well, it's 4:23pm, and i just got back from lunch. today was my coworker wingman W's birthday, so i took him out. he had a meeting at 1:30, so we decided to go eat after his meeting was over. we finally left at around 3pm or so. i'm stuffed, and i don't think i'll be eating dinner tonight. fyi, i got a pork chop rice at this chinese place in cupertino village.
i've got this sore on the front of my tongue. it fucking hurts. i've been licking the back of my teeth, which must surely aggravate the sore, but i can't stop. it's a compulsive thing. does anyone know what causes these tongue sores? my parents always told me it was from eating fried stuff, but i don't know if that's true or just an old wives tale.
assuming the price of my company's stock stays at where it is (it went up $2 in after hours trading!), the next ESPP is going to rock. our buy-in is somewhere under $9, and lately, the price has been over $20. ROCK!
so this past weekend, i clogged up the toilet again. sigh. i tried to use the plumbing snake i bought, but it's coiled up and fastened by this metal wiring that is impossible to undo using bare hands. anyways, i took a long thick dump on saturday, and ever since then, the toilet has been clogged. man, either my dumps are abnormally thick, or the piping in the toilet is way too thin. if it doesn't flush normally in a few weeks, i'm going to have to ask my landlady to call in the plumber again. how embarrassing!
i'm still relishing our win against washington last night. a friend of mine turned off the tv when we were down by 3 points with 2.9 seconds to go. man, he missed a good one. he's also the one who turned off the game when we were down to washington state two years ago. that one was such a fucking miracle shot by matt lottich.
last night, i kept dreaming about the video game megaman. i played a couple incarnations of the game, and my distress in my dream was figuring out which weapon to use against the various bosses. in short, megaman accumulates the attacks of all the bosses it defeats, and there's always one specific weapon that's supposed to be more effective in killing the other bosses. so it's a lot of trial and error. stressful!
it's been a long time since i've played video games. the last time was when i bought (on a whim) a nintendo gamecube, and i played _metroid prime_ for a while. i got bored of it after about 15 hours of playing.
alan's been asking me if i want to playin _worlds of warcraft_ with him. this past saturday, i went to his place to check out the game. it looks fun, but it also looks way too addicting. so i'm going to pass. did i tell you that i used to be a MUD fanatic? well, WoW is like a graphical version of MUD. so i had best stay away from these types of games. deadly, they are.
jennie just IM'ed me that she wants to go to china too. sigh. i want to go. i feel like i *need* to go, to explore my roots. but i need a travel buddy. *RAAR* who wants to go to china with me? *pleads softly*
ok, that's it for me today. off to clockwatch!
didn't do a whole lot this weekend. friday night, katherine organized a group dinner at maggiano's in santana row. it took me fucking THIRTY MINUTES to find parking there. i don't know what was going on there, but all the parking lots (an there were a lot of them) were jampacked with cars. i wound up way far away.
it was good to see the group (including katherine) there. we got way too much food, and paul wound up taking home about 15-20 pounds worth of food. oh, and the mushrooms were big and salty. heh.
saturday, i woke up and watched a lot of college basketball. i watched the ucla game as well as the cal game. for dinner, i met up with alan, ting, valmik, jay and margaret at korea house. it was a good time, despite the waitress spilling my bottle of OB beer into my crotch. ah, beer-smelling crotch.
sunday, i didn't see a single human soul, except for the drive thru lady (who was sort of cute) at jack in the box. i watched both the stanford women's game (they beat USC) as well as the stanford men's game (they beat #10 ranked washington in overtime). WHAT A FUCKING GAME!
to recap, stanford had the ball at the far end of the court with 2.9 seconds to go, down by 3 points. they did a halfcourt pass to haryasz, who immediately passed it to a cutting hernandez, and he got fouled while attempting a three pointer. he calmly sank all three free throws to send the game overtime, where the cardinal went on a tear and won it in the end. crazy. the 6th man crowd stormed the court afterwards. finally, a quality win!
so that was it. i got ready for bed around 8, and leeya called at 9 to tell me that they were going to tap ex. i wanted to go, but on the other hand, i needed my beauty sleep. :)