hey people. it's a cold monday, and i'm feeling restless. i think it's time for a vacation, or at least a break from working. too bad the next holiday for us is memorial day.
i've been having memory troubles lately. i was watching the oscars a few weekends ago, and i couldn't remember meryl streep's name. and then, i couldn't remember mateen cleaves's name (he was a basketball player at michigan state a few years back). what is happening to me? i'm getting senile!
so there's this new girl in the office. she's a smoker, so i've bumped into her a few times outside during my cigarette breaks. she's out here for a year, originally from taiwan. i'm not interested in her, but just now, one of my coworkers mentioned her to me, as if i should ask her out or something. *shrug*
i got new cereal the other day. i've been eating apple jacks, but i think i'm sick of them now. so i went back to an old staple of mine, crispix. it's got less sugar for sure, but i still like the taste. there's something refreshing about the combo of corn/rice in the cereal.
man, my boss has been bugging me. he's sort of a nervous, neurotic guy, which i don't really mind. the only time it gets annoying is when he feels pressure from his bosses, and in turn, he applies pressure to us underlings. i mean, he's been asking me what i did today, when i can move onto another task that he wants done quickly, etc. it's not a good feeling to have a supervisor breathing down my neck. back off already!
i had a $2 sandwich at work. originally, like last week, i was excited about it. after all, i love tuna salad and chicken salad sandwiches. but today, when i bit into my lunch creation, i just wasn't satisfied. hm. maybe the love has worn off, and i'll be wanting some real (hot) food.
man, my lovely puma jacket (the burnt orange/beige one) is getting all these red dots. i drink red gatorade at work, but i don't know when or how, but little droplets of the drink spill onto my jacket. *RAAR* i am such a fucking slob. i wish i could figure out how i'm spilling, though. it's a mysery to me. *ponder*
so march madness is set to go! i'm rooting for UCLA. hell, i'm rooting for all pac-10 teams (all four of them). other than that, without stanford in the mix, this year's tournament is going to be boring for me. i just don't really care about most of the other teams. it seems like everybody's picking uconn to win, and that's boring because they already won it two years ago.
i am slowly feeling the need to get tivo. i've got tv shows during the week that start at 8pm (mainly AI), and that cuts into the window of time that i can have dinners with friends. i hate being a slave to the tv schedule!
sometimes i wonder if i could marry a girl who's a stripper. or harder yet, a porn star. i don't know if it would bother me knowing that all these other men are groping and having sex with my wife. i know what they do is just business, but i can't mentally disconnect those sexual acts with meaning or emotions.
ok, that's it for today. have a good one!
so let's see.... friday, jimmy, sabrina and i met up at the south winchester krung thai for dinner. paul was supposed to come too, but he bailed at the last minute. we got red duck curry, rama tofu, and my favorite, jun pad poo (without green onions, and very spicy). it was fucking good!
saturday, i woke up around 1pm, and went into the office to do my taxes. it looks like i'll be owing money this year, which isn't that bad, because it meant that i earned more money this year. i blame it on my untaxed ING savings account interest, and maybe my ESPP earnings, which were untaxed as well.
after that, i went home and watched some college basketball.
and later that day, ben at ming's. i know ming's isn't all that great, nor is it affordable, but i just didn't want to deal with the long waits that occur at places like koi palace or joy luck place. i guess we could have gone to milpitas, but that involved more driving.
catching up with ben was cool. he recently got a digital slr camera, and he was taking pictures of me smoking and of the food on our table. man, i wish i had a passion for taking pictures. i lost it after a few years.
after ben left, i watched some more college basketball and the bracketology special. sigh. it still hasn't sunk in the stanford didn't make it into the tournament. i have grown used to us being a decent team. oh well. NIT, here we come!
for dinner, i met up with alan and ting at maruichi. i got the kuro (black) ramen, and it wasn't bad. i thought it was a bit bitter, though. and the gyoza and california rolls i got (i got a combo dinner) were pretty good, too.
so that was it for my weekend. next weekend, i'm gonna try to watch a movie. i want to see _v for vendetta_. go go natalie portman!