greetings! i had the nastiest dump EVER this morning. it felt like paste gushing out of my ass, and when i finished (which took a long time) and looked back, it looked exactly liked that: massive amounts of black pasty sludge filling up the bowl. and there was so much of the stuff that i had to flush twice. ick.
so my lunch buddies C and J are crazy drivers. they routinely speed like mad on the road, and J was finally caught, going 100 on the 280 highway. a while back, i asked him how fast he's ever driven, and he replied 144. !! man, i don't think my car can even go that fast. (they both drive infiniti G35's.) today, we went to sushi california for lunch. i tried my benchmark sushi, the spicy tuna roll, and man, it was hot. i didn't like it that much, but their shrimp tempura was tasty, but pretty greasy and heavy. i ate that separately from my sushi, and should have mixed it up.
so one of the longest-tenured employees (one of the originals) that i know, and also my backup lunch buddy, A, is leaving. i'm pretty sad. he's been sort of disgruntled of late, so i guess it was about time he left. anyways, his last day is next friday. i'm gonna miss him.
speaking of other sad news, my friend's mom passed away. she would have turned 60 this year, so she was young. so sad. i hope my friend is doing ok; i sent him an e-mail last week. mortality is a frightening thing, at least for me. i think about my own around once a day (usually at night when i'm in bed), and each time, i have a freak-out session before i finally shove it under the carpet.
so it's been a week since my dermatologist froze the scaly spot on my right foot, and i've still got this big red blister. i am just dying to play with it. last night, in bed, i kept poking and prodding at it. arrgh! i love playing with various things on my body. plucking hairs, popping zits, peeling off scabs, etc. it's just too much fun!
speaking of that, i still have an unopened pack of biore pore perfect strips from 1997. i wonder if they're still any good. i have an oily nose, and i used to love putting these strips on and seeing all the white/blackheads that these strips could pull off. do they make biore strips anymore?
so saturday, we spent a good hour fixing nelson's garage door. i'm not a handyman at all, so i was impressed with nelson and mikeC's craftiness with tools and stuff and their willingness to just wing it with the repairs. we took apart the top panel of the garage door (despite my skittishness about the ability to put it all back together), and in the end, we managed to do a decent job in fixing it. er, well, *they* fixed it, and i just held things for them during some parts and smoked and watched during other times. :)
so tomorrow is the beginning of may. do they still have may sweeps on tv? i hope so, and i hope that means that the networks won't be showing reruns of stuff, and that the quality of the shows will be much better, to draw more viewers.
ok, time to wrap this up. it's time for my 5pm smoke.
i didn't do much this weekend. friday night, we had a late dinner at corner place, this korean restaurant on bowers and el camino. i got the kim chee dol sot bap, and it was decent. i had taken my medication before going there, so by the time i finished eating, i was completely drowsy, so i just went home after dinner.
saturday, i watched part of the nfl draft. poor brady quinn; he wasn't picked by the time the first round was half over. i left for lunch after that, and mikeC, nelson and i went to red robin. i got the royal red and a whiskey (bushmill's), and after that, we went back to mike's place, where i fell asleep as the sharks blew a 2-0 lead to the red wings and lost game 2. after that, we went to sports basement and fry's. for dinner, we met up with paul and leeya at valley fair, and we hit the mongolian bbq place. i didn't like it compared to su's. the difference was that they didn't have chili paste. they had chili oil instead, and the taste was just off.
sunday, alan woke me up with a call, and i met up with them at stack's for brunch. yum! i had the mexican omelet, and it totally hit the spot. i went back home after that, and i took a nap to the suns/lakers game. in fact, i slept on the futon for like 2-3 hours.
i called around for a bit, and in the end, i met up with some guys for dinner at the prolific oven and got my usual chipotle chicken pasta. then, i rushed home to watch my mavericks/warriors game. it was close throughout, but in the end, my team lost yet again. fuck. so now we're down 3-1, and it looks really bad, and i am officially FREAKING OUT. :(
hey dudes. it's friday! and it's hot out there. i'm still in my winter mode of wearing a sweatshirt, so it's doubly hot. i can't complain, though. i've been cross with the cold rainy stuff that we've been having of late, so i guess i'll take the sun over that.
i just went to take a leak, and i noticed that someone didn't flush the urinal beside mine. what drives a person to do that? it kind of pissed me off, so after i finished, i flushed that urinal as well. the only reason that i can understand is if the dude is a germophobe, and he doesn't want to touch the lever. but aside from that, i cannot explain why a person will not flush. that's just fucking rude!
re: brain aneurysm, i don't know any of the details. i just got an e-mail from a mutual friend, and that's all i know. i'm very worried about him and his mom, and i wish for the best.
so some of my friends are going to vegas this weekend for a volleyball tournament. pretty cool place to host, although i wonder how well they'll play with hangovers, haha. i guess the plan for them is to party all night and to play the following morning, so i hope they can handle that. like i said, i'm headed to las vegas myself in mid-july, and i'm looking forward to it. speaking of strip clubs, i did a little research of gentlemen's establishments in SF, and i found out that there's quite a few of them in the city. maybe i should go check them out, especially with a number of potential bachelor parties with the bowling gang's weddings coming up.
i know it wasn't healthy, but i had a very satisfying dinner last night. remember how i said that i threw away half my sandwich after basketball yesterday? so i was totally starving after work, and i went to jack in the box after picking up my topamax prescription at safeway. i got a jack's spicy chicken and three stuffed jalepeno's. that totally hit the spot, despite being all deep-fried and stuff. i don't eat fast food very often these days, so it was a very indulgent and tasty meal.
so it looks like jay might practice facial plastics in LA. ha! he could be another dr. 90210. :) it's a little cliche, but i'm just happy that he'll be in california so i can potentially see him more often. he was leaning towards seattle or arizona earlier, but alex told me that he is now seriously looking at los angeles. that's cool.
damn. i forgot that i'm getting a massage today. on such days, i drink less fluids in the afternoons because i don't want to have to take a leak during the middle of the massage. whoops. and unlike dumps, where you can push and push and sort of force out a turd, you can't really force out urine.
i'm craving steak fries. i don't usually like french fries (except when they're curly), but steak fries are pretty damn good. oh, and crisscut fries at carl's jr are pretty tasty, too.
ok, it's almost time to leave for my massage. have a great weekend, folks!
hey peeps. i got some bad news today. a friend of mine's mom got a massage brain aneurysm a few days ago, and now she's in critical condition. horrible, just horrible. i guess our parents' ages are getting up there. my mom's health isn't so good, either, and for a while there, she was at the point where she couldn't get out of bed. i still worry for her health, although she seems to be doing better lately. i've attended one friend's parent's funeral, and it was a very sad event. i hope i don't have to go to another such event in a long while. in the meantime, my friend and his mom are in my thoughts.
my basketball outing today was very poor. i had a lot of open shots, especially when we played 3 on 2. i was one of the three, and they didn't even defend me when i shot from the free throw line. but damn, i couldn't even make those shots! fuck. i wound up being 0 for like 8 or so from the field, and i was very disappointed in my performance. in the end, i was so disgusted with myself that i left early. yuck. *pukes*
so i'm not getting a massage today. my masseuse is saddled with appointments all afternoon, and i didn't want to get one in the middle of work. i view massages as a nice treat at the end of the workday, so i scheduled one for tomorrow at 5:30pm instead. that breaks a streak of thursday massages. and for an OCD guy like me, streaks are very important things; i like to keep them going. oh well. time to start another streak, i guess.
i had a dream so real that it nearly replaced my memory. i dreamt that i went skiing, and when i woke up this morning, i was like, "yeah, i DID go skiing with those people!" but in fact, the last time i went skiing was years ago (after which i "retired" from all winter activities). man, i hope i never get a hyper-realistic dream where i'm sitting on the toilet, whereby i take a shit in bed. even now, i'm so afraid of that happening that before i take a dump, i first double check and pinch myself to check that i'm not dreaming.
so it's all set. alan's bachelor party will be in mid-july. vegas, baby! i had a lot of fun at jay's event a few years ago, also in vegas. aside from sitting by the pool for a little while and eating lunch, i don't remember what we did during the day, but at night, of course we just went to the strip clubs. we hit olympic gardens the first night and sapphire the next. it's too bad, though, because alex can't make it (he and his wife are expecting the arrival of their daughter in late july). i was really looking forward to drinking with him. shucks. hopefully at least i'll get to see him at the wedding.
i'm hungry. since today was basketball day, i just got my usual sandwich at the company cafeteria after i got back. but they ran out of regular bread, so i had to use a large dinner roll as my bread. it was nasty, and i couldn't finish it and threw half of it away. i think i'll skip my cereal-for-dinner routine and get some real food instead after i leave work.
ok, i'm audi. ciao!
man, i am disappointed in how little i eat these days. i met up with grace today for some sushi, and all i had was three plates (unagi, cali roll, and spicy tuna). shit, i used to be able to eat EIGHT plates! although, i did have a beer, and that kind of filled me up. beer does that to me. but still, three plates is a very poor showing. i should be able to do much better than that.
i am extremely nervous about tonight's mavs/warriors game. this is a MUST win for us. apparently, the warriors match up well against us, and i hope coach avery johnson will make some badly-needed adjustments. we must shut down baron davis! this gives me some horrible flashbacks of the NBA finals last year, when dwyane wade totally tore us apart. anyways, i shall keep my fingers crossed for tonight and hope for a win. go mavs!
so spring is here. one of my compulsions is to count the number of flowers that bloom outside my house; they don't open up all at once, so i have to also remember the numbers of each bloom. so far, it's 1, 4 and 14. OCD is a silly thing, huh? these flowers are weird, though. they bloom for only like 3 days before they shrivel up, and then you can flick them off of the stem. sigh. beauty is so fleeting.
i had a green dump the other day. it was weird. usually, my shits are brown, but this time, they were a dark green! hm. what would make it that color? did i eat a bunch of grass or something? maybe it was the odwalla superfood that i drank? *ponder*
i had a dream last night where i was playing golf with k1's clubs. they were ping's, and they were also pink. !! hm. i got called out for playing with girl's clubs in the dream, and i just shrugged it off. man, i haven't played golf in like two+ years. i'm sort of embarrassed by that, because getting better in golf was one of my new year's resolutions a few years back. alan and company even got me an $81 gift card to shoreline's driving range for my birthday back then, and i've only used it once.
*yawn* not much going on today. i've got some major debugging to do tomorrow, which i'm not looking forward to. but at least i'm scheduling a massage tomorrow as well, so that'll be cool. i skipped last week, so my neck and shoulders are more sore than usual. hm. that doesn't sound right. is "sorer" a word?
i'm still giddy over that topless girl picture that i found yesterday. did you guys take a look? she's hot! i going to save that picture on my computer when i get home so i can look at my leisure. it's rare that i find such nice breasts. you'd think that good boobs are everywhere, but no; this one is top-notch, with a capital T. :)
ok. that's it for today. time to go putz around for a bit before going home.
hey peeps. i'm writing this early because we've got a company-wide meeting at 4pm. i don't have much to say, though. and actually, i'm kind of sleepy.
i'm buzzing over this picture over a girl with perfect breasts that i found on cameltoe.org. check out the picture on the right of the topless girl. not only is she sporting a nice cameltoe, but she's got a very nice set of boobs. they're firm, not saggy at all, not too separated, and the nipples are just the right size. delectable! even if you image google the phrase "perfect breasts," you won't find a pair as nice as the ones this girl has. so that just made my day.
i've been lucky to have dated some girls with nice breasts. i loved playing with them, especially in the shower. boob soaping! ah, the memories. as much as i have come to appreciate the ass, boobs are still my favorite things. so soft! so yummy! *swoon*
at lunch (the small joy luck place), the television was tuned to CNN, and they were reporting a tornado touching down near the dallas/fort worth metroplex. i know some people living there, so i hope they're ok. tornadoes are really scary things. unlike earthquakes, where you can retrofit your house and stuff, you just can't prepare for a tornado if it comes. i mean, if it sweeps across your home, your house is gone! *shivers*
i miss _the OC_. it's weird, because i don't really miss other shows that have ended, like _dawson's creek_, etc. but there's something about the OC that i really liked, i can't put my finger on it. maybe it's the fact that it didn't go downhill past a certain point, that it was always interesting and decent, unlike other shows that became lame (like dawson's).
so i thought about playing basketball today, but i didn't end up playing because of the blister on the top of my right foot. it's the frozen blister that i got from the dermatologist yesterday. remember when i said she froze my scaly spot with liquid nitrozen? well, it turned into this big red painful blister, and i was afraid that running around in my tight basketball shoes would cause it to tear. hopefully the swelling will go down by thursday so i can play bball again. i really need to get more exercise, so i'm planning on going twice a week.
so it's all set. my coworker and regular lunch buddy C is going to grad school (UCLA) in september. i'll be sad to see him gone. plus, the other lunch buddy J is eventually going to head back to asia someday. after they both leave, who am i going to have lunch with? *ponder* i hate seeing people leave, especially people who i have grown to become friends with. we need to hire some new blood.
ok, it's almost time for the meeting. it's gonna be a snoozer!
man, i feel sick. C and i went to chili's for lunch, and i mistakenly got the sampler (boneless buffalo wings, southwestern eggrolls, and fried cheese). too much deep-fried goodness made me feel icky. oh, and i gotta remind myself not to get the boneless buffalo wings. those are nasty. i came back wanting to sleep and throw up at the same time. not good.
i had a close call today. there was a meeting where some of the employees had to pay back 40% of their profit from selling their stock options. one of my coworkers told me that i had to do it too, but it turns out that i don't. *phew* 40%! that's a lot, and i didn't want to go through the hassle of filing yet another amendment to my taxes.
so i saw my dermatologist today. remember that big zit on my face? it turns out that i'm supposed to just let it go away. she said that it might take a few months or something. what the fuck? that's annoying. i also saw her for this small "scaly spot" on my right foot, which she froze with some liquid nitrogen. that hurt! and also, i got some more powerful ointment for the psoriasis patch on my left foot. psoriasis is nasty shit, man. i'm kind of embarrassed to go barefoot, and it's been like that for a long time now. i've had this for like 8 or so years now, and it's just not going away. let's hope that this new ointment will do some good.
man, i'm still burping up my lunch. it's gross. i want something light for dinner. suddenly, a bowl of cereal doesn't sound so bad anymore.
so i bought my first CD of 2007. i ordered it off amazon; it's new order's "new" album from 2005. i spotted it at border's books the other day, but i didn't buy it because it was $18.99. i hope it's good. i used to buy tons of music back in the day. my first quarter freshman year in college, i spent over $800 on CD's. i used to go to music stores practically every week or so; music was my "thing," my passion. hell, i own like 700 CD's! but nowadays, not so much; i'm lucky if i buy like 5 discs a year.
i really enjoyed watching a movie yesterday. even though the movie wasn't fabulous or anything, i enjoyed the event in and of itself. i think i'm going to try to see more of them. i had previously been reluctant to see them because of my tourette's; you know, with big crowds and stuff, my tics can really freak out the people next to me. but yesterday, there were hardly any people, and nelson and i had most of the row to ourselves. (by the way, if you've seen a movie with me, that's the reason why i like aisle seats.) but lately, my tics have been better behaved, so i'm more willing to get out there to the theaters.
i'm losing my memory. my psych warned me that it could be a possible side effect of my topamax medication, but i'm not sure if it's the drug or my old age that's doing it. it's really annoying, though. like, i'm having a hard time remembering names and other silly trivia that i used to pride myself for knowing. ugh. it's totally frustrating when i'm searching my memory banks for something i should totally get, but instead i find a huge black hole. ARGH!
ok, one of my coworkers borrowed my spare lighter like an hour ago for a smoke, and he hasn't returned it to me. it's time for me to go track him down and get it back. bye!
friday night, i had a late dinner with paul, leeya and nelson. we went to king noodle (similar to tung kee). they make a mean daikon cake, although i don't like the fact that they put in peanuts. i asked for it without peanuts, but the guy told me that they're already in the batter.
saturday, i had lunch with dj at peninsula creamery in downtown palo alto. it was good catching up with him; he graduates from stanford law in three weeks and then moves to LA for a brief stint there before moving to boston for a year. even though i don't see him much, i'm going to miss him.
after that, i picked up nelson, and i took him to lunch to yiassoo (he got a gyro) while i had dessert (baklava!). then, we headed off to john's place, where nelson proceeded to play like an hour and a half of guitar hero (in the end, the massive "freebird" solo killed him, haha). i called up my friend jessica, who i hadn't spoken to in like a year and a half. it was her birthday, so we talked for a while and caught up. for dinner, we went to st. john's and had 1/2 off burgers. the "beg for mercy" cheeseburger was spicy that night! my whiskey (bushmill's) was twice the cost of my burger.
sunday, nelson and i went to denny's and gorged on their massive (and cheap) breakfasts. i got sausage overload, and boy, were their hash browns tasty. i couldn't finish my pancakes because i was stuffed. then, we went to see _blades of glory_, which was enjoyable, and my favorite moment was seeing jenna fischer (of _the office_ fame) in her lingerie. she's sexy! and she's got some nice boobs. (no, they didn't show them, but she did show off some cleavage. fine! i like jenna, and this scene was a far cry from her frumpy persona in the tv show.
after the movie, we hung about at nelson's place for a bit, and then went to john's to watch the warriors/mavs nba playoff game. man, it was depressing. the game was close throughout, but then the warriors pulled away in the end. damn that baron davis! he scored 19 points in the third quarter, and 33 or so points in the entire game. i am very worried about this matchup. :( we'll see if the mavs can respond on wednesday night. if we lose again, then i am going to completely freak out.
so all i had to eat yesterday was a tuna salad sandwich and a bowl of cereal. needless to say, i was starving last night when i went to bed, and i even contemplated a taco bell run at 10pm. so i was totally craving all sorts of food, so today, M and i went to mongolian bbq. i hadn't been to su's in over a year, and boy, was it tasty. we even ran into nishit, a long-time coworker of mine from my first job. it was great catching up with him. i miss nishit; he left my company about half a year ago.
so i was flipping channels last night, and i came across the tyra banks show. just to let you know, i hate tyra banks; i think she's really ugly. but she had on the phelps family, this ultra conservative religious family of gay people haters. they call pro-gay people "fag enablers," and man, their beliefs were really scary. it's sort of frightening how people like them exist in this world. i tried to watch some other shows, but kept coming back just to see what they would say.
man, i just got out of an hour-and-a-half code review session. it was really painful, going through code line-by-line. we did find a bug, though, so i guess it wasn't totally useless. it turns out that i was called into do this because i own the block. it took me by surprise, because my boss didn't tell me that it's my responsibility. oh well. another thing on my plate. i am absolutely not familiar with this block, so i'll have to be a little diligent and work through it. by the way, i got a raise yesterday. it was a 5% increase, so does that even cover the cost of inflation? hm. i guess it's better than nothing.
man, my coworker is really tired and sluggish. he and his wife just had a baby girl last monday, named ashley. cute name. i am dreading having a kid for that reason. you know i love my sleep, and these days, i get anywhere from 10+ hours of sleep days on weekdays to 12+ hours of sleep on weekends. how the hell am i going to react to getting only half that if i have a baby? man, that's going to be a shock to my system.
so it's all set. the dreaded warriors are playing my dallas mavericks in the first round of the NBA playoffs. the first game is at 6:30pm on sunday, and i hope the current trend isn't going to happen. golden state has won like the last 4 or 5 meetings against my mavs, even beating them in dallas! so far, all the experts are saying that the mavs will win the series in 5 or 6 games, so i'm hoping they're right. *crossed fingers*
so i hear that there's a new erasure album, and mikeT says it's decent. i hope so. i could use some new music in my life, and erasure is one of my all-time favorite bands. i wonder if they'll tour; i've seen erasure live in concert three times, and i've enjoyed each of their performances. i'd definiteliy go see them again if they come to town.
so i've been taking two dumps a day lately. the first one is the standard soft stool dumpage: lots of small thin squigglies. but the second one usually happens right after my post-lunch cigarette, and it's almost 100% liquid. that's the dangerous one, because during my smoke, i get the urge to fart, and i can feel that sour sensation in my sphincter. good thing i don't fart, because i'd piss a bunch of brown water into my boxers and jeans.
ok, that's it for me this week. i hope the weather gets better here over the weekend. but yeah, enjoy your weekend!
hey peeps. i was with the company for almost 12 hours yesterday. normally, this would piss me off, but actually, we were doing that celebration thing in napa. the bus left at 10am, and we got back at 9pm. the bus ride was sort of painful, but overall, i had a pretty decent time.
we had a quick (nasty bland sandwich) lunch at a park, and then proceeded to play this scavenger hunt thing (put on by the go game) for a few hours. i was dreading getting stuck trying to solve some hard puzzles, but it wasn't that type of activity. it was mainly some simple running around and looking for objects, taking pictures of stuff, making a few videos/photos of ourselves doing silly things, etc. i had a good time with our team.
afterwards, we convened at this restaurant called "downtown joe's" for dinner, where we tallied up the final scores. out of 6 teams, we came in second to last. :( for dinner, i ordered a ribeye steak, and boy, was it nasty.
one of the game staff, this spunky sassy girl named roxie (sp?) was *really* cute. probably one of the cutest girls i have ever seen in real life. and that made my day. it's not often that i get inspired by such a sight. but yeah, i had to mention that.
i played basketball today for the first time in a few weeks. my lower back had been bothering me, but now it's a lot better. i made a few jumpers, and in the last two or three games, looking back, i should have shot more. they were playing man defense, and the guy who was guarding me was a lot shorter. hm. anyways, it felt good to get out there again; i think i'll try to play twice a week from now on.
the weird thing, though, is that i don't sweat when i play. i used to soak my t-shirt. am i not playing hard enough? i definitely feel it in my legs and my lungs, but yeah, there's no sweat. hm.
so i must say goodbye to sanjaya malakar. he finally got vote off last night. when they announce the bottom three, ryan seacrest noticed that simon was grinning. he must have known what was going on. anyways, i'm going to miss sanjaya, and it was touching to see him cry. awww. now i wonder who votefortheworst.com is going to tag as the next person they'll champion.
oh. one of the tasks in the game was to take a picture of somebody doing something out of the ordinary. i volunteered by lying in the middle of the street (after making sure that i wouldn't get run over by cars). but by far, the best one was where one of the guys took off all his clothes and covered his schlong with a manila folder. what balls! i mean, hats off to this dude. there would be no way (well, maybe for a lot of money) i would strip naked in public.
so i've had this massive zit on my face for like a month now. it's simply not going away, and i'm afraid it's like a cyst or something. it's worried me to much that i've scheduled an appointment with my dermatologist for this upcoming monday. maybe they'll have to do some minor surgery or something. and while they're at it, i'll ask for a refill of some fluocinonide. that stuff rocks! it gets rid of all sorts of rashes that i get from time to time.
so i usually get a massage today (it's every other thursday), but my neck and shoulders don't feel that sore. i'm happy to say (but with some trepidation, *knocks on wood*) that my tics haven't horrible of late. i'm still ticcing violently, but not with that heavy frequency. i'm not sure what the reason is, though. maybe it's because of less stress at work, maybe it's because of the medications i'm taking (i.e. increased topamax), but whatever the reason, i'm happy.
ok. i take that back. i just squeezed my zit, and tons of blood came out. maybe it's starting to drain. hm. anyways, off i go!
man, i need to find a malaysian dish to eat besides chow kueh teow. we went to spice islands today for lunch, and i got that again. this time, it wasn't so good, but i think it's because i get it every time. i'm a creature of habit, and i have my "usual" dishes, but it gets a little boring. i tried some of the curry sauce that C got, so maybe i'll get his curry chicken the next time we go there.
it's windy today. yesterday, they said that the gusts went up to 40mph. it doesn't make my smoking breaks very pleasant, and plus, i'm not wearing a hooded sweatshirt today. i've become sensitive to my head getting cold. i know, the weather here in the bay area is nothing like the east coast or the northern parts of the world, so you could call me spoiled. but yeah, i've been more sensitive to chilly weather over the years. when i first started college back in 1992 out here, i wore shorts year round. now, i bundle up when the temperature dips to the 60's. yup, spoiled.
so every monday, the bowling gang selects one person to cook or everyone. yesterday, paul grilled up some tasty kalbi. i went, despite the fact that i don't participate in the cooking. i felt a little guilty about that, so i think what i'm going to do is that i'll volunteer one of these mondays and just take everyone out to eat at a restaurant and pay the entire tab. that seems fair, no? i'm thinking hunan homes. i haven't been there in a while, and i have a hankering for some peking duck.
so tomorrow's the big company trip to napa. it'll be nice to get a break away from work, but the big problem is that i have to be at the office by 9:30am. that's early! and then there's the two long and boring bus rides to and fro. there's going to be a "game" (that's what they're calling it) in the afternoon, and my hunch is that it's going to be a scavenger hunt. hm. not sure if that's going to be fun. but either way, i shouldn't complain. i just hope the weather's going to be nice.
so i've noticed that after dogs take a shit, their owners don't have to wipe their asses. why is that? do dogs pinch off cleanly? i know that if i didn't wipe, i'd be leaving skidmarks left and right. and dog's sphincters are much closer to the surfaces of their butts than humans; we have that crease that hides our assholes deep within. it's my fear of doggie skidmarks that makes me never let dogs sit on my lap.
so it's another american idol night. i think what most people want to see is how sanjaya does, and what the judges say to him. i can't believe that he's made it this far, and there was even an article on msnbc that he has a chance at winning it. are you serious? i wonder how much sway votefortheworst.com has, because apparently a lot of people are super pissed off at the website for championing mr. malakar. hehe
ok. i got a meeting at 5. time to squeeze in my last work cigarette of the day.
i took C to arby's for lunch today. it was his first time eating there, so i recommended the (always good) beef 'n cheddar. their menu has changed a lot over the years, and i was disappointed to find that they stopped carrying their standard chicken filet. they did have a chicken sandwich, but it wasn't the same one. so i got mozzarella sticks instead, and they weren't very good (the batter was too salty). but man, their beef 'n cheddar was damn tasty. and C liked it as well. mmm, arby's.
so i read about the virginia tech shootings (33 dead so far). so sad. one of my coworkers just graduated from there last year, so i asked him if he still knew anyone there. he had two friends who were still going to school at VT, and he called them both. he couldn't get into contact with one of them, so i hope that person is ok. man, senseless violence, that's just nuts.
so C got new rims today on his car (infiniti g35). he splurged over $2K on them this morning. they look really good. what is it about big rims that makes them look good? i mean, is there a scientific reason why they register pleasure in our brains? and the rims have 5 spokes on them, too, which i think is the best number as far as rims go. so all in all, i think they are a good purchase.
i woke up this morning, and the moment i sat on the toilet and let loose my kegel muscles, i started pissing and shitting at the same time. yup. double-squirts! and my ass kept running way longer than my schlong did. i just kept on diarrhea'ing for minutes on end, and in fact, after i thought i was done and wiped my ass the first time, some more stuff kept coming out. man. i hope i never have a dream where i'm on the toilet, and i wind up taking a dump in bed.
so i was out having a smoke, and this other regular smoker came out. his lighter didn't work, so he had to borrow mine. and that's *exactly* why i always carry two lighters with me all the time. see? there's a method to my madness! haha. well, actually, i only carry two lighters when one of them is my zippo. the zippo has two cases where it might not light: either the fluid is out, or the flint is used up. but anyways, my point is that i'm always prepared as far as smoking goes.
sometimes i wonder why i need to take seroquel to help me sleep. ting mentioned that maybe i have problems with insomnia because i have no need to sleep so much, like i've accumulated a massive negative sleep debt. she might be right, but then again, if i don't need that much shuteye, then what the hell am i going to do with all that time? *ponder*
correction: i have FIVE weddings to go to the rest of this year. that's just crazy. and i really need to get my second (fat) suit altered, so i don't wind up wearing the same outfit five times in a row. i know i'm a guy and all that, but i don't want to get caught wearing the same thing over and over again. otherwise, they'll just call me the "yellow suspenders guy."
so i checked alan and ting's wedding website today. so they only have two people in their wedding party each. alan has two best men: jay and his brother-in-law hanns. i was a teeny tiny bit bummed out that i'm not in alan's wedding party, but then again, i'm sort of relieved because that means i don't have to stand in front of everybody during the ceremony, ticcing and twitching and stuff. i mean, i've never been in anybody's wedding party before, so it would have been nice to say i've done it before, but on the flip side, my tourette's would make me really nervous and self-conscious.
ok. c'est tout.
friday night, a group of us headed to downtown san jose to this place called "poor house bistro" for some cajun food. i got their sampler combo, with some red beans and rice (so-so, not a fan of beans), jambalaya, and gumbo. the latter two were pretty good. i also tried the bread pudding that ann got, and that was really rich and sweet. afterwards, we headed to paul's house, where i helped out a tiny bit with labelling some wedding invitations. apparently, they stayed up until 2am doing wedding invite stuff, but i left around 11.
saturday, four of us met at prolific oven, and all of us ordered the same thing: chipotle chicken pasta. haha. it's the best thing on their menu, imho. afterwards, i went to alan's house, and we went to the dog park to give rylie some exercise. it had just rained, and it was also cold and windy, so there weren't many dogs there. i got kind of bored there, and afterwards, i headed back to mikeC's place to check up on the guys. afterwards, we drove john's place and watched _mythbusters_. they did a thing on hypnotism, which i thought was really interesting. i've always been interested on that subject.
we had dinner at chez mayflower. our first choice was the original mayflower, but there was a big wedding celebration there. in fact, the last two times we've gone there, there have been wedding receptions.
sunday, we had dim sum at dynasty, our usual place. afterwards, i had some alone time at my house. i watched my mavericks beat the spurs in a game that had little meaning, but it was still nice to get a win. tim duncan got ejected, which i thought was funny. afterwards, i took a little nap, and then i went over to john's place to hang out a bit before having dinner (greek food, gyros) at yiassoo. and that was it for the weekend.
so the company lunch today was actually decent for the first time in a few months. they catered it from china stix, and the big hit (as always) was the honey walnut prawns, which they had *four* big trays of. the food was very greasy, and afterwards, C, J, and i were all very sleepy afterwards. i could tell the food was very popular because a lot of the people had abnormally huge piles of it on their plates.
i have this recurring dream where i own two canon digital slr cameras. it popped up again this morning, and this time, mikeT was playing around with one of them. i don't know why i still have camera dreams; it's been ages since i've taken a picture. i feel kind of ashamed that i own three digital cameras; looking back, it's like a waste of money. gone are the days where i used to tote along a camera everywhere i went, snapping pictures of plants, flowers, signs, and whatever caught my eye. my photo obsession was dwindling as far back as two years ago, when i went to italy and spain for over two weeks and only took 80 pictures. sigh. how pathetic.
so i asked greg today straight up if i was invited to his wedding. i had been fretting about this issue for a while because i sort of wanted to go, but didn't know how to ask him about it. so today, after a smoke (to psych myself up), i IM'ed him and asked him directly, also telling him that he didn't have to tell me why if the answer was no. he told me that yes, i was indeed invited, and it turned out that he didn't have my address. hm. i was sort of wondering how that would have worked out (not having my addy), but anyways, i'm relieved now. i think it'll be fun. and that means that i have four more weddings to go to this year!
so this weekend is san jose taiko's big spring concert(s). i've been sort of blah about SJT; i haven't been to one of their concerts in years. i mean, they're ok, and i wouldn't mind seeing them, but something about them gives me a bad taste in my mouth. i think maybe it's the fact that i got cut by them back in 2001, when i started their apprenticeship program. to refresh your memory, back then, i wanted to start playing taiko again, so i joined their audition process. but after a few months of the process, i got cut, not because of my lack of ability, but because they said i didn't have the right attitude or spirit (i don't remember their exact words). and ever since then, i sort of have a sore spot when it comes to SJT. i guess i never made my peace with them. oh well.
i have a new habit (compulsion) that annoys me. every time i wake up in bed, i have to roll over and check what time it is. that doesn't sound too bad, but the act of rolling over wakes me up even more, so it makes it harder to fall back asleep. ARGH. i'm a pretty light sleeper, it turns out, so i don't tolerate disturbances very well. fyi, i sleep on my right side, and my alarm clock is on my left. i guess i could put my clock on the right side of the bed, but i don't think i have an electrical outlet there. (yes, i have thought about it.)
i got a haircut yesterday. i don't like it. the top isn't even, and the dude took off my sideburns! i specifically told him to keep the sideburns (which i always do), but he shaved them off. by the time he took the razor to them, it was too late. so now i'm without them for the first time in years. it's not a big deal, i guess, because they'll grow back in a few weeks. and the price went up (i have been going to the same supercuts for 15 years now) to $15. back when i first started going to them my freshman year in college, i think a it was like $9 or so. how much would you tip on a $15 haircut? i gave the dude $2, but i think i'm going to have to start giving $3.
ok, i'm off for my 5pm smoke. have a great weekend, folks!
dude, i woke up in the middle of the night with the biggest boner. it was at the point where it almost hurt. i couldn't fall back asleep! so i was just laying there with my woody, not sure what to do. i was too lazy to flush the pipes, and it just wouldn't go away. for a while there, i was afraid that i had priapism or something, and i would have to go to the emergency room with mr. chubs in all its glory. how embarrassing would that have been?
i was all excited today to play basketball for the first time in a few weeks (with my bad back and all), but open play was cancelled today at city beach due to some company party. disappointing. so i sulked back to the office with nobody to eat lunch with, so i just grabbed a quick sandwich. they even ran out of tuna salad, so i had this nasty chicken salad instead. ick. it tasted all weird and stuff.
so i amended my taxes today. the problem is, when filling out the 1040X, turbotax online completely forgot that i had already paid $7,600 in taxes already, so it thought that i OWED another $2800. so i had to fill in part of the form by hand. i hope this works. *crosses fingers* i'm going to leave work a little early and go to the post office to mail it off. i'm thinking the closer it gets to next monday (when taxes are due, i think), the less of a zoo the post office will be.
so haley's gone from american idol. damn. she was the only attractive girl among the 6 female finalists. i liked looking at her legs, which she proudly flaunted during the last few weeks. i think phil's gotta go next. he doesn't really seem to want to win. all last night, he kept on saying how he's just happy to be there. there's something about him that bugs me. i think it's his feminine eyebrows, but i'm not quite sure.
so a friend and his fiance have a disagreement over whether she should take his last name. personally, i don't really care, and i would actually go so far as to say i prefer she didn't. i mean, the girl i date would be known to me by a certain name, and if she changed her last name, it would be weird to call her by a different name. you know what i mean? anyways, there's lots of funky things that people do now, like hyphenation, or even a creation of a totally new last name that's an amalgamation of the two. whatever floats your boat, i guess.
i'm sort of nervous about my dallas mavericks. yes, they've locked up home court throughout the entire playoffs. but golden state might come in as the #8 seed in the west, and they've beaten the mavs the two times they've met. that does not make me very comfortable. i'm secretly hoping that the clippers steal that last playoff spot from the warriors.
ok, i'm off to the post office. i think they close at 5.
brrr. it's cold and windy today! and apparently, around 5:30 or 6 in the morning, it was raining cats and dogs. luckily, i didn't hear it, although i didn't sleep very well last night. i kept on waking up, and i think i had some stressful dreams. i did meet my psych today, and we had an interesting discussion about cognitive behavioral therapy working with tourette's patients. he recommended a book to me, and i'm gonna get it and read up on it. i think it's got something to do about focusing your thoughts and stuff. i have noticed lately that if i don't think about my tics, i don't tic. (duh) now the trick would be to do that all the time. wouldn't that be great!
my usual dinner group disappeared today, so i called up nelson and lunch with him on castro. he works frighteningly close to where i live, basically just across central expressway. i took him to los charros for the first time, and recommended to him the super wet burrito. i don't think he liked it very much, because he said it was sort of bland. oh well. i got the quesadilla, which i only think is so-so, but i just can't handle the strength of a wet burrito for lunch. the big news is that nelson is going to be officiant for paul and leeya's wedding! i think he'll do very well, assuming he can keep his nerves in check.
i'm very annoyed that _american idol_'s results show is an hour long. what do they need an hour for? all they need to do is let jennifer lopez sing a song and then announce who's going to be kicked off. that shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. *snore* my guess is haley scarnato (even though i think she's got dead sexy legs) or phil stacey (who i never liked in the first place).
an online acquaintance of mine pointed me to a picture of her naked (only the backside), which she daringly posted on her blog. !! that's balls for ya, i gotta say. i would never do that, not in a million years. it's just too risky. hell, back when i lost my weight loss bet, i was already scared about giving someone hard copies of myself naked, but posting it on the internet for everyone to see? that's just too much. but, i have to applaud her, and her backside is pretty sexy, so i have to hand it to her. :)
baseball is ruining my television watching. on most weeknights, i watch _scrubs_ reruns on WGN, but that's a chicago station, so last night they were broadcasting the white sox game instead. yuck. other stations i watch are TBS (which shows atlanta braves games) and FOX (which shows SF giants games). baseball is everywhere! it's an infestation!
i think i've injured my left testicle. a few weeks ago, i squashed it pretty hard getting out of a friend's car. it felt this blinding pain coming out of my groin, and for a moment there, it was hard to walk. now, every so often, i feel this soreness in my left nut. hm.
as much as i think katharine mcphee is hot, i don't like her single. i just don't think the song's any good, especially the chorus. it's sort of annoying, actually. let's hope her next single is better. but man, she has some nice eyebrows.
the other day, someone was in my cubicle, and for a moment there, the dude's odor brought back flashbacks of being stuck in some woman's moist, hairy crotch. it was MUSTY! haha
and with that, i take leave.
so last night, i met up with some of the bowling gang for dinner. we went to BJ's in front of the apple headquarters on de anza. i had never gone there before, but i was happy that they had whiskey (though no jameson, i got bushmill's). we got some pizza, and i thought it was just ok. what was weird was that when i got home, i felt sick, so i puked. it was mainly liquid, so i am suspecting it was the whiskey that got me sick. oh well. i felt much better after yacking, though. it's very cathartic.
for lunch today, C, J and i went to pad thai. i learned my lesson, so i steered clear of the crab pad thai. i got the pad see ew, and man, it was hella greasy. i felt so sleepy afterwards. i don't think i can recommend that place.
i slept abnormally well last night. i don't think i woke up once during the dark hours, and it was extremely hard to get up after my alarm went off. before i went to sleep, i caught the last two skits from _thank god you're here_, the new improv show on nbc. i was pretty disappointed with the quality of the comedians. it was pretty much along the lines of _whose line is it anyway?_. it's ok, though, because i don't need any more new shows to watch.
so alan's bachelor party is all set. we're going to vegas at the end of july. it's going to be a joint bachelor/bachelorette weekend, so the boy and girls will hang out during the day, and the debauchery will happen separately at night. i'm sort of looking forward to it. although, i'm sort of on the fence when it comes to strippers. i mean, naked women are nice to look at it, but i rarely get aroused by them. the only time where i bust a chub was with this one girl, isa, in reno. she rubbed her nipples all over my face, and she smelled really nice. but aside from that, i've never gotten excited. but hey, boobs are boobs, and they're cool to see.
one of my coworkers is going to court today. he apparently got a ticket from a cop for not signalling while changing lanes. i had no idea that it was illegal. i mean, i do that sometimes! so now i'm paranoid about that, so i've started using my blinker 100% of the time. add that to my list of OCD's from now on.
i've got this huge, hard zit on my face. i'm not sure how to deal with it. i've tried popping it, but only a little bit of stuff comes out. it HURTS! arrgh. i wonder if i should take a pin or something and prick it. do people do that?
ok, i've hit the blogger's wall. gonna go home soon. ciao!
so for lunch today, C and i went to the cheap korean place. both of us were feeling like having some alcohol, so he got a beer, and i got some whiskey (johnnie walker black). my whiskey wasn't very good (i never really liked black label), but it was only $4.50, so what the heck.
so i got some shocking news over the weekend. one of my friends, who i actually had a crush on a few years ago (when she was engaged), is getting divorced! it's the first divorce among my friends, so i was pretty stunned. i think it was the long distance that had a big factor (the two were separated by an ocean), but still, i felt sad. it was only a few years ago that i went to their wedding. sigh. failed marriages make me feel bad.
so at the rivermark pool yesterday, there was this guy who was a really bad swimmer. he would swim freestyle (or "try" is more like it), flailing away, and after about 30 seconds or so, he'd move like 10 feet. we laughed at him, but then again, i didn't laugh so much because that's how i would swim. i am terrible at swimming. i took classes and stuff when i was a kid, but i did horribly. and fyi, the last time i was in a pool was over a decade ago. i was in a waterpark in japan, and i tried freestyle. and i performed just as pathetically as that guy. i swam as hard as i could, and after about a half a minute or so, i had barely moved, and i was already dizzy. ick. some people just aren't born to swim, i guess.
so i think "kate beckinsale" has overtaken "perfect ass" as the top image search phrase on my site. i got a record-high 1,600+ hits yesterday. crazy shit. i guess people like the nipply picture of her that i found. my hits are waaaay over-inflated, and i have no idea how many actual readers i have. oh, and by the way, i you're a reader and want to introduce yourself, please do. :) lurkers, come out!
i got three calls early in the morning from a "restricted" number. it was really annoying, because it interrupted some cool dreams i was having. i have a different ringtone for non-caller-id numbers, and it's really LOUD. so they were totally jolting, ruining my peaceful slumber. and what's worse, when i answered the phone, all i got on the other end was silence. what the fuck? i hope they're not prank callers who are messing with me.
in junior high or so, did you ever get a crush on somebody and call him/her up and hang up immediately? i have to shamefully admit that i did that. a few times, i even brazenly stayed on the line just to hear her say "hello?" a few more times. and, when i got her answering machine, i held up the phone to a tape recorder so i could have copy of her voice. ah, young love. :)
i think i've forgotten how to solve a rubik's cube. i'm currently eyeing the one i have on my desk (one that's solved), and i'm tempted to play with it. but my big fear is that i won't remember how to finish it, and one of my OCD's is that i can never put down a rubik's cube until it's done. argh!
so my coworker across the aisle had a baby today (or maybe it was last night, i'm not sure). congratulations to him! it's a baby girl, and her name is ashley. i really like that name. i guess i won't be seeing much of him for the next few weeks. another coworker of mine had a baby a few weeks ago, named issac (which is actually an acronym, cool!), and man, he looked really tired when he came back to work. i guess babies will do that to you, huh? if i ever have a kid, it'll be a shock to my system, i'm sure, since nowadays i get anywhere from 10-13 hours of sleep a night.
ok, this is a relatively early post. it's not even 5pm yet!
i had a good weekend; i could tell because i was only home (aside from sleeping) for about two hours. otherwise, i was out and about.
friday night, i met up with alan, ting and peter. we had dinner at california pizza kitchen. i got the chipotle chicken pizza, and it was only ok. i was disappointed they didn't have any good whiskey; i was really craving a drink. i don't think the food there is any good, and maybe we'll stop going there from now on. afterwards, we hung out at border's books across the way, but for some strange reason, peter got really bad allergies in there, so we had to leave.
saturday, nelson and i grabbed lunch at dishdash. it was my first time there, and i wanted to try it. overall, i thought the food was only ok; i got the shawarma wrap, but i should have gotten the lamb instead of the chicken. afterwards, we went back to nelson's place to watch an episode of his favorite tv show, _news radio_. it was the first episode after phil hartman died, so it was pretty emotional. i think maura tierney is really sexy for some reason.
after that, we picked up paul and leeya, and 9 of us went to dusita (thai food) for dinner. i LOVE their "duck run" dish. fucking yummy. afterwards, we went back to play the nintendo wii. i suck at tennis. i don't think i've ever won a single game yet. geoff's wife pak bagelled me.
sunday, some of us grabbed pho at pho nam for lunch, and then headed over to mikeC's place to hang out for a bit before the girls arrived for some swimming exercise at the rivermark. they have a nice pool there. john joined them, and the three of them did quite a few laps in the pool. paul and i walked his dog spike over to the rivermark to grab some pearl drinks and a newspaper (leeya's niece had her picture taken in the paper).
i left around 6:00 and drove to foster city to have dinner with mallory. man, it had been around a year and a half since i had seen her, so i was kind of excited to catch up with her. she gave me some bad news, so i was shocked and saddened. but aside from that, it was good to see her. we had some taiwanese food which she ordered because the entire menu was in chinese with absolutely no english. i got leek boxes (yum) and ate all four of them in their greasy goodness.
and that was it. overall, a very good weekend, with lots of friend interaction and very little downtime.
hey pups. i'm so glad it's friday. i'm sort of giddy, because peter's in town! i haven't seen that bloke in months. and he's coming back in june to finish his general surgery residency, so that's all good. :)
so a friend of mine IM'ed me today and asked me some questions about tourette's. she asked me i was comfortable with it, and i said of course. i actually welcome questions about my TS, although in the past, i used to be uncomfortable and kind of ashamed talking about it. i've grown to accept it and be ok with people's inquiries. and i actually prefer it when people ask me if there's anything wrong with me when they see me tic, instead of the silent looks of "is this guy a freak?"
in most cases, though, i rarely tell people upfront that i have tourette's. one exception is when i'm flying, and i tell the person next to me so they don't freak out when i tic. that happened most recently a few months ago on the way back from geoff's wedding in LA. the lady sitting next to me was very understanding, which was a good thing.
so i was really touched by last night's episode of _scrubs_. one of the cast members died, and i got pretty sad. she wasn't a main character or anything, but i always liked her. oh well. life moves on.
the one time where i almost cried when a tv character died was when billy died on _ally mcbeal_. man, i got tears in my eyes. that was such an awesome show, and i still think about it sometimes when i go take a dump. i will always remember the john cage and his remote control to the toilet. "i like a fresh bowl," he would say. haha.
while watching nbc last night, i saw an ad for a show that i want to check out. it's called _thank god you're here_. basically, it's an improv show where every skit starts out with that line, and the characters just make it up along the way, with no script or rehearsal. i'm curious to see how sharp the actors are, and how fast they can think on their feet. it's sort of like _whose line is it anyway?_, that drew carey show i used to watch back in the day. i'm astounded at how people can come up with stuff like that. i used to have to give impromptu speeches, and boy, did i suck at that.
you guys know tina fey, right? i think she looks really attractive when she has glasses on, but when she takes her specs off, she doesn't look so good. it's amazing what a nice set of frames does for you. yes, as you know, i have a serious case of eyeglasses fetish. but anyways, i noticed this about tina when i was watching _30 rock_ last night. (i don't watch this show, but i had nothing to do in between _the office_ and _scrubs_.)
it's funny. i just went downstairs for a smoke, and one of my coworkers B showed up for cigarette break as well. but before he lights up, he's like, "i'm trying to quit." WHAT? he's smoking AND quitting at the same time? hm. something just ain't right, haha.
ok. that's it for me this week. have a STUPENDOUS weekend, folks!
i had a late lunch today. J and C, my usual lunch buddies, thought i had gone off to play basketball (i didn't play because of my bad back), so they went off to crazy buffet without me. then, my backup A left, so i called up john to see if he was free. so i met up with him and grace at santana row around 1:50pm and didn't get back until 3. ah, lazy day, although i did do some work today.
on the drive back, i tried to fart, but i felt this sour feeling in my ass, so i held it, which was hard. i knew it was coming, so i once i got to the office, i dashed off to the bathroom, and this dark brown water gushed out of my asshole. liquid diarrhea! i haven't had that in a while. it was a pretty major liquid ass piss. good thing i didn't fart, or else my boxers and jeans would have been totally soiled.
so to celebrate reaching our milestone, two wednesdays from now, our group is headed to napa for some wine tasting and a scavenger hunt. i'm not really excited about it. i mean, yeah, it'll be good to get away from the office, but i'd rather just have the day off. napa is far, and i'm anticipating a really boring bus ride to and fro. oh well, i shouldn't complain, because it's a nice thing to have a company outing, right?
re: the girl who could sleep with her knees up. haha. yeah, i would have thought about her "easy access" vagina when she was sleeping had she not have been the roommate of my ex. if i had been going out with her, sure, i would have mounted her in her sleep. :)
i've had sex with my sleeping girlfriend before, sure i have. i've woken up horny before and felt her vadge and found it moist, and just popped it in and romped away. that's fun! although, the reverse has happened before (where the girlfriend has woken up and mounted me and my tumescent schlong), and there had been times where i wasn't in the mood. (that's how much i love sleep.) but given time, and of course, how good it felt, i easily acquiesced to the sex. one big fear of mine, though, is that i'd be having a dream about some other girl, and i'd mutter her name and completely piss off my girlfriend. :O
so during lunch, grace showed us pictures of possible doggie tuxes for spike (paul and leeya's pug) to wear. yup, they're thinking of having their dog be the ring bearer in the wedding. as painfully cute as that is, i would have nightmares of spike walking down the aisle and stopping to lay a big fat turd on the middle of the floor. pets are just too unpredictable.
does anyone out there who watches american idol think that haley scarnato is kinda sexy? like simon said, she does have some pretty nice legs. and she's been flaunting them lately. i like long legs. nice to lick up and down. *slurps* one of my ex's was 5'10", and she had some nice legs. i like good definition in the calves.
wow. look at the time. ok, i gotta go get my every-other-thursday massage. ciao!
so to celebrate some milestones, we had a little party here at the company today. they had a chocolate fountain! when i saw the e-mail, i had no idea what that was. it turned out to be exactly what i thought it was: a flowing triple-decker waterfall of liquid chocolate. we had bananas, strawberries, bread and marshmallows that we dipped into the fountain. now, i normally don't like chocolate, but i had to try it out. it was very rich and sweet, so i only dipped two items (one marshmallow and one strawberry) before i called it quits. but among the chocolate lovers in the company, it was a very popular thing.
i'm not sleeping well these days. last night, i kept waking up every two hours. the reason why i know this is because i have this compulsion where every time i wake up, i roll over and check what time it is. not good. i don't know why i'm having trouble sleeping, maybe it's because i'm having bad dreams or something where i'm being jolted awake. hm.
so the women's college basketball championship was yesterday. i was rooting for the underdog scarlet knights (cool name) of rutgers, but tennessee pulled it off instead. i think candace parker is attractive. she has a nice face. but anyways, i'm not big on women's basketball (except when it comes to stanford, of course), but the significance of this is that college basketball is finally over, like i said, so now there's one less sport to watch.
so in pre-preseason rankings for next year, the stanford men are in the top 25 (#20 according to the mercury news, #25 according to espn). i'm a little skeptical, though, because we still have some problems at the point guard position. we do have some help because of a transfer player who had to sit out this past season, but until i see him play, i will remain worried about this issue. still, it's a long wait until the 2007-08 season, but i'm looking forward to it already. go cardinal!
so how do you guys sleep? do you have a preferred position? i can only sleep on my right side. it's weird. i think it's because once i asked my acupuncturist/masseuse which side was better, and she told me the right side, and ever since then, i can only sleep in that position. it just doesn't feel right otherwise. i think it's all psychological, though. i know a girl who once could sleep with her knees up, and i thought that was the weirdest thing.
so they showed _remember the titans_ on tbs the other night. i really like that movie. i saw in the theater years back when it came out. it was funny, because i was with jeremy, alan, etc., and we met up in union city/fremont that night to have dinner and watch a movie. for the longest time, we couldn't agree on a movie to watch, so we finally settled on this one, even though no one wanted to see it. but it turned out to be a great film, and we all liked it. i will always remember that night because i was on a relatively large dosage of haldol, and the whole night, i didn't tic once (which was quite fucking amazing). strangely, though, haldol stopped working for me soon after, and the tics came back.
ah, haldol. the old atomic bomb of antipsychotic medications. i've overdosed on it before, and believe me, it wasn't pretty. i couldn't even stand straight up; i kept on falling down. i'm currently on 4mg of it a day, and i don't think it's doing much; i must have developed a tolerance for it. i'm seeing my psych next wednesday, and i think he's run out of drugs to give me. sigh.
ok, that's it for me today. hump day is almost over!
man, my runny nose just won't quit. the left and right sides of my nostrils are red and peeling because i'm wiping my nose so much. it ain't pretty, let me tell you. does the body *ever* stop producing boogers? you've gotta figure that at some point, it's gonna run out of booger material, right?
i'm still burping up the tempura that i had for lunch. i favorite (besides the shrimp, of course) is the broccoli tempura. i mean, i like broccoli in general, but there's something about rolling it in batter and deep-frying it that makes it extra good. J and i went to midori today for lunch; it's pretty mediocre food, but their lunch bento boxes have a lot of food, and it's reasonably priced ($8.95).
so i gotta hand it to florida for winning the men's basketball championship last night. last year's champs' starting five all decided to return to make a run this year, and they never wavered in their focus, and they won it all again. pretty damn impressive. i was rooting for ohio state to win, and greg oden had a good game, but in the end, florida was just too much and too good. congrats to them, and i wonder if the the gators (four of the starting five are juniors) will return to try for a three-peat, a feat that only ucla has accomplished back in the 60's and 70's.
so some of the 2nd floor engineers are moving up to the 3rd floor, where i work. to me, that doesn't mean much, but one concern that i have is the overpopulation in the bathroom. what if i have to take an emergency dump, and all three stalls are taken? i might accidentally shit in my pants! i've had that almost happen to me once, and i had to rush to the elevator and take a dump on the 2nd floor. now, there are over a dozen more people on this floor, and that might produce an overflow of people in the crappers.
so the dreaded has happened. baseball is back. ick. last night, after _sportscenter_, i had to suffer through my first _baseball tonight_ on espn. how boring. all this talk about pitchers, flyouts, double plays, etc. there are only two things that interest me this season: barry bonds breaking the home run record and how pitcher daisuke matsuzaka does. that second one is more of a novelty act, simply because the boston red sox paid so much to acquire this japanese pitcher. the rest? *snorefest*
so i bought some more stock today. i got some shares of AMD, which fell to its 52-week low yesterday. i know the company's not doing so well, but i'm going to hold on to this and see where it goes. i'm not a trader, more of a buy and hold kind of guy, so i don't mind keeping this stock for a few years. for example, i bought sony stock when it fell crazily to $25 a while back, and i held it for a few years and sold it for $50. i like doubling my money. although, i did the same thing with akamai (bought in at $17, sold at $35), but it went all the way at $50 after i sold it. drat. i know, i'm greedy. :P
i think i'm in a comfort zone as far as my friends go. i'm comfortable with the bowling gang, as well as with alan and ting. and while that's all fine and dandy, i need to make more of an effort to maintain my relationships with other friends, friends that i don't see as much. i'm lazy by nature (as you readers are well aware of), so i tend to fall in a rut in many ways in my life. for example, i haven't seen hr girl in over a year and a half. why? because she lives in the city. stuff like that. i mean, don't get me wrong, i love hanging out with the bowling gang and alan/ting and stuff, but i feel like my bond with other friends is wilting, and i definitely need to get out there and strengthen my relationships.
ok. time for a smoke. and damn, i really need to get over this booger problem.
so for lunch, J, C and i went to pad thai, which used to be thai thai, near the st. john's on lawrence. i was excited, because they were raving about this crab pad thai dish. i was sorely disappointed. i thought it would be like the jun pad poo that i love, but instead, it was just a pad thai with crab meat. it was sweet-tasting, which to me is major ICK. i hate sweet dishes. i didn't even finish it.
my stomach has totally shrunk. this past saturday, i got the combo B at maruichi, which consists of a bowl of ramen, three potstickers, and three large california rolls. i couldn't eat that last california roll, but in the end, i stuffed it down anyways. i ended up puking it up in an alleyway on the way to the parking garage. i made sure that no one was around, and i just barfed it up. gross. i just can't eat like i used to.
i still feel a little under the weather. this cold is not going away. i still have the sniffles, and i'm coughing up phlegm. it's yellow/white phlegm, so i forget whether that means it's a virus or if it's bacteria. *ponder* but anyways, it's really annoying, and blowing my nose has become a tic; i don't need to do it, but i blow my nose anyways.
so tonight's the ncaa men's championship game. i'm rooting for ohio state to win. i don't want florida to repeat. it's amazing, though, because ohio state vs. florida was the same game as the football championship. it's pretty rare that two schools can be that good at football as well basketball. anyways, thus ends the college basketball season. one more sport down before there's nothing left but baseball. *pukes* after tonight, there will only be the NBA to watch before there's no more sports for me to follow. (no, i don't watch hockey.)
have you ever tried to force yourself to like somebody? i have done it before, and it never worked. in those cases, the deal breaker for me was bad faces. i just can't get over the hump if i don't find the girl's face to be attractive. i mean, if you're going to be looking at the girl's face the whole time, she better be nice to look at, right? hehe. you might ask why i was "forcing" myself to like a girl, and my answer is that i was sort of desperate at the time. yeah, those were some rough times of singlehood.
i have some cuts on my chin from ticcing. my current tic (one that i've had for quite some time now) is a violent head jerk to the right, and i must have been wearing a sweatshirt with a sharp zipper, so that it cut my chin during a tic. ouchie! yeah, tourette's sucks. although, i think the frequency of my tics has been getting slightly better. i think it's because my boss has been gone for the last two weeks, which has alleviated some stress. (btw, he's back today.)
eric pulled a good april's fools joke on his blog. haha! i totally fell for it. :)
has anyone ever filed an amendment to their taxes? i need to do one. after talking to A after lunch last week, i found out that i mistakenly declared $12K more income that i should have, which translates to like a couple thousand dollars more taxes that i paid. i want my money back, dammit! so to those of you who have done an amendment before, is it hard to do? for me, it was my ESPP sale; it was included as income on my W-2, but i accidentally declared it as extra income separately. dumb me, i forgot to check my W-2 thoroughly. *bonk*
ok, that's it for today. i feel like haven't really blogged for a while, since i was out most of last week.
man, i had a really unsatisfactory weekend. friday night, no one was around to do anything, so i just skipped dinner and went straight to bed.
saturday, i ate my 3 pieces of leftover pizza and went over to paul's place. his pug spike was really sick (infected eye), but i had no idea how serious it was until i saw him. his right eye was a cloudy blue, and he had to get eye drops every half hour. poor paul and leeya were up all night giving him his medicine and didn't get much sleep. i sort of forced myself upon them because i hadn't had any social contact for days (since i was sick at home for the past three days), so i just hung out for a bit before going home to watch the final four.
i had dinner with leeya, grace and mikeC at maruichi. afterwards, we hung out at tap-ex, and later on, nelson, cheng and john joined us after their week-long road trip ended. however, the conversation was sort of boring because grace and leeya talked about wedding planning for most of the time. i left around 10:30 or so, skyped my mom and dad, and then went to sleep.
sunday, i had lunch with nelson at chipotle. afterwards, i ran a quick errand to get some zippo lighter fluid, and then we headed over to paul's place to say hi. we wound up watching the end of the mavericks/suns game (my mavs got blown out in phoenix, sigh), and then watched various parts of movies on satellite. we wound up staying there until 5:30 or so.
after dropping off nelson, i just sulked around the house, looking for people to eat dinner with. nobody responded, so again, i just skipped dinner and went to bed.
i'm still a little bit sick, though. my nose is running, and i don't feel quite 100%. oh well. anyways, as you can tell, i didn't do a whole lot this weekend. on friday, i wrote that i was supposed to meet up with mallory (which i was really looking forward to), but she called me up sunday morning and had to cancel, and that was a real bummer. we've rescheduled for next weekend. but yeah, i wasn't too happy with this past weekend, and i hope the next one is better.