All my friends are trickling away. Slowly, like water draining from a bathtub with hair-clogged pipes. Forgive the rather grisly simile...but seriously. One day I will turn around and suddenly find myself very alone and abandoned, waiting until the fateful day comes when it is my turn to leave this place and embark on...whatever it is I will embark on. The bathtub will be empty!
Richa's grad party was tonight, which was bushels of fun and then some! I really don't get enough dance parties in my life to keep me happy. It got me thinking though. Someone brought up that we graduated SO long ago and I suddenly realized it really has been a long time -- like two months? How did that speed by so quickly. I still refer to myself as a senior, I think it's weird when 09 calls themself the senior class. I still feel like more of a matador than an anteater. And it still hasn't really sunk in that everyone is going their own separate ways in the coming days, weeks, months. Dancing with the people I've come to know/be comfortable around has made me realize that I'm really lucky to consider them friends, yadayadayada, and also that I'll probably never make friends in college. It takes me a while to trust people and be myself around them, so once that shell comes off and they see me for the random, weird chick that I am will they still want to be friends with me?!?! I feel like it'll take me a long time to find a support group/group of friends as great as the one I have right now.
In other news, I really love dancing. Such a stress reliever to just let go and feel the music and not really care that you probably look like an idiot. (:
Kathy, Sam, Liz and I are going to Tahoe tomorrow and staying for the next four days there. I can't wait! Some time away from Cupertino will do me good, I think. And time with these girls always does me good anyway.
And even when I'm scared I have to try to fly
Sometimes I fall
But I've seen it done before
I got to step outside these walls
These Walls - Teddy Geiger
8.10.2008
8.06.2008
textually active
chery: ily
yael: ly2
Oh, what a great age we live in, when the deepest sentiments of a human being can be expressed with a simple three letters. I'm not mourning the loss of the grandiose and flowery Shakespearean language, but I do find it a little funny how simple we believe it is to convey such emotions to one another.
I still found this funny, though. Made my day. (:
yael: ly2
Oh, what a great age we live in, when the deepest sentiments of a human being can be expressed with a simple three letters. I'm not mourning the loss of the grandiose and flowery Shakespearean language, but I do find it a little funny how simple we believe it is to convey such emotions to one another.
I still found this funny, though. Made my day. (:
8.04.2008
empty windows
My Firefox window currently only has one tab open, and this bothers me. I usually have around 3-5, one being Facebook, one being Gmail, one being a movie that I am loading, and one being a random website that I am looking at to pass the time while I wait for a new notification or for the movie to finish loading.
But as of right now I only have this one tab. Sure I could easily pop one open and start learning Italian or French or Greek (nts: mangolanguages.com), or shop for dorm necessities (ikea.com!), or even my fall wardrobe/wishlist (...too many websites). But I'm not! And I can't really understand why. So I'm here, on blogspot, spewing my word vomit and wondering what it is that I seem to be forgetting.
That's really what it seems like -- there's something I'm not doing! For the duration of the summer I've kept myself relatively occupied, not necessarily productive though. Now it seems as though I don't have much to do seeing as I've already seen a movie today (Becoming Jane) and facebook is not of any interest to me tonight. Yet I don't want to go to bed.
Sigh. I wish Cashmere Mafia didn't end after such a brief seven episodes. I really liked that show. ):
But as of right now I only have this one tab. Sure I could easily pop one open and start learning Italian or French or Greek (nts: mangolanguages.com), or shop for dorm necessities (ikea.com!), or even my fall wardrobe/wishlist (...too many websites). But I'm not! And I can't really understand why. So I'm here, on blogspot, spewing my word vomit and wondering what it is that I seem to be forgetting.
That's really what it seems like -- there's something I'm not doing! For the duration of the summer I've kept myself relatively occupied, not necessarily productive though. Now it seems as though I don't have much to do seeing as I've already seen a movie today (Becoming Jane) and facebook is not of any interest to me tonight. Yet I don't want to go to bed.
Sigh. I wish Cashmere Mafia didn't end after such a brief seven episodes. I really liked that show. ):
8.03.2008
Random Recap
I think this post will be lacking in any interesting material whatsoever. So if you're not as bored as I am right now, I suggest you direct your eyes away! Go watch Project Runway on youtube or something, but keep in mind BLAYNE IS ANNOYING.
I feel like the past couple of days have been pretty eventful (in my terms) but I think it's just summer's time altering aspects that make fun things feel extra long and boring things extra longer. In reality only about the past 30 hours have been super eventful but I'm very excited to share details!
Kevin and Meher's birthday party was last night at the Commons clubhouse, apparently a retirement community? I don't know if that was a joke or not so I'll just...keep going with the story. It started off a little bit awkward but it gathered steam and turned into one of the greatest dance parties in history. Maybe a tie between this one and the Denver dance! Cause yeah that one was pretty epic. Highlights of the night include dancing on raised platforms like tables/fireplaces, numerous dance battles, getting yelled at by Neil the DJ for trying to find my inner DJ, "raving", and basically dancing till we all dropped. Pretty kickass. Now my neck hurts, I think I tried too hard to get hyphyhyphyhyphyhyphy. Yeah I'm a G. ANNNYWAY...
OH the whole night I was so tempted to saunter on over to the snack table and gorge myself on circus animals, numerous varieties of cake, tortilla chips and cheese dip (basically my all-time favorite snack) and here's the dead-ringer: chocolate covered strawberries! I'm pretty proud of myself cause within that four hour span I only drank water! This proves that I have SOME self-restraint, which is good, because I initially thought that I had none. Seriously, give me a bag of hint of lime Tostitos and a jar of Salsa Con Queso and all you will hear from me is munching noises for an hour!
Backstory on this non-eating weirdness though. Hermes, Liz and I went to Castro Street and had ramen at Maru Ichi (sp?) on Thursday evening, and somehow we got to deciding that I would go on a diet starting August 1st. Basic diet outline:
FOOD: six small meals a day to keep metabolism going. Of course, filled with delicious things like whole grains, protein, the necessary serving of fruits and vegetables, etc. As little processed food as possible, only eat out 2 times per week, and no ice cream or other over-processed deliciousness/obviously unhealthy foods like that.
CHALLENGE: NO ICE CREAM? We all know I'm made of about 50% ice cream, 50% fried things. What did I get myself into?
EXERCISE: 30 minutes of exercise every day.
CHALLENGE: I'm a fat lard. My day-to-day exercise usually consists of running up the stairs once in a while, only when my bladder feels like it's about to explode. I walk to work, sometimes I get up to fetch something I need from upstairs...you get the picture.
SLEEP CYCLE: Nine hours of sleep a night, sleeping before one and getting up before ten.
CHALLENGE: Um, it's like ten minutes to one and I have no intention of getting ready for bed yet. Also, I woke up at 11:30 today, surprised to find that my eyes were open in the AM.
SO, hearty good luck wishes would be appreciated, and motivation will be helpful. Seeing as I am already lagging. But NO, Hermes, you are not getting your $10.
After this fateful decision was made, I fully realized just what I was getting myself into and insisted on getting gelato or ice cream as a last treat to myself before I embark on this diet of death. The gelato place on Castro was wayyy crowded so we went to Carvel. So delicious. Sorry Baskin Robbins, but Carvel is obviously superior. I had cake batter ice cream which seems to be a favorite of mine, good thing we don't have it at BR to tempt me every day. Then I went to Arjun's house to watch Batman Begins/ABDC with Crystal, Meher, and Arjun, and proceeded to consume a slice of deliciously decadent chocolate cake with perhaps the best frosting I have ever come across in my whole life, as well as maybe a third of a pint of Ben & Jerry's Fossil Fuel ice cream. Seriously, Ben & Jerry beat out Baskin Robbins for best ice cream duo ever. Wow, I really have no love for BR! What a surprise. But yeah I basically pigged out that night, like I said, it was a dying woman's last meal! And I'm proud to say I have had no ice cream since then....ok, I lie. I had a sample of jamoca ice cream today at work because it looked so fresh and...textured. I don't know how to explain it but certain textures of ice cream really appeal to me and BOY did it hit the spot. Afterwards I felt bad though so I lugged around three gallon tubs of ice cream with extra vigor.
Totally losing direction of this post, but at this point I'm really just writing to recap everything that has happened lately.
Today I joined the Thai Pepper gang and then some to have lunch. I deemed Kathy and Ryan the Queen and King of Thai cause they're the only couple we eat Thai food with! Haha but my southeast-Asian-ness made me more authentic so I'm the Pad Thai Princess. At one point I was wearing a napkin on my head that made me look like a pope, but whatever. Food was delicious as always! I love how they give you soo much sauce, seriously my beef was drowning in yellow curry sauce. I saved some beef so I could take home all of the sauce without looking like a complete wang, and I had some rice smothered in sauce for dinner. So. Delicious. I need to look up if they have those sauces in jars so I can just cover everything in yellow curry sauce. Soo the diet is not going too well? Yep.
Memorable quote from today: I started singing that song, "I kissed a girl and I liked it!" And Kathy jumps in and goes "I didn't like it THAT much.." haha quite perfect timing.
AND TIFFO AND I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS FOR JASON MRAZ IN LA! He's coming November 1st which is a whole like..two days before he gets to Berkeley/Sacramento/other Norcal venues so we will have complete bragging rights for about two days! We're a little bit too excited about that part but seriously I'm so excited to see him in concert again. Although I don't think it'll be as epic as at the Fillmore, but I LOVE HIM so I don't care. (:
Oh and look at the time, two minutes past one. Screw you, bedtime!
I feel like the past couple of days have been pretty eventful (in my terms) but I think it's just summer's time altering aspects that make fun things feel extra long and boring things extra longer. In reality only about the past 30 hours have been super eventful but I'm very excited to share details!
Kevin and Meher's birthday party was last night at the Commons clubhouse, apparently a retirement community? I don't know if that was a joke or not so I'll just...keep going with the story. It started off a little bit awkward but it gathered steam and turned into one of the greatest dance parties in history. Maybe a tie between this one and the Denver dance! Cause yeah that one was pretty epic. Highlights of the night include dancing on raised platforms like tables/fireplaces, numerous dance battles, getting yelled at by Neil the DJ for trying to find my inner DJ, "raving", and basically dancing till we all dropped. Pretty kickass. Now my neck hurts, I think I tried too hard to get hyphyhyphyhyphyhyphy. Yeah I'm a G. ANNNYWAY...
OH the whole night I was so tempted to saunter on over to the snack table and gorge myself on circus animals, numerous varieties of cake, tortilla chips and cheese dip (basically my all-time favorite snack) and here's the dead-ringer: chocolate covered strawberries! I'm pretty proud of myself cause within that four hour span I only drank water! This proves that I have SOME self-restraint, which is good, because I initially thought that I had none. Seriously, give me a bag of hint of lime Tostitos and a jar of Salsa Con Queso and all you will hear from me is munching noises for an hour!
Backstory on this non-eating weirdness though. Hermes, Liz and I went to Castro Street and had ramen at Maru Ichi (sp?) on Thursday evening, and somehow we got to deciding that I would go on a diet starting August 1st. Basic diet outline:
FOOD: six small meals a day to keep metabolism going. Of course, filled with delicious things like whole grains, protein, the necessary serving of fruits and vegetables, etc. As little processed food as possible, only eat out 2 times per week, and no ice cream or other over-processed deliciousness/obviously unhealthy foods like that.
CHALLENGE: NO ICE CREAM? We all know I'm made of about 50% ice cream, 50% fried things. What did I get myself into?
EXERCISE: 30 minutes of exercise every day.
CHALLENGE: I'm a fat lard. My day-to-day exercise usually consists of running up the stairs once in a while, only when my bladder feels like it's about to explode. I walk to work, sometimes I get up to fetch something I need from upstairs...you get the picture.
SLEEP CYCLE: Nine hours of sleep a night, sleeping before one and getting up before ten.
CHALLENGE: Um, it's like ten minutes to one and I have no intention of getting ready for bed yet. Also, I woke up at 11:30 today, surprised to find that my eyes were open in the AM.
SO, hearty good luck wishes would be appreciated, and motivation will be helpful. Seeing as I am already lagging. But NO, Hermes, you are not getting your $10.
After this fateful decision was made, I fully realized just what I was getting myself into and insisted on getting gelato or ice cream as a last treat to myself before I embark on this diet of death. The gelato place on Castro was wayyy crowded so we went to Carvel. So delicious. Sorry Baskin Robbins, but Carvel is obviously superior. I had cake batter ice cream which seems to be a favorite of mine, good thing we don't have it at BR to tempt me every day. Then I went to Arjun's house to watch Batman Begins/ABDC with Crystal, Meher, and Arjun, and proceeded to consume a slice of deliciously decadent chocolate cake with perhaps the best frosting I have ever come across in my whole life, as well as maybe a third of a pint of Ben & Jerry's Fossil Fuel ice cream. Seriously, Ben & Jerry beat out Baskin Robbins for best ice cream duo ever. Wow, I really have no love for BR! What a surprise. But yeah I basically pigged out that night, like I said, it was a dying woman's last meal! And I'm proud to say I have had no ice cream since then....ok, I lie. I had a sample of jamoca ice cream today at work because it looked so fresh and...textured. I don't know how to explain it but certain textures of ice cream really appeal to me and BOY did it hit the spot. Afterwards I felt bad though so I lugged around three gallon tubs of ice cream with extra vigor.
Totally losing direction of this post, but at this point I'm really just writing to recap everything that has happened lately.
Today I joined the Thai Pepper gang and then some to have lunch. I deemed Kathy and Ryan the Queen and King of Thai cause they're the only couple we eat Thai food with! Haha but my southeast-Asian-ness made me more authentic so I'm the Pad Thai Princess. At one point I was wearing a napkin on my head that made me look like a pope, but whatever. Food was delicious as always! I love how they give you soo much sauce, seriously my beef was drowning in yellow curry sauce. I saved some beef so I could take home all of the sauce without looking like a complete wang, and I had some rice smothered in sauce for dinner. So. Delicious. I need to look up if they have those sauces in jars so I can just cover everything in yellow curry sauce. Soo the diet is not going too well? Yep.
Memorable quote from today: I started singing that song, "I kissed a girl and I liked it!" And Kathy jumps in and goes "I didn't like it THAT much.." haha quite perfect timing.
AND TIFFO AND I JUST BOUGHT TICKETS FOR JASON MRAZ IN LA! He's coming November 1st which is a whole like..two days before he gets to Berkeley/Sacramento/other Norcal venues so we will have complete bragging rights for about two days! We're a little bit too excited about that part but seriously I'm so excited to see him in concert again. Although I don't think it'll be as epic as at the Fillmore, but I LOVE HIM so I don't care. (:
Oh and look at the time, two minutes past one. Screw you, bedtime!
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