howdy folks! how was your weekend?
my boss e-mailed me over the weekend and told me that i need to put in more hours at work. i've got a shitload of stuff to do, and i have to be done by the end of april. i know, it's a whole month, so i *feel* like i have a lot of time to finish my stuff, but still, i think i'm underestimating the amount of time it will take.
so he told me to come in earlier and leave later. sigh. i hate being pushed, but given my relatively lax working schedule, i understand that it looks bad to other people that i come in so late and leave so early. oh well. i guess i'll be earning my paycheck for the next month or so.
i haven't been eating much. which explains the light dumpage my ass has been creating. today's turd was not much to write home about: it was just two small floaters. they stunk, though. maybe it was the mountain of ground pork i had last night for dinner. i got the simmered ground pork over rice (zo tzau fan) at southland. only $3.25! can't beat that price, even at queen house, which charges 70 cents more.
so despite telling my boss i'll work later, i want to leave early today. i need to catch up on last week's _OC_, and there's the stanford women's elite 8 game at 6pm. go candace wiggins and brooke smith! they're the two best players on our team.
i recently got in touch with an old high school friend of mine. he was our salutatorian (i was valedictorian, of course, :), and it turns out that he majored in EE during undergrad, but now he's training to become an orthopedic surgeon. sounds like he'll be making big bucks after he finishes his fellowship. he's married (3 years), and his wife just delivered a baby girl. my, how he's grown up. he sent me pictures, too.
i've been drinking liquids like a madman. so far, i've gone through 4 vitasoy's, a can of coke, and almost two bottles of gatorade. i have to go piss every hour. i don't mind (because, well, pissing actually feels good if you really have to go, almost orgasmic), and i like knowing that i'm well-hydrated.
because of the soft shits i've been having, i've been afraid to fart, for fear that i'll accidentally pass a solid through, thus having an "accident."
so how is everybody's NCAA tournament bracket doing? i bet you're all fucked, since all #1 seeds have fallen. and who the hell would have picked george mason (a #11 seed) to go to the final four! ha! that's why i love the tournament: every team has a chance to win (well, if you don't count the 16 vs 1 games).
hits are going way way up today. don't know what i'm doing differently. just more people than usual searching for the perfect ass? ha!
i feel blue today. i don't know what it is, but i think it has a lot to do with it being monday. mondays fucking suck. after i have a nice weekend, i never look forward to the workweek. and especially with my boss's admonishment, it just means that i'll be spending more time at work. sigh. and i've been debugging some serious shit today, and i haven't figured out what's wrong just yet. it's frustrating, sometimes.
i had a moment of clarity during the weekend. i realized that i have good friends. and i love them all. i know i'm missing out big time by not being in a relationship, but friends are the next best thing. so thanks, people.
oh, and i was watching parts of _my best friend's wedding_, and had a couple of thoughts. first, rupert everett is a badass. if i were gay, i'd want a boyfriend like him. and second, i don't think i could ever have a girl be my platonic best friend. just like harry told sally, the sex (or thoughts of it) would get in the way. if i had a female best friend, she'd be hot, and eventually i would want to do her.
ok, time to do some more work. *sigh*
i had a pretty good weekend, except for insomnia on friday and saturday nights. i'm moving off of seroquel, which really helps me sleep well, so without it, i wound up lying in bed until about 3am before i finally fell asleep. and both times, i got out of bed for a seroquel dose. i'm really worried about not being able to get off the drug; i may be dependent on it. *RAAR*
anyways, friday night was mike's 30th birthday bash. it was held at this cool swanky (by swanky, i mean that a shot ot patron was $10) place called fahrenheit lounge in downtown SJ. they played lounge music, and i actually own some of the songs they played! i recognized some thunderball, and some songs from the _hotel costes_ series of cd's.
mike's gf had us play some games that centered around mike. she kept score, and in the end, i won! yup, i got two AMC movie passes. i think i'll use them to go see _inside man_ next weekend. but yeah, she paid for all the food, which must have been a ton of money (given the swankiness). very generous, and i was impressed with that as well as all the effort she put into the games.
saturday, i had lunch with the taiko peeps at sushi house. afterwards, i went home, took a nap, and watched one of the elite 8 (UCLA/memphis) games. that was such an ugly affair, with lots of missed shots, and UCLA missing like 20 free throws. they could have won in a blowout if they could have made their foul shots.
for dinner, i went over to alan's place. they have a puppy (rylie), and jay and margaret brought over their dog (coco), and we just let them loose and watched what happened. the dogs played, rather roughly, and it was very entertaining to watch. we ordered pizza from premier pizza in the rivermark, and it was surprisingly good; the last (the only) time i went there, i thought the pizza was not good at all.
sunday, i watched the 12:45 showing of _ultraviolet_ with alan at mercado. it was definitely one of the worst movies i have ever seen, and btw, it got a 9% rating at rottentomatoes.com. yup. it only ran for 84 minutes, but still, i found myself looking at my watch only half an hour into the movie. pretty horrible plot and acting.
i went home, tried to take a nap, and watched some more of the NCAA tourney. i can't believe george mason beat uconn. i just hope that wasn't a fluke, because i want to see competitive games in the final four.
for dinner, i met up with paul, nelson, leeya, and mikeC at southland taste in cupertino village. afterwards, it was pearl tea at ten ren, which i don't go to enough. i like their stuff; like nelson said, it's actually got tea, and you can definitely taste it.
so all in all, a decent weekend. i'm just worried about the dependence on the seroquel. i haven't been able to fall asleep without it.