it seems mondays/tuesdays are my nailbiting days. i guess that's when my nails grow out long enough to get some satisfying chews.
i started biting my nails ever since i can remember. my parents tried all sorts of embarrassing things in elementary school to get me to stop, like putting PINK nailpolish on me. (yes, i was traumatized.) i still harbor a little bit of bitterness at the social trashing that i got from their (failed) attempts. *hrmph*
the good news, though is that i don't bite them aggressively anymore, meaning i don't bite them so short that it looks gross. i just get rid of most of the white parts. *shrug*
it's nice to not have to rely on nailclippers. but then again, i know that biting nails is a really unsanitary habit. oh well.
anyways, i'm off to dinner. toodles.
it really does. i think my tics are slowly getting worse, and i dread going into the office every single day, despite having yet another 4-day workweek.
and what is up with _alias_ starting in JANUARY and _oc_ starting in november??!! what am i going to watch? none of the new tv shows seem interesting. but then again, i've been in europe for the past few weeks, so i don't even know what new shows there are. all i do know is that _scrubs_ is at least on. :)
anyways, today's been really frustrating. i wanted to go exert myself and play some basketball for the first time in almost a month, but we only had 7 people, so we wound up playing half court. sigh. half court sucks, compared to full court.
it's interesting having an elder come visit and stay at my place. i feel like i should be on my best behavior (i.e. no burping or farting or cursing). after dinner last night, he and ting were watching tv while alan was working, so i just felt a bit out of place. i ended up going up to my room around 9:15 or so and just hanging out by myself.
these days, it's so fucking hot that i can't sleep until it cools down near midnight. which means i'm tossing and turning in my bed for a good two hours or so. *RAAR* damn this weather! damn not having AC!
william (a coworker) gave me a cd today with my old microsoft outlook .pst file on it. the mails from there are over four years old! and i was looking through some of the stuff, and i got a little sad that some of the people i had good correspondences with are people that i don't talk to anymore. sigh. (as you can guess, these were girls that i liked back then that i wouldn't mind keep in touch with today.)
but, i guess it's best not to dwell on the past, hm?
i'm excited for dinner today. i'm meeting up with yuji at ryowa ramen. first, it'll be good to catch up with him, and second, i LOVE their ramen! i think i'll also get the gyoza as well, as i'm consciously trying to eat more to gain back some weight. i'm hovering just below 160 now. and that's a little scary for me.
and this sunday (or thursday, rather), football season starts! *woot*
i got excited last week over this girl that i only met for a few minutes last month. i don't know why, but my memory of her (however murky) is good. now i just got to find a way to contact her. her name is 5 letters long. and i dig that.
ok, maybe i'll write more later.
well, the second half of my weekend was pretty boring... i barely saw any "live" people, so...
anyways, friday night, i came home at the same time as ting and her dad, and it was refreshing to speak mandarin (to her father), as i haven't done that in a long time. alan made fred's steak, so yeah, i had some beef.
saturday, i woke up, said goodbye to the folks (they were headed off to sf, dinner in the city, and then yosemite, coming back on monday), so just lounged on the couch and watched the rebroadcast of the mtv video music awards.
afterwards, i met up with taiko alums dishi and barden for a big dinner at gombei, followed by watching _hero_ at shoreline. overall, i thought the movie was very pretty (i loved their long flowing robes), but the plot was almost nonexistent. oh well.
sunday, i didn't see a single person except for mike, whom i met up with at tea era to chat and catch up over some roasted barley milk tea. we talked for about an hour about stuff, before i went to king of krung and got some thai take out (the flat noodles with pork).
monday? lots of television. i enjoyed watching the espn 25th anniversary show, but that's about it as far as interesting television went. needless to say, i was superbored during the day, and i was more than happy to see alan and company head back from yosemite. went to bed at nine, fell asleep at midnight (it's too fucking hot in my room to sleep!).
that's about it. hopefully my upcoming weekend updates won't be so drab and pointless. :/