hm. i saw my psych today, and i told him that my tics were a little worse since the last time i saw him, two months ago. he gave me an article of a study about this guy who took finasteride, which provided him with some improvement in his tics and compulsions, so he suggested that maybe i can get on it if my tourette's gets any worse. do you know the commercial name of finasteride? PROPECIA. ha! the hair growth pill? hm. i am not so keen on it. but anyways, i laughed when i saw the brand name, and i was amused that medications have such wide ranges of uses. who would have thought?
clams, potatoes, carrots, onions, thyme, parsley, cream and celery. those are the eight ingredients that were named in last night's _hell's kitchen_ clam chowder palate test between matt and ben. yes, i have a compulsion for lists, and i forced myself to memorize this list. ugh.
i have other compulsions, too. one of them that's particularly annoying is checking that my doors are locked/closed. i check that my garage door is closed and my front door is locked before i head up to take a shower, but after that, i run down (naked) to check again. i mean, i *know* my doors are locked, but have to check again before i feel comfortable. and it's not as simple as looking at the locks, either; i have to put my hands on the locks and *feel* that they are in the correct position. isn't that fucking aggravating? and even after that, after i'm halfway up the stairs, if i'm not satisfied with the way they feel, i come down once again and feel the locks again. yeah, OCD is a real bitch.
i like the animated superpokes on facebook. amyM wished me a happy hump day today, and the animation for that is a dog humping a fire hydrant. haha. i really hope i get to see amy this summer before she leaves for hong kong.
so for the first time this year, i ditched my patented hoodie sweatshirt and wore one of my puma track jackets as my outerwear. it's hot out there, man. and it's only going to get worse this week. damn, it's only may! you may ask why the hell i'm wearing a track jacket in 80+ degree weather, and the answer is that the office is blasting its AC, so it's actually a little chilly inside. but outside, it's definitely t-shirt weather.
well, one good thing about this hot weather is that i don't have to use the heater for naked time at home. the tipping point is usually somewhere around 67 degrees or so. anything less than that, and i need to turn on the heat not to feel cold. last night, it was around 70 or so when i got home, so naked time was plenty good unassisted. i'm really worried about sleeping tonight, though; i need to remind myself to open the windows when i get home so cool down my bedroom.
do you have to dress up for graduation? i'm going to my brother's UCLA graduation, and i forget if you have to wear a suit and tie for that. from what i remember, i don't think so, but my own ceremony was so long ago that my memory's sort of fuzzy. i really don't want to take my big luggage thing down to LA with me; i'm thinking a nice pair of pants and a nice buttondown (i.e. club monaco gear) will do the trick.
i'm sort of anticipating a hard project at work coming up. we had a project meeting for the next rev of the chip this morning, and my name was nowhere to be found. apparently, the algorithm and architecture team wants to "reserve" me for the next few months to work solo on this tough block by myself, so i'm thinking, it's gotta be a tough one. while i welcome a challenge, i'm sort of dreading it as well, because i'm not as good a designer as i used to be.
so i might get froyo twice today. D and i ate at choi's for lunch, and afterwards, i went across the street to cafe aroma and got some yogurt/mochi. (i think they ripped me off, though.) diana just e-mailed me and jen, and she wants to go to yogurtland. who would turn down such an invitation? :)
i got audited by the state of california for my 2005 tax return. (remember that i got audited by the IRS for 2005 last year.) luckily, instead of $5,000 (which is what the feds wanted), they only want $100. so it's not that much. *phew* i called the FTB today, wanting to know why they said there was an underpayment, and then i saw that it was for 2005, not 2007, which is the year that i thought the audit was for. and then i understood; apparently, there was this $700 distribution from some retirement account back during that year that i forgot to declare. so yeah, i guess it's my fault.
ok, i just got called in to do some test failure investigation. i better look into that before the yogurt expedition. bye!