very exciting! so today, i finally got off my ass and called up ben to meet up for lunch. we've been meaning to meet up for MONTHS, so it was good to see him finally. he came dressed up as a vampire, completely with fake fangs, eyeliner, and lipstick.
we had lunch at top cafe in milpitas, and it was great to finally catch up and take a long (1.5 hours) lunch. he has the coolest toyota matrix that i have ever seen, not that i've seen all that many of them.
also, this weekend, i also followed through with making plans to see jennie. it's also been months since i've wanted to see her, so it'll be cool to catch up with her as well. this is the earliest in a while that i've made plans for the weekend with somebody. oh, and not to mention making plans to have dinner with mike on wednesday night.
so, i've decided that i need to hang out with more girls. taken or not, hanging out with women has a different feel than hanging out with guys. not that i don't love my guy friends, but i need a change of scenery sometimes, you know? now, the only problem is finding female friends to hang out with...
also, this week is alan/ting's housewarming party. so that's even more social activity. *giddy* i can't wait for the weekend to come!
yeah, i admit that i've been in a post-J funk, and i just need to get myself out there for social activity. this past weekend was fine, but i do realize that being by myself bothers me more these days. i guess i'm getting desperate for attention.
oh, and today, with the help of my coworker A, i was able to get the systemC model up and running. what's weird is that all it took was a "make clean" followed by a new "make." odd, how sometimes all you need to get results is to delete everything and rebuilding again. *grin*
i need to go to safeway tonight and buy some candy. i don't expect any visitors (we didn't have any last year), but i don't want to disappoint some kid who decides to ring my doorbell. i hope safeway isn't too packed with last-minute candy buyers.
anyways, things are looking up. i still miss J, but that's something that i need to deal with and get over. yup.
hm. it seems like i only hang out with guys during the weekend. that must change, but the problem is, where do i find girls to hang out with?
anyways, friday night, i didn't do anything, so i went to bed early.
saturday, i had brunch with nelson at the original pancake house in cupertino. i was looking forward to the sausage patties, and they were nice and salty. i also had two scrambled eggs and three buttermilk pancakes. afterwards, we took a short walk in the sunnyvale baylands (i don't know the real name), and watched two episodes of ali g. pretty funny stuff.
i went home and watched a heartbreaker of a game, stanford vs. UCLA. i mean, we were up 24-3 with 8 minutes left, and we *still* lost the game! shit, man, that is a mean motherfucker of a letdown. i was so bummed out that i spent the rest of the night sulking and went to sleep early again.
sunday morning, i met up with alan (sans ting) at posh bagel and had lunch there. afterwards, it was _wallace and gromit_ with barden and dishi at shoreline. it was a cute movie, but i didn't find it as endearing as before, when i liked W&G a lot more. after the movie, barden and i got crepes at e-tea on castro before i headed home to watch _nfl prime time_. go cowboys!
i had dinner with paul at premier pizza in the rivermark. the pizza was ok, but not enough to make me want to go back there. the bonus was that paul had a coupon for a free pizza, so the meal cost us nothing.
and that was it. yeah, a bunch of guys. i mean, i love them all, but where are the girls?!