warmmm gooooey, rumblerumblerumble

wendy's away message is currently: "eating chocolate poptarts in bed"

oh geez, oh man, yum. i never really liked chocolate poptarts, but me and strawberry-poptarts-with-that-frosting-on-top got along really well in college (when "healthy" wasn't really a daily word in my vocabulary). mmmmm.. i can just imagine it now: toaster oven, warm gooey stuff in the middle, crispy crust on the outside, snuggling under a heavy quilt on a cold day....

oh lordy.

these. thoughts. are. killing. me.

i could totally go back to bed right now -- and i'd even do work! during senior year in school, i achieved MASTER status at being able to write term papers, do research, complete problem sets, study for tests, write lab reports, and read textbooks -- all effectively (though maybe not terribly efficiently.. shhh) -- while in bed. go me. so why can't my abilities translate to my current work? i think i should work remotely. i'd get more done -- i could wake up a little later but actually stay awake. there would be no superficial need to dress nicely, wear uncomfortable shoes, or attempt to make small-talk to officemates. since my current position doesn't require or necessitate much interaction in the first place, i could just write emails from home. and whenever my tummy starts to rumble, i could dash to the kitchen and grab healthy snacks from the fridge ('cause i'm solidly healthy nowadays) to munch on. stupendous! when work begins to become monotonous and i need a break, instead of remaining on my ever-expanding gluteus maximus and forcing myself to BE INTERESTED.. or instead of getting up, walking to the bathroom, and walking back to my cozy cube (a total of.. oh maybe 15 steps), i could go for a quick run and be enormously refreshed. brilliant, methinks. too bad no one else in this working society agrees... sigh.



haha, all these thoughts....

just from imagining warm poptarts...

oh the damage. :)

i played poker this weekend!

dude and dudettes..

i got a straight flush on saturday. how COOL is that?! :)



hyperventilating and a bit delirious, i carefully placed down my two cards to match with 3 others showing in the middle. and voila, a 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of hearts. (well, i think those were the numbers -- i was kinda dizzy with excitement.. and memory might've shut off for a sec) SO NEATO! (no, i couldn't find a picture of a straight flush with hearts). i don't actually recall how much i won, what the bets were, or what the other person had. i was just trying to make sure that i actually had a straight flush. the hand comes around so rarely that it's pretty much unbelievable. yahooligans :)

needless to say, i didn't win anything real, and my $20 buy-in went to the 1 or 2 winners of 15 players. but poker night at oscar's was stupendously fun. it also reminded me that beer and cider, though good, lend to a lot of pee-ing.

of other noteworthiness from the weekend, i slept almost 12 hours between saturday night and sunday morning. it was lovely, but i don't think it helped much in getting me up this morning... oh mondays.

ahh...

it's finally friday. well actually, friday came pretty quickly this week. thank god for holidays on mondays.

i'm chillin' at home, watching jeopardy. it's a much-needed quiet night at home, and since i typically spend every single other workday evening/night out, it's slightly ironic that i choose to relax on friday nights. haha. go me.

recently, things have been....
good
strange
random
happy
worrisome
uncertain
reaffirming
annoying

so in other words, it's been pretty normal. :)

good: because friends are solid, drama is minimal, and president's day weekend was sweet.
strange: because it's almost march, and i find myself surprisingly settled here.
random: because i've become a pseudo-jedi-master at html and dreamweaver. go biology background? ha.
happy: because gtalk coupled with gmail is hilarious, boys are fun, and i have 3 whole packages of hawaiian gummies. woo!
worrisome: because of a '93 honda and well... i'm good at worrying about anything.
uncertain: i have umm.. 3 or 4 more months.. till..... _______?
reaffirming: late-night talks are wondrous.
annoying: sometimes, if people were to vanish away, things would be easier.

mmm efil.

i wonder if .. well, i dunno really.

yeah vagueness.


in other news, the winter olympics in turin this time around have been kinda... boring? the US, despite NBC's mightiest attempts at tears and heart-swelling stories, is lacking some oomph. and the athletes, though mostly good, aren't as wholesome as they "should" be. that sportsmanship...? and with years of avid figure-skating under my belt (well, at least when i was littler), i've come to realize that the costumes really are ghastly. and they can't be comfortable, can they? haha.

and baseball's spring training is under way.... blegh, johnny damon looks so... yankee-ish. double, triple blegh. boooooo!

oh moo.

but but
but

gaaaah.

hi and g'bye. g'bye and hi. mrmph.

week 34 or something like that

but i stopped counting awhile ago 'cause i'm having fun. :)

you know, i'm so glad that i cautiously ventured into that climbing gym way back in august. it was a little scary, a little nerve-wracking.. but lookie here, nowadays, it'll all love and fun and friends. with some conspiracy (and drama) thrown in as well... mwahahaha. oh, and super-awesome climbing too. tuesdays and thursdays make the weeks sail by, and thanks to the crew, i've also gone hockey-ing, eating, irish pub-ing, lots of potluck-ing, running (egads), ice skating, sledding and snowball fighting, eggs-eating, indoor-outdoor climbing (duh), camping, soon-to-be poker-ing, gtalk-ing. oh man, what stupendiferous-ness. :)

oh, and happy belated vday to all the confused, not-so-confused, content, not-entirely-content, and somewhere-in-between peoples of the world. and despite all the disasters and craziness of the turin olympics, i think the best part was when joey cheek, the gold medal winner of the 500m in speed skating, decided to donate his $25,000 winnings to a charity that works for peace in africa. and he mentioned (paraphrased here) -- "it's so cool that i've having the greatest fun and earning kudos and money, just for skating around on ice in tights."

hehe. wahoo for friday, yahooligans for the long weekend.

technological disasters

my rant for the day:

i started this morning quite content with the world. but by lunchtime, my outlook has turned rather grump-a-lumpy. in fact, i'm THIS close from trying the GRAB-TWIST-YANK strategy on a certain co-worker in the next cubicle.

why such violence emanating from dear ole innocent me?

disasters. technological disasters. i'm talking about the webpage. due to my i-have-no-idea-where-they-came-from skills with dreamweaver, i've been excitedly recruited to reorganize, revamp, redo, clean, sweep, gut, and essentially recreate (but oh wait, still stick with the template!) the program's webpage. this includes going through 3000 (i kid you not) different documents and files, many of which are duplicates and triplicates in 40 various folders, some of which are not even linked to the webpage anyway, and others of which have no relevance to the page they're connected with. oh, and they're all named things like "ja20rt.pdf". GAH!

disaster. aaand the font, sizing, headings, indents, categories, and links are all haphazardly strewn together. i tell you, DISASTER.

sometimes, technology is a precarious thing. don't play with it unless you're willing to deal with it later. aye caramba.

snow + efil

winter finally decided to show up.

this past weekend, the east coast....including dc! .. got dumped with snow. yahoooooooo. it started snowing saturday afternoon (thank you, mother nature, for giving us the morning to do the moving without interference).. and kept going and going and going till early sunday morning. and voila, between 8-12 inches of accumulation. :) hehe yay. i miss snow. ahhhh, i said it -- not even a year away from the frozen tundra of boston, and i already miss the flaky stuff. anyway, dc freaked out a bit, but in general, by late sunday morning, all the roads were clear. i spent a solid 40 minutes digging my car out from under the piles in the parking lot, but besides that, nothing bad resulted from the semi-winter-storm. we had a couple of snowball fights and sledding on sunday (and early early sunday morning around 2am as well).. me and snow bonded -- so i can now watch the pristine white-ness disappear into gross, brown/black/gray slush without feeling too bad. hehe.

but i'm torn -- if i like snow, would i like california? or hawaii? or florida or someplace really warm and sunny and gorgeous with beaches and sand and ocean.... oh never mind, i think i'd be able to deal. that was a retarded question. haha.

in other efil news, things have been alternately hectic and relaxing, but never boring or bored. and the past few weeks have rushed by soooo quickly, for one reason or another, that i'm pretty surprised to look up and see that it's already mid-late february. yay? yay.

oh by the way, cheney "accidentally" shot his quail-hunting partner, a 78-year-old hot-shot texas lawyer, IN THE FACE over the weekend. does this say something about the competence of our administration? maybe old people should stop playing with guns. maybe eyesight is deteriorating. maybe the secret service isn't doing such a good job. maybe our vp is just stupid. haha -- one of the guys in the office asked an intriguing question: "what if the hunting partner had accidentally shot cheney instead?" hmmm.... :)

it's supposed to hit 50 degrees on wednesday. oh weather, how epileptic you are.

danger: moving staircase

hand-eye coordination, hand-feet coordination, hand-eye-feet coordination, rub-my-belly-and-tap-my-head -- dudes, i'm okay with doing all of that.

i dance (which, no, you lamebutt people, does not involve writhing bodies, partially-cutout costumes, or big jazzy hands that flash back and forth. sigh);
i climb;
i swim;
i run;
i can usually hit a tennis ball;
i can throw pottery;
i take unfuzzy photographs;
i can touch my toes;
i even put ikea furniture together.

and yet, this morning, i almost died and permanently maimed myself while going up the escalator. the escalator! so much for grace and coordination... i'm holding onto the handrails from now on.

fisheye!

i bought a cheapo camera awhile back.. but it's got a super-coolio fisheye lens. so i experimented with a roll of film... and of 24 exposures, i think i got a solid 5. haha, but it's okay 'cause i sorta inserted the film in strangely... and i didn't use the flash enough. so off to the next roll to experiment with! yessss :)

but i did get a pretty sweet one of dali: