man, the pac-10 isn't doing very well in the tournament. both arizona and USC lost last night in the first round. too bad. the other pac-10 teams may be the enemies of stanford during the regular season, but i root for all of them during tourney time. phooey. let's hope oregon does ok today.
my morning song: "the rose" by bette midler. this is one of my dad's favorite songs. i owned the sheet music for this when i was younger, and i learned how to play it. it's a pretty song, but i think bette midler is one of the ugliest celebrities around. short, chubby, and a nasty face.
so i don't have any rankings for frozen yogurt shops, as i have only been to yogurt fantasy and fraiche. i want to try sweet treat, cafe aroma, and delatti. i hear delatti is super-good, according to dishi and yelp. but two of these are far away in los gatos, and i don't know when i'll get a chance to drive down south to try them out. not that many of my friends are as obsessed with fro-yo as i am, so i don't have a partner in crime.
so to answer one of my commenters about some of my other fears. one of them is that i'll be dreaming that i'm sitting on my toilet, and i'll take a shit in my bed. haha. but on a more serious note, i have some serious fears that i'll get a kidney stone. that sounds super-painful, having to pee out a rock through my urethra. ouch! one of my ex-coworkers passed a kidney stone once, and he told me that it was quite a doozy. i try to stay well hydrated mainly for fear of getting one of these.
i did my taxes today using turbotax online. it took around 50 minutes to complete. (i haven't e-filed yet, but i did all the numbers.) i am getting a $24 refund on my federal return, but i owe california over $900. yowza. it's better than last year, though, when i had to pay like $2K or so. but i had a higher gross income last year, although i don't remember why. when you make more money, you pay more money, that's how it works.
re: parents reading my blog. well, i don't think they read regularly. i know my mom glanced at it and was shocked, but i'm pretty sure she's stopped. my dad may read regularly, but he doesn't let on that he does it. he did tell me that he downloaded my entire collection of entries back when i was on geocities. the only thing he said to me about it was something like, "there are some things that are special, and they should be kept between two people." no doubt he meant all the sex talk i had written about. so yeah, i think my dad is clued into my sexual past.
but yeah, if i knew that my kids kept blogs, i would definitely read. i want to be tuned into what they're thinking and doing. hell, i read each and every one of my friends' blogs, because i like keeping up with their lives. i personally think that everyone should write because it's a great way to see into their minds. you don't always have time to catch up with them in person, so blogs are perfect for catching up on your own time. and writing is a great mental exercise, too. i just wish that people wrote more often, like i do.
one of my cousins in taiwan is applying to colleges out here in the states. her verbal SAT score was 330. ouch! i can totally understand, though, because english isn't her primary language. those antonyms and essays and stuff can be totally tough for people who don't speak the language, so i actually think 330 is good. didn't they remove the analogy section? anyways, she sent me her application essay to look over, and i'm sort of afraid to open it, because it might be horrendous writing, like i won't know where to begin critiquing it.
so you know there are some porn scenes where the guys switch from anal to vaginal and back. do they wash their schlongs in between those scenes? i ask because i read that fecal matter has a lot of bacteria that can cause nasty infections if they get in the vagina. so i figure, they gotta clean up when they go from anal to regular sex, right? i've seen scenes where they go reverse direction in one continuous take, but i don't recall them going the infectious way directly without a camera cut.
so i had a mongolian feast today with four ex-coworkers. it was grand. one of them opened up a video game store, so i gave her my gamecube and all (two) of my games, controllers, and a memory card. (fyi, a gamecube sells for $35. holy crap that's so little money!) i remember buying my gamecube with peter a few years ago on a whim. i used to be so into video games, i even subscribed to a gaming magazine (_next gen_) to keep up with the latest trends. but the sad truth was, i didn't actually *play* them very much; i just sort of collected games that got good press and played them once or twice. i played metroid prime on the gamecube for a bit and then got bored with it, and that was the last of my playing days (aside from the occasional amateur guitar hero or rock band or wii tennis that i play today). i asked for store credit, and i think i'll give that credit to one of my friends.
i wonder if there will be any medical repercussions to my topamax diarrhea. i've had it for over a year now. today, during my post-lunch smoke, i felt that all-too-familiar sour feeling in my sphincter, so i instinctively went to the bathroom afterwards. and i basically pissed brown water out of my ass for a good five seconds straight. i mean, it was 95% liquid. what the hell is going on? ugh.
i get so mad them people don't flush. it happened again today. the guy next to me took a leak, and then just walked away from the urinal without flushing. he did wash his hands (for like 2 seconds, though), so what gives? i mean, he washed up, so couldn't he have dirtied his hands a bit by touching the flush lever? ARGH. it makes me so mad! i wanted to scream at him. it was this short chubby asian dude with glasses and a fat lower lip. *punch*
ok. that's it. i'm out of here. gonna meet up with some friends for dinner at hunan chili. the last time we went there, we ordered all deep fried stuff. let's hope that it doesn't happen that way tonight. have a great weekend folks!