“That’s doubleplus hella dope ass.”
Don’t ask.
More Comic Coincidences
So I just got a resume forwarded to me from a friend, who had it forwarded from a friend who had it forwarded from a friend.
And it turns out I know the person who’s resume it was.
Weird.
Synchronicity
I just made my first international phone call. I feel so… special.
But anyway, today was very busy, and very odd… I awoke to the very distinct, random and powerful feeling of… dim sum. Not the taste, but the triggered memory of the concept of dim sum. Now this wouldn’t be odd, except for the fact that a bunch of my friends were having dim sum at that exact moment. Of course, you could write that off as subconscious realization, because I knew they were there (and would have been there myself, if I didn’t have band practice at noon). But the weirder part was that later that day, I left a message with one of the people there, and went to practice. After practice, I was driving down the freeway, when I suddenly realized I should check my phone to see if anyone had called me, and as I was reaching for the phone, it rang, and it was her.
Did I develop a low-level day-long psychic link with Nicole? Weird.
I just finished Conker’s Bad Fur Day, and I recommend it to anyone who is of legal age and owns an N64. It’s a short game (only took me 9 hours of gameplay) and parts are rather raunchy, but it’s actually very funny in places and manages to spoof almost every genre you can imagine.
Damn, I’m out of soda again. *sigh*
#11
#11 on the list of things never to say to a person:
“Hey, is your scale off? Either that or I lost 8 pounds since this morning.”
Dammit, Luke, shut up shut up shut up!
Slipping… slipping…
So yes, I work for Yahoo!, so yes this is a bad thing (except for that stock buyback thing, that’s good). Not coincidentally, today marks the first day in the entire time I have worked for Yahoo! that I have zero stock options worth any money at all. Yay.
*sniff* I wanna be rich again. Somebody send me back to 1999 and make me sell all my shares. This whole reality thing sucks.
It keeps raining…
Maybe I’m sleeping in so much because it’s dark and my body doesn’t want to wake up because the sun doesn’t shine in the window? That’s silly, the sun never shines in my window. Hmmm…
I had so many profound thoughts over the weekend, and they’re all lost into the mists of time, oh well.
*sigh* Why does it seem that the more time I spend at work, the more time I’m spending fixing other people’s mistakes. As Shannon pointed out, it’s “job security,” which is the positive way of looking at it. I just have to keep telling myself these people aren’t stupid, they’re just misinformed, they’ll get better. Now if only there weren’t such a high rate of turnover…
I need to buy new windshield wiper blades, but as soon as I do, it won’t rain again for the entire season. It’s a heavy burden, being singularly responsible for the rainfall of an entire state. I don’t know if I’m up to it. I think I’ll just go without replacing them until July, when it’s safe… because I happen to like the rain.
My feet hurt from DDRing so much last night… I need to get velcro so I can use my PSX pads with the foam underpads I have.
It’s girl scout cookie season again… I’m gonna gain five pounds again…
I hate this month
It’s not March, it’s the “month before Fanime Con”. So busy… busy with actual con work, busy with getting the band into shape for our concert at the con, busy because on top of that, all my friends decide to organize something every weekend it seems, and even if I don’t go, it makes me feel busy.
I had another profound thought session yesterday driving to and from band practice, but I seem to have forgotten what it was about. *sigh*
What was I supposed to be working on today again? Oh yeah… that work thing.
A typical Saturday
Is it so wrong to spend an entire Saturday inside without even looking outside? When someone says on IRC “it’s raining” and you have to ask “it is?” but then don’t even check?
I woke up at 1pm, played some PSO, watched the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie, played some more PSO, watched Beautiful (which was written by my cousin, yay!) played some TFC, played some PSO, ate dinner, took a shower, and now it’s 1:30.
Which pretty much sums up a typical Saturday for me (substituting PSO for whatever game I’m currently playing), and to be honest, I’m not self conscious about it. Luke was saying how pitiful he was because he didn’t have anything to do on a Saturday night, but I’m happy to stay in. It’s just like when I say I’m gonna take a vacation from work and my coworkers ask “where are you gonna go?” and I respond “nowhere, that’s the point.”
The outside world is just more trouble than it’s worth sometimes, ’cause that’s where all the other people are, and people drive cars…. badly. And the outside world is just so damn spread out it takes too long to get anywhere.
Bleh. Time to finish off the popcorn I made and do something else until I fall asleep.
Another day another dollar
I suppose I should at least write a little about today. It can be summed up in one phrase. “Dammit Jim, I’m an engineer, not a project coordinator!”
*sigh* So I spend all day at work trying to get this project in order, because sometimes it just falls onto the engineer to get everything together, because they’re the last ones who need everything, so if something’s missing, they have to go find it. But only if someone isn’t doing their job. Or in this case, if there isn’t anyone who has that job.
Then I went home and played Phantasy Star Online for the first time with people I actually knew instead of random people from the lobby. And had a blast… I really wanna take some time off and just play PSO all day. Heh heh heh.
And yes, it’s 1:44am and I’m still awake. This does not bode well for waking up tomorrow.
What a difference a day makes
So I was thinking once again during the hour-long drive back from band practice, listening to the Magnolia soundtrack… realizing what one of the things about that movie was that made me like it so much: the fact that it takes place within one day.
I already knew I liked that sort of thing, The Paper is one of my favorite movies, as is Groundhog Day (although that one sort of breaks the rules) and Pulp Fiction. What is it about these movies that appeals to me so much? The fact that they chronicle a day in the life of people that is so profound that it changes their life.
I can identify with this, because I’ve had a few of these, only two though. Days like this aren’t common, you may be tempted to call a day “profound” when you are just confusing it with “busy.” I’m sure the one day I’m thinking of counts as this, because, if I wanted to, I could make a 2-hour movie about it; I’ve already written a three-part essay about it. (For those of you paying attention, and perhaps even read the article in the CAA Konshuu back in 1998, I’m referring to my first Anime Expo).
Bah, I should probably get to work. This whole “fall asleep at 4am wake up at noon get in to work at 12:30” thing isn’t exactly doing wonders for me.