Updates on my wild and crazy life are posted here.

Oy . . . sorry for not updating sooner. I had a *wonderful* Thanksgiving (teehee), once I was done with all the damn turkey, and an equally exciting time after that (ice skating! and I only fell once!). But then I got oh-so-very sick on my way home, and spent a week in bed. Am nearly better now! <fingers crossed> 
posted by candice baker on 12/5/2000 6:33:28 PM


Only 9 days 'till I'm on my way to Turkey Town . . . woohoooooooooo . . . leftovers up the wazoo . . .
posted by candice baker on 11/13/2000 1:46:16 PM

WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH MY COUNTRY!?? Polls closed almost 24 hours ago, and we still have no idea who won the Presidency . . . and I don't *even* want to hear complaints that Nader stole Gore's votes. There should have been no question as to who was elected . . . the seated vice president during one of the most prosperous periods in this country's history should have had no problem getting elected! If everything had gone as it was supposed to, Nader's 1-6% per state would not have mattered. So there.
posted by candice baker on 11/8/2000 4:15:21 PM

I had a wonderful Halloween. Last minute Pearl Jam concert. As stated in a blissful email that I sent to someone this morning . . . : Here's yesterday's horoscope: If you play your cards right, you could be looking at a raise, a bonus, or some other great opportunity. The results: 1) An incredible concert (according to my friend Mitzye, who has been to six shows on this tour, this blew all of the others out of the water), seen from 11th row, center. 2) A handshake and a short conversation with a very exhausted and euphoric Eddie Vedder. 3) A for-crew-only P.J. t-shirt. 4) A dated afterparty pass (didn't go, but the pass is sweet - I'll scan it). 5) The chance to see STP and Godsmack from backstage this weekend if I choose to (would just have to get down to San Jose somehow). Life really does rule sometimes.
posted by candice baker on 11/1/2000 12:02:48 PM

Hi all - I've been getting complaints that I've kinda disappeared lately - sorry. Been going crazy trying to deal with Halloween (the biggest holiday of the year here in SF), midterms (EVERYTHING is happening next Thursday, the 2nd - I'm so worried; 20 page paper due and 4 tests, all in the same day), and . . . oh, yeah . . . made some important visits to some important people last weekend. :) Oh, and did I mention that work has been just awfully busy and hectic as well? *sigh* At any rate, I've found myself with *two* new U2 CDs to soothe me - the new one (see below) and a live album that was only distributed to fan club members. Score. I'm in Bono bliss. I also went to Marie Callander's with a classmate earlier tonight, after our astronomy lab - he used to work there, so we got special treatment . . . I don't think I've eaten so much food in months. I also don't think I'm going to fit into my Halloween costume, at this rate . . . tried on my corset, and it was scary-tight. Oh, yes - my Halloween costume - guess I haven't told much about that yet. Pud screwed up and never sent me my fc.com shirt (*sniffle*), so I'm just going to be a fallen angel - got the most incredible black wings today. Huge. Luscious. Many pictures to come, I hope. The End.
posted by candice baker on 10/26/2000 10:03:05 PM

I now have the new U2 album in its entirety - vive Napster! It's supposed to be released in the States on Halloween . . . it's soooo good! :)
posted by candice baker on 10/25/2000 9:57:43 AM

This is good to know . . .
posted by candice baker on 10/17/2000 2:03:34 PM

Just another Manic Monday . . . I wish it were Sunday . . . 'cause that's my fun day . . . *sigh* I'm exhausted and I want to go back to hawking fine and fanciful feeeeaaaattthhhhhhhhhhheeerrrrrrrrrssssssss . . .
posted by candice baker on 10/16/2000 11:16:57 AM

I just took time to read the reaaaaally early stuff from my guestbook - reminisced and then went to Camille's old website. Isn't this sweet??? :) Cami, let's get together soon and dish....
posted by candice baker on 10/13/2000 11:51:48 AM

Soooo it's Friday the 13th AND it's a full moon AND I get to work at the Renaissance Faire this weekend. A big campout and par-tay in medieval garb... I've always wanted to do this!
posted by candice baker on 10/13/2000 9:53:14 AM

MY REBUTTAL KICKED ASS woohoooooooooo
posted by candice baker on 10/13/2000 9:52:11 AM

IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER my debate is freakin' OVER . . . only an 8 minute rebuttal on Thursday . . . ohhhhhh happiness . . . relief . . .
posted by candice baker on 10/10/2000 1:19:56 PM

Just listened to a U2 ecard that featured a preview of "Kite," from ATYCLB. Yummmmm... if that little clip is a good representation of the song, then it just might move towards the top of my extensive U2 fave list.... "Who's to say where the wind will take you/Who's to say what it is will break you/I don't know/Where the wind will blow/Who's to know when the time has come around/I don't want to see you cry/I know that this is not goodbye" ~
posted by candice baker on 10/9/2000 9:44:53 PM

Went to Ren Faire yesterday - and plan on working there this coming weekend! Pictures soon to come...
posted by candice baker on 10/9/2000 10:40:58 AM

So I'm currently standing in SFSU's International Relations Briefing Room, in front of a podium supplied with some very expensive equipment. I'm here on a Saturday, preparing my debate, and nervous as can be about public speaking... I just finished a presentation in my Biography of Paris class - so I hope that will prep me a little more for next week.. I'm soooo nervous... okay, I'm going to go now, I'm waaay too nervous about breaking something in here. :) Heh heh, laser pointers are cool.
posted by candice baker on 10/7/2000 4:40:20 PM

Accidently downloaded and am now listening to a track from Peter Gabriel's Millennium Dome composition - wow, this is incredible. I'm going to have to get the rest of it . . .
posted by candice baker on 9/29/2000 9:45:22 PM

Robert Miyashiro and I just decided that something in the water up here causes So-Cal expatriates to develop "back." Candai got back. Robert got back. Well.. my cousin doesn't "got" back. But he's just an anomaly . . . well, actually, maybe it's just Garden Grove expatriates. Anyway.
posted by candice baker on 9/29/2000 9:22:59 PM

This is my favorite place in the entire world. Check out the hotel that hosts this picture - I stayed there, too. I really recommend it to anyone in my family who makes a trip to Callander, Scotland.
posted by candice baker on 9/29/2000 3:07:14 PM

Jesus Dress Up! I have a new favorite boredom website! Thank you, Jen...
posted by candice baker on 9/27/2000 6:28:41 PM

I think I'm starting to get sick . . . gonna get me one of those cold-busting pineapple/orange smoothies from the juice place in the Castro after work . . . like 7000% RDA of Vitamin C or something. SFSU students just got a packet in the mail about increased meningitis attacks on California college campuses . . . students display flu-like symptoms and die a couple days later. In case I have meningitis due to some dumbass in my packed Astronomy class, I promise to bequeath Dan my Church of the Subgenius poster. Lauren can have my suede pants (close enough to black leather?) and Jody of course gets all of my Dumas books. Matt can have my downloaded U2 bootlegs, and my Keats poems will be shipped to Rajeev in Delhi. Klutchypoo is granted my extensive collection of old-skool classic computer games, including (but not limited to) The Search for Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Zork I, II and III, Civilization and Leisure Suit Larry (pre-VGA upgrade!). Anybody want something I haven't listed? Be sure to let me know in the next 3 days!
posted by candice baker on 9/27/2000 4:45:40 PM

Wow! Being an International Relations major definitely has its perks... I think Senor Lobo might be interested in this! :)
posted by candice baker on 9/22/2000 3:39:46 PM

Man, I'm blogger-happy lately ... Two thoughts: 1) I'm gonna be 21 in less than 3 months!! SCARY!!!! What part of the world am I going to be in, and what am I going to do to celebrate? I think I want to get a new license that day. :) 2) redenvelope.com has some of the prettiest products ... wow. Makes me feel like such a ... such a ... American consumer ...
posted by candice baker on 9/22/2000 3:29:49 PM

This has to be the greatest message board hoax in history. Long live KNOA. I'm so glad that someone archived it... a classic.
posted by candice baker on 9/22/2000 2:22:13 PM

Herr Robert has moved to London for the year! Hooray! It will be so much cheaper to visit him in London than in Cologne! :) (that is, cheaper until I'm at school in Amsterdam...)
posted by candice baker on 9/22/2000 1:50:16 PM

WOW! My home town really CAN produce cool people! From the Muggles For Harry Potter newsletter: "Billy Smith is a seventh grader from Garden Grove, California, who spent last summer introducing Harry Potter to kids from low-income families who cannot afford books. He volunteered at an elementary school where he read aloud from "Harry Potter and the Sorecerer's Stone." Although Billy is being honored mainly for helping make the Potter books universally available, he is a strong opponent of censorship. "When they try to ban books, it's like trying to get rid of kids' imaginations," he says." (Awww... that's SO great. I used to read to kids in my elementary school too...)
posted by candice baker on 9/21/2000 5:47:01 AM

Now you can send text messages over the Internet to ANY mobile phone, pager, or wireless email device in the WORLD - for free! Check this out... and send me one!
posted by candice baker on 9/19/2000 6:43:44 PM

Candai (aka Hermione) speaks: You know how I always complain about the professor who stares at me during International Relations theory, who makes me paranoid that he's going to call on me? And how I always feel like a perfect idiot in that class, beside all those future diplomats? Well, the capitalist world-system and economic dependency theory that we've been discussing has actually been sinking in! I'm so excited. I've actually had valid points to make when he (inevitably) calls on me lately. In other news, I had a 3rd grade flashback today in my critical thinking/logic class. At the end of class, my teacher returned the essays that she graded over the weekend. Everyone started to get up to leave. Then she said, "Wait, there's one more thing I want to go over with you." Grumbles. Everyone sat back down. Then she handed out photocopies of MY essay to all the students, with the name crossed out! She made each person read a paragraph of it out loud to the class. I was trying to keep a blank stare, pretending that it wasn't mine, then the girl beside me suddenly looked at me and and loudly said, "Oh, Candice, YOU did this one, didn't you?" It was MORTIFYING. Everyone was glaring at me, and I was beet red. When class *finally* ended, I was the first one out of the room. Now I'm afraid to go back . . . isn't that lame?
posted by candice baker on 9/19/2000 6:42:07 PM

What ridiculousness!
posted by candice baker on 9/19/2000 6:18:51 PM

"Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters!" . . . Spent a lovely 94 degree day in lovely Golden Gate Park watching a lovely Shakespearian play . . . Henry IV Pt 1, to be exact. (May I again mention that it was 94 degrees in the middle of San Francisco! And I was sitting outside! In the sun! All afternoon! Baking my ass off! Now several random parts of me are beet-red!) So then I came home to find that no water was coming out of the faucets... shortly after, everyone else got home, and we shared our consternation and checked the water tank. May I just say that they were off in an even hotter locale, in lots of clothing, without the ability to shower, all weekend. Much worse off than I, the recently-showered Candai, was. We didn't find anything wrong on the tank. So while they went off in search of bottled water (since a cold sponge bath would be better than no bath at all, in their situation), I called the water company and had a horrendous time trying to deal with them, then went exploring and found another water valve. Soon, around when they returned, the problem was solved. . . . But if I eeeevvver find out who turned off the water .... Okay, I'm cooled off now. Sharing my bizarre stories with the world does have inherent benefits. G'nite. :)
posted by candice baker on 9/17/2000 10:07:05 PM

Saw Ralph Nader and Medea Benjamin speak today on campus. I must admit that I was more impressed with Medea's speech than Ralph's. I would love to vote Green this election, but I can't shake the feeling that I would be throwing my vote away - indeed, throwing it right into Dubya's hands. HowEVER, for you Oaktown readers, there's a Green candiidate (a Ms. Kaplan, I believe) running for a city position whose ONLY opponent is a like 26-year Republican who JUST "turned" Dem this year. Polls indicate that Ms. Kaplan is likely to win, which would make her the first Green and openly gay person to hold an Oakland gov't position. Exciting times, people...
posted by candice baker on 9/14/2000 10:15:44 PM

I know this is silly, but . . . my horoscope is SO right on today. "Try to put aside some of your worries and fears early in the day and focus on the things that are coming together. There should be lots of movement and travel surrounding you, and plenty of long-distance communication as well. Interesting news could come from afar today. There are probably some major financial issues on the table still to be dealt with. And you're likely to be making some decisions that will soon produce some important results."
posted by candice baker on 9/11/2000 9:05:26 AM

i bought a webcam! i bought a webcam!!! check it out in a few days!
posted by candice baker on 9/9/2000 11:01:10 PM

so it's saturday night in san francisco, and of course i'm at home. it's like 50-something degrees in my room right now, and i look like a taliban wife - i'm so wrapped up in blankets that only my eyes and my hands are showing. the following description of an hour's worth of my evening serves as a representation of my entire day . . . i was on the train when this hulking guy got on and inadvertently(?) rammed his elbow into my ear - HARD. didn't apologize. this other (cute) guy got up like he was gonna punch him, but i stopped him - just didn't want to deal w/it. then a homeless guy sat down next to me and babbled for awhile and made me spell words from my book to him. if i tried to ignore him, he started to get loud and scary. his face was scaly. reeeealy scaly. it sucked, but that's a necessary evil when dealing with muni. then when i was waiting for my bus there were some oh-so-obnoxious rich teenage bitches sitting there next to me, being loud and trying to talk in valley-girl-cum-british accents. and so on. UGH.
posted by candice baker on 9/9/2000 11:00:36 PM

Blessed be! He's registered it!
posted by candice baker on 9/8/2000 12:50:18 PM

Oh, yeah - how could I forget my new favorite site? The message board homies on the other one have gotten a little too frat-ish for me, so I checked out Steve's instead. Yummeez!
posted by candice baker on 9/6/2000 4:11:58 PM

I really wish Will would continue his brilliant work on the Concrete Abstract. This is the sh-- ... errr-- slime.
posted by candice baker on 9/6/2000 4:09:32 PM

Lauren's so awesome. I guess dot commie web content writers aren't ALL that bad . . . even if they can't spell my name :)
posted by candice baker on 9/2/2000 8:21:12 PM

So apparently several oh-so-intelligent parents and teachers in South Carolina (of course) have decided to ban Harry Potter books because they "promote witchcraft." I suppose soon they'll ban A Christmas Carol and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well. Visit mugglesforharrypotter.org to find out more about this pathetic example of backwoods ignorance.
posted by candice baker on 8/30/2000 3:08:15 PM

May I just express how overjoyed I am that IKEA has finally opened a Northern California store??!!
posted by candice baker on 8/30/2000 12:00:23 PM

Camille and I were experiencing some expatriate suburnan angst last weekend, so we hit the local shoppin' mall, as Zorak would say. I have a new favorite Bath and Body Works scent - "Cool Citrus Basil." I bought a little bottle of lotion, and I just keep opening it and smelling it. :) Yummy. I also made Camille agree to dress up for Halloween with me this year, and we got these AWESOME iridescent orangy-gold skirts for it at Macy's. I had this sudden costume impetus at 3 in the morning last weekend, and she seems to like the idea...We're gonna be dot com fairies. A good excuse to get all girly and glittered up, with a Bay Area edge. We're gonna carry McDonalds Halloween buckets filled with Monopoly money, which we'll call "venture capital," and toss it at yuppies who don't dress up... or at people who dress like dot commies/nerds. Suggestions?
posted by candice baker on 8/28/2000 11:21:13 PM

omigaw
posted by candice baker on 8/23/2000 11:54:13 PM

Check out my latest object of eBay lust (bid on it and I'll castrate you!) . . .
posted by candice baker on 8/18/2000 9:59:41 AM

Yurik's homepage is now up! Hoorah! FrontPage Express SUCKS!
posted by candice baker on 8/17/2000 9:06:34 PM

One of my dear Orange County friends got himself a leeeeetle tipsy last night, and the results are worth publishing (minus the personal incriminating stuff). I received a series of three emails from him, over the course of six and a half minutes. By the time he wrote the first letter, he was already well on his way to being fit-shaced. And he also was already depressed over something else. I'm assuming that by the last letter, he had a few more shots - again, in about a five minute time span. Too awesome. Note the progression from drunk to inebriated, visible in his grammar etc.

Email #1: How are you? Myx lad friend came over and fed me jack daniels. Lots of it. There is a sligt chance I'm drunk. She's taking a showr. Too much jak makes tyou emotional. I feel very sad. I guess being drunk makes tou have very pure emotions. I don't have that vague middle ground feelings. I fel straight upo sad in it's pure sad form. :(

Email #2: the rest of the hack ust hit me. I cannot even feel me finger tips any more. I am full fleged fuckedu p. I can't even here right. I am thinking of having more of a half shot.

Email #3: Tha last last shot of jack kicked in. I tristed to shopwer. I can't evne stand now/. Talk tp ypi tp,prrpw/

Email rules.
posted by candice baker on 8/16/2000 10:33:54 AM

Crazy Drunk Guy On a related note, this site also rules. (What is it with me and silly drunk people lately?) The end.
posted by candice baker on 8/16/2000 10:12:46 AM

Foreign Cinema May I just mention how gosh-darned COOL this place is??
posted by candice baker on 8/15/2000 8:32:21 PM

Attention all SoCal ex-Groove Radio fanatics: Guess what I discovered on Napster? Remember "Encore un Fois?" (Or, as Chris Hughes so fondly put it, "Unhook Your Bra?") :) The one with the chick who starts it with "Madames et Monsieurs..." It's performed by Sash - happy downloading!
posted by candice baker on 8/15/2000 12:22:47 PM

Hoorah! I just got offered $100 and a free dinner to go to Potrero Hill tomorrow night and dish it out with evite.com! :)
posted by candice baker on 8/15/2000 10:22:37 AM

Okay, kids ... this goes out to all you Harry Potter freaks ... I have talked to FAR too many people on MUNI who mispronounce Hermione... it's *Her-my-oh-nee*, people! Get it together! Her-my-oh-nee! Her-my-oh-nee! HER-MY-OH-NEE! *pant* *gasp* Disagree? Care to duke it out? I have proof! Check the pronounciation guide!
posted by candice baker on 8/15/2000 10:13:44 AM

Oli_Vert's World Another cool thing about Blogger is the ability to right-click any webpage and post comments about it on your own site.... this particular site was made years ago by a dear friend of mine, whom I miss very much. He was a close colleague of Henri Laborit, which explains how I ended up at his site. After a simple guestbook signature, we ended up establishing a deep friendship. (Hint to those of you who hate signing guestbooks! :) ) Anyway, a quick tour through it will certainly help to show you why I love the Swiss! :) (Oli: n'oublie pas: "la vraie tristesse c'est de ne plus avoir assez de musique dans son coeur pour faire danser sa vie" ... ecris-moi!)
posted by candice baker on 8/14/2000 9:09:26 PM

I've decided to try out Blogger, this awesome weblog software that I found out about at WebZine2000. It allows you to update your weblog from any computer, without having to use an FTP program to update your site. You can still access the old news archives here if you want to (I don't think most of the links on it work), but from now on I'll be playing around with some yummy new technology! :) If I can ever get back into using HTML exclusively, that is... I'm rusty!
posted by candice baker on 8/14/2000 6:09:39 PM