Michael Garcia

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Music to Speed on Interstate 5 By… Part Two of Two

Last year’s little travel log was written in sort of a time-based format. Because of the detail Im narrating, Ive decided to go with a prose format, because I didn’t feel like recalling exact times which could end up being wrong. (Anime Expo) 1998: A Hamburger Odyssey By Michael D. Garcia The Annual Japanese Animation …

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Music to Speed on Interstate 5 By… Part One of Two

The next couple of entries are going to be reproductions of the travel logs I made for Anime Expo 1997 and 1998. I am starting to get all geared up for AX2002, so I wanted to put these up so you guys can read them and laugh hysterically. Without further adieu, here’s AX97 Why You …

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It’s Like Sunshine on a Cloudy Day!

I happened to be sitting in my car earlier, humming along with one of the CDs burned for me by my best friend Todd. Several of the tracks on the CD happen to be from an arcade game known as Dance Dance Revolution. I play DDR on various occasions. I like to dance, and it …

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A Pepsi and two Hot Chocolates later…

Mountain View is a great place to be hungry or thirsty in. Unlike the previous area I was in, it was a fucking desolate region. You had to drive into East Palo Alto or downtown Palo Alto or Mountain View’s north side in order to get something to eat. The only offset to not being …

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Boku no Senmon wa Nihongo desu!

Ah, the Algebra midterm. Loads of fun. I fared a lot better on that one than I did the Japanese midterm, that’s for sure. But, in speaking with my professor, I will have this weekend to write a bunch of sentences that demonstrate my grasp of the mechanics in the sections of her midterm that …

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Sic Transit Cochrane

Update from the previous entry: I took my midterm. I’m not one hundred percent certain I passed. To be honest, I felt unprepared, however, my professor is a kind professor and will allow me the opportunity to prove that I did learn the material at a later date. And now, on to the new entry… …

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The Night Before the Carnival

Before I begin this entry, I’d like to thank Tenchi Muyo for the title. Tomorrow, or actually, since this entry is taking place after 0000 hours, TODAY I undergo the first of two midterms. Tomorrow is the second part, but even so, midterms back to back is kind of scary for someone like me, who …

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Warning: Romantic-Comedies May be Hazardous to your Morale or “Happy Birthday to Me!”

There’s a certain state of mind that the single person goes through from time to time when the sense of not being tied down to any one person or going through a slump of no social activity whatsoever bears under the guise of depression. Now, for me, this comes and goes in waves. I have …

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Why are We so Afraid to Talk?

Among the most recent personality traits to be considered missing in action by yours truly, Communication appears to have completely vanished from my radar. Not so much in the online world, where the very concept of communication is the mother of why the Internet even exists, but in reality, where action is more visible and …

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Don’t Attempt to Adjust your Dial, this is Radio Free WNOHGB.

Way back near the end of February, I was just browsing the net and sort of doing that near-zombie like surfing mode. This mode has led to other results, such as the purchase of a LiveJournal, rearranging keyboard keys, playing insane practical jokes. On this particular occasion, I was sort of seduced by a little …

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