This girl named Maeghan Magante gave me this pin tonight at the APSA meeting. I met her last year in my Asian American Studies 60C discussion. She wrote really big and crazy with black black ink and had more answers than me. (Which is a lot I think!) She also got me erasers. She picked up the pin and the erasers from the Philippines this past summer. She is all about her roots and taking back her culture. I like her because she is all about being a Filipina who is brown and down. She wants to be involved in APSA and I am so so excited.

It's been a really exhausting week but I'm glad we went through it. I think board is so strong this year, and I can't wait to see how it goes from here. Al is the best at holding gatherings. Melanie Lee, Eric Chow, Kevo and I ended up sitting on Al's steps and talking about everything.

So that has been my day. I really need to pass out now.

This is my life. Isn't our booth so cute!



This makes me happy.


When I moved in this bike had two wheels. Yesterday it had one. And now it has none. WOMP WOMP.

PS: Shout out to my bilf foc'r.

Welcome Week has just begun. I guess I will write about all the adorable freshm@n. Man. That was me last year. I am so tired. There were just so many cute cute kids!! I'm excited. Anthony Ngo was right, our publicity this year is so sick. I'm excited. There are some issues that need to be smoothed over, and that shit had me stressed out, but I think tomorrow will just go better. There was this one intense kid. I think her name was Norma? She was so cute and she kept asking me what APSA is and does and I know I love her already. I need to adjust my TV and sleep soon. I'm just so excited.

Tonight I went and caught up with my dorm friends/ heart to heart buddies. I was so tired though. We had some jello, candy corn, and wine and sat around catching up. I love them so much. I'm tired now. Soo tired. I just spent thirty minutes deciphering the sign up sheet so we could be prompt with that. I just really want to do a lot this year. I want APAAC to be huge again. I want a massive mobilization of progressive UCI kids!! Alright. This is babble. But that is who I am right now.

This is Cristobal Enrique Jimenezjimenezjimenez.

He lived in my dorm last year. I met him through the game of Assassins. I had to find him and kill him so I stalked him down on facebook and was the first person to kill anyone. He calls me Auntie Peaches and Garce Yonug and I call him Cristobal even though his real name is Christopher Henry Jimenez. He cooks for me and is very strong. He dresses nicely and helps out with APSA. I adore him



I love APSA. I spend all my time with Jesse and Al and more time with Geo. I will make that post, but I've just been crazy with things to do. I have to run out soon.

!!!!!


Yesterday on the plane I was shoved between a busy business man who scarfed don't his honey roast peanuts and someone who looked like a full grown Chris Ryan. Square tall white and in a green and white striped polo shirt. I read American Gods and he read the Harvard Business Review. I listened to Curtis and he kept messing with the air vent fan. We talked about glass ceilings for women in the workplace, and his sister who just had her first baby in Texas. He is a business man and one of his buddies likes the show Laguna Beach. He wants to have kids eventually, even though I told him that kids are not sustainable. He was very nice. I hope he can find someone to marry him and complete his perfect OC story. I think he recycles!


This is what my room looks like.


This was my first meal in college that I ate in my apartment. It is leftover Vietnamese food. But it counts.


These are my new grown up glasses that I do not even wear. I put them on this morning but today I think I will try to get dressed and look normal because this slum lord thing is not working so good all the time.


This is me from last summer around the same time when I first for my glasses. I look the same. But my hair is three tiny bits different.

I am at the Regents meeting. It is crazy. I am disappointed in the Regents, but then again, when is there another sentiment? Oh well. I love APSA. It is comfort food in a very hungry world, which is fitting since I did not get a fancy lunch. I got a lunch in a box. There were corn made utensils. I'll get a picture. I am waiting for the Regents and Presidential Search Committee. I am sucked in. Alright, and update in my life. Very uninteresting, but life will get better.

I've been obsessed with this song for the past five million years. It literally took me three listens so get everything. Right There.

Beautiful girl

All my sisters in the house tonight
If you're feeling my alright
But one in particular yo

My listener my lover my sister my god
I love the way you fit in the clench of my palm
And it's hard when phone calls is all that I have
But I don't sweat it too much I keep you where ever I'm at.
My punk rock stilettos fishnets and a skirt
Just as fly as in chuck taylors denim jeans and a shirt
Every argument is a chance to build up on this here
I apologize for how I make you feel when I swear
I'm right there when your past creeps right back in
I'll be your pitt bull
Tell me who and I'll bite at them
I just want to keep you safe and build you up when you down
Can you reciprocate that feeling without making a sound
You push me up to be a better man and think of my fam
Bell hooks our communion books stay in my hand
The patriarchy thats in-bedded in my soul no more
I look at you and wonder what I ever did that for
The B-word I prefer to call you by name
Never call you a thing never bring the slightest to shame
My boys be thinking I changed
But I just found where it's at
707 Valejo is where my womyn stay at
It's miles away but she stays closer than most
LA is where I stay but with her is my home
I'm home for you mesto with the music I make
Everytime I hold your brown hand and kiss your brown face

You keep it right there hold it right there baby yeah
The world is crumbling right now but I don't care
I'm right here with the beautifullest girl in the world
Ahh I like it right there mmm right there
You keep it right there hold it right there baby yeah
The world is crumbling right now but I don't care
I'm right here with the beautifullest girl in the world
Ahh I like it right there mmm right there


So here we are my love
This is the pure rhythm of my heart unplugged
So raw that it doesn't even match to a beat
And the emotion so strong I can hardly speak
Have I ever told you how I et distracted by your beauty
And giddy I get when I think of you and me
Our unity is more than just husband and wife
It's way more than just saying your the love of my life
Words could never do justice to our song
What we have is whats left when the music is gone
The eternal promise that we seal with a kiss
That we have permanently tattooed on our wrists
And with this we resist all this sexist conditioning
And model our love with a union that is genuine
And build our family through struggle and growth
Through those simple little moments when you're holding me close
Our bodies fit together perfect
Like pieces in a puzzle
Cause revolution is bigger than a single couple
Cause we make up a whole community of energy
And it all starts here with you here next to me

You keep it right there hold it right there baby yeah
The world is crumbling right now but I don't care
I'm right here with the beautifullest girl in the world
Ahh I like it right there mmm right there
You keep it right there hold it right there baby yeah
The world is crumbling right now but I don't care
I'm right here with the beautifullest girl in the world
Ahh I like it right there mmm right there

This is Steven Ma.



I have chosen decidedly attractive photos of him because he is a very svelte man. I met him last year because he was everywhere. The first time I talked to him I was selling chicken fried rice (Check It Out!) for APSA and he came and gave me a lot of shit. He tried to buy the entire pan in exchange for his wallet. I am looking at it right now. One time I went to eat at In-n-Out with my now ex-boyfriend. I was so full that I made him sit on the sidewalk with me so I could take a nap. Guess who came on his bicycle! Steven MA! Steven Ma asked how he (I don't think he wants his name here! FOCUS ON SKEVE!) could deal with such a crazy girlfriend. I DON'T KNOW STEVVVEEE. How do you deal! He is creepy. But he's pretty good looking so I keep him.


This is what we look like when we brush our teeth.

Next Post: APSA BOARD!!!! I promise it'll be sweeeet.

Thought you'd like to know.

I KNOW.. So on a more positive note:


If there is anything to know about Grace Young (since Al so lovingly pointed out that this is a blog about me and getting to know me [and people in my life blah blah]), it is that my favorite to buy anything (almost) is used. My favorite things today, apparently, are parentheses. Do they count as one? A pair? Anyways. I love to buy things used. Give me an entire day to sift through the treasures at the Salvation Army. I can spend hours at Goodwill. I love to dig through what people don't want. Most of the times, there is something that I want. I think the world to too wasteful. No one can really argue with that. But I always inevitably feel this overwhelming sense of guilt when I buy something new. I get the same feeling in my guy when I think that animals die sacrifice themselves for the cause of bacon. But the difference is, there is more to wear than there is to eat. Maybe that is because clothing, unlike food, does not turn to crap when you are done with it. It can be recycled. Plus, it makes me feel thrifty. These are some cool things, and cool pictures of me, that I got for cheap.


Scarf - One Dollar
I found a scarf just like this a few weeks after sold at H&M. But mine.. is old. It had new tags! It didn't even smell!
Jackets - Three Dollars
Plus, this photo lets you know what I look like completely amused if you don't know me and you want to meet Grace Young. In that case, right-oh.


I hate this dress. It was something like, three things for five bucks at the yard sale at the house across the street from Steven's new place. I hate this dress. It fits just fine. But I hate this dress. It's so amazing it makes me feel like I can live forever. As long as I duck the hate bullets from people with taste and continue to live in refuge as a hipster because this is the hipster death dress. It might be my birthday dress!


Coolest find? Maybe. These shoes were one dollar instead of four because the boy at Goodwill loves how I just make him laugh and laugh and laugh. Hardy har har at the hilaritay.



Peace out.

Dorothy Young

I thought that I would start this off with a familiar face. Dorosister is my sister and a key staple in my life. I met her when she whispered that she loved me inches from my booty when my address was still 1234 Mothers Womb.

I will write about people I love in here too, because you cannot meet people everyday. Dorosister is a lot of important things that make my Dad more proud of her than me. It is all okay though, because I am really trying to be like Michelle Williams and not hate on Beyonce just because she is fabulous because I am special in my own special way and eventually I will grow up and sing The Greatest Love of All on the Oprah Winfrey Show because that happens to be a dream of mine alright. She (Dorothy Young not Michelle Williams, Kelly Rowland or BEYONKERZ. Or Oprah.) is funny and loud and aggressive and smart and a fine Irish Jigdancer, if I could say so myself. I love and hate her at times, which ultimately means I love her forever and ever ever because I have found that the only people I would die for are those who I can simultaneously love and hate at the same time.

One

Since the year will be starting soon, and I am such an important person, I thought that I would make a blog about my life. I guess I meet a lot of strange personalities just walking around, because I believe (probably in a far too naive way) that everyone has each others best intentions in mind, and that everyone could use a new friend. This summer alone, I've met incredible people on the bus, waiting around, in lines, and in yarn shops. This blog will be about my life and the people I meet. Introduction post finished!