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31 March 00 Oops, I meant to write sooner than this :) I've been quite busy at work, working on a project, taking on more responsibility, and learning new stuff in the meantime. I'm liking my job more and more as I learn more and more. Very cool! I've been trying to keep busy, as usual. I've been spending a lot of time away from home, which makes me happy. I just have not been enjoying time alone at home, so I try to always keep myself busy and/or hang out with friends. I've been giving serious thought to moving out of my place and into a roommate situation; I just need to find the right roommates. I have an absolutely wonderful apartment, and since it's rent-controlled and I've been living there for four years, it's very reasonably priced (for San Francisco). But it does get lonely living by oneself... During the last couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time with Mike, as well as with Joe and Kris. They are very good people and I really like being around them. Heh heh heh, one night, we all went out for a few drinks. On the way back to their place, we had to stop at Safeway to pick up more beer & cider, but while I was there I decided I needed a box of condoms. Then we got to wondering the the cashier would think when they saw one girl, three guys, alcohol and condoms, so we decided to also purchase a box of KY Jelly and a cucumber just to spice it up a little. We walked up to the register, and as I set everything down on the counter, the cashier looked up at me and said, "You ought to buy a lottery ticket. You're a very lucky girl." Last weekend a bunch of us went to a rave called Popsikle. Mike & Wendy from the OrgaHouse crew met us there; they're great, and it was good to be able to hang out with some of Tim's friends independently of him and have them become my friends. This was the first time I had ever been around anyone from Tim's group of friends while I was also with someone I am dating. I guess it shouldn't be a big deal, but since Tim & I broke up, I've never talked to him about who I am going out with, so it just seems awkward. I'm assuming he'll hear about Mike...oh well...wonder what he'll think? There are a bunch of parties going on tomorrow night; we're going to Ray & Michael's (of Fiji fame) housewarming party, and I'm supposed to be spinning there for a bit. That should be a good party, and hopefully I'll see a lot of friends there. Not yet sure what's going tonight...we'll see! 15 March 00 What a great day is was today! Yeah, technically it's still winter, but it's been sunny and fairly warm the last couple of days! It does wonders for making you feel good. I had a nice, low-key weekend - colored my hair, refreshing its flourescent Pantone hue :-P, mopped the floor, watched a few movies, hung out with friends, had a few ciders. Last night I finally went on that motorcycle ride. Charlotte and I had planned to go, and when I mentioned that to Simon, he wanted to come along as well. So, with Charlotte on the back of my bike, we took off down Highway 1. After awhile it was dark and getting cold, so we stopped at a restaurant in Montara to warm up. Climbed down to the beach to see the ocean, then went into the restaurant for hot chocolate and snacks. We ended up sitting by the fireplace, talking, for a couple of hours before heading home. It was the first time in a month I had been at the beach....man, I love the ocean. Even if I don't go there too often, I still could never live very far away. After work this evening, I went to Gordon Biersch with my boss for a couple of beers. (Yeah, I know G.B. is an uber-yuppy hangout, but they have good beer and a great view of the bay. It's nice to go there on clear nights and look out at the water.) I have the coolest boss in the world! He's so not the manager-type, and at the same time, he's the best manager a person can have because he sticks up for and fights for his people. We were talking, and it looks like I might be going to New York in the next month or two to help out with a big server migration. I'll probably be able to stay for a week or two. I've only been to NYC once before, about five years ago, and I wasn't too impressed. Maybe I'll enjoy it more this time if I spend more time there and get to know my way around. 11 March 00 Mmm, a nice sunny Saturday afternoon. It would be a good day for a motorcycle ride, but I'm not motivated for that right now. I've only been awake about an hour (it's 1:30) and I'm enjoying a Diet Coke, relaxing, listening to Infected Mushroom, and playing on my computer. I need to color my hair sometime this afternoon. Last night I went to the Thump Radio party with Susan and Victor. This month it was held at a private warehouse which was cool because it gave it that underground vibe, but it took them forever to get the party up and running - the DJ didn't even start until about 11:30. But once things got going, it turned into a fun party! I love the music they play at the Thump parties, and I danced for at least three hours. If the music is just right I dance and get sooo into it; I trance out (it is trance music, afterall) and the world around me ceases to exist, leaving just me and the music which surrounds me. And yes, I can do that sober! :) I spent some time wandering around and talking to other friends who were there; hung out a bit with Raph which was good - the more I get to know him, the more I realize what a good person he is, and gawd knows there aren't many of those around. As I read back through these entries, I realize that I place a lot of importance on 'going out' and clubbing and so forth. Is that a bad thing? I certainly hope not. It's something I very much like to do for several different reasons. I like to get out and socialize, and I especially like to socialize with people with whom I have something in common. I *love* music, and I love to go out and dance to my favourite kinds of music. Going to clubs allows me to combine all of these things that are important to me, therefore, that's the reason I place so much importance on it. If my life revolved around the club life and I had no other interests I suppose I might want to think my priorities, but I really do have many other interests; there really are other things which are much more important to me, like love and realationships. But I'm not ready to open that particular can o' worms right now :) 10 March 00 The end of the workday on Friday. Nothing gets done at this time, anyway. I've been pretty busy the last few days here at work, and that's good. I've been learning new things and I have training classes coming up soon, so that's even better. After many months of having nothing to do at work, it's nice to finally get going again. I didn't like the way I was beginning to stagnate. Last night I was sitting at home, watching tv, and thinking about how I need to start going to the gym again. I used to be good about going - I'd work out about three times a week, and it made me feel healthy and more energetic. But for one reason or another, I haven't been since I got back from vacation (in January!), and I can tell. Again, I was stagnating, but this time at home. So I got up and went out to Eklektic again last night! I danced for 1.5 hours to some very cool jungle, and that made me feel better. Plus, it put me in the mood to dance all night tonight :) 7 March 00 I'm feeling much better today. A good night of sleep really does do wonders for a person. And I'm one of those people who needs eight or nine hours of sleep a night. I wish I only needed four or five hours; it really would give me more time during the day. Who knows, maybe I'd even have time to do my dishes more than once a week :) (note: I don't eat at home that often, so it's not like the kitchen is overflowing with dirty dishes or anything. And no, they don't smell.) Work is still slow, but should be picking up soon. It will be good to learn new things and be busy during the day. Hopefully I won't be *too* busy; I don't particularly want to start working crazy hours. I'm moving offices soon, which is good and bad. It's good because I'll be moving to an area near where some other friends work, and also because several of my co-workers have already moved over. This office is getting empty as people move or get laid off. The new location is bad because the building sucks (it's a huge building with hardly any outside windows and poor cellular coverage) and there are very few places to eat lunch in the area. Uh, I'm having some sort of mental block and I can't think of anything else to write. I'll just go home instead. 6 March 00 Erg. It's yet another grey, miserable day. I wonder if that's contributing to my current state of lacking energy? I have nothing to do today at work which is usually boring, but I've been feeling so cracked out (my new favourite phrase) the last couple of days that I really don't mind; so far today, I've entertained myself by going through several hundred emails, reading a bunch of online journals, listening to cds, and eating some sushi for lunch. I think Susan is coming over for a bit after work, then I'm going to try and get to bed early to finish recovering from my weekend. Amber was in town (up from SoCal) last week, and on Thursday the two of us went out to dinner and then stopped by Eklektic, a very cool jungle club. I need to go back there and dance more. As of Friday, Jamie owns the DNA Lounge, so that night he had a party at the club to celebrate. I DJed for about three hours total, and it was my first 100% psy-trance set. If I'm going to continue spinning that kind of music, I really need to get better at beatmatching :) Saturday night was a blast! Mike & his housemates had a big house party that night. Raph spun a bunch of great music, and quite a number of people showed up (30-40 or so) including several from last week's party. We saw the sun come up (again) and finally went to sleep about 6:30 or so. It was a very fun night of overindulgence. I spent most of Sunday horizontal, lying on pillows or on the couch, sapped of energy. Next weekend I'm going to take it easy :) I don't feel particularly well today. I hope it's just me being tired and I'm not coming down with anything. I hate feeling blah. 3 March 00 Wow! It was a *beautiful* sunny day today! It's amazing how a nice day can put you into a really good mood :) It's Friday night, and it looks like I have a good weekend ahead of me. Jamie closed escrow on the DNA today, and he's having a party there tonight to celebrate with his friends. I get to DJ for awhile, and that will be cool because I haven't spun since the last Dekonstrukt in January. I'll be spinning a bunch of new psy-trance stuff and scaring the little goths that show up. If the weather stays nice, I'd like to go on a motorcycle ride tomorrow. And there's a big party on Saturday night which should be pretty crazy. Yay! 1 March 00 Maybe there is such a thing as too much socializing. Most of my day on Tuesday was spent sitting in one restaurant or another, talking with people. For lunch, a group of us went out to celebrate a co-worker's last day. After work, a different group of us went out to celebrate the last day of some different co-workers. Then after *that*, I met a group of friends for dinner. By the time I got to the restaurant for this last get-together, I was 'socialized-out' and really didn't want to be there. Although it was nice to see the others, in retrospect I probably should have gone straight home as I was a bit grumpy. I don't like being grumpy or unsocialable, but I don't like being a flake either, which is ultimately why I went to dinner. Last night left me not in a bad mood, but rather, just in a mood to spend some time at home alone. So that's what I'm going to do tonight. And I'll go to bed early. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. 28 February 00 I had a really strange dream experience last night. I was dreaming that I was in my bed, holding and kissing someone. Nothing too weird there; everyone's had a dream like that. But all of a sudden my conscious self and my unconscious self started confusing one another. I realized I was dreaming, and I was wondering why someone else was in my bed with me, and I was wondering how they got into my apartment, so I woke myself up to find out what was going on. As I was waking up, I felt the dream presence in my arms going away - kinda like I was holding onto a balloon that was quickly deflating - and by the time I was fully awake, I was alone in bed and no longer had the sensation I was holding onto someone. Weird. This past weekend was all about getting to know people, and that was wonderful. Friday night I went to a party at Seth & Erin's, and there were quite a few people there that I knew as acquaintances, but didn't know very well. Throughout the course of the evening, I had a chance to talk with a bunch of people - Simon, Mike & Maggie, Seth & Erin, Matt, Sam and others - and get to know them better. The thing that made this so great is that this was a group of intelligent, friendly, good people, and there certainly is a shortage of that sort around! I hope to see more of this group. Saturday night was more low key, and Mike, Kris, Joe and I went to a bar out in the Richmond. Sunday afternoon, Susan had a get-together with a group of girls from an all-female mailing list we're on. This was the first time I had met several of these people, and we hung out and talked for several hours. It was funny, out of the group of 7 or 8 of us, we all had tattoos! And again, I really enjoyed meeting yet more interesting & intelligent people. Lately, I've been spending a lot of time hanging out at Mike's house with him and his four housemates. They're cool people, and I especially enjoy simply spending time around a group of people like that. As much as I enjoy living by myself, it really does get lonely at times, and being able to interact with a house full of people is a good way to not be lonely :) I have a love/hate relationship with people in general. On one hand, I really like the people who are close to me and I value their friendships. On the other hand, I do have a great dislike for the majority of the population, mostly because people are often stupid, ignorant, bigoted, annoying, dumb, and mean. But at the same time, I'm fascinated by human behaviour and by the reasons people do the things they do. Because of this, I enjoy meeting people and finding out more about them. And as I meet people I like and bring them into my circle of friends, transferring them from the "bad" group into the "good" group, I feel a little bit better about humanity as a whole. 23 February 00 There's not enough time in the day. (If Tim reads that, he's gonna burst out laughing.) There is so much stuff I want to do, and the day always ends before I can get it all done. Yeah, every once in awhile comes a day that can't be over with soon enough, but most of the time I have to stop doing what I want to do so I can sleep. I do loooove sleeping, but it's certainly not something I'm gonna waste all my spare time on. If we had 30 hour days, now that might work! I could sleep 8-10 hours and still have 20 hours every day to do things! Or better yet, since I don't think I'll be able to slow the earth's rotation, maybe I should just be rich. I think I'd make a good rich person. I'd be happy (not all rich people are), and I'd have plenty of things to do to keep me busy. I will now begin accepting donations towards being rich. I occasionally take 5-Hydroxy L-Tryptophan (an amino acid). They say it can give you intense dreams, and apparently it does. Several days last week I had these very vivid, extremely detailed dreams which seemed to last quite a long time. And last night it was even more strange. I was having yet another long, vivid, detailed dream and something would happen in my dream and I would start talking or yell out and wake myself up. Then I would realize I was dreaming and that I just woke myself up by talking, and I'd immediately fall back asleep and re-enter the dream, and the cycle would repeat. It's slow again at work. I guess that gives me a chance to catch up on personal stuff though. Maybe I'll so respond to some emails before I forget. 22 February 00 Erg. It's 10 am and I'm sitting at home feeling blah. I need to go into work soon. Of course, I've been up for a couple of hours and haven't had any caffeine, so I'm starting to get tired & sleepy. Must....have....caffeine. Fun, busy, hedonistic weekend! Friday night I met Stefanie & Jen at Assimilate (yet another goth/industrial club). I realized that I can go to a club like that once every month or two and have a good time! I'll go and have a drink or three, see a whole bunch of people that I know, and maybe even dance to a song or two. It's okay as long as I don't go very often. Saturday & Sunday nights I went to a two-night rave called Love A-Fair with Mike and crew. It was a lot of fun! Each night had a different feel - Saturday was more high-energy, it was pretty crowded and there were a lot of people dancing. Sunday was less crowded and people in general were a little more low-key, but we met some cool people and that was good. Spent a lot of time sitting and crowd-watching. I need to spend more time writing. Trouble is, I've been too busy going out and having fun :) 16 February 00 There are two things I have been giving a lot of thought to lately. The first is people who need to be in relationships. I think everyone knows at least a few people like this - people who are pretty much worthless if they do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend. These sorts of people don't like to do anything by themselves, they complain if they're not with someone, and they act as if they are not complete unless they are seeing someone. The quality of the relationship doesn't really matter so much as long as they are not alone. I just don't get this. While I admit it can be wonderful being in a good relationship, I would much rather be by myself than be in a sub-standard relationship. And there have been a couple of times where I've stopped seeing a person not because the relationship was bad or there was something wrong with them, but because I felt it wasn't the optimal situation for me. I figure I've spent a lot of time and energy turning myself into a person that I really like, and why should I waste that on someone who doesn't appreciate it? IMNSHO, these relationship leeches should spend more time on themselves and less time worrying about who their next boy/girlfriend is going to be. The second thing I've been thinking about is the whole concept of getting older and going out (to clubs or otherwise). There was a point in my life, not too many years ago, when virtually all of my friends went out quite often - like once a week or more. Now, as people are getting a little older, settling down, or even burning out, it seems like my friends don't go out as often. Yeah, I go through periods where sometimes I don't want to go out very often, but on the whole, I still like to go out to dance, socialize, or whatever. I find that I am always having to search out new friends and new people to go out with because my old friends don't want to accompany me. Who knows, maybe the problem is with me? Maybe *I'm* the one who's broken because I'm past my early 20s and I refuse to act like I'm getting older? Maybe I should just get out the knitting needles and spend my Saturday nights in front of the tv, watching the shopping channel to see if I can get in on that great cubic zirconia deal! Okay, the above two trains of thought collided and left this wreckage - Why is it that you'll have a friend who goes out and does things with you and your other friends when they are single, but as soon as they get into a relationship, you almost never see or hear from them again? I think we've all known people like this. I know that when you are dating someone else you do want to spend time with them alone, but does that mean you have to exclude the rest of your friends? So that I end this on a slightly more upbeat note, this Cydonia CD is really great! Much better than I had expected. They even include their remix of Front Line Assembly's "Columbian Necktie". Oh, and as of last night, I also completed all my swimming endurance and skills tests for my divemaster class! I even had the best time for the 900-yard swim! Yay! 14 February 00 Another really good weekend! Friday night I went to the Thump Radio party at 550 Barnevald. I love those parties! I showed up with Jen and Susan and met Mike and sooo many other friends there - there were 25+ people I knew there and that made it so much fun, even though I was was struck with short-attention-span disorder and kept running around from room to room! Afterwards, somewhere around 6am, Mike, Kris, Joe and I tried to go to the beach, but it was so cold there, that only lasted about two minutes. Saturday I got up about 5pm and spent the day (evening?) being a vegetable and watching a few movies. I blame it on not having any caffeine! I need caffeine to operate correctly! I finally had my caffeine fix (in the form of Diet Coke!) on Sunday, so I was actually awake for most of the day. Sunday evening, Adam, Ashley, Susan and I went to my parents' house for dinner. My parents are pretty cool and get along well with my friends; not much phases them, even a bunch of wine-drinking, funny-colored-hair freakazoids invading their kitchen :) We hung out and showed them pictures from our Fiji trip. I'm feeling a little better regarding the whole emotions thing, in part because Friday and Saturday went well. But then when I got home, there was a letter for me from a friend I met in Fiji. It was a pleasant surprise to receive the letter, but it did catch me off-guard; he said he had wanted to ask me to marry him, but I left the country before he had the chance. Oh yeah, happy V-Day. 11 February 00 Looking forward to the weekend. This past weekend was quite emotionally intense, and it took me several days to come down and 'even out' afterwards. And I was very tired the last several days. I'd come home from work and take a nap, and I normally never do that. It will be nice to catch up on sleep this weekend, especially after only getting nine hours of sleep in two nights last weekend ;) Re: emotions. It's weird when someone close to you moves out of the country, even if they're just gone temporarily. Part of you is happy that they were given that opportunity and they get to have that experience. Part of you is jealous because you want to be able to do that! And part of you is sad because you miss them, and you're not going to be able to see them for three? six? nine? months. Again with the emotions: Don't you hate just wondering what's going to happen? What's in store for you for the current day, the weekend, or your lifetime? Some surprises are nice, but other times you just wish you knew what was going to happen. Maybe I should get better at asking around and getting some answers for myself. I wonder what's going to happen with my life over the next couple of days... 8 February 00 Man, what a great weekend. It started off by going to a party at OrgaHouse out in Livermore. EvilTim and several other friends were throwing a final OrgaRave before moving out of their house; these are people whom I hadn't seen for 1 - 1.5 years, and it was very cool to see them again, especially in this circumstance. Every year this group has a Halloween party, and every year the parties get bigger and more outrageous. It's hard to describe just how over-the-top this place was - at least half of this five-bedroom house was still covered in floor-to-ceiling black plastic tarp, there were rooms decorated as Hell and a dungeon, the living room had been transformed into a huge dance room with fog machines, lasers and strobes - it was total insanity even though the house was only a shadow of its former Halloween self. How can I describe Friday? Great people, wonderful surroundings, fun music, silliness, getting a second wind at 6am and dancing like crazy, crackers, briefly visiting other places, the *huge* mess we made of the house. The most wonderful thing is that now Tim and I are once again very close and comfortable with one another after a couple of years of varying degrees of weirdness. That makes me happy. I ended up leaving at 9pm on Saturday, after my nose lost an argument with a wall :) (It's sore, but at least it's not black & blue or broken.) Sunday Raph and I drove up to Sugar Bowl for the day and went skiing/boarding. It was a beautiful day - clear, blue, sunny skies, short lift lines and good snow conditions. I can't go to Sugar Bowl without spending at least some time in the terrain park, so I did about four runs there and only fell on half the jumps :) (I need to work on my landings.) Now it's Tuesday already, and I have a busy week ahead of me. Busy is good, as long as I can spend time with my friends. 2 February 00 It's Groundhog Day and we're supposed to have six more weeks of winter. Blah. Last night, I started my scuba Divemaster class. Adam is in the class with me, so that's cool. It's gonna be quite a bit of work to finish the certification - 2 classes per week for 4 weeks, then an internship where I need to assist teaching other classes, and a bunch of dives down in Monterey. The really bad part is the physics we're going to have to learn. I love science - medicine, physiology, biology, technology - keep me away from the math and I'm fine; I'm just not a math person. Oh well, I'll get through it. My First Subwoofer! I picked up a Cambridge Soundworks system for my cd player here at work, and now it's hiding back there behind the monitor pumping out beats from The Delta. Yay for bass! Speaking of bass, I decided I need to listen to more drum'n'bass/jungle music, so I headed over to Phuncktion last night. I dragged Adam along after class, and met Susan, Ashley, and Stefanie there; we had a couple of drinks and heard some good music. I guess my next step is to figure out which of the local djs spin the kind of music I like and head out to see them. I do need to go to Eklektic - so many people have recommended it to me, but I haven't yet been there. Nonsequitur - I love the Internet! It's the reason I got so interested in computers in the first place; all of a sudden I had discovered something fun and social (this was back in the day when Usenet was still cool) and it made me want to find out more about how it all worked. Then the web came along, and it was all downhill from there! Although I've had some jobs in the past which I've really liked, it's only since I've gotten into the computer industry that I sometimes can't believe they're actually paying me to do this! Speaking of work, my job situation has finally been sorted out. I didn't get laid off (Damn! No huge severance check - gallavanting around the world and spending four months in Fiji!) but I did end up with what sounds like a really cool job! Maybe that means I'll finally have something to do during the day. 31 january 00 It's 1:30 in the morning, and I should probably be asleep. Oh well, I got a lot of sleep this past weekend, so I guess I'm making up for it tonight. I just got home from Asindee, a new jungle club at 330 Ritch. I had fun! I'm starting to actually like jungle/d'n'b, and that's a bit surprising to me as about two years ago I didn't like it at all. (But then again, five years ago I hated all sorts of techno, and that certainly has changed!) I saw a bunch of friends at the club and met a couple of new people; one girl I met was yet another "refugee" from the goth/industrial scene. There are quite a number of said refugees who are now totally into the techno/rave scene, myself included. It's very cool. I need to go out dancing more often. I keep saying that but haven't really done anything about it. I thought about going out on Friday, but opted for drinking & playing pool with Mike, Seth, & Erin instead. Saturday night we spent watching movies & eating Indian food (4th time in a week!). Sunday, I spent an afternoon alone at home listening to music & cooking curry. And although I went out earlier tonight, I didn't dance because I don't know how to dance to jungle. Guess I should do something about that. Right now I just think I should go to bed. 27 january 00 Once again, I'm updating this from work. Yeah, I *do* have a lot of free time here, and that's not as cool as it sounds; it can get pretty boring. Hopefully I'll have news on the job situation in a few weeks, once the sale of this company goes through and everything sorts itself out. In the meantime, I just sit here trying new things, like the alpha release of Mozilla 5.0, which even has a Mac build. (Yeah, I'm a Mac weenie, leave me alone :) ) Ever since I got back from Fiji, life has been kinda low-key..Dyed my hair a couple of nights ago, and it's the brightest it's ever been! The color doesn't reproduce well on film; it's more pink in real life than it is in photos - a very cool, slightly flourescent, bright fuchsia which, believe it or not, looks natural...Set up my Linux box at home, now maybe I'll actually learn to configure/use it...Met Susan, Stefanie, & Jamie for sushi lunch yesterday, ate yummy spicy vodka penne with Mike last night, and had lunch today with the Mikes Gridlock and Beth. (Geez, I sure have been eating out a lot lately.) Walking down Market Street on my way back from lunch just now reminded me of what motivated me to (finally) move to San Francisco - I had come to SF one evening to meet a friend, and as I was walking down Market during the evening rush hour hustle & bustle I said to myself, "I want to be a part of this." A few weeks later, I was living here. I'm gonna meet up with Jen after work today. I met her and Da5id about a year ago, when they first moved to SF, but only started to really get to know them a few months ago. They're both very cool, wonderful people, and I'm glad that I've gotten to be friends with them. <OBSCURITY>Received some really good news on Tuesday night which really wasn't news at all but it was good, and I have my fingers crossed about another thing which I want to work out.</OBSCURITY> 25 january 00 It's Tuesday and my boss just took a few of us out for dim sum. Now I'm sitting at work listening to Infected Mushroom's "The Gathering". I need to get a sub-woofer for work - music just doesn't sound right without a good, strong bottom end. Speaking of music, I need to get out to a club soon. I never made it out this past weekend, and I'm getting a bit antsy. Again, speaking of music, I've just quit Dekonstrukt. I may continue to spin there on occasion, but I'm officially no longer working for them. Wow, this is the first time in almost six years that I haven't had a steady club dj gig. Weird. But it gives me more time to go out and play! This past Sunday, Robin & Susan came to watch me have some tattoo work done. Barnaby at Mom's Body Shop finished up a seven-pointed Star of Babylon around my navel. It's a dark purple star with a green glow surrounding it. Well, I thought it was finished, then I discovered invisible blacklight-reactive ink! I'm gonna go back and have Barnaby go over the design with that ink; blacklight-reactive tattoos are cool :) Sunday night I had Chinese food with Mike, and after work on Monday, I hung out with Stefanie and Susan. They just found out the small graphic design company they work for is closing, and they're out of work. It especially sucks for Stefanie since she has visa crap to deal with in order to get a new job. (Wanna hire a great print/web designer?) 22 january 00 Being sick sucks. But I guess if everyone else in SF has been sick, then it was only a matter of time until I caught it as well. Bad timing though - I'm stuck wasting my weekend at home instead of being out having fun. Kozmo is a definite saviour! They bring food and movies to my door in the time it would take me to go them myself! Speaking of movies, I've had the chance to watch several over the last few days; I've probably seen more movies in the last three or four days than I have in the previous three or four months. (I don't watch movies very often.) I finally saw "Run Lola Run" (cool soundtrack), "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy" (wow, cheesy as it sounds, that movie really affected me. I understand just how that girl felt.), "10 Things I Hate About You", and more. Jen, Da5id, John, & Eva did rescue me from going stir-crazy in my apartment tonight. I met them for a great dinner of Indian food, then while Da5id went home to work on his new album, the rest of us went over to John's to watch yet another movie, "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover". 21 january 00 It's Friday night and I'm staying home; I'm supposed to go to a rave tomorrow night, so I'm trying to get over the bit of a cold I have. S.U.N. Project is on the cd player. I saw them last Friday at 550 Barnevald and they were way cool! A good goa band with a live drummer and a live guitar player! I had never seen that before. Yay! I just watched "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (I had never seen it before) and really liked it! It made me want to go spend some time in the middle of Africa :) Actually, as a kid I always wanted to go to Africa to see all of the animals. Then I got older and discovered that the 'jungle' is full of big, icky bugs, and that many African countries are hotbeds of political discontent, and I decided I no longer needed to go there. But now I'm thinking it would be pretty cool to go experience Africa. I'd go to an open, dry area rather than a damp, overgrown jungle. And I'd have to stay in a camp outside; no cheating and living in a hotel or anything like that. 18 january 00 I'm sitting here at work. Although the term 'work' is a misnomer since what I actually do is 'slack'. My company (Ziff-Davis) has been sold, and us IT folks are sitting around with hardly any work to do. We think we're going to get laid off (go severance!), so we're all wasting time until someone lets us know what's going on. I like the people I work with and I have the greatest boss in the world, so it would be sad to leave that behind, but otoh, it would be nice to actually have something to do. Oh, and btw, never *ever* get into a financial situation with a friend. Learn from my mistakes :( 17 january 00 I'm not sure how I'm going to use this section, so bear with me. I've always been intrigued by online journals. There are a couple of them that I read regularly, and it's weird - I feel guilty reading personal information about these people (it's especially weird if I happen to see them somewhere, and I know what's going on in their life, but they have no idea that I know about them) but I figure if they didn't want people to read about them, they wouldn't have put their journals online. (nice run-on sentence, eh?) I never had the guts to publish any sort of journal, so this may end up being a series of stupid things like: Right now in San Francisco it's grey and miserable. Today's a holiday, but I was woken up at 9:30 :( I'm on call at work this weekend, and had to spend an hour or two on a couple of problems. Blah. Well, I guess it's worth the extra money I get from being on call. I think I'm going to spend the rest of the day at home. Maybe I'll even get around to finishing painting my kitchen.You've heard the saying, "the greatest thing since sliced bread"? Well, I've got this loaf of bread I bought in Fiji, and it's unsliced. So that means I can cut my own slices as thick or as thin as I'd like, and I think it's great! I hereby declare unsliced bread the greatest thing since sliced bread! :-P S o m e o p i n i o n s : Sensationalism & the American Public Dummies Books for Dummies | |||
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