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| most everyone had today off as a holiday, except for some businesses, including ours... we don't have our first company holiday till may, then july, then september, then november, and finally december... we have way too many holidays in the second half of the year, but i'm not complaining, not too much anyway... i wouldn't want any of those latter holidays to be taken away... with 18 personal days to chose from for the entire year, it's not too bad to take about 5 or 6 of them randomly scattered throughout the year and then save the rest up for a nice long winter vacation... this is when i miss the days when we were at school... i don't miss school though... glad that's over and done with... i much rather like working where i learn practical skills and interact with professionals who know loads more than me... but today, i wish it were a holiday for us too... riding a nearly empty subway train made me so sad... it was the one time i missed having the sardine-like craziness of people surrounding me... and man, i was so sleepy at work too... well, tomorrow is tuesday and it's a regular workday for me and the rest of the working world... here's to a full train of people going to work just like me... | | |
| stream of thought... We just had happy hour at work and nobody's left in the war room but me. Me likes. Tryin to build up my alcohol tolerance so I drank a bottleneck full of stella; got a little pink and stomach's a little queasy but doing fine. Today a group of us decided to head out to k-town for some cheap fast food (wooreejip!) and pingkberrie at lunchtime. It took nearly an hour there and back without eating, so we definitely can't do this trip everyday. But the food tasted yummy: non-spicey ddukbokgee, scallion pancake, kimchee pancake, steamed sweet pumpkin, and original flavor with mochi. Wish we were a little closer to k-town. Friend asked for some spicey gimbap so I bought the jalapeno one from the hole in the wall (eemonae's delicious). Except, apparently they wanted spicey tuna and I automatically misread it as jalapeno (eh, we were typing in korean). I wish I could have seen their face when they ate it. I got a funny email instead, totally my bad  . Coworker said I looked awfully tired. Maybe I should cut out the tv before sleeping; we'll see. Don't know how I could care for a pet dog, with my loose schedule. But I like my friend's Chubby. So big, warm, and well behaved like my stuffed animal, only Chubby can move on its own... | | |
| I know this is so lame but I googled my name just to see what would turn up (you did it too, admit it). My blog has never featured my name and I haven't done anything to get on the web but I did it anyway. It's weird to see your name linked with all these other professions from different people around the world. But then I actually saw a link that looked like it could be me. I doubted it yet wondered if there could be another me in that class at the same school. The title was, "If I had a million bucks..." The last quote has you-know-whose name next to it:
“I’d fix the broken parts of my mom’s house. There’s
a lot that’s broken. I’d go scuba diving in the tropics.
And I’d buy a house in Alaska — there’s a rumor that
if you have a child there you get $1,000 a year.”
   When did I say that? Did I say that? Uhhhhh.... I remember hearing about Alaska's lack of population and their policy to reward; I've always wanted to go scuba diving again; and yes, back then there were things that needed to be fixed at my mom's... I'm so retarded, I think I did say all that. And if I did read this in 1999, I completely wiped it from my memory because the shock flipped me over backward (on the futon) laughing.
What would you say?
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| Lost my first cell phone on Saturday (I usually break them, by accident). I should be getting a new one by Friday. I figured since I lost it that I might as well change carriers and get a better phone with the discounts associated with becoming a new customer. I thought that would offset any cancellation charges. So I called up my current service provider, told them I wanted to change carriers. When they asked why I gave my reasons (for better service, a better phone, one with data backup, music, internet, photos, haha...) and requested a deactivation. They sure don't give up that easily on a customer. They counter offered a similiar phone package with several discounts and made sure to stress the cost of cancelling. Still had slight reservations on reception coverage (it isn't always that great with the occasional missed phone call and I told them that too) but I finally gave in. They called me a loyal customer  ; I don't think so. Well, hopefully I won't break this one too soon. I'm certainly not getting it for free but it's a nice upgrade from my rugged old phone (let it rest in peace in a yellow cab). All in all still bummed that I lost the pendant my mom gave me that was dangling on my old phone... 
Oh yeah, we went rafting. It was FUNFUNFUN! Crazy but we were instructed to jump up and down on the raft whenever we got caught on a boulder. Imagine jumping on a raft in the middle of rolling rapids in a river (I couldn't have until I tried it). But I have to admit my jumping wasn't all that strategic. I just liked the sensation of jumping on air . Arms were terribly sore by the end of the trip but it was worth it.
Another thing: jumping into an oversized bean bag is awesome!
After drinking some thai iced tea this is a little doodle lifted from the cup stain. It's actually what I'm gonna do right now. Good nite...
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| It was one of those days that I happened to forget my keys.
As I closed the door and searched for my keys to lock the door I realized I didn't have them on me but it was too late. The door had shut and I was already locked out (it's not fully locked until I turn the key but I still can't get back in). I rummaged through my bag again and dropped my purse in the process. I picked up my purse and remembered I had spare keys at work so I wasn't too worried and went down the stairs. Sixteen hours later, our team ordered cars to go home since it was really late. I had already entered the car to go home when I remembered I had no keys. I apologized and asked the driver to wait as I rushed back up the elevator. I rummaged through my desk like mad. When I couldn't find my spare set it dawned on me that I had given the keys to my mom more than a month ago and that they were with her in Korea.
I came back downstairs and told the driver my new destination. While going through my purse one more time, I thought about staying at a park (get mugged), staying at grand central (again get mugged), or riding the bus up and down through town (a little scared of waiting for random bus in not so familiar parts of city). I even wished how easy it would be if I still had a valid student ID so I could go hangout at Bobst Library over at NYU. But I crossed them off in my head and finally called the number of my destination. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to my sis and hubby for picking up phone while sleeping and for having an extra set of keys. My sleepy sis came down to the lobby to hand them to me (mee-ahn!).
I walked home after that and was definitely relieved when I unlocked and entered the front door of our building. I tripped on my way up and thought what a long day... And then as I was about to put the keys into my door, "HUK!" went my heart b.c my keys were dangling from the lock. There was no way that I left them there since I even dropped my purse this morning looking for them (or did I? I have left my keys in the doorknob before...). The door was unlocked. I carefully opened the door and looked in. The home was as messy as I, yes I, left it. Mail still there, PS2, laptop, harry potter book, tv all there. I felt relieved. If those things were there then everything else had to be okay. I looked into the closets and checked the bathroom just in case.
Now that I'm safely home in pajamas about to sleep, I looked around at my accumulated junk and silently thanked my neighbors for not ordering any take out food and to the man above for looking out for this forgetful one.
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Random things I sometimes forget to do:
Take off both socks (used to take one off and forget to take off the other).
Pull up my fly (haven't forgotten in a while).
Pull out my keys from the doorknob (I still think there's a possibility that someone else picked them up and stuck them in my lock...)
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