hello peeps. i'm nervous about my car; i hope i can start it tomorrow and drive it to the dealership without any problems. sigh. with it being dead, i've realized how much i take a properly-functioning car for granted. we americans depend on automobiles so much, and it takes a dead one to recognize that.
i'm impressed with nelson, though. he's been pretty good about taking public transportation to work. i don't think the bay area's system is very good, since things are so spread out here. but yesterday, after our late lunch, we walked on over to the mountain view light rail/caltrain station to check out the times and stuff. he's changing jobs, and he's looking into ways to get from his house to the office without driving.
i'm still flying high about stanford getting into the tournament. my project lead (who's just as big of a stanford loyal as i am) and i shared some smiles and cheers this morning. i think even he is going to take some time off thursday morning to watch the game. tip off is at 9:40am, and i am going to stay home to catch it on CBS. go cardinal! march madness rocks. fyi, even if stanford loses, i still root for all other pac-10 teams, so the tournament is still exciting for me. and this year, the pac-10 got six teams into the big dance.
silly J. he was supposed to give me a ride to work at 10am this morning, but he set his alarm for 10 *pm* instead. so i was sitting at home, watching espn, and 10:20 rolled around. i called him up, and he was still sleeping! haha. so we eventually got into work at 11.
so tonight, there is absolutely no new tv to watch. _how i met your mother_ isn't on, and _the class_'s season is over. hm. there is the nba game between my mavericks and the warriors, so maybe i can watch that. man, the mavericks are really doing well this season. let's hope that they can translate their regular season excellence to success in the postseason. anything less than a championship this season would be a disappointment, although getting past the spurs and the suns is going to be really difficult. i hope those two teams meet in the playoffs and beat up on each other instead. and yes, i'm still a bit bitter about us losing to the heat in the finals last year; we were so close to having a 3-0 lead in the series.
my second dump today was pure liquid. it was like a fire hose gushing out of my ass. black water. ick. what's really dangerous is that in the mornings, i'm able to fart when i'm in bed. but once i get up and sit on the toilet, my diarrhea dumps come out. i'm amazed that i don't have "accidents" when i do those morning farts.
because of my car troubles, i couldn't see my dad at the airport yesterday. i was really bummed out about that. pretty sad, actually. i really wanted to see him and have a smoke with him. ah, the father/son cigarette bonding sessions, like the ones we had in LA over winter break. oh well. the next time he comes to the states, i'm going to ask him to stay in the bay area for a day.
ok. time for another cigarette break. have a good one, folks!
friday night, i went to adam and rae's birthday dinner at korea house. it's was adam's birthday, and rae's birthday was the following day. cool coincidence, no? eric was there, and it was great seeing him again. remember that i said that i was nervous about seeing him, but things were very cool between us, so that was all good. afterwards, i drove to milpitas to meet up with some of the bowling gang. they had dinner at mayflower, but since i already ate, i just went for the company.
saturday, nelson and i went to la bamba for some mexican food. i got the quesadilla, with the regular cheese. i remembered how ordering extra cheese made me feel sick. afterewards, we went over to mikeC's place and watched some episodes of the colbert report before heading on over to AMC mercado to watch _300_. i thought the movie was OK. it was violent, but it was the same old stuff: spearing and beheading. there were some movie boobs, and i appreciated that. but overall, i give it a lukewarm review.
then came the car trouble. my battery light came on on the drive over to mikeC's place, so i thought that my car battery was dead. nelson and i drove my car over to autozone, and they tested my battery. it came out fine, but then they tested my alternator, and that turned out to be the apparent problem. bad news. so i drove nelson home, and it was dark, so i had to turn on my headlights. uh oh. i barely made it home before my battery died (like, my dashboard lights dimmed, my headlights almost died, and my window could barely roll all the way up). shit.
anyways, after i got home, all freaked out about my car, paul, leeya and nelson came by my house and picked me up (which never happens, since i always drive to their places), and we had dinner at southland. afterwards, we got tapioca (except they ran out of balls) at ten ren, and i called it a night, while they held a lan party at nelson's place.
sunday, i woke up at 1pm (adjusted for daylight savings), and i watched part of the kansas/texas game. i was rooting for texas (mainly for kevin durant, the freshman phenom), but they lost in overtime. nelson came by and picked me up, and i got my meds at safeway before having lunch with him at ohana. i got the kalua pork, which was just like carnitas, which i found to be too salty.
after he dropped me off at home, i anxiously checked the NCAA men's tourney bracket on espn.com. WE MADE IT! yup. stanford was one of the very last teams to get into the big dance, and we were by far the worst team to get picked. *PHEW* i was so happy, i pumped my fist in the air and jumped around. i spent the next hour or two watching the bracketology special on espn, beaming and excited. i spent the rest of the night all charged up, and i watched my dallas mavericks hand the LA lakers their worst loss ever, haha. and then i just called it a night.
overall, a decent weekend, but the car trouble is making me very nervous. i'm taking my car into the dealership tomorrow (i got a ride to the office from a coworker today), and i am praying that i can get my car there without any problems. *fingers crossed*