so i'm nervous. my driver's license expires next friday (on my birthday, hint hint :), and i have to go into the DMV tomorrow. i called, and they said i don't have to take the test, but i'm afraid that they might be lying to me. the test ain't easy! there are 18 questions, and you can only miss THREE of them to pass. i wonder how long the line will be; usually with government agencies, there are tons of people waiting in line to get their stuff done. sigh.
so tonight is the grand showdown between my cowboys and the philly eagles. if dallas wins, they'll be tied for first place in the NFC east. so go cowboys!
i miss my coworker W. he's in israel right now, and i won't see him until after thanksgiving break. i hope his business trip ends up in a safe return home; i sure as hell wouldn't go to israel, EVER.
anyways, not much going on today. i had two meetings, and now it's suddenly 4pm. the meetings go by painfully slowly, but after they're done, you realize that you just wasted an hour or even more. i've only smoked 4 cigarettes today!
this back/side pain is getting worse when i sleep. it get to the point where even just moving my arms slightly hurts my torso. yuck. i wonder what it is that's causing all the pain; i'd go to my chiropractor, but i just don't want to face him. i haven't seen him since early 2005!
back to the DMV thing. i called them today, and the address they have on file for my license renewal is old; they still had the old leghorn address. but what's weird is that my registration address is correct. how could that be? how could they have TWO addresses for me on file? sigh. silly government bureaucracy.
i am craving mongolian bbq again. maybe tomorrow i'll skip basketball and go. we discussed it today, but the main instigator for rounding up mongolian bbq peeps wasn't in, so we decided to postpone. i hope he's in the office tomorrow, so i can get my fix. *yum*
the depeche mode concert is coming up this friday. i'm not really excited about going. i am giving their new cd a second change, but still, most of the songs are very forgettable. it's weird that "precious" is the only song that sounds like their old stuff. the rest of the album is very lacking in having catching beats or tunes.
it's getting too cold to wear t-shirts. i guess i'm going to be starting my rotation of abercrombie long-sleeve t's. either that or t-shirt + buttondown. the office spares no expense in blasting cold AC throughout the office, but i'm a bit shivery in my cube today. my fingers are cold!
ok. that's it for today. wish me luck on my visit to the DMV! no test, please!
so let's see... friday night, i had dinner with dj at mango cafe. i had their goat curry over rice, which was pretty damn spicy, not to mention the hot sauce i added which gave it an extra kick. my face was sort of numb after dinner. dj swore that the goat was actually beef. i mean, where do you get goat meat anyways?
after dinner, we went over to the rose & crown. i tried boddington's beer, which was decent. i spied an ad for boddington's in dj's japanese magazine, and that's how i got interesting in tasting it. it's fun to listen to dj's rants, btw.
saturday, i drove up to the city to meet up with kevin, cindy, and her sister eunice. we had brunch at tangerine; i had the blue crab omelet, which, to my susprise, had a decent amount of crab meat inside. it was good catching up with kevin, who i see once a year (usually in november). it's too bad we don't see each other more often, as he was my best friend in high school.
i drove back home, took a nap, and watched the stanford/oregon state game, which we won 20-17. it's always nervewracking to watch stanford football games, because you never know when they're going to fuck up and allow a big play. but we won, and that means if we beat cal, we'll be bowl elegible.
for dinner, i had pizza chicago takeout (al bundy with sausage, yum) at jay and margaret's place. they have the cutest dog, coco (short for coconut), and for whatever reasons she was extra hyper when i got to their house. margaret showed me the tricks that she's been teaching coco. after pizza, i watched the "ginger kids" episode of _southpark_ and then went home to sleep.
oh. yeah. friday night, i had one of the worst bouts of insomnia ever. i lay in bed for about FOUR HOURS until i was able to fall asleep. i wonder if it was the beer.
sunday, i didn't have any plans, so i went to arby's for lunch, took a nap, and watched espn in the afternoon. i called up dishi, and we went to play tennis at cuesta park for about an hour. it was a pretty sad showing, because we were both huffing and puffing by the end of it.
and where did we go for dinner? arbys! yup. two meals in one day, and the cashier recognized me from earlier. i had the french chip. gotta love the salty au jus they serve. sodium overdose!
and that was it for the weekend. pretty decent.