This has been quite the day and its only 4 oclock. 

Pros

1.) volunteering with kids in the Children's Dental Center in Inglewood.  some of them actually wanted to learn about teeth.  One of them challenged me to a coloring race and beat me.  We shall meet again Javier.

2.) avoiding two tickets from two close encounters with the cops withing a span of 5 minutes.  i was following this fellow pre-dent back from the dental center to find the freeway, and apparently she didn't know where it was either, cuz she pulled into this one-way entrance way to a larger structure and did a three point turn with little space.  since i'm following her, i try to do the same, but on point 2, i see a squad car, and he's telling me to go inside.  of course i have to obey, so i go in, and then i see lines of more black and whites.  its a damn police station that the girl decided to do an illegal manuever in front of.  luckily, the cop just drove by me when we got to the parking lot and i got the fuck out of there needless to say.  i find the girl that i was following again, as well as the freeway entrances, but she was iffy on which direction to go, north or south, so she juked me out apaprently by going for the south and then veering 3 lanes to the left to get into the left turn lanes for the north.  I have to follow, but i get stuck in the left turn lanes since cars are coming, i can't straigthen out my car and i end up occupying 3 different lanes, the two left turn ones and a through traffic one.  i look to my left, and its a damn cop on a bike staring at me.  but all he did was stare at me.  needless to say i booked it as soon as the left arrow turned green. 

cons

1.) getting butt-raped by the locksmith

as soon as i get back to westwood from the volunteering thing, my roommate says "i hope you dont need to get into your room."  apparently it was mytseriously locked while i was in Inglewood, but a locksmith came and busted it open and replaced the lock.  we're chatting about how i just got back from a long day to find my room locked, by his van while he prepares the payment papers, and says to me "you're taking all this in stride."  i say, "of course, things happen."  then he hands me the bill.  $300.  "you still taking it in stride now?"  what a dick.  i hope his cracked molar gets a cavity.

another year, another quarter.  looks like everything else is gonna take a back seat in my life, with 19+ units, AXE, and dental obligations.   don't hate me if there's a lack of communication, but that's just been the theme of my life lately.

i witnessed an equally random and sad thing at the same time yesterday.  while i was walking to class with a member of the pre-health frat i was rushing, we were talking about her summer in italy and stuff, when i heard and saw of the trees outside of Young Hall steps rustle.  Suddenly, in a rain of leaves, a squirrel falls out of the tree, and lands on its head.  Sadly, it was still alive, and some people were either stupid or absent minded enough to not see it and step on it.  needless to say, it died later, but this was one rodent whose death i am not responsible for.

study hard, people