| 9 jun 2001 MOTHERFUCKIN' WOOHAA!! i'm done moving all (i mean ALL) of my shit to the new place! today jeremy came with the monster chevy suburban. that car is the SHIZNIT for carrying big things... two trips, and i was all done with the main stuff. on the first trip, it fit my futon, futon mattress, desk, my tv, and some other random stuff... no problem! wow. i must give warm and fuzzies out to my pal jeremy for helping out. i treated him to a small token of my appreciation by buying him a burrito for lunch. we both love burritos. so after he left, i made my final cartrip. it was kind of pain; it's that random shit that you can't really group with anything else, so everything gets thrown in the car without packing. like three piano books, a couple of pairs of shoes, a beach umbrella, some coat hangers, my alarm clock. just RANDOM stuff. and after i unloaded it all into the new place... i just stripped down and unpacked in the buff. yeah. i roamed around the new place naked, setting up my bed, computer, stereo, tv, etc. for some reason, getting naked seemed like a good reflection of my new happy mood. i wonder if that's weird... but who fucking cares? I'M HAPPY!!!! there's a lot more work to get the place in a livable condition. i'm putting my desk outside in the living room (so jay can use my computer), so i don't have a place where i can just throw my random shit in my own room. and there are a whole ton of boxes that i need to go through before i store them. i want to get rid of a lot of my stuff, and this time, i think i'm going to actually throw away my schoolbooks. it's a terrible thing, because i spent SO much money on them... but i honestly don't think i'll ever crack them open again. surveying the living room and how full it was of my shit made me realize how much stuff i own. and that doesn't include any furniture, so i was just stunned. and i'm going to make a concerted effort on cutting down my possessions. my friend mark mentioned to me that he has a "four box" rule. that is, all his key belongings should fit in four big boxes. i think that's the right idea. although, i don't know how i would ever be able to do it, seeing how my clothes would take up all four boxes right now. and that's AFTER i got rid of ton of them last year! so the phone line's dead at my place. i just called pac bell and told them to come out and test it out on monday. i hate this four-hour window you have to give them... basically, they're going to be at my place monday anywhere from 8am to noon. there's GOT to be more granularity than that. but without my phone line being active, i can't check e-mail or update this journal at home, which makes me feel so ISOLATED from the world. it's really a scary thing how dependent i have become to being online. so... i put on my clothes and drove my ass down to work, which is where i am right now, typing this journal. i had this fantastical notion of doing a "journal in the buff" thing... and i'm pretty bummed i won't be able to do it any time soon... jay gets in on monday, so there's no chance of lounging around by myself naked at the new place, typing these entries sans clothes. ----- yesterday, we had another all-hands meeting at work. i turned off my cell phone because i can't STAND it when people get phone calls during movies and meetings and such. when i got home, i realized that i had forgotten to turn on my cell phone, so i immediately powered it on. and right then, driving down agnew, i thought, "hey... i wonder if carol called..." you see, i e-mailed her on thursday night about possibly meeting up on friday instead, since the thursday thing fell through. and sure enough, my phone did that beep which indicated that i had a voice mail message. and it was her! so basically, we met up at milpitas square. had a pearl milk tea and stuff. she was taller than i had imagined, and her voice was higher, too. they're not bad things, mind you, but it's just interesting how we have these preconceptions of various aspects of a persona, given a few facts to go one, like an online journal and a few pictures. so that was neat! i FINALLY got to meet an online denizen! i was totally comfortable, but it was a little interesting, because there was a lot of basic getting-to-know-you conversation. if you know me, you'll know that my forte at talking to someone isn't the mundane stuff... it's like talking about problems or basically deeper issues. but either way, it was totally cool meeting up with carol. i'm a little concerned, because she's pretty thin, and i've grown to be sensitive about weight issues and stuff when it comes to women. i hope she eats well. i mean, she got some groceries at ranch 99, and they were pretty healthy items... vegetables, a chunk of salmon, and mushrooms. so at least she seems to eat healthy. beef up! too bad carol's moving to the city, though. i think that'll make it more of a hindrance to further gatherings. an opinion of her? can't say. need more datapoints! more datapoints! but yeah, i'd like to hang out with her some more if it's possible. one thing i'll say, though... is that she didn't curse at all... and that's something that i expected after reading her journal and her e-mails. i think she's a clean girl. it took a while to finish that paragraph. alan called my cell, and i had to scramble out of the building to get better reception. haven't talked to my best friend in a while. sigh. good day. hard day. lots of moving heavy things. up stairs, no less. but i'm very satisfied with my move. now i just need to clean up and get that damn phone line working. yup. i'm off. gonna meet with sonya for some pmt (you should know what that is now, right?) and maybe catch a movie. ciao! |