you wouldn't think it'd be this hard.

so i've been looking for a hooded sweatshirt. not just any hooded sweatshirt, but one that has the word "california" across the front of it. finding it wasn't something i would have imagined to be terribly difficult, i mean given my current location, the state of california, it's not like i'm in siberia where even suggesting that california existed would warrant a savage beating from your fellow siberians.

in any case, i've been unable to locate one pretty much everywhere that i've looked. it's part of the impetus behind my having gone to malls on several occasions in the last three weeks or so, but the mall visits have, so far, come up empty (as far as the hoodie goes, i did net the flip-flops from thursday, however). suggest i look on the internet, and i'll smack you, i swear i will. i figured if any place should have it, it'd be the athletic website of the university of california, i mean them being the california golden bears and all, but no. never mind the fact that looking on the internet i could find hooded sweatshirts with at least a dozen other states' names emblazoned on them, arkansas, michigan, illinois, indiana, basically all the states nobody gives two craps about.

adding insult to injury today was when maria IMed me with the following message:

animalkrackers01: GUESS WHAT i was at old navy and they have sweatshirts that say TEXAS

fortuitously i had an away message up, which said:

Auto response from ricv56: for those of you who think i may be unqualified for this position, please take into account that i served two consecutive terms as mr. universe; during which i was technically in charge of the entire universe.
--ladies and gentlemen, the next governor of the state of california

maybe that's why i can't find what i'm looking for in this bass-ackwards state that i live in. i mean it only figures that a state where someone who uttered that quote figures to be the governor would someone have a dilemma like this. i'm not complaining or anything, maria even said that she'd have gotten me the texas sweatshirt if she had more than fifty cents on her, and that was really cool of her, but then i don't think that means she would have stolen it for me if she'd had more than fifty cents but less than what the thing costs, but that's probably a good thing. i'll stop now.

i did end up finding one by the way.

feeling: like a pirate, you know, with treasure
thinking of: st. mark's football
music: "debbie gibson is pregnant with my two-headed love child" mojo nixon