my boss and i went over my review today. nothing extraordinary or unexpected happened, but he did ask me if i wanted to manage someone, like a new college grad. i was a wee bit pensive on this question. i've never wanted to do anything related to management, mainly because i think it's rather boring (meetings, powerpoint presentations, etc.). but i do have this sort of paternal/fraternal instinct, for example, taking D under my wing and befriending him and giving him advice sometimes. (and i also gave advice to other new college grads that had left, like J and C.) so i thought about this question from my boss for a while, and i told him maybe, in the future, i'd think about doing it.
hehe. nelson's been waiting to buy cure tickets for the both of us. i guess the way it's been working, the ticket service has been selling them along the sides of hp pavilion, and only now, it's starting to sell them for the middle (far side). man, i don't know if i can sit still for three hours. i mean, it's a great value for my money, but... three hours? i think i'll probably wind up falling asleep. i just hope the band will play songs that i recognize (the only two albums that i know really well are _disintegration_ and _wish_) and not obscure stuff.
some of the engineers here smell really bad. i'm not going to name a race, but you probably know which one i'm talking about. i don't know why they have such an odor. i just went to take a leak, and i went to a urinal recently vacated by a dude. the stench was almost unbearable. i almost switched to the other urinal, but the way i figured, it was only a few seconds of pain, so i just sucked it up and went anyway. foul!
so my coworker D was supposed to go to our branch in israel, but the problem is, he has a taiwan passport, which has expired. and taiwan won't renew his passport, because the country wants him to go back and fulfill his military duties. so basically, the poor guy can't travel anywhere outside of the states now. his only hope is to get a US citizenship, which he's now applying for. man, the things we take for granted.
lately, my morning diarrhea has produced so much stuff that i have to flush twice. i guess the problem is that the stuff has a lot of gas in it, so there are a lot of floaters that don't go down with the first flush. man. and the thing is, i wait until the toilet refills before i get in my car (i've had problems with the toilet not completely stopping the refill process), so it adds an extra minute or two to my morning routine. what causes some turds to float and others to sink?
do you guys memorize your credit card numbers? i do (well, at least one of my credit cards), and i find it to be very handy. like, whenever i order a pizza, or whenever stanford calls me up asking me to donate money, i like the fact that i don't have to pull out my wallet and read out the number. i know, it doesn't save that much time, but still. with the advent of technology, i find that we rarely memorize anything these days (phone numbers, e-mail addresses, web URL's).
my hair has somehow change directions. the patch in the front used to stick straight up (that horrible triangular mohawk thing i used to have), but now, it just flops forward onto my forehead. and i'm not sure why it's doing that now. i don't use gel anymore (except for special occasions when i need to look good), so i don't do anything different with my hair. hm. it's quite a different look, though, because less of my forehead is exposed.
yes, i realize that that cam pic on my blog is over 4 years old. i will put up a new picture someday. in the meantime, you can find me on facebook if you want. i really like my facebook profile pic. (thanks to adam for taking that picture at tim's bbq.)
have you ever been a victim of relative-attractiveness? what i mean is, you're at a function, and you find a mediocre-looking girl attractive simply because all the other girls there are super fugly. that's happened to me before, and i didn't know it happened until i met that girl one-on-one. i was like, "woah there!" so be careful when gauging someone.
basketball was super tough on me today. i think it's because it was relatively warm in the gym, and hence, rather draining. i was completely wiped out when i got back to the office. luckily, that mean guy from last week wasn't there, so we played our games peacefully without any disturbances. i woke up too late to grab breakfast, so i just got a filet o' fish before i went to work. yum, tartar sauce.
ok, well, that's it for me today. i'm drinking my second can of V-8; i figure i should get more vegetable matter in my system, so i think i'm going to make this a regular routine.