Running.

I ran this morning. I purposed last night to wake up early and run. I didn't want to wake up early and run when the alarm went off. So when my first alarm went off i had this horrible thought about my car. To let you know, my car is headed back to San Antonio (where i am living) from Wyoming (where it broke down back in December). It's going to be dropped off at a mechanic on the East Side of San Antonio... no big thing. The big thing actually is that I have a butt load of expensive junk in my car from my traveling journeys and the east side isn't the best side of town to leave a car parked on the side of the road with a bunch of valuables in it...ie. an expensive bike, and guitar and mp3 player and a rowing machine (which i am transporting for a friend). The day it's going to be dropped off, i'll be in school all day.

I couldn't go back to sleep.

So I got up to run. Now i'm tired. but i'm glad i ran.

I love this mirror on the bus.

The first day of school.

This was a pretty interesting day.
I liked all of it. Down to my reheated macaroni and hamburger meat dinner. yum.
I caught the bus and made my first transfer. Where I transferred there was a woman. She got off at the same school stop as me. So I got to school early and bought me some pens and a notebook. I went to my first class at 9twenty five. I was sitting in the class for about 20 minutes before 9:25. At the time class was to start.. nothing was happening. No one walking in. just two other kids were sitting at computers when i got there. At 3 minutes past I asked one fellow if there was a class in here. Nope. Oh crap. Is this such and such a room I asked. He said yes. So i ran downstairs and asked the department where the class was. i was in the wrong building. I was really far away. Thank goodness for bikes. So i hauled butt to the building. I couldn't find the class. I asked for help and bam. I made it.. like just under 10 minutes late. Excellent and fun Photography I class. I learned soo much neat stuff about lighting, aperature, shutter and ISO speed.. but i'm sure you don't care.
So I learned in the class that there is a photo conference going on until about 6pm today at the Henry Gonzalez convention center. I have a 3 hour gap between classes (which will be used to do most of my homework). So i jumped on the bus down town and rode my bike about a mile to the center. It had just ended when i got there. everyone was leaving. The lady at the front said that they wouldn't let me in.. Well i snuck in anyway.. and i got away with it for about 20 minutes looking at beautifully manipulated photos that won awards. so then i decided to check out the products...this is when i heard in an abrupt and bone chilling voice of a small mexican woman, "Sir, I need to see your pass." "I'm sorry?" I asked. "I need to see your pass." I smiled and said, "no pass." "What?" she asked. "No pass." "Then you need to go out that way thru the exit sign." =) heh. so that wasn't too beneficial to ride all the way out there.
Before I left the campus I ate lunch. There was a young man walking with crutches missing a leg. When i grabbed my food, i looked around for a place to eat... no empty tables, so I asked this kid if I could eat with him. =) His name was Ricky from Monterrey Mexico. He was really hard to understand but we had a great convo. This kid has seen 3 people executed in Mexico because of the violence going on there. He likes it here in America. He was a real shy kid... kinda like me.. but i don't have a bad accent. Americans used to make fun of his accent. Assholes. I'd be kinda insecure too if people treated me like that cuz of my speech. Anyway, I spoke as much spanish as I could and he spoke as much english as he could... I often had to ask him to repeat himself cuz i wanted to understand him. Nice kid.
So then I had my next class. This teacher is funny and odd in a strange way. Her humor is kinda out there. But when you do something wrong.. She's a real bitch. She rides you and makes you feel stupid. jeez. I'm glad i didn't mess up on anything.
So I got out of class early. I looked at my bus schedule. Right when I looked at it, the bus was about a ¼ mile away. I ran to my bike (that i'm borrowing from my good friend walt). I hauled butt to the next stop that i might be able to catch the bus. As I was riding up a the street perpendicular to the road that the bus was traveling, sure enough, there it went passing by me.... i tried to wave it down but it was about 100 feet away. I pedaled my booty off chasing after the bus. Thank goodness the bus hit a stop light long enough for me to ride up to it and bang on the window.. =) yay.
I hopped on... and that same girl is on this bus again. going back to the spot we transferred at.. kinda odd. this is about 12 hours later.
Some other strange odds and ins happened. I don't think they are worth mentioning.. but they added to the spice of the day.
So then i come home and eat my macaroni! yum.
good day.

Back to school foo.

I've been attending college since 1998. I graduated in 1997. My degree has changed soooo many times from such things as fire science, (before i was a christian, i had no motivation or hope in life and didn't really care if i died, so i guess i wanted to go out saving a life) real estate, business management, music, graphic design and....there's more in there somewhere. My mind changes with the wind. It's not new. It's not good though. I want to finish something. But I don't want it to be a waste. sheesh. So i have the option of getting a liberal arts degree, which i could have this semester if i wanted, or work my hiney off and get an associates in photography by the end of next semester. Either degree will do no good as far as work is concerned. But Photography is way more interesting to me than a hodge podge of courses composing a liberal arts degree. We shall see the result of this.
I find myself not having much to do these days. no bible studies. no church services. no hanging out with my random christian buddies. sooo...i guess i'll stop smoking weed and apply my brain to some book work. It's good to only know one guy to buy weed from and it's good to not have a car to get there. =) So here we go.
I have two classes on Tuesday, one Wednesday night, and another two Saturday from 8-4. Sheesh. What have I gotten myself in to? 13 hours. I have never done 13 hours. =) so i'm kinda excited.

So before my big first day of class tomorrow, i'm gonna go cut some rugs tonight. Translation: i'm gonna go swing dancing at Sams burger Joint. One bus there, one bus back. Get out and dance. it's good for you!

Long live the Adamo. Here's some bus action below.

a people watcher.

So, I don't have too many friends.. anymore.  I have zillions of acquaintances. So what does a guy do with no wife nor a life, nor a car? He jumps on the bus with his camera and walks downtown and watches the masses and tries to talk to other people who stand alone. Why? I have no clue. I have always been like that. It was a big part of something I liked in Christianity. I liked finding the loners (for I have always been a loner) and offering the hope that I then had. But now since i have nothing spectacular to offer, i kinda just want to try to talk to your average joe schmoe human without an agenda. Imagine that...talking to someone for the purpose of pleasant humanity sake discussion...not with a hidden agenda to get them to understand my faith perspective.

so we shall see. maybe i'll just ride the bus to one of my friends house and record some music.

A new blog eh.

So I really enjoyed writing a blog on my travels across the east coast. At least I enjoyed knowing that people enjoyed them. I really disliked writing them. The reason being is that I'm not too committed to anything...especially a blog. Some of those blogs I wrote took hours upon hours to make. The recalling of the stories, the typing of the stories, the posting of pics, the shrinking down of pics, the placing of pics. sheesh. it was a drag. And when i was driving around living like a nomad, (AdamusNomus) I didn't write as often and brief as I should've. My Baaaddddd Dogggg!!!  But this is behind me. I still haven't gone back and finished that blog. Who knows if I ever will. I think i will one day. Maybe. Look how uncommital I am.

So I read a blog of an old friend. It was inspirational. I wanted to let out some of the honest thoughts that go through my mind. Now that faith is pretty much behind me, it's almost like a new beginning. Not that faith is completely gone from my brain.. how could it? I still have faith that there is this invisible designer behind all this magnificence that surrounds me. I just don't have faith in faith in God working amongst me.

So I hope this first blog isn't long. kind of just an update.


I went and applied at jobs when i got back to san antonio. The suggestion of kinkos sounds interesting to me. I grew up in print shops. I grew up sleeping in print shops with my mother typing and working her ass off til 1..2...3 o'clock in the morning. Driving home late at night. My mom carrying her 8 year old back to his bed. Anyway, that's not why I want to work there... it just sounds more interesting to me. I think I have somewhat of an eye for print and layout type stuff.. but i don't know. I still don't know what my strengths are. Kinkos nor Office Depot hasn't responded. But I went to my old job at Amcon Controls to take them some candy for Christmas and my old boss asked if I wanted to work the next day. For Sure. I need the money no doubt for when it's time to fix my car. So i've been working the past 3 to 4 weeks and will be back at amcon part time with some full time hours. I was offered a job in Louisiana at a sign shop full time....for a few months... and i would've been jumped on it, but the wage was just about half of what i was offered here in san antonio...and i'm needing more money quick to ficks (just wanted to type fix this way for some reason) my car (which will be here January 25th, yay).

I didn't get sick for four months living out of my car (and friends houses) up in the cold North East and MidWest. But sure enough after New Years, I got slammed with a flu type cold thing. I don't know what it was. I never get sick.

This is what goes through my mind about God. So when i started thinking that i might be getting sick, i started writing a cheesy song about maybe it's god making me sick cuz i'm running from him. but then in the song i just realize that the day before I hadn't drank enough water and i did quite a lot of bike riding. So why would I think it's god doing it...it's just me not making wise decisions....sure enough...after I started drinking water.. i got sicker...and sicker.. and then i was out cold. I hate thinking stuff like this: like it's god hunting me down and doing bad things to me. It's not healthy for my psyche.

Anyhow. This is a brief update. I'm gonna start going back to school again I presume. i registered for some more classes.. Still working on my basics as I have been since 1997 when I graduated Tom Clark highschool.

This isn't too long. I'll be keeping you informed with my daily musings on life and boredom.

Love from the Adameth.