I need to clean up my friends page, and delete most of these stupid communities that prevent me from looking at my friends list. It's sad but true. I think I'm going to wipe my community list clean and get some shiny new icons. That will coax be back into livejournal land.

What do I even say here anymore? Not a lot. I feel pretty isolated from most people I know nowadays. Thanks to twitter and FB I just shout out into the nothingness and get nothing back. I call people in the bits of time I have between walking from place to place, but I always feel bad when I have to go eat or get to my final destination. I feel like friends deserve more time than that, but I just don't have it right now.

I like my groups of "people", but they aren't really friends, they're people I run with, do martial arts with, work with. But they serve as interaction, which sounds kind of harsh, but it is what it is, and some of them are slowly becoming friends, but only through common interest.

Beeeeeeep.

Speaking of activities. I am far too busy. I don't know why I am so busy, but I seem to take available space and pack it up with stuff. I always have, but its gotten nuts. I now am running the half marathon, doing kung fu, toastmasters, working full time and will be assisting to teach a KML comedy writing class in the fall. It sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm exhausted. I am envious of people who are'nt as busy, and part of me wants to give up EVERYTHING. Well, except the job. But everything else? Overrated. I want a vacation. A nice chunk of time off to catch up on my adventure games and talk to people on the phone, which is basically how I survived school breaks.

The only problem with this is that half of me wants the nothingness, and the other part of me wants to do it all. The day after I told myself that after the marathon is over (oct 18th!) I was going to take 3 months off of everything, Marissa tried to convince me to to Chinese Acrobatics with her, and it nearly worked. After the chinese acrobatics was in, I thought "well, whats one little chinese acrobatics class?" and then thought, well if I'm doing that, surely I can still do kung fu twice a week...and I've always wanted to take voice lessons...get back into musicals...swing dancing...

Sigh.

Tags: whining
Current Mood: blah

the other day I was doodling around on the internet as everyone does, and I thought: I wonder what the most googled things are for every letter of the alphabet. 5 minutes later, I had my answer, and it really does reflect on today's society.

Here's the list:

a is for amazon
b is for best buy
c is for craigslist
d is for dictionary
e is for ebay
f is for facebook
g is for google
h is for hotmail
i is for imdb
j is for jcpenney
k is for kohls
l is for lowes
m is for myspace
n is for nfl
o is for obama
p is for photobucket
q is for quotes
r is for runescape
s is for sears
t is for target
u is for utube
v is for verizon wireless
w is for walmart
x is for xbox 360
y is for youtube
z is for zappos

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: pink - don't leave me

My small victory today has been tricking the dryer into taking chinese money. I figured, the coin came in a roll of quarters. It looked like a quarter, it felt like a quarter, and at first I was cursing it's existence, but then I thought "hey, it almost fooled me, so why not?"

As Adia put it, dryers have been taking advantage and duping humans for centuries, fooling us into thinking they won't work, they do work when they don't, not drying the clothes completely, and pestering our womenfolk with warping bras, so why not take something back? Yeah baby. One point for the humans!

I was very very saddened today to learn that Chef Edwards...the best local soul food BBQ place, which is conveniently down the street...is not making their candied yams anymore. I should stress that if you lived here, you would have been needing to have been sitting down to hear that news. These yams were the best damn yams on the face of the earth, and now because of the crappy economy, they are no more. Chef Edwards was very sad to tell me that he used to pay 12 dollars for a case, and now the price has jumped to 22. Not only are there no more yams...but no more sides with the exception of beans, coleslaw, and potato salad. The three least exciting sides in my opinion, and also his. I was shocked, and appalled, and disappointed, and shocked.

It truly takes a genius level of cooking to make you feel that amount of emotion from the loss of a root vegetable. I really hope they return soon.

Current Mood: disappointed

Because my friend/ coworker Supreeya can probably top yours now.

This morning she got a flat tire on her way to work, had hot coffee spilled all over her shirt while she was on the bus after dealing with the tow truck.

Came into work to find a printing error had screwed up a project she was working on for the past four months.

Then she got an email from her lawyer saying that her greencard application has been rejected, and that she is being deported back to Thailand after having lived here for the past 6 years with her girlfriend.

Current Mood: sad

ALL EIGHT of my woodcut prints that I donated to Todd Blair's recovery fund sold last night at the Blue and Green Ball. This makes me very happy as quite a few sold on the spot for $100 each, and many of them had high bids when we left the auction at midnight. Thanks to nietzche_gal and Joe for accompanying us to the worthy cause! It was tons of fun. And it was nice to know people's interest in my art, as well as the retail value, as they had a professional appraiser value them at $150 at least. I'm very happy I was able to contribute and help him out.

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: nightmares on wax-fishtail parker

Snorri, one of our male chinchillas died today, suddenly and unexpectedly. I came home from work and found him and Loki snuggled up together at the bottom of the cage, but Snorri was dead. It looked like he died in his sleep, and Loki did'nt even notice even though he had been dead for at least a few hours. I've made a vet appointment for Loki tomorrow morning, even though he seems fine, Snorri seemed fine yesterday night when I fed him and gave them both dustbaths before I went to bed. I did notice he was breathing a little heavier than usual, but thought nothing of it at the time, since when I left, he was scarfing down a treat.

We adopted him last november, after he was abandoned out on a street corner in east san jose in the same cage as a guinea pig, and the police thought he was a rabbit. It was quite evident that he had been raised by the guinea pig, and thought he was one by the way he behaved. He did'nt like being held, probably because he was neglected for the first part of his life, but he did like being pet. He was incredibly cute even though he was very large for a chinchilla and looked like a teddy bear. Me and Greg will miss him a lot and so will Loki, once he realizes that he is not coming back.It is especially sad since I just ordered a lot of new toys for both of them a few days ago and they are due to arrive tomorrow. He would have been four or five years old.

Current Mood: sad

Ah, after three years of wanting a paper shredder, I finally have one! A nifty, cute little vicious diamond cut one. Yay!

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: delerium- myth

Last week I learned that IIB got into The New Hampshire Film Festival. If that was'nt cool enough, Sean told me that we had an 8% chance of getting in. If that still was'nt cool enough, only 6 animations will be shown, and our film is one of them. Still not cool enough for you? Our film is in the same program as Don Herzfeldt's new film "Everything Will Be Okay."

I think it's so freaking awesome that 5 years ago I was peeing my pants whilst watching "Rejected" and now my writing will be in the same category as he is.

Freaky deaky wierd!

In other news I have three sketches in the running for the new KML show...in the "finals" as it were. What's funny...because it always happens...is that two out of those three, I wrote on a whim and thought "Wow, these are the dumbest ideas ever." But you know, my favorite quote when it comes to anything creative, taken from my illustration teacher "If you don't have a good idea, a stupid one will do."

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: Andrew's "Lady Killaz" song stuck in my head

I feel like despite the fact that I only work 2-3 days a week, for the past few weeks I've been super busy somehow. Where is my time going? I think mainly because I am writing again for KML and the show is coming up fast. Then there has been the starting up of production on the new film, and writing out an endless stream of thank you cards. Kung Fu occupies two-three nights a week, then the chinchillas, and a ton of housework, which miraculously, has managed to go undone for hte past 2 weeks as well, along with an ever increasing list of people I need to call back. If your name is on that list, sorry. There is a list. I will go down the list first chance I get.

I think the busyness is because the last two weekends have been packed with social activity and this weekend is no exception. Tonight i am going over to parent's house to celebrate rosh hashanah two days late. I am hanging out with cheshire_catz this saturday in SF. saturday night I am going to Wylie and Alison's engagement party in SF. Sunday is writers meeting. Sunday afternoon is the first meeting of kung fu club. Where we are inviting people from our dojo to practice extra at our house for about an hour or so. The first rule about kung fu club is that we don't talk about kung fu club. So, I'll leave it at that. haha. just kidding. or am i?

Don't get me wrong, I like beibg busy, but it's tough to keep up.

in the middle...i am squeezing in chores, going to the gym for an hour every day i do not go to kung fu, comedy writing, and going grocery shopping since we have not been grocery shopping in 3 weeks and have been living off of our veggie boxes that we get delivered and scrimpings from he korean market down the street. ocotopus and melon. good times.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: refractory- road

Sean entered Heinz's ketchup commercial contest over the summer with a commercial he wrote, directed, acted in, and well, pretty much made all by himself, including the art. I think the only thing he did'nt make was the ketchup. It did'nt win anything, they selected the worst ones...but I love it and think it's really well done and funny. So, here it is. Good job Sean. It makes me want to like ketchup.

Tags: funny video, sean
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: amethystium- opaque