| 21 may 2002 it's about fuckin' time! amazon finally shipped out my _sex and the city: season 3_ dvd set. i ordered it months ago. *cheers* last night was spent watching two finales. the first one was _ally_, and the show was really really weak. i think they had about 20 minutes worth of material, so they stretched it out by having some ridiculously long commercial breaks. it's so sad because at its height, the show was wonderfully written. and calista flockheart was so adorable in the beginning, before she lost all that weight. she had cheeks before! last night, she had this one scene where she flexed, and i swear, her arms were like olive oil's. ick. still, i am sad to see the show leave. i felt at home with these quirky neurotic characters. ally was a bit too whiny, but i really identified with john cage. ah, sadness. and seeing billy and ally together still makes me feel a bit weak. goodbye! adieu, adieu! it was a valiant 5-year run. then, i watched a tape of last week's _dawson's_ finale. ok. horrible. i mean, i was surfing the web and checking e-mail while listening, and even still it was enough to make me sick. how many times can so supposed soulmates get together and break up and get back together? *eyeroll* hey, when did the WWF change into the WWE? check out the stuff they have at timbuk2.com. they make shoulder bags and stuff. apparently they're hella durable and waterproof. and you get to design your own colors! so i gave myself a reprieve from my shopping abstinence and ordered one. because i need a bag for my camera (which some come tomorrow! *so excited*). i got a silver cordura pork chop bag. silver porkchop. how cute is that. i was trying to decide between blue and yellow at first, but when i saw the silver, it was game over. i'm listening to josh groban. yes, i caved in and bought this piece of velveeta. (if you watch _ally_, he's the dude who asked ally out to prom and sang at the event.) it's hella cheesy (the fact that david foster produced and arranged a lot of the songs should have told me something), but i have to admit, he has a pretty good voice. he's kind of a goofball, though. he looks like a slightly more photogenic version of screech. speaking of screech, he's going to be on the 2nd installment of fox's celebrity boxing. the only match i'm interested in is chyna (joanie laurer) vs. joey buttafucco. i want to see chyna totally kick someone's ass. back when she was in the WWF, she looked pretty weak next to the beefcakes in the ring. and whenever she got hit, she just crumpled, and i bet that if it were real, she'd just keep fighting. last night, i was flipping through jay's IKEA catalog. why do people hate them again? i don't know much about the store, but they have some pretty neat stuff. i have stayed away from getting into home furnishing, because i want to minimize my furniture until i have a house. but man, when i decide to furnish my place, i think i'll go nuts. and it's pretty complicated stuff, trying to make sure everything matches. a part of me wants everything to be modern and metallic and of course silver. but i am very aware that although it might look cool, it definitely makes the place sort of cold and detached. not very comfortable. so the other option is going with wood. and of course i want some bright colors. so we'll see. i haven't really played with matching furniture before, so it'll be a gradual process. and i still haven't seen an episode of _trading spaces_ yet. but yeah. once jay moves out, i might want to check out IKEA in oakland. but in order to keep me from going bonkers over everything, i'm going to go through the catalog first and pick out what i like beforehand. things i need are a kitchen table, chairs, and a nicer chair for my desk. maybe a coffee table. magazine racks. end tables. lamps. uh oh. i'm going carried away. shit, why can't they just build the new palo alto IKEA already. oakland is too far! woah. this track 7 on the josh groban is produced by rhys fulber. that name... wasn't he in industrial electronica music before? ah yes... he is one of the guys behind front line assembly, intermix, fear factory, and delirium. this groban song has that familiar softcore synth bassline going on, like on his delirium albums. yesterday, my old company finally announced their product. there are articles about it at lightreading and this other place. i'm not sure how i feel about it. i mean, the announce is the culmination of all the hard work we put in, but most of the people who worked on the chips got canned. so it's really bittersweet, i guess. *sigh* i want to be happy and proud, but the bad taste in my mouth over the layoff just makes me want bitchslap somebody. so, i was talking to somebody about how i am meeting online people and making some friends that way. that person got really concerned, and said, "i don't think that's safe. i mean, what if... they were GAY?" i totally stopped, and i just didn't know what to say. i mean, when somebody i knows displays evidence of prejudice and bigotry, i get paralyzed. should i say something? should i tell them they're being stupid? but i don't want to judge the person. ugh. it's a bad scene. anyways, i was really bothered. i struggle a lot with judging people. on one hand, i hate people who put others down and constantly say "this is wrong, this is right, this is good, this is evil." yet, the very sentiment i'm feeling is a judgment in itself, right? so once again, i'm being a hypocrite. but lately, since i am getting annoyed and irritated so often, i find myself fighting this problem more and more frequently. one of the solutions is for me to stop reading some particular blogs. there are a few that really make me want to wretch, and frankly, i must have a strong masochistic streak to keep going back. and i know i'm not the only person who keeps looking at stuff i dislike. why do we do that? it makes absolutely no sense! whoops. my project lead is calling. must go. one last thing. this past saturday, i got one hit. ONE. 1. i heard geocities was down, but hey! if you're that person, i want to hear from you. |