23 March 2001 (Friday)
Nyssa cooked me the best dinner Friday night! I love it when people cook for me, and love to cook for me. Nothing pleases me more. She made baked Korean teriyaki chicken over rice with sauteed asparagas, carrots, onion and bok choy. It was the tastiest meal ever. Afterwards, we walked over to the Art Institute where Kimann's band Toobit performed. Nyssa and I have never been to the Art Institute and it's a crazy building, perfect for a photo shoot. It looks like part old monastery, part M.C. Escher building with wide expanses of cement and stairs going up and down. I want to go back sometime and do a photo shoot. Nyssa said she wanted to go back and hang out and pretend she was an art student.
I really feel like I'm getting old because I can't go out as much as I used to. On Friday, I had gotten to work at 7:30, which means I woke up at 6:30. By 12:30, I was home watching Blind Date and then I literally fell into bed and passed out. But I guess if there was something fun and interesting to do at night I would do it. So really, it's not my fault I don't go out into the wee hours.
24 March 2001 (Saturday)
I went to see my family on Saturday. I helped my dad cook dinner - we made these mini-omelettes stuffed with ground pork and it's a lot harder to make mini-omelettes than you might think. I think you need some sort of flair in your wrist to toss those suckers. So I practiced real hard and my last mini-omelette was perfect. Then you toss the mini-omelettes into homemade soup and making a tasty soup also is not as easy as it may seem.
That night I went to a modern dance performance at Cellspace with Maggie. I wasn't sure what to expect because I have never seen modern dance before. I figured out that modern dance is a subset of modern art in that it doesn't follow a linear story but rather is open for interpretation. This particular performance featured a huge chaise lounge with people clinging to it and rolling over it. Then they would leap! and roll! and dance! across the floor and then slump! like rag dolls. Then another dancer would pick them up between the legs and they would slump! like rag dolls over their shoulder. They would run to this balcony area and dance! and then slump! over the railing and then stand up and posture and then slump! over the railing. The the spotlight would switch and you'd see a couple dancing and rolling across the doorway with various other people clinging to the wall structures. There was lots of slumping and picking up other dancers between the legs. Not to undermine the talent, the dancing was actually really good. I'm glad it wasn't as experimental as I feared it may be.
25 March 2001 (Sunday)
My second Sunday morning of bikram yoga and I did much better! I think I just needed to get used to the heat. But I really want to continue with it and see if I can get more flexible. Nyssa and I are going to try and go every Sunday morning.
Andrea and Lillie came over around 1:30 and I was so excited to see them! I haven't seen Andrea in about 3 months, and she is adorable as ever. There are very few girls who can make me flustered and say really stupid things, and Andrea is one of them. It's total crush syndrome for me when it comes to her. We went to Crepevine for a late brunch and then took Lillie to Golden gate park for some paddle-boating. By the end of the paddle-boating, my legs were completely tired since they had gone through yoga that morning.
I dropped off Andrea and Lillie at the Bart station and then had dinner with Diane. I've lost interest in watching the Academy Awards, though Jennifer Lopez's nipples did get my attention.
Thursday, 22 March 2001
You know what's amusing to me? The gym locker room. I can see a totally cute girl walking into the gym, and the next thing I know, she is naked a few feet away from me. It's the one of only places where you can learn intimate details about someone without any sexual pretense. For instance, the cute girl in my free weights class who I discovered does not wear underwear. Or someone else who has weird nipples. Or someone else who does not shave. I think an awkward moment is when I see an acquaintance at the gym who I've never changed in front of before. Then it's like all of a sudden, "hey! I'm topless in front of you! What do you think about that?"
Last night I ran into my friend Amy at the gym, in the locker room. I haven't seen her in years; she was my first friend in college. I've been meeting a lot of people I haven't seen in awhile...my first girlfriend (at the gym, in the locker room), I had dinner with Sara Monday night (haven't seen her since my birthday), Amy last night, and tonight I am having dinner with Susana (haven't seen her since my birthday either). It's weird how that all happens.
Tuesday, 20 March 2001
So last night I experienced my first black-out due to the energy crisis. I was actually watching TV about the crisis when everything went black. I shouted "noooo!" and in the restuarant downstairs, everyone echoed my sentiment. It's really weird how they do it, because our block was down but across the street was fine. I'm glad my roommates were home because I become quite useless in the dark because I am Scared of the Dark. Sara came over, as we had dinner plans, and driving down Mission Street was creepy because it was pitch black on some blocks with a lot of people milling about. Fortunately, power was only down for about an hour, but I'm wondering when it will be down again. It's really creepy how it gets shut off without warning.
Today our Exchange server is down at work, and it's amazing how useless no emails renders us. I don't know when my meetings are because I can't access my online calendar! I've actually had more phone calls today from co-workers than I get in an entire week. Now I'm back to writing things down by hand on my calendar and talking to people on the phone...reverting back to the Dark Ages of technology.