October 12, 2007

• drake stadium – ucla

  on my lunch break, bought a 6″ veggie delite @ subway on santa monica & sawtelle and cruised on over to ucla’s drake stadium to read a book called the biology of success. i love chillin there at the large track and field stadium. very relaxing, open space where i can read in privacy. people there only to exercise, so everyone mind’s there own business. it’s a great spot w/ an awesome view. today, the polevaulters were practicing on the left side of the field and the long jumpers were training on the right. i read my book and watched the atheletes training when pausing my skim reading. turns out, the coach that was overseeing the longjumpers was MIKE POWELL. he’s the world record holder in the long jump!!! i found out when Anthony Curran, the polevault coach yelled out, Mike Powell! he has your shoes!!! i was like huh? mike powell? where? i checked really closely and it was indeed mike powell standing over there w/ his tall lanky physique. cool stuff. i hadn’t seen a celebrity in a while so i was quite stoked about this. last celeb i saw at drake stadium was a real worlder. now i got to see a real world record holder. the book was actually ok. it is more of an motivational book than anything else, but it’s written by an MD so i can appreciate some of his insights on life that i would have missed. good stuff. lately, i feel like i’m getting my groove back. i feel a little more aggressive like i used to. i was kinda mellowing out too much and losing that edge. when i’m in the groove i seem to attract celebs into my life. maybe more to come. two birthdays on saturday night. i think i’m gonna attend sto’s dinner @ 8pm and after that go over to george’s for phil’s party. i foresee, high amts of alcohol this weekend.

  currently effective affirmation: “unnecessary thought”

  can’t believe it, but about 90% of the thoughts that automatically pop into my mind are unnecessary, unproductive, useless thoughts, sometimes even harmful or self-defeating. i’m learning to just ignore or delete these. although it’s difficult to honestly assess these types of thoughts, there is a liberating feeling when i realize how small and insignificant some of my worries really are.

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