I’m going to write something real and substantial soon. I promise.

• Yesterday, as I waited in the group C line for my Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to LA, I realized something astounding. I won’t have to travel anywhere in October, well for business. Exciting.
• I miss Oso and literally keep missing him. I think my travel has something to do with it. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get that bananas tshirt.
• As much as I travel, I keep being reminded that the place I love most is home. After 6 years of living in the same apartment, I still feel odd calling it home. Home is the 3-bedroom house where I grew up in Hacienda Heights.
• You know what makes home even better? VR/Papas, our dog. I love hearing his collar jingle as he rushes to the door to greet me.
• I’ve dragged my feet on really figuring out some important things… like what I’m going to with my life. I thought I’d be able to do that during the summer, but classes start in three weeks and I’m still lost. The good thing is that I’m being less of a weenie about facing some of these tough issues.
• One of those substantial topics I’m going to write about will be the strip club half a mile away from my house. I don’t like it or the fact that the strip mall it’s located in is now called “Showgirls Plaza.”
• I’m also going to write about rafting in the Kern River with my cousins and our brush with death. Well, not really, but it was scary, risky and dumb. I haven’t had that much fun in a while.
• I dressed up like a pirate last weekend for my roommate’s second theme party Surrender the Booty (the first theme party was Black & Gold). I love dressing up in costumes and am a little stuck on this year’s Halloween costume. Any ideas?
• LA has been pretty hot lately, but nothing abnormal for late August or early September. However, San Francisco is the opposite. Folks on the streets were wearing coats and scarves I don’t get out until December (if at all). I love San Francisco, but I don’t like the cold. I like sun.
• I found out about the National Latino Congreso rather late and didn’t end register or attend. Does this mean my Chicana activist card gets revoked?

That’s it for now.