Spring Break Thought Potpourri

Greetings from El Cerrito, California, home of sunny hillside homes, shitty car dealerships, good salvadoran and vietnamese food and the Mandel family. The Mandel family is interesting because I am really hyperactive and always need to be doing stuff like how at school I take a shit-ton of classes and do lots of activities. Well in that vein I can't just sit around the house for a whole break, let alone half a day. For the most part my sister is the same way but my parents are a whole other story, they can, and in fact enjoy doing nothing or doing menial or mundane tasks about the house. I realized I could not lead a more different life, which makes this house not quite feel like home anymore. Since I've been home I've been out to see friends every day or night and spent the last three days in Santa Cruz chillin with some summer camp friends at their house and at the beach and at some local bars and restaurants. Their house was inspirational, the ceilings were only half as tall as those in the beloved monstro, but it felt like a home, I think our downstairs needs work on that. My friend Meghan who you may know from around the monstro told me that if I write about her here then she'll give me her uber-secret blog address so I'm doing that right now! Meghan Carlson hails from the exotic locale of Walla Walla, WA but she's no ordinary townie, she is also a freshman or first-year residing in the hallowed halls of Anderson along with some of the Monstro's other favorite gals. I for one like it when she wears pig-tails, but then again I'm weird. I was swimming in the ocean in Santa Cruz which was warmer than it should have been but still hella cold and the waves were lousy when suddenly a seal or sea lion popped up next to me, looked right at me and then swam away; shortly thereafer (yeah i used a fuckin semi-colon, I heard some ads about colo-rectal cancer medicine) some huge waves began to push me around like dirty underwear in the kelp-strewn laundromat of the ill-named Pacific waves. It was nice. I'm off to the other part of my state, LA and San Diego tomorrow for a weekend of partying at USC with friends and boogeyboarding at the beach in SD near my grandparents who will load me up with all the tuna sandwhiches I can handle. After that, two blog worlds will sorta merge, reconnect, as gus and brandon journey northward to my house for a few days on the way to their season opening cycling race at Oregon State in Corvallis, OR. Hope everyone's spring breaks are going well, we Whitties are unique in having two weeks so hopefully you are making the most of it and getting as drunk as Olmstead.

peace,
Aaron Mandel