Spencer ex San Diego: Page 3 of 7
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The Bolo Burger
So at one of our favorite restaurants, they have a burger called the Bolo Burger. It's a lovely Southwesternish burger with cream cheese and ham and lots of peppers. It's really good, so I decided to kinda copy it but with my own modifications. Here is my not-exactly-a-recipe!
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Part 2
(So this is the part where I talk about some reasons why I think the new policy doesn't make sense.)
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Feelings about the new church policy
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On Imagine Dragons' "Amsterdam," and being gay and Mormon
I don't know what this song is supposed to be about, but if this song is not about a gay Mormon becoming aware of his sexuality, attempting to deny it, struggling and failing to resist “temptation,” looking for help in trying to live the straight life, hearing and attempting to follow (or cope with) well-meaning advice from more-or-less sympathetic people around him, and ultimately deciding to accept himself and make his own decisions, then I don't know what it is about. And that, my friends, is my story. Today, on National Coming Out Day, I'm going to tell you some of that story.
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Observations on moving
(Wordpress just said “Beep beep boop” while it prepared this page for me. That made me happy. I always need more deliberate whimsy in my life.)
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A darn shame: On l'affaire Kelly et al.
(That's right, I'm mixing several languages in my post title. flex)
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Let's talk about Led Zeppelin IV for a moment
First of all, rank the tracks on Led Zeppelin IV from best to least best (I avoid the word “worst” on purpose here). Now, do the same for any other rock album, and start comparing head-to-head: the top track to the top track, the second to the second, and so forth. Now obviously the four best tracks on IV are Levee, Stairway, Black Dog, and Rock and Roll, in some order, and I think it's clear that these four will win each one of those head-to-head matchups. (Indeed, one could persuasively argue that the fourth-best song on IV is better than the second-best, or even the best, song on many other albums.) But what's incredible about this album is that the fifth- through eighth-best tracks will blow any other album's deep tracks out of the water.
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Here is a thing that happened today
I was leaving the UCSD campus and decided to print off several articles I need to read before Wednesday. I walked into the APM mailroom/printer room, and there were two other people, one of whom left just as I was walking in. I got my computer open and was starting to find the pdfs I needed to print, when the second guy opened the door to walk out, reached for the light switch, and turned off the light. With, y'know, me still standing there in the room.
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I am becoming a soccer junkie
- I have tickets to a Gold Cup double-header in Utah on July 13 (USA vs. Cuba and Belize vs. Costa Rica)
- I'm planning my summer trip to Utah around this match and fully intend to plan it in such a way that I can go to an RSL game on either 7/3 or 7/20
- The USMNT is (rumored to be) playing a friendly against Guatemala at Qualcomm on July 5 and if tickets ever go on sale I'd probably buy tickets to that (and alter my Utah plans accordingly)
- Xolos and Club América are playing at Petco Park on July 6 and I'm totally thinking about buying tickets (Castillo! Corona! López Ojeda!)
- A bunch of us are going to watch the local semi-pro team play up in Black Mountain/PQ next Saturday
- I missed the Champions League final on Saturday so I avoided sports websites until I could find a replay online
- And then today I spent a bunch of time talking about it with my soccer friend at school
- Also today I spent like an hour watching RSL play against some minor-league team in the US Open Cup which is a domestic competition that nobody really cares about that much but it was soccer anyway
- I've been frequenting a sports bar/restaurant in PB specifically because they subscribed to the MLS TV packages, even though I think their food is overpriced
- The World Cup is coming up next year in Brazil and I'll basically be graduated and my friend was telling me how he's going to take out some student loan money so he and his family can go down and watch a match or two and this sounds like a kind of awesome idea
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Car
So tomorrow I'm taking my car in to have it looked at. It's coming up on 100,000 miles, I know it needs a brake job, the air conditioning is probably leaking, and it probably needs its transmission fluid flushed. I know it doesn't need a new timing belt because it doesn't have one; it has a timing chain instead.