*sniff* so justin has left the company. he's been here for almost three years, and he is one of my best friends at the company. i just walked him out of the building; this was his first job coming out of college, so he took a good look at the building after he walked out of the door. i know that feeling well; there's this sense of finality that washes over you, a sort of sadness as well as excitement as you know you're closing a chapter of your life. justin, i bid you adieu; may your future bring you joy and happiness, but don't forget us!
we had dim sum (my 4th time in just over two weeks) for his going away lunch. we had a group of 10 guys (man, silicon valley is so depressing, such a sausage-fest), and some of the non-chinese people seemed sort of lost, not know what to eat. one of them tried the leek dumpling, and i thought he said it was good, but he only had two small bites of it before leaving the rest on his plate. :( he didn't eat much the entire time; i felt bad for him. we also had this one indian guy who was vegetarian, so instead of partaking in the dim sum, we had to order a veggie fried rice for him.
people keep asking me if i'm going to be a lifer here. i certainly have a lot of inertia, and i have seen my friends, one by one, past and present, leave this company. i dunno. i'm comfortable here, but i certainly don't like this constant flux of people coming in and out. every time a person i know and like leaves, i feel a bit of my heart cut out and thrown on the ground and stomped upon. i guess you could say that i get attached to people. but that's just how silicon valley is; transience is a natural part of the life here.
it was really hard getting up at 8:30am this morning. i only snoozed once, though. i had a wave of nausea at first, but after my morning cigarette, i felt ok and good to go. the best part about the early start was that i was able to snag a garlic bagel at my company's wednesday breakfast. i LOVE those garlic bagels! and coupled with the cream cheese and the gatorade, i got those familiar guava-flavored burps. ah, such fruity goodness.
happy new year! gong shi fah tsai! i'm trying to organize a chinese dinner, but it seems everybody's occupied. rats. (ha! double meaning!) i really want to have peking duck tonight. (though, according to wikipedia, in the vietnamese tradition, duck is bad luck.) and you're supposed to eat fish as well, though i'm not really a fish person. we'll see if people call me back. dim sum was pretty crowded today, given that it's only a weekday. must be the new year crowd.
i met up with aimee and cheryl last night at yogurt fantasy. man, it seems i can't get enough of this stuff. this time, i got a small (it was $2 tuesday) with cap'n crunch. (i didn't get my beloved mochi because there was only a little left, and i didn't know if the girls wanted to get it. i'm considerate, right?) and yogurt ain't cheap, so i should watch my spending. i guess i'll have to create a "dessert budget" that includes the stuff as well as my pearl milk tea expenses.
i wonder why some of my dried boogers are bloody sometimes. i mean, i don't feel any cuts inside my nose. if there were any tears or cuts, they would hurt, right? yet, time and time again, i pull out nasty red and black pieces of stuff from my nostrils. wtf? i don't pick my nose that often (though i love doing it), and my fingernails aren't sharp or anything. hm.
have you guys ever used a japanese toilet? they're like holes in the ground, and you have to squat over them to take a dump. i find them really gross, being so close to the "matter." i feel like if i slipped or something, i'd fall right into my pile of shit. luckily, in my homestays when i lived in japan, i had western toilets in the houses, but there were a few times where i really had to go take a dump when i was out and about, and there was no choice but to use a squat toilet. ugh. what's neat is that sometimes, they had ashtrays next to them, so you could smoke while taking a shit, you know, to help the bowels move along. (i never did it, though; too distracting, don't want to fall into the hole!)
damn. ting just called me. she can't make it to dinner because she doesn't want to leave the dog alone. so now my last hope is jay and margaret.
ok, almost 6pm. i should take this day off because it's a holiday, right? and lookie! an entry that didn't mention sex! are you disappointed? :)
i came to work early today (dropped off my car into the shop at 9am), so now i'm bored. here is my list of nubiles, complete with the next 5 (and more).
(added 10/4/2002)
1. natalie portman
2. diane lane
3. jennifer westfeldt
4. alyson hannigan
5. gina gershon
6. kate beckinsale
7. gwyneth paltrow
8. christa miller
9. debra messing
10. maura tierney
(added 3/3/2003)
11. selma blair
12. eliza dushku
13. kelly hu
14. bridget moynahan
15. carey lowell
(added 10/4/2003)
16. famke janssen
17. keira knightley
18. paz vega
19. chyler leigh
20. parker posey
(NEW! added 2/6/2008)
21. jenna fischer
22. jessica alba
23. rachel nichols
24. autumn reeser
25. cobie smulders
and when i start off my next 5, i will start with
26. holly valance
27. samaire armstrong
note the dearth of blonde women. i don't really like blondes. and plus, i'm regretting some of my past choices, notably christa miller. i guess i've been watching too much _scrubs_, and her character is really starting to annoy me.
but yeah. if i had a monster harem, i'd invite them all to my regal palace, and i'd get to do them all, one day at a time. (no orgies for me. my schlong can't handle all that booty! :)