so i guess i should say, "happy valentine's day" to all you ones with significant others, but bah humbug. i don't have that special someone, so i'm not going to be tendering any good wishes on you all. that's right. i'm a bitter single guy. :) just kidding, sort of.
it's raining today. and i think it's going to be raining for quite some time, so that means no basketball with cwg. sigh.
so stanford basketball is now in very bad shape. we lost our top scorer in dan grunfeld... he tore his ACL, and he's out for the season. sigh. what bad fucking luck.
anyways, not much to report from this rainy dreary monday. i made the mistake of wearing a short-sleeve polo, and now i'm shivering because it's so cold in the office (and outside). damn. better stick with long-sleeve shirts in the wintertime.
i got a wedding invitation today. it's at the end of may in boston. hm. i don't think i am going to go by myself and brave the boston streets in a rental car... driving around there is tough! so i'll just send over a nice gift or something instead.
so the update here is that went in and talked to cwg on friday afternoon; i got her AIM screenname! that's progress, right? but she isn't logged on very often, so i can't chat with her whenever i feel like it. hm. somehow, though, the fact that she's in the same building as i am makes IM'ing her a bit weird. but we'll see if i can gather enough momentum the next time she logs on.
i'm excited for this weekend (already) because i get monday off. now the only thing i have to do is make sure there will be people around for me to hang out with. yup, i gotta make plans early! and the 4-day workweek next week will be nice, because the next holiday is three months later (memorial day).
what else is going on? hm. i need to find a hobby. i haven't listened to music at home in such a long time that my iTunes "recently played" list is empty. and i stopped getting _time_ about 5 months ago, so there goes me trying to be "worldly."
but yeah, things are going ok so far this year. my tics are definitely bothering me, and as usual, they flare up during meals. the worst is when i'm holding a drink in my hand, and when i tic, the drink splatters all over the place. man, i gotta find a way out of this ticcy hell.
ok, that's enough updates for today. cross you fingers for me and hope that cwg logs on AIM! (talking to her is going to be more difficult from now on because her coworkers are back in that little room where they do their thing.)
friday night was pretty boring. i was waiting for a call from alan, but he never contacted me. so i waited to have dinner with them, but in the end, i just picked up some fast food, watched some NBA on tv, and went to sleep.
i woke up early (that's 10:30am) on saturday and head over to stanford campus to watch the on ensemble do a run-through of the first half of their performance. they have this awesome song called "turns" which features taiko, a drum set, and turntables. it's like a beastie boys jam session!
at noon, i went to sushi house and had lunch with emi, her parents, dishi and sharon, and barden. it was wonderful to see emi again, in her pink blazer.
afterwards, we watched the concert. it was a good show, but i felt a bit out of place afterwards. the taiko community is a close-knit group, and somehow i just feel like i'm an outsider. i roamed around a lot, wallflowered, and just didn't talk to many people. sigh. i took off early, watched some tv, and went to sleep, skipping dinner.
sunday, i woke up at noon and headed over to greg's place for his birthday party. it was a good crowd of people, and i had a bacardi raz and three shots of patron tequila. that made me sleepy, so after i got home, i took a nap on the futon before calling up jay and margaret.
dinner was with those two; we hit sneha for some good indian buffet food, and i caught up with them and their move into their new house. sigh. i wonder when i'll be able to afford a house here in the bay area. but anyways, i went back all full and happy and went to sleep.