MAN. what a night last night for basketball! the UCLA/gonzaga game went down to the wire, and so did the texas/WVU game! and even on the NBA side, the mavericks/warriors game was crazy as well. i have a friend who detests basketball, but i bet if he watched those three endings, he'd change his mind.
and you wanna know the best part of it? right after the games ended, my cell phone rang. i saw that it was cindy, and i immediately knew that she was going to talk to me about the games. she's my basketball-watching buddy, and i was very touched that she thought of me. i, too, wanted to vent (in a good way) about the games.
anyways, it's friday, and i am unusally chipper. i can't wait to get out of the office! but back to my chipper-ness, i think it's the fact that i am weaning myself off the seroquel. i usually take 200mg in the morning, and that makes me hella sedated for the next three hours of so. so without the seroquel, i feel full of energy. :)
i am worried, however, that stopping seroquel will make it hard to sleep. i take 100mg at night, and it helps me feel drowsy, which in terms helps me fall asleep more easily. i don't want to be dependent on the drug, though. fyi, my psych decided to take me off the drug and start me on a new one, depakote. i don't think that at this point, i can name all the meds i've taken in my life. and all because of this fucking tourette's. *pukes*
happy birthday mike! he's turning the big 3-0 today, and we're celebrating with a big dinner bash tonight.
i don't have many plans for the weekend, though. i have a taiko lunch tomorrow at sushi house. i'm not fond of sushi house, but gombei is closed, and we always eat japanese when the taiko folks congregate. and i'll probably watch a lot of the NCAA tournament. it's crunch time, baby!
so i've been assigned this new EEF block at work. it's sort of complicated (it's a huge digital arithmetic block, and i am struggling to figure out how many bits to use here and there for the results, etc.), but my boss tells me that i should feel lucky to get such an "interesting" block to design. ick. these days, it just all adds up to more work, and, as you know, i have a bad attitude about working hard. either way, i'll get it done, i suppose.
my friend J is getting surgery done as i type this. i am concerned for him. but anyways, J, good luck on your surgery, and i hope you get well soon!
surgery is a really scary topic. it means that something in your body is so wrong that it requires a doctor to cut you up and fix stuff. that's pretty serious shit. the only time i've been out was when they took out my wisdom teeth. i've been lucky enough (knock on wood) to not require going under the knife. which reminds me, i need to stop smoking. (i wonder if the nicotine patches i bought a few years ago are still good. do they expire? they must, right?)
i looked up my previous company's website today (gfn), and i saw that they hired a new CEO. i wonder what happened to the last one. did he get the axe? why? *ponder*
following that train of thought, my best friend K from high school is now a CEO of a startup. i'm so impressed! he just closed a round of funding, and that is also impressive. i have no idea what it takes to go in front of VC's and sell a company. it's a totally different (and absent, in my case) skillset. anyways, i hope his company does well.
ok, that's it for this week. have a great weekend, folks!