals. and My Drive to Work
Today I went into work an hour early to finish what I was working on yesterday, and that was getting call sheets and production reports ready to be updated.

So today, I finished them all. All 87 of them.

Now all we have to do is add in everything and they'll be set and ready to show to whoever is in charge of this snowboarding documentary.

No, this documentary is not like that snowboarding movie that just came out a few months ago where they went off into areas no one had snowboarded before, this one seems to be better.

For one, it has a very diverse location list:



The famous Winter Park in Colorado.



Mountain Creek in New Jersey. What the hell? New Jersey? New Jersey has something nice enough to put in a movie? Wow, I guess things have changed.


Carlsbad. Wait, Carlsbad? How do you snowboard there? It's right in the middle of San Diego and Los Angeles. Do they snowboard at Legoland? Because, Legoland is in Carlsbad. I've always wanted to go to Legoland and then intentionally fall into some really complicated piece of "Lego Art" just to see what would happen.

But I digress...

Salt Lake City is another location.

Lake Tahoe, which I've always wanted to go to.

Then there are loactions that I would have never thought of that are great places to snowboard.

Like one segment of the documentary is on a rider from Japan. Sapporo to be exact. Pretty cool to me.

Another rider is in Russia. Yes, every James Bond fans nightmare. I don't think I've ever said it before, so let it be known to all: I have to be one of the biggest James Bond fans that I know of, so there.

Then a location they haven't shot at yet, but are next week: Oslo, Norway. Sounds like fun, eish I could go.

Then a location that came as a complete surprise to me: China.

They allow it over there? I was surprised.

Tomorrow I'm being let into the editing room to watch some of the stuff, so I can't wait.






Well, my drive up to Mandaly is fun. About 18 miles of pure bliss for a motorhead like me. 7 on the I5, 7 more on the I10, 4 on surface.

One problem also comes up for a motorhead like me: Traffic.

Yes, I have to go right by Downtown Los Angeles. I mean, like where all the really tall buildings are is where I have to go by. That's about my half way point to and from work.

So due to the nature of freeways in Los Angeles, I never get to get about 50mph while heading off to work. Uusually I'd average about 22mph. I timed myself today, and to travel those 18 miles took 52 minutes, 33 seconds. Welcome to Los Angeles style traffic. What am I going to do when I get my Red Line Edition '08 Saturn Sky?

Coming back I at least get up to 65mph if I'm lucky. But hey, this style of driving in traffic is fun. It's highly technical, working your mind, instincts, predictions and abilities.



One thing I noticed about where I work at, is that it seems to be the pot-hole capital of the world.

Seriously, like every 5 feet, there's a pot hole. The sidewalks have the occasionaly pot-hole.

And for some reason, I hit every damn one of them.

I wouldn't be surprised is one day, when driving by one, I see several old cars that have fallen into a pot hole many moons ago still there, waiting to be found.




Also another thing: Porsches. Everyone up where I work at seems to have a Porsche or a Benz. It's unsettling for a BMW man like me. Honestly, just because you get a Porsche or Benz or even a Bemer donesn't mean you've made it.

Now that guy in the parking garage who owns the Aston Martin Vanquish, you've got it made. You've also got my envy.
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