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I woke up real early this morning and headed over to Santa Monica to hang out with my friend Evan. It was a fun, a lot of intriguing thought provoking conversation. After driving around for a while on a broken heater in the pouring rain we decided to hangout in whole foods where we ate and talked about things like science vs art, man made food vs natural foods, natures forces, journaling, life/death situations, traveling, different types of love, how many made the city- laws- schooling-etc.

We talked about human desires, what the human eye is comfortable with like clothing, hair cuts...and how if people arn't following the trends of society they are outkasted in a sense.

We talked about different cultures.

We talked about how man has a natural pull to start forming groups.

I learned he was a Vegan but in a cool way, hen I got in the car I had a bag of cookies my mom had made (she made tons...) that I gave to him and he seemed happy to have them and ate them up real quick. Later we went to whole foods and told me he was Vegan, when I was a little confused because he ate my cookies with butter, milk, eggs, etc. I asked him why and he said he would rather pay me respect by trying the cookies I brought for him then having to pass something up because of a strict diet. I was pretty taken back by it and thought it was awesome. He gave me a interesting lecture on organic foods and why he was so in love with them. It convinced me to be a little healthier.

We saw the coolest painting, ever.

We talked about how we are just guests on this planet. Nature is such a strong force. If it decides to rain, it's going to pour and you can't pray to God to make it stop...you just have to deal with it. As humans, all we do on a daily basis is adapt to nature and we don't even know it. We live in houses mainly because, and no one really thinks about it this way, is because of the drastic weather conditions.

We talked about heros and enemies in a basic sense of the every day person.

We talked about freedom.

"you have to sacrifice yourself to become the person you wanna be"

He's a cool dude, we have a very similar outlook on life as well as music taste and study interests. We also both write down everything in our phones, journals, on our hands of quotes and saying we want to remember and take with us. I never met anyone who did that. We were saying how if you don't ever take pictures or write down things you'll most likely forget them. Even if you write down what you had for dinner and you look at it a week later you are bound to remember the experience of that night...who you were with, the surroundings, the conversation.

After today, I KNOW I want to study Sociology.

On my way home, I listened to Bon Iver and it really hit the spot. I realized in most of his songs he sings about a depressing part in his life but ALWAYS leaves you in the end feeling positive and uplifiting,

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I've never been much of a Beatles fan before, but this morning I was in Dakotas bed safe and sound waking up to her brothers alarm clock that was going off for about a hour and they played The Beatles the whole time and each of their solo stuff. This is a song that really caught my attention so I typed in the lyrics in my phone and this song came up

I like it, and what it stands for



Other then that I've just been hoping around to different places without a car. For a few days actually. It hasn't been that much a hassel, surprisingly. It's been fun.

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Today I second shot in a wedding. I've always thought weddings and marriage were completely strange and almost foreign ideas to me although today really opened my eyes to what it seemed to be true love. It was BEAUTIFUL wedding, a young couple united through Christ. I felt I wanted to cry because they were so happy in love, both of them equally. The wedding was also adorable, it had a anthropology feel to it.

I want that someday.

I can not wait to post some of my photos.

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"whose your momma?...ps. I'm your mom"



"hi I'm bri and I ate to much"



"AHA AHA AHA"

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fun day

bad night



Lover, will you look at me now?
I'm already dead to you
But I'm inclined to explain
To you what I could not before
Whatever you didn't do, what you couldn't say
I am sorry that the worst has arrived
For I deserve more
For at least I deserve the respect of a kiss goodbye

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Today was the last day of my first semester of college! Woo! I'm so happy. I really enjoyed it too. I made so many cool friends, especially in my math class. Today was my math final (which was hard :/), and even tho the pain of taking this class Wednesday nights & Saturday mornings was not so fun, I always had these people to look forward to seeing. We were all such good friends and I related to each one of them in all different ways, and I had a blast getting to know them.

Eddie, Evan, our amazing, sweet and funny (who doesn't know it) teacher Owaka, myself, Michelle and Cassidy.

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Things you should know about: Unurban cafe & 88.9 radio station

Today was a lovely day at the most unique cafe of my life filled with great conversation and new thoughts. It was decorated so different, old couches, a red carpeted stage, a book shelf with games and cold books, quotes from authers, paintings, mix matched frames, wood carvings, fake flowers hanging from the cieling, differnt lame and wallpapers, colorful tabletops and old movie theater rows. I walked in there, and felt it explained what goes on in my brain. It was adorable and I found a new place to study at.

Later I went out to a nice dinner with my boyfriend, and we had really good conversation on religion and Christianity, then came home to finding out the internet was down AND so was the hot water!