Tuesday, September 11, 2001

so i decided to call in sick to work today so i could do some hard core job searching for a real grown-up job. you know...making connections, phone calls, emails, faxes....i was feeling weird about doing job-hunt calls at work. i feel that i have to be super sneaky about making the phone calls when i'm at work so that someone doesn't walk in while i'm going " can i have your fax number so i can send you my resume?" and then get all offended that i'm looking for a new job cuz mine is not so great and then--this is the worst part, tho' it's pretty certain that this will never happen--they would tell on me to my project manager. not that people actually tell on each other. anyway...making phone calls at work was way too stressful. so here's my point: i took the day off to job search but then some stupid group of terrorists decides to hijack planes and ram them into manhattan and the pentagon, sending panic to everyone in the u.s. (especially me), ultimately sending everyone in every major metropolitan area home from work. so much for making contacts. looks like i might have to stay home from work again tomorrow. do you think that work will be open tomorrow? hmm..

but i do have to say that i am so so so so so so so happy and grateful that all my friends in nyc are safe and sound and my prayers and my heart go out to all the victims and their families and friends. what a shock. for everyone, i mean. it's such a scary thing that we could have lost so many of our friends and that thousands of people are probably dead because of this and that the attacks didn't have to stop on the east coast. hopefully they're stopping.

it is a sad day.

it's really important to pray for everyone affected by this, and it's also really important to pray for the people who did this. i know it's so hard to pray for the people that hurt you, but they are the people that probably need the most prayers out of anyone.


p.s. big HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY to mr. porta for celebrating quarter-century!!!! my quarters go out to you... ;D

Friday, September 07, 2001

hmm...not too much going on with me. i watched the vma's last night like a slave to pop culture. i taped it, too, even though i know it will be on a million more times this week alone. i'm about to go to ann arbor in a few minutes...if eric can get his blogger to work. i like ann arbor. great bubble, umich. =D i have to remember to bring a fan for bunso. see? i didn't forget. not that i remember the rest of the stuff she asked me to bring to her....

Wednesday, September 05, 2001

i'm getting the feeling that this won't be a very consistent thing for me. it's like me checking email and getting on aim...not very often. you know what i need? i need my own computer at my own desk at a job where i have my own phone. is that so much to ask? i didn't think so. that's why i'm looking for a real job. i need to get out of ppg and industrial labs where everyone is at least a decade and a half older than me. =P but you know what? i'm not gonna complain, cuz i'm going to be motivated in my jobsearch. thank God eric's helping me...he's the coolest. i miss being a student. i feel that not being around my twenty greatest friends in the world has left me to be really boring. and dancing...man, i need to do that more often, too. it was so awesome to dance last sunday (even though it was in front of a gym-full of filipinos there to watch basketball) with eric and steve. and the greatest part was that jonyang and sam and pz and gonads and rollen and chrislee and babbs were all there. ooh! you can't forget joeria...that is where my dancing at umich began (right, martin?!). i really need to find a way to dance. maybe my cousin will hook me up with a gig as a hip hop aerobics instructor....

Monday, September 03, 2001

whew. finally. after a bit of confusion i have made it to my first blog. so yay for kimmie, the best bunso EVER, cuz she made me this blogspot for my birthday(thanks, man! you're the bomb.), hence, the birthday greeting and the "i love you ate" marquee. by the way that's a-te not ate like i ate a banana. so does this promote me to the ranks of cool people cuz now i can blog? hehe...