twenty-five seconds of silence

adieu, _time_

so after over two years of slogging through reading my _time_ magazines cover to cover, i finally cancelled my subscription yesterday. i just wasn't becoming as well-informed about the world as i had hoped, no doubt due to my horrible reading/retention abilities.

i'm actually sort of relieved. being an anxious person by nature, unread back-issues would stress me out. and i'm looking forward to being free of that stress. :)

anyways, i was talking to yuji yesterday, and i was impressed with his new carpe diem attitude towards life. i should adopt some of the similar proactiveness that he's been exhibiting. what does that mean? more social situations, more hobbies, more partying! haha.

by the way, i thoroughly enjoyed ryowa ramen last night. even though i think their gyoza is sort of bland, i had a good meal. i guess i just missed asian food after my 2.5 weeks in europe. we had chinese food once (in siena, italy), but that was some really nasty shit! haha. and nowhere to be found in europe was thai or indian food.

i'm sort of regretting not venturing out and trying more specialties (i.e. local food) in europe. i mean, i did find that wonderful sopa castellana, but my paella (for instance) was just undercooked and really disgusting. anyways...

so what tv shows do you guys recommend i watch for the fall season? i might watch _joey_ simply because i miss _friends_ (even though its latter seasons sucked), and catch _the apprentice_ afterwards. but other than that, i might just wait for _alias_ and _oc_.

my tics are getting worse. which is totally a bummer because they actually got better while i was on vacation. i remember the first few days in rome (the first city we went to), i was holding my neck just about the entire time to keep myself from ticcing. but by spain, i was able to walk around with my arms simply at my sides, and i would go for extended periods and forget about my tourette's! that was quite a relief, but it seems to all be reverting back to my old twitchy ways. *RAAR*

it seems that stanford has a hot hapa cheerleader now. i dig that. hapas, i mean. and the best thing about a cheerleader? they're flexible! (yes, i'm talking about sex, hehe.) i wonder if gymnasts would be even better. and contortionists? that's just freaky!

well, it's about time to go home, according to last week's jet lag days. but i gotta stay at work a little longer, so i'm going to go putz around a bit. toodles!

hump day already!

so i saw my chiropractor today, and he showed me some xrays that he took of me the last time i was there. bad news. apparently, my C4 vertebrae is developing a long bone spur from all the ticcing. :( :( :(

at first, i was afraid he was going to recommend surgery or something (which would have freaked me out), but he said that he seriously requested me go to a more "powerful" chiropractor: the chiropractic neurologist! hm. it sounds like a hokey kind of doctor, and it ain't cheap either! but we'll see... i have an evaluation with the new doc on friday. i'll be sure to ask him how many people with tourette's he's treated and what his results were.

other than that, it's just another humdrum wednesday. man, work really sucks, doesn't it? i think i'm starting to panic because i don't want to work forever, but i don't know what else i can do to generate an income. oh, to be rich! =P

yeah, i know money doesn't solve everything, but i do think it solves a lot of things. if i didn't have to work, i'd just rest at home most of the time. i mean, i wouldn't *spend* a lot of money, but just relax and nurse my tics into oblivion. and THAT would be nice, wouldn't it?

so this weekend, alan and ting will be gone again. i think i'm headed up to the city to visit hr girl, and i've heard of some housewarming party where i can go wallflower. hehe. it's all about fending for myself in social situations!

anyways, i like girls with glasses. i've said that many times before, haven't i? i mean, glasses just make people look *cool*, and on women, i think it's terribly sexy. terribly! *shudders*

i have never, though, had sex with a girl while she wore her glasses. which seems to be something that i'd ask for, doesn't it? but strangely enough, it's never happened before, but i'll be sure to request it the next time i take a woman to bed. :)

what was the movie where heather graham shows off her boobs?

i hope you guys liked the picture i just posted. i don't think any of the other pictures i have (i mean, i only took like 70 of them!) are that interesting. i think i've lost my passion for taking pictures, though. very few things (if any) catch my eye these days. :(

anyhoo, i'll write more later. i'm feeling sort of lack-of-inspiration-ish right now.

some europe pictures

	so this is the dome in saint peter's basilica, one of the main attractions in rome. we hit this place on our second day in italy. some of the girls were giggling very loudly, and one of the priests came out, admonishing us, "this is a CHURCH!" sigh. so embarrassing. anyways, i like the fact that you can see the rays of light entering the windows.
	so we got lost quite a bit during the trip. mostly, we were following one of the guys, patrick, and he led us on some wild goose chases throughout italy. (he didn't go with us to spain.) one the third day in italy, we got lost somewhere in rome, and while roaming around, we saw this view. i think it's the vatican, but i'm not sure.
	this is the view from the front door of our hotel, at sunrise. i like the golden sheen that the sun put on the building facing us. as you can see, the hotel was right next to a canal, which made it convenient when we took the taxiboat directly from the station to our lodging. but otherwise, getting around venice was a pain in the ass.
	this is one of the famed gaudi churches in barcelona. personally, i think it's a visual mess, sort of like an optical incarnation of what cancer would be like. while three of our travelling companions went in, van and i just sat outside and chatted, which was possibly far more enjoyable to viewing this beast from the inside. *shrug*
	yes, my hair is horrendous. i brought along my hairgel with me, but i never used it. too lazy, i suppose. but anyways, this is me atop a hill overlooking barcelona. the statue over there is of christopher columbus, i think. against my wishes, we took a cable car to get to this place, which aggravated my acrophobia. *shiver*
	so, as you know, barcelona was the site of the 1992 summer olympics (i think), and this metal sculpture on the beach must have marked some of the beach and water events. btw, this is where i saw some topless women. only one had a decent pair of breasts, and the others were sort of saggy and droopy.
	if you can believe it, this is a post office in madrid. i don't know of any other post office that is housed in such a fancy building, but anyways... we stayed in the colon district (the accent is on the last syllable), and walked around there the first day, hitting three major fountains. but other than that, madrid was a bust; we didn't explore much of the city.
	so this is in segovia, which has a (working?) roman aqueduct. i found the structure sort of impressive, as it spans the entrance to the main part of the city. but aside from this, segovia was very boring... just a bunch of little shops and restaurants. we actually ate outside of the city, at this place that served roasted meats. i had a "suckling lamb" which didn't taste so good.
	this is a flower in one of the gardens of this big castle in alhambra. we took a tour of the castle an hour before it closed, so i was feeling a little rushed. but yeah, lots of europe was churches, cathedrals, and castles. kind of boring, if you ask me. i was all building'ed out by the end of the trip. i just like the flower because it's sort and fuzzy and sort of reminds me of a vagina.