so the dreaded cubicle reconfiguration has taken place and where once there was just my beautifully large, spacious cube, there is now two tiny, cramped cubes in its place. how sad is it to see that i can barely fit through the opening that they call a doorway? my mood has been down all day since and the only comfort i got today was to look at my fantasy basketball team to find out that instead of last place, i have managed to go in to second to last place.

how exciting.

actually, i’m pretty excited about my fantasy teams. i think it’s kind of fun to play, but i can definitely see how this could be time consuming.

i am really disappointed that the closest ATM to work is nearly 5 miles away. it used to be that i would walk over to the ATM during my lunch hour and i’d do my banking then. now i have to make a separate trip to the bank or drive all the way over to the nearest bank to get money.

this makes my banking feel much more like a chore than anything else. i wonder if this will change my spending habits. i generally like to buy my lunches with cash and dinners with credit cards. i wonder if i will end up using a credit card more now that it is less convenient to get to a bank.

…or i could just go to the bank that is right next door to my home.

i watched north country last night. i really thought that i would really like this movie and i really wanted to. charlize theron, a seemingly good story, and best of all you knew there was a happy ending…all key ingredients to a good movie.

i’ve decided that i really don’t like movies where charlize just doesn’t look good. sure, those are the roles that she may be getting awards for, but for some reason i just haven’t really enjoyed those movies. it’s actually frightening that i kind of wonder if my taste in movies has really shifted to be more shallow. is all that i’m looking for just some shallow eye candy?

i heard about this story on the radio on the way to work. what would possess a man to fight a deer that has broken into your home and kill it with his bare hands, i have no idea. but to have blood splattered all over the walls of the house and to fight for 40 minutes with this deer is just crazy.

of course, i guess it only makes sense that the man would want to process the deer for its meat afterwards. after all, he worked 40 minutes to get his meal the way he wanted it…

it’s no secret that i love steak. the kind of love affair i have with steak is really hard to describe. i used to eat more steak than chicken, pork, or turkey combined at one point in my life.

i also love pizza. i cannot get tired of eating pizza. i think that i’ve eaten pizza now two days in a row and i’m considering eating pizza again for dinner tomorrow. why i never get tired of pizza, i’m not sure.

but there is one thing that i am adamant about when it comes to my favorite foods. i do not like steak on pizza. that is simply wrong. it is hard to imagine that those two foods would be something that i would be opposed to try in combination, but really, i find that philosophically wrong.

i think i don’t like the idea because it cheapens steak which has always been such a grand meal. it should be celebrated, not bastardized into some topping.

i just ate pizza for lunch. i kinda want steak for dinner now. =P

i just got a notice that the cubes in my row are going to be reconfigured. i don’t know what that means, but i’m fairly certain that means that my cube is going to get smaller. this makes me sad. i don’t want my cube to get smaller. i LIKE the fact that it’s huge. i need to spread out all of my stuff and make it look like i’m using more of it.

*sigh*

i don’t think that i am a very superstitious person. in fact, in the past, i’ve mocked those who believe in superstition. but lately, i have found that everything seems to have been picking up lately. the days seem sunnier, the birds seem to be singing happy songs, and life just doesn’t seem like the roller coaster that it once used to be.

with all of that, i think i’ve been reluctant to write about what my days have been looking like in fear that actually acknowledging how good things have been recently might tip the balance of things back.

but i’ve given up and i’m just going to say that where once things seemed gray and blue now it seems vibrant and alive again.

i’ve been trying to get back into taking pictures again. i haven’t had the opportunity to go and take any good pictures, so i think that i’m going to make it a point to try and do that soon.

for the most part i think that i’m a creature of habit. i made this realization today while trying to order lunch at this local thai restaurant. they had a variety of lunch specials and instead of branching out and trying something new, i went with the tried and true meal and quite possibly my favorite thai dish: panang curry.

i don’t know why i like this curry so much, but if i find myself at a thai restaurant, i will inevitably order it.

it makes me wonder what other sorts of things i have come to always do without really thinking about it. i always put my right contact in before my left, i always dry my face before any other part of my body after getting out of the shower, and i always hit the snooze button on the alarm before turning it off…even if i don’t snooze a little while after the alarm is off.

i think that there probably is some sense of comfort in a routine, but sometimes you need to shake things up. starting next week, i’m going to try and do something new every day.

i never like the change of the weather when it starts to get cold. gone will be the days where one can walk around in shorts and a t-shirt. gone are the days when i can walk without an umbrella fearing the rain that will come and melt me away.

a ex-co-worker of mine told me once that i am not so sweet that i will melt if it rains to which i asked her, “are you sure? i’m pretty sweet.”

but it looks like the gloomy days are here again and the rain will come down upon us all. it’s been getting cold and with the change in the weather, it looks like i’ll have to dig out some of my warmer clothes. i think that i need to do some shopping and find some warm clothes as well.

and to top it all off, daylight savings is coming again this weekend. don’t forget to fall back an hour on sunday!

dardy, jen, leeya, paul and i went to eat dim sum at dynasty in campbell a few sundays ago. wow, i just realized that everyone who attended dim sum has blogs.

today was the first time that i’ve heard dardy speak chinese. for some reason in my head i always assumed that his chinese was not very good, but it sounded perfectly normal to me.

dim sum was good and it was good to catch up with some people that i haven’t caught up with in a while. i think that dim sum is a very social kind of meal. you can talk about what foods you like or dislike and all have a shared experience. i think part of what makes dim sum feel more social to me than other meals is that you are encouraged to talk about things you want and that spills over to other types of conversation.

one of the things i like about eating out is that it is more of a social experience. i think that if i only went to eat out just to eat then i wouldn’t really find the food as enjoyable. speaking of which, i’ve noticed lately that i tend to eat things that i can’t or don’t usually cook for myself. i usually don’t order things that i know how to cook, it just seems like normal home cooking.