so the weekend went pretty well. i found pants that fit (strange pants though..) but no shoes. so that was sort of sad, since i really need new ones soon. But other than that, there were no disappointments. i drove up to davis friday night, mostly crowded verses bad traffic. there were stupid drivers out on the road though. i have to rant here. i have no problem with you going 65-70 miles an hour, just not in the fast lane because then you create TONS of back ups and accidents when other reckless drivers start to swerve around you. anyway, that was mostly the problem, you'd think you were in a sea of traffic, but if you were weaving in traffic (ok, i admit i weave when people are obnoxious, but i don't do it dangerously) you could get around and into a clear area. it just makes me really mad. i mean, it's called the fast lane, you're supposed to go fast.

anyway, got to davis and got pearl tea. went to bed early due to exhaustion. however, at 1-2am, the stupid neighbors next door arrived home, drunk off their bums and were extremely noisy. you could hear them on the opposite end of the apartment. i wanted to go kick their shins, but alas, am shy in my pj pants (and doubt that it would do any good in the efforts to get them to shut up). so i had a talk with greg on the most random topics (which i can't remember anymore except at one point we were mocking W). we went walking with art in the morning, over an hour on the greenbelt. then we went grocery shopping and had lunch. yummy bread was purchased. then greg and i went shopping for shoes and i ended up with pants. oh well. we came home, wavered over what to have for dinner, ended up with pizza with art and then baked cookies and had james over and watched amelie. such a cute movie! i'm going to have to buy it. she really reminds me of my friend joy. well, creatively speaking and all her "strategies" or games and her creativity. yeah. so i can see why joy loved the movie when it came out, kind of logical. sunday we slept in and then made wonton soup for lunch. i watched a lot of tv while greg studied and art dropped in on aaron's kegger. then we had dinner and i drove back. again, stupid drivers.

and then i watched alias. i love alias, i wish i were as cool as sidney. oh well, i'm sure some people are and they don't enjoy their lives. grass is greener on the other side.

i went to the eh&s class today. i won a coffee mug. so art can afford to lose it i guess. anyway, off to wean some mice.

*yawn* another day. no mice have bit me (so far), so i'm feeling lucky. ish. i'm dead tired feeling though. i just want to lay down and take a nap. i could really use some tea or coffee or caffeine in most any form, right now. plans to go up to davis on friday are solidifying. i will be art's sherpa. or his pack horse, or whatever animal you'd like to pretend i was. i want to go bowling or minigolfing and then i'm going to buy food and have, in general, a good weekend. it's nice to have weekends again. when your summer was one big long one, i really didn't know what to do with myself. but now, i'm going to appreciate every moment. i haven't had a nonstop vacation for 3 months since sometime in the beginning of high school. i was working the past.. 6 to 7 summers. so it was a nice break. i'd do it again.

alright, i'm off to clip some tails, ear tag some mice and defrost the freezer. i'm the 'i'll do whatever you want me to do' girl.

What to do now? where to go? who to beg for work? i know, no one. again, the work and training thing.

so may i just say, do you think it's worth 6 dollars a month for the local channels to be delivered to me via the small little satellite dish? because all i'd watch is buffy. i mean, that's the only channel other than the wb i don't get (the upn, i mean). anyway, let your opinion be known, email me and I'll try and post some answers.

so i'm at my new job. things are going kind of slow since everyone's trying to work and train me at the same time, which doesn't work very well for those of you who have jobs know. the mice are smelly, nothing new there, i don't do anything horrible to them so far, which is fine with me, i just sort them by sex (boys in one cage, girls in another, only a certain number of mice per cage etc). everything is pretty humane for the poor mice, so they aren't actually all that poor.

the weekend was ok. friday night freesh and i worked on our speech a bit and then went out for lunch with robin at chevy's. i tried the new crab and shrimp quesadilla, it was ok, not something i'm going to crave, but definitely edible and good on the palate. then we departed from robin's company and went to work on the speech more. i will eventually post pictures of that. saturday we got up and gave our speech. we didn't actually end up giving the whole thing since half way through, the broiling (or boiling, which ever method you prefer) audience decided to clap like that was it, so we ended our speech, ate our bagel, bs'd a little w/the people who gave lots of money (can i have some too?) and went home. then went to gym (bad gym day, minidisc player decided to delete my minidisc, elipical machine was mean and reset itself), went home, went to dinner at uncle brad's and aunt gina's over in pleasanton for grandma's birthday. home. bed. sunday went running/walking around the golf course, showered, went to mary's goodbye dim sum (chicago isn't that much cooler than the bay area, right?). went to aunt terry's house for the afternoon, dinner, bed.

ta-da.
and tata, i get to go home early.

*yawn* what a busy couple of days it has been.

well, i finally got a job (self esteem gets a semi lift there), but it's not a terrific great, i'm thrilled to get it job. i actually am a bit.. hesitant about it, but as my mom says, we'll only know how horrible it is once i start. and if i hate it, i can always quit. it is managing mice colonies and then doing some molecular biolgoy, it is definitely a lab tech job, not a research associate, which is what i wanted. but i can't have it all and if i don't go off to grad school next year (which is looking pretty likely) i can always look for another job.

i went to davis last weekend, that was pretty fun. greg and i went to apple hill (i know, it sounds trite) and picked our own apples. lots of apples. and then i gave lots of apples away and kept about.. 8 of them for myself ;o). we also had alli over for dinner, yummy yummy chicken in white wine sauce type thing. yummy. and we went out for ice cream with freecia and james and jay and alice. ben and jerrys makes good cookie dough ice cream, but there aren't a lot of bits of cookie dough. or maybe we got the jipped version, who knows.

mom and dad came up with a bunch of art's furniture, so we put that all together and my dad wanted to treat us to dinner, but it was only 2:30 when he finished so we went to macys and bought stuff at origins, browsed old town sacramento (western cliche) and then went out for thai food. it seems like everytime my dad wants to go out for dinner with greg present, we go to thai food. he's having a thai streak.

i also finally updated my webpage and finished all the pictures i've taken (with the exception of my graduation because i haven't taken any pictures from that and therefore must wait for everyone to send me their pictures of me, which only my grandpa has done so far).

today i took my mom to the eye doctor (because they dilated her eyes and she couldn't drive after that). so she let me drive her car, which was *whee* but a bit scary since i didn't want to kill the car (and subsequently myself). i hear myself being called to the table for dinner and then i'm going to the gym.

a tout a l'heure.

so i picked up the avril lavigne cd. it's actually pretty good, i like it a lot, and thus it's been playing repeatedly in my room for the past day and a half or so. the funny thing is that you can't just play the cd from your cdrom, which, i'm sure, seems like a pretty good idea to the music industry (look, they can't play it on their computer, they'll give up and not make mp3s and redistribute it!), but sadly they were quite mistaken. ironically, the one of the only programs i can get to play the music from is my cd ripping one (the one that turns it into mp3s) and thus i have achieved that which they were trying to stop. but i wouldn't have had to make mp3s if they only let me listen to it on my computer. so where does that leave us? and it's rather stupid for them not to make it playable by the cdroms and not give me any warning. greg says a guy in NY complained about that, hired a lawyer and sued, even won the case. but it's just not worth it. the music industry is trying to make our life without meaningful recourse. again, greg was telling me about a law in california that the state assembly was supposedly going to try and pass, where the music industry could raid any computer they thought was violating their principles (ie distributing mp3s). it's a violation of our rights though, i mean, that's why the police have to get warrents to search our personal premise, why should the music industry surpass the police in that effect without consequence and without public recourse to object if they have been maligned. it all just makes me angry and sad - what's the world coming to type of feeling.

so today a friend asked me if i was worried about tomorrow (sept 11), to which i have to honestly respond, not really. it's not that w has me convinced that i'm safe due to all the safety precautions and policing and civil rights that he's violating. actually it's because i don't think the terrorists are that stupid. of course security is going to be pretty high on the 11th and of course people are already going to be nervous and antsy. they're not really going to try and add to that pandamonium, are they? i mean, they've already caused it last year. the way it seems is that they want to undermine how safe the public feels. and thus, if they public is already feeling unsafe, then why bother stirring the it up when they can reek havoc when we are feeling safe? i donno, it just seems stupid for them to try and do something tomorrow. but who knows, maybe other people feel the same way and they will strike to make us more scared.

anyway, i'm off.

"i am so high, i can hear heaven, though the heavens don't hear me" - chad kreoger and josey scott

does anyone else think that sounds.. kind of like he's high on drugs rather than height? it's just sort of hard to tell these days i guess.

sunday (01.09.02): greg and i went to pick up the keys to his new pad and move a few loads of stuff over before the insufferable heat got to us (i'm told it got to like 105 degrees F that day) and we had to drive down to the bay area to attend a bbq held by my parents. somehow, family events just leave me filled with dread as they approach, guilt if i decide not to go and okness once they start (though sometimes it just gets way too overwhelming for me). it was invasion of the wasps, despite my dad's purchase of not one, but two wasp traps. i think he must have killed a couple hundred wasps just using cat food as bait. sick, scary and somewhat enthralling as you watched so many wasps crammed into such a small space.

monday (02.09.02): got up, lounged about. i'm not quite sure what we did in the morning, but there must have been something! then we went to SF for the day, where we went to golden gate park and walked up to the top of the .. hill? in the middle of the pond where you can go 'boating'? that was one green pond, i mean, it was as green as the trees on the east coast of the us or ireland for that matter! then we went into chinatown for dinner at this little hole in the wall place. i think that they were stuck on the black bean sauce, that or my parents were. other than that, the food was yummy. then we drove home and went to sleepie.

tuesday (03.09.02): sad goodbye to greg as he drove away early in the morning. read a little, looked for jobs a little, wandered around a little, basically wasted my day doing nothing. i guess i did go to the gym, but i was feeling sloth like and somehow, though i think it's supposed to help re-energize you, it didn't.

wednesday (04.09.02): searched for jobs, went to frys with char to buy belated birthday robin's gift, gave stephie and robin their very belated birthday gifts. went to robins, went to pick up freesh's new cellphone (pretty nifty - color screen type deal, apparently you can buy a camera for it), went to grocery store, went back to robins, played myst3, went to dinner at a japanese place in sunnyvale (yummy!). sean sinsomething-er-another, not one i know well, but known for his flake-y-ness, actually showed up and dined with us. went back to robins, ate cake went home.

today (05.09.02): was awakened by japanese telemarketer, or a telemarketer that was speaking japanese. had breakfast, search for jobs, gave kitties cap nip, made salsa (yummy), made quesadillas, worked on finishing curtains (or as my mom says: drapes), decided curtains need more loopies for the rod. oy vey. went to the gym for an hour to try and make up for not going at all yesterday, came home, did dished, helped with dinner, ate dinner, scrapbooked and am now awaiting my knight in shining armor to call back. *sigh*

so am in davis. weather is still pretty warm, 90s i guess. we went and picked up greg's keys to his new home - it's pretty big and has got *tons* of storage space. he and art shalln't lack that i guess. we're about to start moving stuff in there from here and then head down to the bay area for my 'rents bbq (for the labor day weekend). yesterday was a very long drive to get here and james's family stopped by a family friend's house to check out the new digs (apparently they won the lottery?). then we finally arrived 4-5 hours later and went out for dinner and pearl tea with alli. and then home and bed. off now.