Silicone Valley

Here are some photos I’ve gathered with my phone (wonderful quality, i know) during my time here in Cali.

That is a rat, on top of a cat, on top of a dog.
Yeah, I know. Sit on that for a while.

Church of Scientology on State Street in Santa Barbara. Hah.

I feel like I’m in the Land Before Time, and I love it.

August 12, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Life life life.. Leave a comment.

A Story For You All

While bored in California, I stumbled upon a surprisingly startling and unnervingly true story from a book I just purchased called Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide To Why Feminism Matters

I don’t know if you’ve heard of “Pregnancy Crisis Centers”, but they are mock Planned Parenthood centers that parade themselves about as women’s healthcare centers, but in reality they are there to bully or trick women into remaining pregnant.

Here is the story.

     “According to a Planned Parenthood email, a seventeen year old girl mistakenly walked into a “Pregnancy Crisis Center” thinking it was Planned Parenthood, which is next door. The group took down the girl’s personal confidential information and told her to come back for her appointment, which would be held in their “other office” (The real Planned Parenthood office nearby).
     When she showed up for her nonexistant appoinment, she was met by the police, who had be erroneously tipped that a minor was being forced to abort. The Pregnancy Crisis Center staff followed up this harrasment by staking out the girl’s house, phoning her father at work and even talking to her fellow classmates about her pregnancy, urging them to harass her. “

Your taxes pay for these “Crisis Centers”. Good to know, eh?

August 11, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , . Life life life.. 1 comment.

Who knew this day would come so fast?

Today I am leaving for California.
I will be gone for Katie’s birthday.

I will be gone for Paige’s college leave,
meaning today was my last goodbye to her.

Over the past few months I’ve developed a very very close relationship to her. Closer to most people that I ever get. She is one of my best friends; I can confide in her and trust that she won’t mention anything to anyone. I can take her on adventures, I can rant with her, I can show up to her house without warning, and I have done so nearly every day that I have been home this summer. Even as I watched the car pull away from my driveway this morning, I could feel a tug. A gap has already begun to form.

My eyes are welling up now as I attempt to type this.

Her absence will be similar to the feeling of a missing limb.

I suppose now I can look forward to the road trip and visit that I will be forcing upon Carol at the end of the month (Although it probably wouldn’t really be considered forcing being that she is willing and wants to go) and keep in touch as much as possible.

So now, my mission is to make the trip to California worth it.

It sure as hell better be.

August 7, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , . Uncategorized. Leave a comment.