| 4 jan 2002 so i'm wearing my pseudo-asian outfit right now, although i can't seem to avoid adding a bit of splashy color... in this case, it's in the form of a dark red buttondown. everything else is black. i guess i like the asian outfit because it's simple... no need to coordinate colors, since everything is basically colorless. but i stopped by the house after lunch to change, because since alan isn't going to come down today, i decided i might as well go to my company's holiday party. yup. dinner and bocce ball. i overheard the HR girl tina saying that she didn't want jeans there, so i went home and changed. i drove all the way to la bamba (best burritos) for lunch. i met a friend i haven't seen since 2000, diana. she was the girl with sexy shoulders that wrote about way early in my journal, back in march. i didn't even recognize her, because i had kind of forgotten what she looked like. i got us burritos while she held down fort to save us seats, and we chatted for about an hour. i've only met her like three other times in my life, so i didn't ask her about her personal life... just about law school (she's at boalt) and snowboarding and stuff. the big coincidence yesterday was that we were chatting on AIM, and it turns out that she's friends with mike. yup. small fucking world. i mentioned how i went bowling this past tuesday, she said that she has a friend who goes bowling on tuesdays. so i was like, "yeah!" and i ask which one of her friends was that... and she said "mike." yup. weird. we had a big laugh over that. diana's quite an independent spirit, i think. she's loud, animated, social... one of those people who seems perfect all by herself. i asked her if there are any cute guys at boalt, and she said very few. she seems content to be single for now, which is a healthy attitude. she's not like me in the sense that she probably wouldn't declare that she's happiest in a relationship. i'm currently fixated on the gorrilaz song "19-2000." it's oddly catchy, especially that cibo matto girl who sings "get the cool shoe shine." what a random line. the version on the cd that i'm listening to is slower yet groovier than the radio version. so it looks like i've committed myself to going skiing or boarding next week. i went to REI last night with jay (who was looking into helmets and the new flow bindings for his board) and promptly blew over $200 on a pair of pants (with cool crisscrossed suspenders!) and gloves. why don't people make yellow gloves? *sobs* i miss my old yellow padded poofy SUEDE gloves. i found them at banana republic, and i bought them along with a matching yellow umbrella. and together with my yellow BR ski jacket, i had this whole yellow upper-body outfit going on. yeah, it's a bit much, but i love yellow, despite what they say about it clashing with asian skin tones. since then, i've lost my yellow umrella along with my yellow gloves. i hope they're happy somewhere. maybe i'll try looking for them tonight. *frowns* but yeah, the ski pants are cool. i'm just afraid of winter sports. they seem so dangerous, like it's easy to wrench your knee and tear your ACL. two years ago, i went boarding for the first time (which was completely miserable), and went skiing the next day, and the third day, i just stayed in the ski lodge and read mick foley's autobiography. i talked to some random dude who worked at the slopes, and he was running down the list of injuries that had happened that day... a broken ankle here, a dislocated shoulder there, etc. it horrified me. why do people do such risky things? jay insists that the rush is worth it, but i don't know... i'd just rather be safe, up to a point. apparently geocities has a 3GB/mo download rate limit. after i published my pictures page yesterday, people must have hit it hard, because my site had to be shut down for a while. i calculated it to be just over 4MB/hr as the point where they have to stop the server. so go easy on the pictures page, ok? if you've been reading for a while now, all the pictures are old ones i've posted previously. diana mentioned snoring when she and mike and others were travelling through china. it reminded me of the fact that alan and i will probably stay in the same room. jay likes his room blazingly hot, and alan and i like it cold. and since i can't stand the heat (i'm burning in my buttondown as i type right now), i've gotta have the cold room. but the problem is that alan snores like a motherfucker. i have to make sure i bring some nyquil or something just in case i can't fall asleep. damn. his snores are like little earthquakes. richter scale, baby. hopefully i fall asleep first. ugh. it's hot here in the office. but i don't want to take off my shirt because all i have underneath it is a white undershirt. i swear, heat gives me such PMS. it makes me cranky, irritable, ticcy and all that. ok. i give up. i gotta take off this shirt. *phew* i'm bummed that the journalists i read haven't been updating much recently. come on people! give me something to read! so our company got an official logo. it looks funny. i know it's supposed to look like rolling hills (get it? greenfield). but there are these little squares sitting on top of the hills. i think they're supposed to be chips, but that's silly. chips sitting on top of hills? ugh. but at least now that they've finalized the logo (we didn't get to vote on the prospective designs), i hope i get my business cards soon. business cards are such a waste. we get like a 300+ of them. how many people actually manage to give out a decent percentage of that? i always wind up throwing away the vast majority of them when i leave the company. and they're not cheap to make, either! i feel antisocial today. i guess that isn't new. but the company dinner and bocce ball just doesn't excite me. oh well. chalk it up to something i need to do, rather than something i want to do. at least tomorrow hopefully i'll hang out with alan, who's planning on coming down in the afternoon. i realized yesterday that i've been spelling "hermione" wrong all along. i thought it was "hermoine." no wonder i used to pronounce her name "her-MOYN." duh. now i feel stupid. it's similar to the time when i thought it was "dairyland" instead of "diaryland." i guess those little "i"'s are really hard for me to see or something. not much going on today. i'm dead tired as usual from my friday 9:00 meeting. and congrats to miami for blowing out nebraska for the national championship. i would have liked to see what would have happened had nebraska won (go oregon!) but alas, miami truly was the best team this year. but what bugs me is that we'll never know if oregon could have competed with them. |