i think i'm still feeling the effects of the 4am night this past saturday. i took a 10-minute powernap after lunch, and then, after the meeting, i fell asleep in my coworker's cube while we were working on some stuff. he must have noticed, because he stopped talking to me after a while. oops.
fyi, yogurberry and yoberry are not the same store. i went to the yoberry in oakridge mall, and there's a yogurberry opening up on castro. man, i am going apeshit over this yogurt stuff. at least, according to the big sign that fraiche has up, the stuff is pretty healthy for you.
i sold my nintendo gamecube and all of my games and accessories to my ex-coworker's videogame store and gave my store credit to mikeT (as a belated birthday present) so he can buy a bass guitar for rock band. (however, the store credit wasn't enough for a free guitar, that's how little a gamecube costs nowadays.) i wonder how her store is doing, whether it's generating enough revenue to make it profitable. her store got broken into a few months ago, and she was pretty bummed out about it. i've always thought that retail stores are a risky business, and my ex-coworker was telling me that for something as hot as the nintendo wii, she makes something like less than $10 on a sale. nuts!
re: sleeping naked. yeah, if my girl didn't sleep naked, and we were just starting to go out, and we hadn't had sex yet, i wouldn't sleep naked to start off. i'd probably sleep in boxers or something; i wouldn't give up my goods that early. but after having sex, she would know how big i was and what i looked like naked, so i would probably start sleeping without clothes. and i would urge her to do the same.
another thing i've pushed for early on in a relationship is showering together. i love doing that. it's innocent, sexy fun. and plus, it makes things like soaping up backs easier because you can get your mate to do it for you. i LOVE soaping up boobs. slippery and soft! (although, like i've said, shower sex is overrated.) one of the top two things i look for in a new house is whether the shower is big enough and practical for two people. (the other being where the tv goes in the living room.)
i started the whole shower/bathing together thing very early on with my first girlfriend in college. the dorms had this unisex "tub room" which was reserved for handicapped people, and we took advantage of that after a few months of going out. and the following school year, we started showering together regularly. it was sort of embarrassing at first because we kept on running into this guy (who later became my lab mate in one EE class) when we exited, but soon, we got used to it, and i think he did too.
the one thing about showering together is sharing the hot water. it's very important to be considerate, because it can get cold for one person to be standing there if the other is blocking the nozzle. so rotation is very key. when i buy my house, i'll look into install a double shower head in the master bedroom's bathroom. :)
last night, at hiroshi and joy's place, someone mentioned the naked taiko youtube video. yup, naked girls all oiled up and glistening, playing drums. i had seen it before, so i knew what they were talking about. the best part is when the girl is playing the o-daiko (big drum), and her boobs were bouncing all over the place. as we found out, apparently this footage was part of some porn movie. man, they think of everything.
one thing i was curious about was whether sex with an uncircumcised guy felt slightly better than sex with a cut guy. the reason why i think that would be the case is because the uncut guy's foreskin (after being pulled back) might act like extra "texture," similar to the stuff on a ribbed condom. can any girl who's had experience with both confirm that?
ok, gonna wrap this one up and head home to watch the men's championship game. i think i'm rooting for memphis in this one.
friday night, nelson, mikeC and i went to prolific oven for dinner. ah, the chipotle chicken pasta. nelson loves that dish. afterwards, we went over to mikeC's place and watched a _simpsons_ episode to pass some time before hanging out with paul and leeya at tap ex.
saturday, i had lunch with ben at thai basil. the crazy guy ordered two satay's in addition to his fried rice. the satay's were more expensive than the main dish! we caught up and talked basketball. after i got home, william came over, and we watched UCLA lose to memphis, which played great. man, derrick rose is awesome. william was a bit dejected, but he took the loss ok.
i then watched part of the UNC/kansas game, but i fell asleep on the couch and was late to alan and ting's place. we carpooled to oakridge mall, where we met up with jay and margaret. we were going to have dinner at BJ's, but there was an hour wait, so i we stopped by yoberry, which christi raves about, so i had a medium (which was huge) with mochi. not bad, not bad at all, although it was just a teeny bit icy.
BJ's wasn't very good. i never really liked their pizza, but we ordered two mediums. my favorite part of the meal was my whiskey (bushmills on the rocks). i recommended the buffalo chicken pizza to jay, but he thought it was pretty nasty from his reaction. after dinner, we hit yoberry again, but i got some more because i figured i wouldn't be down there again in a long time. yup, two yogurts in one night.
then, we watched _21_ at the mall's theater. i saw lawrence hill! (fyi, he's a player on stanford's men's team.) he wasn't as tall as i thought he was; he's listed at 6'8".) he had a cast on his hand, and he was there with his girlfriend. i really wanted to say hi to him, but i was intimidated. anyways, the movie was only so-so, but i thought kate bosworth was sort of hot. i love short hair on girls.
we got out of the movie at around 1am, and i called up john to see if greg's poker party was still going on. it was, so i headed over to greg's place and hung out there until past 3am. i got home and skype'd my mom, and she was shocked that i was still up. i talked to my mom and dad for about 10 minutes and then went to sleep at around 4am.
i got up (very groggily) at noon, and i met up with mike and christi in downtown palo alto and had lunch at peninsula creamery. i got my usual (chicken salad melt sandwich), and it was fabulous. then, we walked over to fraiche and got frozen yogurt. yup, my third fro-yo of the weekend. after i got home, i watched the ending to the mavs/suns game (we won on a 16-0 run!). after that, i took a little nap and then watched the stanford women's final four game. we beat the #1 team in the land, uconn. happy happy joy joy!
then, i headed over to hiroshi and joy's place for the final four viewing of the same game. (they had taiko practice past the game, so they recorded the game.) i tried really hard not to give the score away, but i almost slipped up and told linda that stanford was going to wear black during the next game if they played tennessee. *phew*
i gotta say, watching a game for the second time is really boring, but at least it was cool because i knew that we had won. if we had lost, i would have had this frown on my face, and people would have known that we had lost. for food, we had pizza (my fourth straight day of eating pizza) and guava bbq chicken, which was not bad.
after we won, we watched tennessee beat LSU by one point in a crazy game. so it's all set: stanford vs. tennessee in the national championship game on tuesday. go cardinal!
after i got home, i just watched some tv. i watched the ending to _star wars: episode III_ and then the ending to _lord of the rings: return of the king_. two satisfying endings. i just love light saber fights. and i'm really glad they ended _LotR_ just like the book, with sam gamgee saying "well, i'm back." i was tired from my previous day's 4am sleeptime, so i just went upstairs and conked out.
now, after lunch, i'm just exhausted. i have a 2pm meeting, so i'm going to take a short powernap before heading off.