| in place of a real update, i'm just going to post this here survey. |
[Jan. 14th, 2006|09:24 pm] |
Two Names You Go By
1. Fumiko
2. Caaaathhhhhy
Two Parts of Your Heritage
1. White Trash
2. Japanese
Two Things That Scare You
1. Car Accidents
2. Blush... like... as a concept
Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Snooooooooooze button
2. SlickDeals.net
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Crumbs from the left-over sammich that I just ate
2. 6 dolla yoga pants
Two of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
1. Stereo Total
2. Fleetwood Mac
Two Things You Want in a Relationship (other than real Love)
1. Mutiple Orgasms (duh)
2. Breakfast in Bed... with Multiple Orgasms
Two Truths about you
1. I rarely admit that I'm wrong. I usually just try to change the subject.
2. I have actually thought, "Hmm.... What would an octopus' garden actually look like?"
Two Physical Things that Appeal to You About the Opposite Sex.
1. Stupid Looking Hair
2. Height
Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Yogamuthafucker
2. Walking around aimlessly in my apartment
Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. Professional Teeth Whitening (will never happen)
2. More Tord Boontje!!!!!
Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. Toronto
2. Baked Alaska
Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Finish "Infinite Jest"
2. Babies... I guess.
Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. Who actually uses Vaseline for ANYTHING??????
2. Why is my head still inching? I scratched it, like, 2 minutes ago.
Two Stores You Shop At
1. ebay
2. Sloan/Hall
Two people you haven't talked to in awhile
1. Sarah Jones
2. My Aunt Caroline
Two favorite web sites
1. uh... can I say SlickDeals.net again?
2. uh... can I say eBay.com again?
Two cars you owned
1. 87 bronze-coloured Isuzu Impulse affectionately named the "Junebug"
2. 94 Green Ford Ranger with a dropped bumper
Two pets you had/have
1. The 2 parakeets that died while I was at church camp. Their names have been erased by the sands of time.
2. I don't really do pets.
Two Favorite Sports
1. Ballroom Dancing
2. Swimming
Two People who will fill this out
1. Oh, it's that kind of survey huh?
2.
Two things you did last nite
1. Diverseworks gallery opening with animations of little girls in underwear hitting each other and, like, trapped in boxes n' shit. But it wasn't pervy, swear.
2. Got glarred at by the Van Loc waitress when she realized that we were planning on SHARRING the $6.50 veggie soup. She was somewhat mollified later when I placed a to-go order. SOMEWHAT.
Two shows you like to watch currently
1. The Simpsons
2. Princess Tutu |
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| boring, boring, boring!!! |
[Dec. 5th, 2005|02:34 pm] |
i've been having really boring dreams recently.
like last night i dreamed i got a hair cut.
it was fine. nothing to it.
sheesh, maybe i need more drama in my life. |
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| Defend, don't amend, the Texas Constitution |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|01:43 pm] |
okay, i don't usually do political action postings... but COME ON PEOPLE.
Proposition 2 is just STUPID.
Go out and vote it down tomorrow, please.
It should be noted that voting "no" to Prop 2 DOES NOT LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. Marriage between people of the same sex is already illegal and the Legislature isn't about to change that for a long, long time. This is a shame in my mind (of course), but shit, we are in TEXAS after all.
Anyway, ammending the constitution of Texas to include a provision specifically banning gay marriage is clearly idiocy.
Okay, glad we're clear on that. [exits soapbox] |
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| cute asian kids dressed up like hicks... |
[Oct. 27th, 2005|01:42 pm] |
the corn-cob pipe really makes this look. i'm not quite sure why the white kids look trashy but the asian kid looks super cute. it's not really fair now is it?
maybe it's just because he's chubby.
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| my dad just ran a marathon! |
[Oct. 17th, 2005|02:29 pm] |
amazing!!! 26.2 miles in 5 hours and 56 minutes!
for a man that was over 150 lbs overweight just 2 years ago, this is an incredible feat!
for those who don't know, my dad was massively overweight and extremely unhealthy for most of my life.
in 2003 he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (adult onset). this was a major wake up call.
since then he has lost over 125 lbs (he still thinks he should lose another 15-20 lbs.) and completely controlls his diabetes from excersize and diet (no insulin injections!).
pretty damn cool, go dad! |
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| is anyone else disturbed... |
[Oct. 13th, 2005|02:06 pm] |
by the fact that Ziyi Zhang is playing the title character in Memoirs of a Geisha??
um... hello??? she's not japanese!!!
sheesh, as if we don't get enough of the "they all look the same" anyway...
oh well, it was a crappy book anyway so it's not suprising. |
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| so long and thanks for all the fish... |
[Oct. 12th, 2005|10:30 pm] |
right, so it's been a while since i've updated. we had a hurric-ain't. i started it up again with the ebay addition (shit!). i designed NINE DIFFERENT VERSIONS of princess tutu volume 4 all to the dissatisfaction of my boss (back to the drawing board/mind reading alchemy). i met my fiance's sister. i watched THE HITCHHIKERS'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
but i didn't call this here meeting of the west virgina knitter's anonymous club to discuss those things. no, sir-ee. i came here today to talk about the weirdest shit i have every seen while swimming a mile at the downtown YMCA.
first it just seemed that the people on the pool side were having a conventional battle with paddles. you might call it a paddle battle. this is what it appeared to be when i was face down in lane 3 on lap 22. by lap 30 i was in a quandary, "what the fuck kinda conflict can only be settled by paddle duel????"
as it turns out they were discussing canoeing technique and rhythm. as i exited the pool i actually saw a pair of them sit down on the side of the pool and "paddle" in sync. on the side of the pool!!! there was NO CANOE! after a minute on one side, they switched to the other (aka, stood up and turned around to face the other direction). needless to say, they weren't moving.
after showering, i ran into them again leaving the building. they were carrying their paddles. they had actually brought the paddles to the Y themselves. they actually OWNED paddles!
whew. okay, that's it. you may go back to the decorative sash making. |
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| quirky |
[Sep. 19th, 2005|06:49 pm] |
this is either a profound critique of american pop culture or perhaps just a profound expression thereof... but today i noticed that one of my co-workers had one of those ribbon magnets of the "support our troops" ilk -- but his/her's proudly proclaimed "i adopted my ferret!"
i'm glad that we're at the point in our national cycle of decay that even ferret adoption gets it's own magnet/ribbon. |
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| the leap home |
[Sep. 14th, 2005|02:06 pm] |
i visited home (indiana) over labor day weekend. i just barely missed my 10 year high school reunion (wedding in h-town the same day) which i'm not sure is dodging the bullet or something to be mourned. let's see... the people that i still want to keep contact with are: ursula, mike dixon.... and ... uh... well, i guess that's it! people that i am still in contact with: ursula, mike dixon. well, i guess that solves it.
other than random schadenfreude and an reflex curiousity to know who turned gay, i think i'm over the whole glorification of your high school days. in the end, your friends were petty and whiney about their pitifully unimportant greivances (real or imagined) and so were you.
i talked to mike over the phone while home (he didn't go either) and he gave me the update on the ephemera of west side high.
other than that i just played games with my mom (rummikub, dominoes, 20 questions), met my brother's fiance and drove around the ol' hood a little.
pretty relaxing. pretty dull. that's indiana for you. |
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| donation |
[Sep. 2nd, 2005|02:51 pm] |
i just made a donation to the red cross. as much as i don't believe in "faith based" organizations, i applaud the red cross for having the highest donation/admin cost ratio of all of the national relief organizations at 91 cents per dollar.
please feel free to donate too.
www.redcross.org |
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| wow! |
[Aug. 30th, 2005|03:08 pm] |
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i was totally just called a "amazon mongoloid" in someone's myspace blog! AAAAAWESOME!!! |
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| my apartment is my apartment is my apartment! |
[Aug. 29th, 2005|10:23 pm] |
two weeks ago i volunteered to have a board meeting at my house in order to give me and andrew a reason to actually move into the apartment that we technically "moved into" about four months ago. it was getting pretty pathetic: boxes stacked in the living room... trip-tastic wires from the surround sound system everywhere... all of the art leaned in a precarious stack next to a monsterous tower of empty cardboard boxes.
like everything in my life, i didn't do it until i had a deadline. i'm not sure if this is a vestigial organ of my past life as an over-achiever or just good sense in my multi-tasking world. either way, we had unpacked to the point at which the apt was livable and from then on all foward progress ceased.
the possible (and probable) askance looks from the barnevelder board was all i needed to whip our collective hiney into shape. artwork? hung! wires? hidden!! junk? sorted!!!
hallelujah!!!!
[seven 40 gallon containers of ebay-able clothing and sundry whatnot?... uh... not touched. it's okay, they're out of sight in the second bedroom!]
i walked into my apartment this evening and felt the need to put on a fake french accent and say, "mon dieu! theeees place is niiiiiice!"
the end. |
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| anal sex |
[Aug. 25th, 2005|01:09 pm] |
okay, so i've been reading "The Surrender : An Erotic Memoir" recently... it was a christmas present that i'm finally getting around to. for the uninitiated, "The Surrrender" got alot of news when it came out for being the author's "rhapsodic experience with sodomy" and "account of her addiction to anal sex and her burning jones for an inamorato she identifies only as A-Man"... uh. yeah.
so, basically, we're talking about a trashed out Balanchine ballet burnout and her waxing on all about butt. the butt, the whole butt, nothing but the butt. oh yeah, and Kirkegaard.
this novel is written in a prose that stinks of desperation. well, desperatation and santorum. convoluted sentence structure and egregious name dropping from intelligentsia's hot list, this book is like an anorexic's 10 dollar steak that has been regurgitated and eaten too many times.
the funny thing is that i'm eating it up... it is so obviously psuedo-intellectual mumbo-jumbo ("the doorway to the soul is not the eyes, it's the ass"? who can write this shit and not crack themselves up?) that i can't help but think it's some sort of practical joke. replace all of the "ass" in the book with "chocolate" and you have an entire Woman's Day magazine.
has this world become so saturated with the unreal that you have to write a tell-all memoir about your anal adventures to get your Andy Warhol 10 minutes of fame? |
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| weekend of luv... |
[Aug. 22nd, 2005|02:40 pm] |
well, not really. in lieu of doing anything truly romantic for our engagement, my and andrew got pizza... and watched princess tutu and the tripped out "return to oz". huzzah. i have to say that for a man who claimed "i don't think that i can watch this" after hearing the title "princess tutu" and seeing the cover, andrew turned pretty quickly to the dark side. we blew through the first 5 eps and he was like "how long until volume 2???"... sucka.
i have to say that laying in bed, cuddling and doing our magic "we're going to get married" chant STILL hasn't gotten tired! ha!
in other news, i have hearby informed andrew to take jaques out dancing so that me and julai finally have some time alone together. it's been hard to maintain our lesbian affair while we live in tandum apartments with our respective boyfriends. sheesh. |
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| a new era of LJ |
[Aug. 21st, 2005|12:09 am] |
okay, so at the prodding of one soon to be departed ex-coworker (and friend!), i've decided to make an honest attempt at keeping this whole journal thing up to date.
i've picked today as good day to start because it ushers in a new era of life for me.
tada! i am engaged.
me and andrew have decided to get married in september (NEXT sept!) and well... just saying that wasn't good enough for him. he needed to go out a buy a ring n' shit and ask me formally. very sweet.
my exact words when he asked me (jesus we were just taking a walk and freakin' A we had only talked about this like on Monday!) were "you have got to be kidding me". damn, that boy works fast!!!
anywhooo... um... yeah... that's the news! |
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| anticlimactic last post |
[Jun. 12th, 2004|12:01 am] |
so after a grueling 36 hour trip from bangkok to toyko to seattle to denver to houston, i arrived home at 2am and slept the sleep of the dead all day wednesday.
as much as i may bemoan houston, i must admit that i'm glad to be home.
now... i wonder where i will go next? |
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| tearful goodbyes... |
[Jun. 7th, 2004|10:26 pm] |
sunday night i put zuki on a train back to laos. yes, there were many tears shed. yes, i ran after the train (well, sorta). yes, zuki stood on the traincar steps waving as she disappeared into the distance. it was just like in the movies. only, this one hurt more than a sappy moment onscreen. huh.
we were acting like we were never going to see each other again. that's just plain silly, of course. right?
we had spent the weekend in bangkok shopping (duh) and getting massages and playing rummy. 2 days at the weekend market and we still hadn't canvased the joint! saturday night we went out to the utlimate trendy danceclub, the bed supper club. the oblong white building is all white inside with padded curved walls. the waitresses wear sexy white stewartess uniforms. sweet.
dancing with zuki is the bestest. high energy all the way, baby. |
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| the last lazy days in laos |
[Jun. 5th, 2004|10:21 pm] |
huh. i'm going home in less than a week. does this mean i have to face the "real" world again?
why don't i stay in southeast asia forever? hmm. good question. |
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| 3 days at angkor wat |
[Jun. 1st, 2004|10:02 pm] |
F.Y.I. cambodian roads really ARE as bad as they say they are.
after arriving in siem reap, me and some recent Warton Business School Graduates (don't ask me why, but that really needed to be capitalized) went in together to rent a car/driver for the rest of the day. [angkor wat is a complex of temples spread over 100sqkm (only one of which is actually called "angkor wat"), so some form of transportation is a neccesity.] starting that the bayon (famous for it's 216 mysterious stone faces and for a brief appearance in tomb raider) at 1pm, we made our way through the temples of angkor thom before heading to a hilltop temple for sunset.
i have to admit that the first couple of hours were really overwhelming. this sounds so stupid, i know, but i really had to stop myself from tearing up. it was so magnificently beautiful. each temple has rooms within rooms, hallways connecting to courtyards, towers which reach up to the sky. they are like ancient palaces for the gods. incredible.
i didn't really believe everyone that gushes about angkor wat. i almost even skipped going to cambodia altogether (i tried to change my ticket in vietnam, but couldn't... thankfully). 3 days exploring the temples of angkor wat was one of the best experiences of my trip. i'm glad i didn't miss out on it. |
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