Monthly Archives: December 2003

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so full…

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we went to have indian buffet today for lunch. man…i am so full it hurts right now. i don’t know why i feel compelled to stuff myself silly whenever i go to a buffet place. i’m so full now it hurts just sitting and typing. and this happens every time. you’d think that i’d learn by now and i wouldn’t go for that last plate of food, but no. you’d think that i’d learn by now and i wouldn’t force myself to finish everything on that last plate of food, but no.

common sense seems to fly out the window whenever i set foot in a buffet restaurant. why, oh why, am i inflicted with this temporary food stupidity? i don’t know, but i’m paying for it now.

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christmas list

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i am a procrastinator. that’s just the way that i am. i’ve never been able to plan out far in advance and usually i end up choosing to cram things in a small amount of time instead of doing a little bit every day. as such, it appears that there are 7 days left until christmas comes around. now, i must confess that i don’t even have a list of people that i want to buy gifts for.

so here i am struggling a week before christmas trying to figure out who i want to buy gifts for. never-you-mind that i don’t have the slightest clue as to what i will get these people…i haven’t gotten there yet. i still need to figure out who i will get stuff for….then the REAL turmoil begins. what will i get them?

ugh.

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entertainment

room raiders

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i was watching tv last night in another bout of insomnia and stumbled across [url=http://www.mtv.com/onair/room_raiders/]room raiders[/url]. the concept of the show is that three contestants vye for a date with the “room raider”. the first raider was a guy who got to go through three other girl’s rooms and look through all of their stuff…the guy seemed particularly interested in going through the girl’s underwear drawer.

the basic premise of the show is that based on the inspection of the room, the raider would then pick a girl based on the room to go out and have a date with.

the second raider was a girl who went through three guy’s rooms…it’s pretty funny because she was ripping these guys apart. i don’t think that i would participate in a show like this though, i don’t want my privacy violated like that.

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rants

financials

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it’s the end of the year again and i am checking out the financials of my 401k. i probably don’t pay enough attention to its performance as i should, but it seems that i did reasonably well for the funds that i elected to invest in. i think the [url=http://old.journal.ocliw.com/2003/0530.php]last time i checked[/url] on my 401k, it was back in may! damn! well, it turns out that since the may check-in, things have been doing better, and i’m getting about a 10% return on investment. better than money in the bank, i guess.

i’m kind of upset because i went through great pains when i first set up the 401k stuff so that i’d contribute a very specific amount and it turns out that the math i did was wrong. i even had someone double check the math for me, but still…no dice. so i’m actually contributing more than i wanted to into the 401k this year. bummer. that could have been money that i could have played with…now locked away forever. grrrrr.

today's new thing

woah…michelle!

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i have a newfound awe for [url=http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1026.html]michelle branch[/url]. who knew she was so hot? i mean, i liked her music and all, but who knew she was hot? maybe it was because when her last album was out, she was still 18 or something that made it feel dirty. but now that she’s a whopping 20, it’s all ok to be attracted to her…right?

i’ve only seen her in pretty conservative attire and i always thought of her as a cute little girl, but she looks all grown up now in the latest issue of maxim.

damn…she’s still only 20. that’s young for maxim, isn’t it?

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give me the trimethylxanthine, man.

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that’s right, bring it on. i think that today, more than ever, i need a healthy dose of the trimethylxanthine. sometimes you just need that little bit of a pick me up and today seems to be one of those days. trimethylxanthine, whose chemical formula is C8H10N4O2, is better known as caffeine.

today i learned that caffeine is also a mild diuretic. for those not jive with the medical lingo (myself included) that means it makes you pee more. i also learned that if something is labelled as “decaffeinated” that only means that there is less than 2.5% by volume of caffeine in the product. so decaffeinated does not equal caffeine free.

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EARTHQUAKE!

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[url=http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40148607.htm]did you feel it?[/url] did you feel it? i haven’t felt an earthquake in a long time. this one was a baby one. there was a little shuddering but that’s about it. the interesting thing is that my office building is a brick building. if a big quake hits, i wonder how it’ll do.

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if you could choose…

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if you could choose between getting one really big xmas gift from everyone, or a bunch of little ones, which would you choose?

if i had a choice, i’d probably opt for the bunch of little ones. i think that there’s just more individual thought to the gifts and it’s just more fun opening a bunch of gifts than one big one. but i wouldn’t complain if i did get just one big gift. =P

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rants

rude

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sometimes it’s amazing how rude some people can be and not really know it. it’s for those people that i sort of pity. it is one thing to be rude and realize that your rudeness is improper. it’s another to be rude and not know that you are being rude. not only does this offend other people, but you don’t have the opportunity to better yourself because you don’t realize that what you are doing is simply WRONG.

the other day, i was looking at something and somebody took what i was examining (with great interest, mind you) out of hands so that they could look at it. was i done looking at said object? nope. did i find it incredibly rude that they would just snatch it out of my hands? yup. did i do anything about it? nope. i was in so much shock that they would just snatch it out of my hands that i couldn’t say anything.

i looked around to see if anyone else had seen what had happened and to see if i was being unreasonable at being so shocked…but then my eyes locked on to someone else’s who had seen what had happened and there was this smirk on their face and a knowing nod. yes, indeed, this had happened, and i was justified in feeling the way i did.

i was pretty upset at the time, but now that i look back on it, i actually feel bad for the person. i mean, they don’t even know the bad they did…and well, that’s sad.

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insomniac

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man…i’m exhausted. i’ve been having a lot of trouble going to sleep lately. it’s been ongoing for the last two weeks or so. i’m not going to bed until 3 or 4am and when i wake up to go to work i wake up with a feeling of exhaustion. there’s just no relief. today, my body is aching a little, i suspect from the lack of sleep. i can’t wait until i go home tonight and go to bed. i don’t think that i can survive like this much longer.

i don’t know why i can’t seem to slumber. you’d think that it’d be an easy thing to do, but it takes quite an effort for me to be able to fall asleep.

*sigh*

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