i am all alone on my half of the office. no one in the cubes near me...no one in the offices surrounding me....it's so lonely. it's like something in my brain knew that no one would be here and allowed me to sleep for an extra two hours (in my own bed that i love so much which is good but bad cuz my cousins left and my house is lonely and quiet now). so it's a nice lonely. i can actually go to lunch..i haven't eaten lunch this week yet cuz it's been so crazy here that i forgot and ended up eating triscuits to tide me over to a late dinner. alvin's working near me for the time being, so i think i'm gonna meet up with him for lunch.

i think i'm hypersensitive. the head secretary (i guess that's what you'd call her) just came in and threw my copy request at me and asked me "what is this?" like i offended her by requesting another copy of the report i wrote. grr. that's her JOB. i gotta go make sure she doesn't mess it up....

let's talk about working far from where you live. it stinks. i scare myself sometimes because lately i've been getting to work and not really remembering getting there. it's that tired-and-not-quite-awake-yet daze...and i get to work and think that at any point on my commute to work i could have caused a huge accident cuz i was half-incoherent on the freeway. and i'm still sleepy. need coffee...p.s. 3 hour conference calls: thumbs down.

the CARTOON TOURNEY is over!!! the midwest committee would like to express our deepest thanks to all of those who have participated as well as a huge THANKS to the Organizer for all his hardwork to produce the best cartoon tourney ever!!

soooo much fun! what are we gonna do next?

people taking the extra day off on long holiday weekends makes my day sooo much better....i ran into virtually no traffic this morning. it was great. and i've been relieved of potential paintball engagements so i can go see harry connick, jr. tonight. i just hope it doesn't rain. i have my banig that turns into a bag and i don't want it to get all muddy.

tagalog lesson for today: banig - (bah NIG') noun. grass mat that i use for sitting in the lawn sections of concert areas. mine is pretty and folds up into a bag and i got in the philippines for 150 pesos. that's like three bucks. yay.

*have fun in nyc, everyone...i wish i could go, too. bring back fun stories so i can live vicariously!!*

me and ny spent the evening assemling my new elliptical. this is very exciting. i don't know if this will lead to a healthier lifestyle or will serve to justify eating crap whenever i want. i didn't realize how much dance practice allowed me to eat whatever i wanted til i became a lump routinely moving from the bed to the car to the swivel chair to the car to the couch and back to bed every day. activity not done on ass = good thing.

i'm sick! again! how is this happening...i NEVER get sick..or got sick. did you know that in all of high school--all four years--i missed ONE day from being sick. ONE! and in college, i never really got sick either. i'd get sniffly or a little put out every now and then, but not sick sick where i couldn't do anything. not like this year. i've been sick like 3 times...not just sniffly, but sick-and-out-of-commission. perhaps it's this whack weather swinging 50 degrees every day. or maybe it's riding rollercoasters over 200 feet high at 92 mph in 35 degree weather. i'm sure that didn't help. i went to cedar point with the cousins on sunday. sooo fun. roby had a bum knee so he got this disability pass that let us jump the line and wait only 15 minutes. woohoo! we rode millenium force twice and waited a total of 30 minutes. his bum knee saved us 6 hours in line. =) so thanks, roby!! it's only the second best time i've had at cedar point. the best time was when i was 13 and we went with my cousins from the philippines on a tuesday in early may and there were NO lines. we rode all the rides like at least 5 times--even the bad ones--just cuz we could. it was like we owned the place AND it was the only day my mom ever let me skip school when i wasn't sick. i think she sorta loosened up after that cuz in '98 she let kimmie skip her last month of senior year to go to the philippines...

this morning i watched a pregnant woman walk across a gas station smoking a cigarette.

=(

i really don't like antoine walker. before, i thought he was alright...a good basketball player--ugly as hell--but a talented athlete. even amidst the round 2 game 1 crowds, i wasn't particularly feeling the hated "walker" chants or the guys with the fake fros sitting next to me in my center court seat seizing every opportunity to tell antoine walker that he sucked when the crowd was relatively quiet. perhaps because i never avidly watched a boston celtics game til then. but now.....arrgghh. i don't like him at all. i might even offer the word hate here, but i'll refrain. perhaps this is what other people feel when they hate kobe (which i don't understand). grr....so i guess, go nets!...kick some green butt.

on a different note: what do you get a mom that has everything she needs, requires absolutely nothing more than she has, and likes to chill at home? oh yeah...and mother's day was three days ago so there goes one round of gift ideas. it's not a riddle. i need help. it's my mom's birthday today and i'm fresh out of ideas. and don't say a plant. she'll just let it die. anyone?

you know what's so great about instant messenger? you can have a completely random thought (and damn funny, sometimes) that no one within close proximity will understand and you can just im your friend. it's like studying at the same table in the library, and talking when you don't want to anymore. i'm aware that this is old news and probably thought of many times before...but i found myself marvelling in it yesterday while i was out at a site about how great it is and how lonely you don't have to be at work if the people you work with suck. =) or even if they don't suck and are just really busy and responsible.

i get to take drugs. yup, my shoulder requires drugs. big pills. heavy stuff. i'm not sure how effective it is on the pain cuz it just knocks me out everytime i take it. i spent the entire weekend crashed on the couch. needless to say, i didn't take them yesterday in an effort to be productive at work. my mom told me i could get some money for it if i sold it on the black market. silly, mommy...i wouldn't even know where this "black market" is to sell the stuff. hehe..

i tried blogging three times yesterday....the second and third times were in an effort to express my frustration after losing half an hour worth of blogging...but to no avail. so we'll see if this one works. i went to the marshall fields yesterday cuz i have this gift certificate from a christmas present that i returned and ended up getting gypped on the gift certificate. but that's a whole other story full of further frustration and incompetent make-up counter girls. anyway...i wish they would have just given me the money when i returned it. i had the receipt..it's not like i just brought in the gift. i wanted the money, not store credit. =P i hate store credit at stores i don't really shop at. i end up buying stuff that i don't really need...or want, sometimes. i just spend it cuz it's about to expire. and if you don't use the whole thing, they issue you another gift certificate for like $8. woohoo. =| can we use marshall fields gift certificates at target? then it would be worthwhile...


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what's wrong with my shoulder? at first it just felt like there was this knot that was making me sore near my collar bone, but now it's migrated to the back and it doesn't feel like a knot...there's this sort of hot pain shooting through it every now and then. and it's been almost a week...so i'm thinking doctor visit. but then once i say that it doesn't hurt anymore. ugh. and then there's the thing with my leg. i think i'm getting broken. what have i been doing to have a sore shoulder and leg, you ask? hmm...well nothing, really. nothing physically taxing...except for waving around a pompom at the pistons game sunday. that was with my good arm. blechh. maybe it's the weather?

MIDWEST REGION - Sweet Sixteen

g.i. joe had an easy time wiping out the rescue rangers, but can the american heroes defeat mulan and her army--swift as a coursing river? tough as a great typhoon? strong as a raging fire? mysterious as the dark side of the moon? Vote now!

(3) GI Joe

(15) Mulan

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it's time for the SWEET SIXTEEN!!! view the official tourney bracket here.


EAST REGION - Sweet Sixteen

after a HUGE upset, gummi bears send the bugs packing to win a spot in the sweet sixteen. can bugs & co. defeat the bouncing fur balls as easily as they did aladdin and his genie? Vote now!

(1) Looney Toons

(5) Gummi Bears

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