*phew* my stanford cardinal men's basketball team are still ranked. right now, they're just barely in at #25 in the AP poll. this week will be tough, with them travelling to the state of washington for two roadies. we'll be lucky to get a split, i think.
at greg's birthday dinner, we were playing cal. the game started at 6:30, and the dinner was at 7, so i watched the first few minutes before i left. we were up 14-2, so i was pretty excited. at 8:25 or so, i called up jack (voicemail) and then jeremy, so he gave me the final score, which was 90-71. that made my night, and i was able to relax for the rest of the evening while i was out.
i'm not liking my new glasses. or, rather, they have a flaw. they're too close to my eyes, so my greasy eyelashes keep making smudges on the lenses. so every hour or so, i have to take them off and wipe them. who knew that eyelashes could be so greasy? am i the only one with this problem?
sigh. so football season is over. this season, like all the rest, went by so quickly. i'm still smarting over the cowboys loss, and that image of tony romo sitting on the field with his hands in his helmet after the botched field goal is etched in my memory. i know that the cowboys wouldn't have made it to the super bowl, but it still would have been nice to see us get out of the first round of the playoffs. oh well. there's always next year, i guess. i'm still waiting to see who our next head coach is going to be.
damn. i keep forgetting to try on my suit(s) over the weekends to see if they need alterations. geoff's wedding is in two weeks, and i need to know which one i'm going to wear.
i'm glad that i have a decent tolerance for alcohol. at greg's dinner, ann had three small sips of greg's drinks, and within minutes, she got flushed. i think it's good to have a reasonable tolerance, just in case you're at a social function where you need to drink at least a little bit. my current problem is that i can't get a good buzz going. i go from sober to headache-y, and it sucks. i think it's my medication, but i'm not sure. but anyways, i haven't caught a good buzz in years.
do you guys have recurring random thoughts? every so often, the word "eva" pops into my mind. and that's followed by the words "rain man," and then the chili's baby back ribs song. it's really really weird. like, i'll be doing something, minding my own business, and then those three things will just appear out of nowhere in my brain, with no reason. it sort of annoying, actually.
all righty-o. you know the drill. smoke time!
friday night, nelson, mikeC and i went to this vietnamese place on murphy in downtown sunnyvale. afterwards, we went back to mike's place and checked out his xbox 360. gears of war looked like a pretty cool video game, and we also checked out oblivion.
saturday, we had lunch at the original pancake house, and afterwards i picked up my new glasses. i have astigmatism in my other eye now, so it was a big weird; flat surfaces look slanted now, but luckily i'm not getting headaches so far. i ran a few errands afterwards, and i went back home to watch _the OC_ episode that i had taped earlier in the week. hooray for frank and julie cooper! i'm going to be sad when this show ends in a few weeks.
i took a little nap, and then it was time for greg's birthday dinner at cantankerous fish. i really didn't like the food there; i ordered the sea bass, and it was very dry. even the chipotle sauce (which i was looking forward to) was tasteless. luckily, they had jameson there, so at least i enjoyed my whiskey. afterwards, we walked three blocks to the tapex, and i had my yogurt green tea. thanks for mikeT for recommending it; it's my standard tapex drink now.
sunday, some of us met up at jack's place in union city for the super bowl. jack and i were the only ones who really cared about the game. alan and ting showed up, and they played with anthony for most of the game. i was really happy for tony dungy and peyton manning, who finally won the big one. there weren't any really good ads, though, and i thought prince's halftime performance was utterly forgettable.
and that was it for the weekend. it was a pretty good time, and i'm looking forward to geoff's wedding in LA in two weeks.