Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Saturday, July 19th, 2008
hobik	10:53p	My computer is becoming more fucked by the day, so I am more and more paranoid about viruses & such. Today this thing popped up when I tried to go online and wouldn't let me go anywhere until I downloaded this thing. And Jason was like, okay let's download it and I was like OMGZ IT'S A VIRUS THIS IS CREEPY WHY WOULD IT DO THAT IT'S NOT COMCAST WHAT!! And he was like, um... Anyway I made him call Comcast and they told him it was normal after all and then he spent like 15 minutes on the phone with them, 'setting it up' or something. I felt bad for him D: Stupid paranoia...although it is always funny in retrospect. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 18th, 2008
hobik	11:46p	They're like moist & really really soft chocolate muffins with a little cream cheese twist on top. Even Jason inhaled one, and he doesn't even like chocolate cup/cakes. Nature: Animal Minds: The subject of animal intelligence has been an ongoing debate among scientists. Despite the controversy... Jason: Seriously? This is their idea of a controversy? (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
hobik	12:57p	Eee so cute!! Especially because it appears that he has wet himself out of nervousness. Anyway, that little guy is a brush-tailed bettong. In addition to being really fuckin' cute, he (or she!) does a lot to help the eucalypt forests of Australia out. Because eucalyptus trees secrete an oil which makes it hard for the forest floor to absorb water, this little guy comes in quite handy because he digs for truffles, thus penetrating the oily surface and allowing water to infiltrate it as well. This is useful for another reason: organic matter from the litter layer also falls down into this hole, to be decomposed and incorporated into the soil, thus making it healthier. A single bettong ♥ ♥ will effectively turn over at least six tons of soil every year. Without it, the soil would be hydrophobic & compacted, cutting down on plant diversity. Well some asshole had the idea to introduce foxes to Australia for sport hunting. While the fox adapted to life there just fine, it did so at the expense of animal species in the 'critical-weight-range,' causing not only a marked delcine in their population size & distribution, but also an extinction rate much higher than normal. While once the cute little brush-tailed bettong was widespread in the forests of Australia, the species now occupies one percent of its original range. The forests survive, but a human life is much too short to see what damage will actually become of this, as every year the soil gets more and more dry, and more compacted, squeezing out all kinds of life that once lived there & helped the ecosystem to function--insects, spiders, fungus, bacteria. Now...it always baffles me when people say that humans are 'too small' to affect the planet. People opposed to the idea of global warming often trot this one out, but I've also heard my friends say it. I think it's a problem of scope; humans, for the most part, live in cities and are unconnected to the world which supports them. They hear about deforestation and forest fires cumulatively destroying thousands of square miles of land, but because their quality of life doesn't immediately diminish, they think it's no big deal. Humans are horrible at thinking about long term implications, and moreso in areas we don't understand. I have textbooks on plant biology and have read up on our forests, and I've learned enough to know that even if I learn for the rest of my life about it, I will never understand a forest completely. No one ever will. It is just too big, beyond the scope of human understanding. And so we erroneously think that because it's too big for us to comprehend, nothing we do can hurt it. It confuses me and makes me a little mad when people start saying that humans are 'too small' to affect the planet. Really? Are we? When a single teaspoon of oil can contaminate the entire water supply of an aircraft carrier, and the United States alone uses so much oil DAILY that if we were to put it into one gallon containers & lined them all up, it would wrap around the earth's equator six times...we can't affect change to the planet? What the fuck is that about? Really I just wanted to show you all how cute those little bettongs are... But, anyway, thoughts? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
hobik	12:31p	I told my mom about how I quit my job and she was really supportive. She said, 'I'm relieved...I know you weren't happy there.' Aww ♥ Now if only my dad would be that understanding. Today is my grandma's 75th birthday. Since she doesn't like being old, no one is having a 'party' for her--they're all just stoping by when they can. I've got fudgy Nutella brownies in the oven for her right now. She loves chocolate, and these brownies are loved by people who don't love chocolate, so hopefully she will love them. I brought her cookies one time and she was just so overjoyed, it was really cute actually. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
hobik	11:36a	I went to the doctor this morning. Apparently I have fungus in my toenail D: Gross, right? Sounds like I overdid it with the socks this winter. Anyway I got a blood test & a prescription for Lamisil, but I don't know if I'm going to fill it yet. It's going to be like $240. I don't know, if it stays like this I don't really care, it's hardly noticeable. And the doctor said sometimes it just stays like it is now for years. But then sometimes he said your toenail falls off. OMG I do not think I could handle it. It just varies from person to person. Maybe I'll try to enlist the help of my parents or something. I do care about my poor little feetsies, but getting it treated could be costly. But maybe not! Despite me thinking I had like a $30 co-pay, and then having to get a blood test, the whole thing didn't cost me anything (well, I've paid about $300 to insurance out of my paycheck, but the visit was 'free'). So I guess I'll check into that. It smells really forest fire-y outside, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of smoke. Jason: Why does a swordfish have a sword? Does it actually use its sword? Me: I don't know...does anything really use anything? [Pause as we reflect on this.] Jason: ... Me: Okay, that was kind of a stupid question. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 14th, 2008
hobik	7:31p	My mom's visiting tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I have a doctor's appointment. Something weird is going on with my big left toe nail. Like a month and a half ago, it started doing something that I can only explain as growing extra cuticle...which I removed because it was just weird, and it didn't hurt at all. There was no pain, it was actually kind of fun to remove it, like peeling paint or something and omg I know that sounds really gross, but it wasn't really. But now it seems like it doesn't have any cuticle. And it's still absolutely painless, but... It's like my toenail continues to grow out, only now there's nothing there at the base, it's a thin horizontal hole. I looked online and I couldn't really find anything about it, and it's just not normal. So I've got an appointment to check that out. My feetsies are cute, I want them to stay that way D: And there's a job fair for this new bakery/cafe opening in South San Jose that I'm going to check out too. It wouldn't be too long of a commute if it was just two to four days a week. If they're not hiring production, though, I think I'd rather work somewhere completely different like Costco or something than another service job at a bakery. Last but not least, Jason wants to check out a Geo in San Jose. He's starting a new route soon, and I told him he should probably look into a new car if he wants to do it, so he's been looking. Oh, and, I apologize if this really offends anyone, and I usually yell at him about it every time he starts 'rapping,' which I don't even know WHY he does because it is NOT his type of music at all, but anyway, he spit this one yesterday out of nowhere at all and it was fuckin' hilarious: Jason (rapping): I'm a sandwich, nigga!--What!! What!! (5 Comments |Comment on this)