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Herman Rosiles Rodriguez (M, 22)
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Herman Rosiles is proud to be the home of a Y-chromosome since July 1986, when he sprung from the ground somewhere in the metropolitan city of Guadalajara in Mexico. Years later, the United States was very fortunate indeed to receive a visit from Herman, and continually since 1994, he has lived in the state of California. Having graduated from a dirt-poor high school in 2004, Herman is now a student at the University of California, Los Angeles under the prestigious Design | Media Arts major.
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    Recurring List of People's Responses
    Project: Branding the Species
    I've been asking people what has been their most ecstatic moment in their life, why, and how they felt both physically & otherwise. This post is meant to be a repository of their responses, and nothing else, i.e. you will not find typographic experimentation in this post. That will come later on in other posts. There are also "responses" of quotes from people who I thought had an ecstatic experience, even though I didn't ask them personally.

    • Anshul: when I had psychedelic mushrooms, I felt like everything I touched felt new, I felt renewed

    • Alex Sy: when I was playing basketball and I shot some hoops, felt triumphant

    • Vincent: when I received my acceptance letter from UCLA, my heart beat faster and my face was colored red, I ran as fast as I could to my dad as fast as I could to give him the good news

    • Yiannis Kouros (Ultrarunner): Some may ask why I am running such long distances. There are reasons. During the ultras I come to a point where my body is almost dead. My mind has to take leadership. When it is very hard there is a war going on between the body and the mind. If my body wins, I will have to give up; if my mind wins, I will continue. At that time I feel that I stay outside of my body. It is as if I see my body in front of me; my mind commands and my body follows. This is a very special feeling, which I like very much. . . It is a very beautiful feeling and the only time I experience my personality separate from my body, as two different things

    • English teacher on Ice Trail: I found myself running far faster than I had all day; I wasn't even conscious of my feet touching the ground as I crested the knoll ahead of the finish line. I wasn't running; it was as if something much larger than I was running me.

    • Duncan: 67/20 in assignment. shocked. Proud.

    • Jeff: Got into UCLA. Proved everyone wrong. Tower of terror, freaked me out.

    • Katie: when moved to USA. from Korea when she was very little. Not nervous, really looking forward. 1st day of Kindergarten.

    • Alfonso: when I find out got into UCLA/ Grad School. surprised, shocked.

    • Sal: When his wife walked down the aisle at their wedding. Felt a wave of relief, felt that the wedding is now real.

    • Sarah J: cymbal line got high cymbals, got into UCLA, so proud, screamed, jumped

    • St. Teresa of Avila: I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.

    • Grace: pole vaulting in high school, jumped over 10'6", amazing, she felt she wasn't that much of a failure no more, felt important to her, felt proud, "oh shit I did it", cry tears of joy

    • Chris S: getting his 1st job, felt that someone wanted him that didn’t need him, felt that he could be a little bit more independent

    • Celica: when she went to China, "when i finally stepped foot outside the airport is when i had that rush... very different from any other excitement I have had before"
    • Wilson: old work place, lost and found, getting ready to ship it out, paper, ipod, “oh my god jackpot” raised his arms like that

    • Iman: having intimate relations with a beautiful nice girl, felt good but then felt ashamed

    • Sarah B: old lead singer, Steve Perry, met in person. Shaking pretty bad, almost fainted, called her parents, talking about it for weeks after

    • Randi: Asked professor letter of recommendation, was happy to give it to her, relieved, was smiling and sitting there

    • Eric: getting his drivers license, he thought he failed it, the guys said he passed, and he was excited, felt kind of numb

    FEEL FREE TO LEAVE A COMMENT DESCRIBING YOUR MOST ECSTATIC MOMENT. I NEED AS MANY AS I CAN GET...

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