3.03.2008

Oog.

Yeah yeah yeah.  I'm going to post for real soon, ok?  It is just that life has been fairly busy - in a good way - lately and I think I am in the midst of living life in the beginning throes of actually picking up teaching and coaching gigs around town a little at a time and it is finally (finally!) starting to encroach on this nonsense that I call my day job.  This can only mean one thing: that in the somewhat not so distant future, I can anticipate the need to finally (FINALLY!!) cut back on my day job hours to make room for my blooming career as an actual bona-fide musician.  

F.I.N.A.L.L.Y.  

But I know this is the first of roughly one million baby steps in the process. 

 Oh, and I'm also working on a super secret awesome project that I don't want to write about here only because I want it to be a super awesome surprise once it's done.  MUAHAHaahhaahAHAhAHa.  Suffice it to say, that it is totally nerdy, and, in a way, involves The Grand Master Plan to stage my triumphant return to the world of musical academia.  

In the meantime: Have I mentioned how much I love Lost and how much last week's episode rocked my universe?  If 't'were possible, I would make with the sweet sweet lovin' to Lost and have twenty thousand of its Lost babies.  

2.28.2008

Sweet Holy Moses.

Lost is the greatest show in the history of the universe.  I'd write more, but I'd really rather just shuffle off to the nearest laptop and get started on reading the Lost forums. Desmond and Penny!  Daniel Faraday! Some actual freaking allusions to real actual freaking answers! Yataaa!!

2.24.2008

Really? Already?

1. Last month, I had uber-PMS for what seems like an eternity that made me curl up in the fetal position for three days, while I alternately demanded that Schmoobles leave my sight one minute and then rub my back the next minute. This time around, I got a mild backache in the morning and then the Monthly Confirmation That I Am Indeed Without Child later that afternoon. This thing that I call my body will never cease to confuse me.

2. When your city has been literally under a gray storm cloud for 6 months straight and you find yourself enjoying the sunshine for the first time since, what, September? October? and you feel compelled to go get yourself a latte and run some errands wearing a bright pink cardigan and matching headband over a high ponytail, you will be guaranteed at least a few smiles from random strangers in the grocery store.

3. Despite keeping on keeping on with my regular high-caffeine regimen, I have not had any movements in the booowel department for 2 days. This is both bothersome and confusing. That is all.

4. Twice now in the last week, I've attempted to make 2 different rice dishes. Both times I have overestimated the amount of water and/or underestimated the proper temperature to make a nice fluffy rice result and have ended up with the sticky, closer-to-porridge type of rice that, while tasty, was completely wrong for the type of dishes I was attempting to make. This makes me feel like an inferior brand Asian. Hmph.

5. My family is going on a week-long vacation to Hawaii next month. Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzaaah!! Things on my itinerary:
  • Go on a Lost tour. I have researched online, and have found no such official activity. I may have to make one up for myself.
  • Go snorkeling and see the pretty fishies.
  • Go surfing and remain standing up on the board for longer than 10 seconds.
  • Go surfing and remain uneaten by sharks.
  • Eat obscene amounts of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
  • Not think about my sh*tty job for one second.

6. Months ago I bought a fabulous shower head with which to replace the management-installed crappy shower head that came with our apartment that felt more like twenty midgets peeing on your head instead of the high-powered fire-nozzle of gloriousness that I prefer. Anyway, just a week ago I finally got around to asking our maintenance man to replace the shower heads. The new shower head, with all its high-pressured awesomeness is...awesome. What I failed to take into account, however, was the fact that it does not have an adjustable neck and is, unfortunately, permanently aimed at such an angle that it almost hits the wall directly across the shower head. This means that I now have to not only make sure that the shower curtain is pulled completely against the wall so that the water doesn't hit the wall and splatter out onto the bathroom floor, but I also have to learn how to shower while simultaneously hugging the far wall of the tub or else the water is too high to even reach my head. Urg. Oh well. The water pressure more than makes up for it. At least until I can get to Target and get a shower head with an adjustable neck.

7. I can't believe it's the end of the weekend already. Unacceptable. Someday, when I am Princess of the Universe, I will deem regular 4-day workweeks. That way, everyone can have the standard 2 days to do all the fun stuff they can't do when they're busy slaving away for The Man to earn their measly wages, and then also have one day to do nothing but lay down on the couch and watch television.

2.21.2008

This post is about pooping.orBlogging it old school.

To clench or not to clench? That is the question. In reference to my sphincter. Because I've got about an hour left here in the hellhole office and my morning 16 ounce double soy Mythical Mocha (not Star*ucks, duh) has caused some *ahem* activity to commence in my lower intestinal area and I am now struggling with the choice between *ahem* letting it loose, so to speak, in one of our office communal bathrooms, or just holding tight (again, the sphincter) for the next 60 minutes until I can race home and bask in the private glory of my home bathroom before I pack up the devil stick and head to Wind Ensemble rehearsal. Hm. Quite a quandary...

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UPDATE 2 MINUTES LATER: I can't take it. I'm going home now!

2.15.2008

T.G.I.F.F.

You can decide for yourself what that extra "F" is for.

Let me just say this: I just checked my bank balance and saw that the good ol' U.S. of A. (New and improved in 2009!!) has deposted my tax refund. Praise Jeebus Hallelujah!!! The last 2 minutes saw me very literally sitting at my work desk, staring at my computer screen with an idiotic smile on my face, saying repeatedly, "Oh. ...My. ...God. ...Oh. ...My. ...God." I guess this is what they mean about delayed gratification, right?

In other news: I have not fully ingested last night's episode of Lost. I refuse to accept the fact that Future Sayid is working in cahoots with Ben. The only good thing I can make of this is that Lost is such a freaking mind-trip of a show, that pretty much nothing ends up being what you thought it was initially and so there is still a glimmer of hope for me that what I saw at the end of last night's episode was just Sayid manipulating Ben in some way and that all will be hunky dory. *crosses fingers for next 3 years*

Anyway, I am counting down the minutes until the workday is officially over and I can go read the Lost forums for ten hours straight and then re-watch the latest episodes seventeen times over the course of the weekend. Taaa!

2.14.2008

Happy Venereal Disease Valentine's Day

I just burned the ever-loving sh*t out of my mouth drinking my morning double Americano. Accompanied by some homemade cherry cheesecake courtesy of one of our accounting ladies upstairs. Soon to be followed by a handful of dark chocolate raspberry Hershey's kisses. And hopefully, but not bloody likely, followed by 30 minutes on the elliptical machine tonight. More to post later. Must go find some gauze with which to wrap the third-degree burnt slab of charred flesh formerly known as my tongue.

ps. Lost tonight!!! Wheeeeeee!!!!!!

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UPDATE: Sayiiiiiiiiid!!! Noooooooooo!!! AAAAAAUUUUUGH!!!!