well, it's back to the grind. the routine. back to blogging regularly. back to sitting in front of this computer. back to drinking lots of fluids and peeing like a motherfucker. back to working and using my brain for a few hours a day. it's all right, i guess. but man, was it hard to get up this morning. i snoozed for like 40 minutes before finally dragging myself out of bed.
when i went to lunch today, i felt some rattling in my left ear canal, and then i felt a sharp pain pierce through the area. "crap," i thought, "i'm getting an ear infection." then, i gingerly probed the canal with my right pinky, and i felt some hard pieces of stuff clanking about. so while driving to choi's, i picked out not one, not two, but FIVE pieces of earwax. the last one was about the size of a third of a dime, and it was hard and brown/yellow. WOW. i am amazed that i can still hear with this gunky/flaky shit clinging to my eardrums. anyways, i was a relief that i got this stuff out; i saved some of it so i can take a picture of it later. my ear canal, by the way, is really sore and tender from all that digging and scraping.
i am thinking about getting a roommate. as much as i want/love to live alone, my rent is just too high to afford living there long term. i asked will if he wanted to room with me, but he balked at price. i might reconsider my asking price and talk to him again. hm. i do have a ridiculously high rent, and i'm just too lazy to move and find a one-bedroom apartment. and besides, how many one-bedrooms have their own garage and washer and dryer? those are two necessities (especially the w/d).
my cousin's in town, and it was her birthday yesterday. i really want to take her out to dinner, but she doesn't know her schedule until the last minute. and plus, she's near oakland, so i don't know if i can make it up there. rats.
i need to buy some snacks to combat the fourthmeal cravings. does drinking lots of water to fill up the stomach work? and i thought smoking also cuts down on one's appetite. hm. anyways, my hunger has been raging lately, which also explains why i've gained 10 pounds since thanksgiving. i better play basketball extra hard tomorrow.
i have a chance to go to the katy perry concert later on this month. i would go, except for a few problems. 1) i don't know her music that well except for her two radio songs. 2) it's on a wednesday night up in the city (at the fillmore). 3) i'd be chaperoning my friend's teenage daughter and her friend, which would be a bit annoying and weird. but i do like katy perry; she's sort of cute/hot. but do i like her enough to spend $50 to go through all that just to ogle her?
grace made an amazing cake for her nephew's 5th birthday. basically, she made an entire monopoly board game, including the board, dice, houses, cards, and the playing pieces. everything was edible (for example, the game pieces were made out of silver-dyed fondant). she showed me pictures that john took, and i was fucking astounded. she had a lot of help from friends, and all in all, she said it took about 25 man hours to create. dude, i would have cried when the cake was finally cut in to pieces. astounding!
assuming i won't see my cousin, tonight will be the first night where i will see a new episode of _gossip girl_ in HD. i am very excited. leighton meester in hi-def glory! *rubs hands in anticipation* and afterwards, i won't have to watch the two shows on CBS because they're both reruns.
with the cowboys out of the NFL playoff picture, i am getting into stanford men's basketball now. last night's game was fun to watch (because we won), and this thursday will be a tough road test at washington. we don't have decent interior defense, so brockman will be a tough player to defend. arizona's jordan hill was tough enough last night, and brockman's even better. it'll be interesting to see how we do. luckily, the game will televised. go cardinal!
today, while taking a piss, i was standing there, going at it, and then, with my relaxed pelvic muscles, i felt something about to come out of my ass. i guess all the muscles are tied together, so i had to cut off my stream, which was so hard to do that i leaked a bit onto my boxers, and run to the neighboring stall so i could try to take a shit. i ended up being just a fart. ugh. so i soiled myself for some innocent gas.
i don't like the new espn.com. at all. there's less information. yuck.
i realized during the break that i didn't think about some people (from the office) at all. i guess i *do* compartmentalize my job very well. one of these people was the cute girl. i got in the elevator with her this morning, and i realized that she did not cross my mind once during the past 11 days. so i guess i don't really like her much at all anymore.
over the break, before i went over to felix's place for the football games on saturday, i grabbed froyo at mel's sweet corner. it was my first yogurt since before my UK/ireland trip. with the frigid weather, i just haven't been craving it. but i figured i wanted a light lunch, so i decided to get it. it was sort of refreshing, actually; i had almost forgotten what a tart yogurt tasted like. and the mochi! ah, it was good, although there wasn't enough of it.
is pinkberry at santana row yet?
so sunday, i had lunch with jeffrey and nicki. after they got done with church, i introduced them to dusita. nicki's benchmark dish is the green curry chicken (which she liked), and i also ordered the spicy crispy catfish (jeffrey's favorite), and duck run (nicki's favorite), and the pad see ew with pork. all in all, they thought the food was very good. we ordered way too much, though, and they ended taking home the leftovers.
i went home and passed out for over two hours while watching the eagles/vikings game. the eagles won, which i kinda expected because tavaris jackson (the vikings' quarterback) struggled mightily against the eagles' defense. rats. that could have been us (the cowboys) winning the game.
i was supposed to meet up with jenC for coffee at 3pm, but instead, i met up with her at 6pm at kabul (afghani food) for dinner instead. i was still full for dinner, but so i ordered a semi-light dish (beef with tomatoes, eggplant and spices) with seasoned rice. i got re-stuffed afterwards. we had a good chat, and we talked about jen's recent trip to peru and aruba. she was hardcore, hiking 50km along the inca trail and all that.
after dinner, i said goodbye to jen and told her not to wait for me as i rushed back into the restaurant and took a nasty dump. then, i rushed home and watched the stanford vs. arizona basketball game. it was a good game, as we forced a lot of turnovers and played solid defense. we won, which atoned for our 30-point blowout loss to ASU. i was pleased. i was worried for a bit, because in the beginning, we had no interior defense, and jordan hill was kicking our ass.
after that, i watched _superstars of dance_ for the next two hours or so. it featured two dance numbers (including solo, duet, and group) from each of eight countries, and then judgement from a judge from each of those eight countries. you could tell that this was a _sytycd_-inspired show (even though it was on another network) because it featured the santa monica popper and pasha/anya from _sytycd_. china did horribly at first (the ribbon dancer), but then they closed the show out with these shaolin monks doing kung fu (i mean, it was interesting, but is that even considered dancing?), which got high marks. anyways, i'm not going to watch this anymore.
in the middle of the show, i got hungry again (see what i mean about gaining weight?), so i got a fourthmeal: a sourdough jack. man, i have got to cut these out if i'm to lose 10 pounds as per my new year's resolution.
anyways, that was the last day of my break, and now i'm back here at work. i've got a ton of work to do, so let's hope that i can survive the hectic schedule.