i'm overwhelmed with the amount of work sitting in front of me right now. it's one of those things where all you want to do is just go back to bed and hope that makes it...i dunno...go away? somehow makes it better if you procrastinate? i think a lot of my anxiety comes from having to call a bunch of people i don't know -- which is really hard for me to do cuz i get shy...i actually have to work up the nerve before calling strangers (even pizza places, haha) -- and then i have to ask these people questions that i only semi understand (for work, not the pizza places). i hate the getting of the experience. it's really uncomfortable.

byebye chrissy and conehead. i lost my dinner friend for the week. i don't know why it feels like so much longer. maybe cuz i can't randomly im her during the day or make the attempt to plan dinner and actually not have one of us cancel. and it's only a week!! haha. hope you guys have fun in china!!

let me just state for the record that jenny tai ranks among the top 10 best girlfriends of all time. eating food made by the same chef that cooked for the kennedys and the president of france and for clinton while he was at the white house and a whole bunch of other famous people was pretty cool. and the food was sooo good. *insert about-to-cry-face here.* so thanks, alvin for having a great girlfriend!! =D

went to the vincent chin 20th year remembrance conference this past weekend. it went really well from a conference perspective, especially considering it was planned in 3 months. lots of big names in civil rights activism and a handful of government reps. very exciting. but i'm definitely not as into it as i was in college..but that's a blog for another day....i get to go to lorie's site this friday for work if i finish the rest of my work. so that's what i'm going to do. hehe..it's like being a kid: "if you finish all your vegetables you can have dessert."

i wonder what it is that makes me feel that one exclamation point just isn't emphatic enough for me.

hi!

it looks so plain and not very emotional.

hi!!!

there..now that is emphatic. and i think it truly conveys my emotion. i can be that happy. or excited. haha..i'm silly..it's friday and i'm leaving work at 4!!!! (see?...there it is.)

go to the vincent chin conference everyone!! it's gonna be really good. i don't care how badly you need to pack to go to shanghai. ;D

i went to a movie as a part young adults outreach/fellowship thing at st. john's last night. we had wine and cheese for refreshments. what?! i mean, st. john's is a nice place, but i was just surprised at the wine and cheese. at a fellowship. i guess i shouldn't have been surprised at a facility that supplies baby bottles of mouthwash and hand lotion for you in the bathrooms.

why i would never be able to be a truck driver:
*my car would be really heavy. heavy car = sloooooooooow very sloooow acceleration = cause traffic = feeling bad for forcing others to drive slow

*tunnel vision would inevitably affect me fatally

*in the worst sleepy situation, even rent can't keep me awake

*spending 3 hours of my day in a car already stinks.

i spent the entire morning driving. i could be in chicago. i still have to drive home. someone get on making teleporting real...

i got dressed this morning in a long-sleeve shirt, took a look at the sun shining and the lack of audible wind (present over the weekend) and decided...it's gonna be hot today, i better change into a short-sleeve shirt and not wear a jacket. wouldn't want to be hot, would i? and now, here i am, 40 miles from my house and it's cold and raining and the only jacket i had in my car was a denim jacket that is not the same color as the jeans i'm wearing. agh...shame on me for not listening to the weather report. so if you see me today, don't make fun, cuz i'm just trying to keep warm.

oh yeah..everyone go to the vincent chin remembrance next weekend. don't know what i'm talking about? check it out.

it's friday!!!!! finally. whew. thought this day would never come. i think that sleeping with my ceiling fan on makes it harder to get out of bed. and there's this annoying bird that might only chirp right outside my window on friday mornings. happy weekend!

okay, someone's gonna have to explain mulholland dr. to me, because i don't get it. not fully. who was telling me it's really good? victor? now i'm not sure if he was lying or if he really thought it was good. times like this i reflect on my simple-mindedness. i'm not very good at recognizing symbolism or interpreting anything really...perhaps this is why romantic comedies entertain me so much. i just absorb...no thinking. i mean, i like movies that make you think, but half the time i'm too impatient. patience patience patience...still working on that. i will forever be working at it. anyway..i think i need to read more books. where's my book club again??

it was tough getting out of bed this morning. i think it's gonna be a long week...

everyone around me is sitting around looking for stuff to do. i don't understand how my desk is swamped and they have nothing to do. aiya. i guess i should be grateful that i'm busy? job security....

i'm going to the tigers game tonight with work. woo. i'm just excited (eh) cuz these are the closest seats i've ever had.

dancing to a song that you don't really like is hard. i like the choreography, but not the song. =P

happy birthday chrislum!!! woohoo! the big two-seven yesterday! you're a big boy now....;D hope you had a great day...i think the lakers won just cuz it was your birthday. lucky you. go nets.

let me just say that palak had the best graduation party. the enormous inflated twister mat made it. ddt amoung booo-ga-looo psycho jumping was ridiculous fun. we all need one in our backyards. =)

i'm moving to a bigger cube on the fun side of the office...not that my cube isn't big already. if i reach both of my arms out,my fingers barely rest on the desks on opposite sides of my cube now...and i get a BIGGER one! i think the extra space will speak to my manager as "more work" which we won't think about right now. i better move my stuff now so the new girl can take over my cube. =P