Red, white& blue awards

I was honored today with a Red, White& Blue award for my work in the journalism dept this year. Of just under 2000 students at our school, only 80 received awards from respective departments. Thanks Ms. Diola!



On another note, I'm ridiculously poor. I need to save up for:
- macbook ($3,000)
- rock the bells tickets ($220 each x 4 = $880)
- blackberry 7130e ($200)
- breds ($180)

Premium Plus Magazine

Received my Premium Plus Magazine press pass in the mail today! Thanks Clint!

side one

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Whoohoo, I'm officially a part of the fam ;]

Crumpler Whiskey and the Cox

B&H photo video finally sent me my Crumpler camera bag!




$200 for this gargantuan thing that will hold my $2,000 lense. The cycle never stops...

Loyola Marymount University

This past weekend, I visited Loyola Marymount University and the surrounding city of Santa Monica. Still some financial kinks to work out but 95% sure I'll be going there in the fall :)
Recaps of the most boring drive on earth:


LAX is gorgeous though.

Pinkberry frozen yogurt. Tastes like yogurt but ice cream texture. Roughly $5 for a medium with 3 sides --- it's so good, Bobby Hundreds blogged about it too! hahaha


Melrose& Fairfax; the hub of one of my favorite locations

PARRIVED, Los Angeles

Fun friends, good coffee and cute gas stations make the 7-hour drive to LA really only seem like 2, or so.

Our gracious host for the Friday night, Noveen. Thank you!

Saturday morning consisted of no breakfast, no coffee, tons of shopping and running into Ben from The Hundreds. Crazy!

Saturday night dinner pre-art show at a Mexican restaurant.

Stickers& stenciled works littered the streets on our traverse down Melrose. The heels were a nice touch, yeah?

Tyler, HVW8 gallery owner, artist, human being extraordinaire!

Kaws toys x sex positions haha

Parra x Akila

yours truely x Parra

Touch from Fruition. Yes that is his real name.

Edgar from Fruition.
Despite just meeting hours before, Akila and I actually spent the night with Touch& Edgar at their friend Myra's house for Saturday night. Long story, but these are possibly two of the coolest cats I've met in a long time :)

I got in a car accident Saturday (the passenger mirror is gone) and as we were getting Starbucks on Sunday morning, we arbitrarily parked next to a car with the same kinda damage.

basketball banquet 07

So, high school basketball has finally concluded. For four years, it pretty much consumed my life& defined who I was... now, I'm on to a quest to hopefully conquer division 1 athletics :X Scary.



We finally got our league champs shirts in:

So, in my career at Lynbrook, I evolved from the "annoying freshwoman" to "most inspirational" as a junior, to finally a "mvp" my senior year. There's not much I could've asked for this year - winning league, being voted "mvp," winning "senior of the year" and going to ccs again. Of course, making it to the second round would've been nice, but it's been one helluva ride, especially with Darrin gone.
I love these girls for making me who I am and I love that we punch as one FIST. (family is strong together) Thanks for the most incredible times of my life guys!