hmm.. not such a bad day today. things could have been a bit more interesting. but at least i survived it and that means i'm one day closer to friday. yay! tomorrow! i know you are supposed to live for the day, but this day is not so interesting.

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i'm not sure i believe that. but all of the colors were pretty complimentary. there was no 'you are a bastard color'

'it's hump day!' - Bill Ju, PhD - wow, those canadians aren't afraid of mis-phrasing anything, are they?

just when you thought you knew everything about me:



yeah i know, too much information, but in a sense, if it were, why would it be out there? because perhaps different people have limits on where the line is to be drawn for it to become too much information.

on other topics, i'm pretty bored at work today, but i'm afraid to ask for more work because i'm starting up the mice breedings again (i know, haven't i said that for like the last month and half?), and i'm not sure how my work load will be once they finally all start having babies, which better be soon, because they're not getting any younger. i wish there were some way for me to facilitate their having babies, well legally. i mean, i guess some people in the lab work on addiction and addictive substances, i could probably find some aphrodisiacs, but that's probably not very legal. oh well, less than an hour and i can go home and to the gym. i'm feeling guilty for all the rotten stuff i've been eating recently. all this chocolate available at work, and i don't even really like chocolate, it's far too sweet. and yet i eat it. i have the self possession of a gnat. or maybe an ant i guess some days.

so i was reading these random blogs today and there was one blog that reminded me of this horrible book i borrowed from the library. it's basically about bored teenage-dom, drinking, sex, sneaking out and the lack of organized religion in one's life. it was almost excatly like the character in the book, i was scared, because i tend not to think that the teenagers out there are so cynical, depressed, maniac and jaded. i mean, i've read books about teenagers who do crap like sneaking out to go get drunk and wait for your friend to get laid, but i'm not quite sure i believe that anything can be glamerous about, or at least glamerous enough for someone to go out and do it in reality. i'm not sure i'm making sense here. maybe i'm too much of a good girl.

t-4 days til greg gets here. i can't wait. i think every time i see him, i can't wait even more to see him. absence makes the heart grow fonder, but too much absence and you stop remembering so much of what it was like.

so i had another goodish weekend. i went over and hung out with alli, andrew, becca and heidi (alli and becca's roomie) friday night, went to bed, got up, went to costco and proceeded to buy 100 dollars of food for the boys to eat over the next couple of weeks (until i get back there and then we'll have to repeat the process). then we came back to greg and art's apartment, and just greg and i went to nugget to buy some other food items, including but not limited to apple juice and mulling spices (which turned out to be really useful and easy to use) and pumpkins. then we had lunch, called up james and went all the way over to mccellum area to play minigolf. it was fun, but i lost big time and james showed how asian sensation he is by kicking greg and my half breed butts (i know, half breed is insanely insulting, but since it's me saying it, it's like a black person saying the n word, yeah?).

anyhow, then we came back to the apartment and made salsa to bring over to alli's place when we were carving pumpkins (yay) and watching the baseball game. ugh, there is nothing as boring as baseball to me, or maybe it's the combination of the tension of waiting and the boredom of waiting. we had dinner at the old tea house, which i've been meaning to do for the whole summer, since i always get my pearl tea there, but never really eat. and it was good. then we went back to greg's place and played video games and watched tv late into the night since day light savings time kicked in. on sunday greg and i hung out a bit, we went for a walk and cellphone and cell phone plan shopping after which i got a manicure with alli and becca, got dinner cooked for my by greg and art (talk about being waited on hand and food, huh?).

and then i scurried out the door and hurried home since i thought there would be a new alias. little did i know it was a repeat, damn! interesting side bit, i turned down the wrong street on my way to the gas station since i had to be at work at 8 am this morning and i didn't want to have to get up before 7am, and it was a dead end, so in trying to get turned around, i got stuck between the pavement and the dirt on the side of the road. at first i couldn't get out when i was revving up my engine really high, so i tried to get out and push (yeah i know, if the engine can't get me out, there is little chance that my wimpy muscles could). and then i tried the engine again and it worked. god i was relieved.

anyhow, we passed our fire inspection today (thank god, my head might have rolled if we'd failed), so we're in the clear for the next year so i don't have to be bad safety annoying person for a year hopefully.

"wild horses couldn't drag me away" - the rolling stones.

oh if only that could apply to me and greg. if wishes were fishes, we'd all live in the sea. or something like that.

so i had a great weekend. i know, it's been a really long time since i've posted, and i've been sort of down since then, so i figured it was better not to post, but now i'm up again. kind of like a sinoidal curve (i know some of you didn't want to hear that.. ;o) ). i was up in davis and i remembered how happy greg makes me. i sort of want to move up there and be closer to him now. not that i didnt' earlier, but i didn't realize how different my life is without him and i'm not sure i like that difference. so much of long distance relationships. it sucks that i have to call it a long distance relationship. i know, 2 hrs is hardly long distance, but it is because i can't go see him everyday, there just isn't time and therefore i qualify for long distance. anyway, enough complaining.

so we went to fry's and the downtown plaza (jcrew sale) and then out for dinner and desert with alli and andrew. they were pretty excited the giants had won. looks kind of like that won't happen a lot though. anyway sunday alli and i went back to jcrew (she didn't go the previous day) and we got caramel popcorn (which you can apparently make by taking karo syrup and carmalizing it.. go figure, i always thought it was magic). then we went to jamba for lunch and sat about and talked a while. it was good fun. and then greg fed me (mmm udon) and freesh drove me home. it was good to be with freesh, she has such a different view point/perspective to everything, refreshing sometimes.

yesterday i spent all day in orientation (welcome to stanford, gag gag, i should have worked for cal). way too much school spirit. i'm sorry, it could be that i come from ucdavis. ;o) i need to pick out health insurance tonight. hmmm...

today things sort of worked which was good. lab inspection was ok.

and then i went to the gym (yes, i go to the gym everyday, why do i bother to report it? who knows). and then watched buffy and had dinner. and now am here, contemplating looking at health insurance.

*ponders away*

it's been a bad week. ugh. depressed, apathetic and tired. i know, apathetic and tired are very similar, but they are not the same thing, and therefore i feel justified in using both in that sentence. working with mice is killing my allergies.

last night was nice, i went out with grace for sushi and gelato. yummy. we had a good time and talked a lot. but that's not hard to do when you're with grace, since she never seems to be out of things to say, which makes her ten times more interesting than i am. why are you listening to me?

tonight, after going to the gym, i'm going to go out for dinner with robin and then bowling with freecia and robin (and maybe char, but i'm really tired since i didn't go to bed until 1 for some reason last night. i was tired, but i couldn't go to sleep.. damn endorphines). and tomorrow is friday and that's really exciting. you never knew how excited you could get over a friday until you start working and being a responsible adult. i never did. boy, 3 weeks later, i'm a changed person.

ahh, what a nice nice weekend i've had. i got home on friday, and only went to the gym for 30 minutes. i know i said i usually go for an hour, but here's the story. tuesday i didn't go to the gym, wednesday and thursday i went to the gym and burnt off about 700 calories in an hour each time, but it makes me really tired and sore. so friday, being late from getting off work and having greg and art's arrival being marked as immenent, just made me not want to do the entire hour. but i was going to. and then i started my 30 minutes on the exercise bike and it was excruciating pain for me. usually if the hurt doesn't go away after 10 minutes, you're supposed to stop for the day cuz your body is so tired. so i did the 30 minutes and went home. so we went home, rounded the entire family up and we went to the burrito place (yummy, though i'm quite broke now). anyway, then we went home and mom and dad went to bed (too much alcohol for them? i couldn't say.. really. ;o) ) and mike and viki went out and so art's best friend tommy came down and greg, art, tommy and i watched monsters inc. people say they don't like the movie as much, but i still thought it was pretty cute. a lot better than say, beauty and the beast (which robin and i watched thursday night).

anyway, saturday morning we got up early and drove over to gilroy where i bought some shoes and char's birthday gift. they were both spiffy. then we came back, ate lunch, went on a hike up at the rancho san antonio open space perserve. that was fun. and while we were hiking we ran into some huge group from a french speaking area (i'd say france, but who knows, it could have been canada, right?). then we went to robins to see her new grass (not that nice looking, but hopefully it will get better when the installation people stop rolling over it with roller things). we went to the mall, shopped around a little bit, met up with char and the rest of the birthday group to go to the build a bear store where we built bears and then over to a chinese food place for dinner. after dinner we were pretty tired so we just headed home and went to bed after a little tv time.

sunday morning we got up early again, and went for a walk around the golf course. pretty nice walk and i got to show greg my favorite house as well as start to break in my new shoes. after the walk we had lunch (risotto, which is again today's lunch as luck would have it) and then we did our laundry and took showers. we also baked some cookies and played my favorite game, guillotine with matt and art. then i sent greg off, watched the gilmore girls episode he taped for me and then made spatzle for dinner. it wasn't very good. i mean, whatever came out of the recipe was pretty decent, but it wasn't spatzle, so i think betty crocker ought to go back to germany for a refresher course. that will be lunch tomorrow. then i found the lord of the rings trailer (sort of nifty, but at low res, sucks) and couldn't get the harry potter one to start, so i feel sad. i watched alias (i love alias) and my dad made fun of it, err can't i watch tv without being disturbed?? and then i called alli and greg and went to sleepie.

now i'm at work, i'm out of things to do at the moment (there are things to do, i just can't do some of them due to the busy-ness of the equipment i want to use or the people i need to talk to).

pants, i love pants. i love owning more than 2 wearable pairs of pants too. who knows what pants i'll be wearing tomorrow! WHEE. yes, i'm weird and i love myself for it. ;o) and i have a paycheck to pay for these pairs of pants i keep mysteriously finding to be too cute to leave behind.

this week has been handled rather well by me (except where i broke down because i murdered some poor little mouse by a)gripping him too hard or b) sending him into shock by cutting a bit of his tail off). jumping little 3 week old mice have been weaned. lots of them. an amazing amount of them. i'm actually getting ok at dealing with them. this could be an ok job (or i could puke and quit i suppose). tomorrow greg and art come down and we all go out for dinner at el amigo burrito. i personally have to say, it's hard to imagine a burrito being my friend. but we'll see, maybe i will get one, and eat it!

robin and i went out to max's the other day (i believe it was tuesday), and we also went shopping at stanford. i bought some clothes. muy expensive ones, but tha'ts ok being i have financial aid on them from the parents. so i will survive. the credit card may not ;o). i've been going to the gym pretty regularly for an hour a day x 5 days a week. that's not too shabby if you ask me. someday i might even lose some weight (though don't ask me when since it hasn't really happened yet, all i see is all the weight i gained by moving home).

anyway, i gotta go work more.