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halloween costume sneak-peek and oh hey i cleaned my room!

omg i need

so i saw a review for city cafe on yelp and i need this so bad.


(image courtesy of yelp)

NEEEEEED!!!

shazaaaam!

so at work they play "the lovecats" by the cure and it's pretty much my favorite song right now.



"into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard."

i saw the dead kennedys this past weekend. it was alright! but i was reminded how much i hate the loft and hate most guys at punk shows. too many military brats. too many biker-esque jerks. too long of a line for beer.

besides this, life has reached a sluggish routined pace and i can't help but feel stagnant and dull. i've been at home less and spending less but doing less. when i am here at home i'm playing fallout, which is hard because my TV screen is so old and crappy and so the graphics don't look nearly as they should. so i end up reading. right now i'm reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali. it's pretty good! i liked the movie.



i'm kind of really in love with the guy that plays karim. it's so bad! maybe this is fate. haha!

addiction to 4square + other

so in case you haven't been keeping up with the stupid thing that social networking has become... there's this thing called foursquare (similar to the iphone facebook "places" app) that allows you to check into venues and see who else is there that also uses the app. if you check into a place the most you get a crown. this is why i am addicted. i will not lie. i really really want a legitimate crown. i don't know why i want it. i know as soon as i get it i'll be super over this thing.

right now at this moment i'm one check in away from mayorship in six different venues! so so close. someone asked me if i care that people know where i am at every moment. the answer to this is: no. also, i usually never remember to do the check in until i'm leaving a place so even if you were to show up i probably wouldn't be there anymore.

i've been eating an overwhelming amount of j.j. dolan's pizza lately. i am too addicted to the pepperoni from there. i know i should just try ordering one of their specialty pizzas one of these days but after the let down that was the white pizza i don't think i want to. i'll just stick with what i know.

my dreams of living in my room in complete isolation are quickly becoming a tangible reality. my dad is giving me his fridge thing (it has no freezer but can keep beverages/snacks cool). i'm excited. i've been searching craigslist for decent monitors or TVs but it's hard. most are asking me to travel out to get it and i still lack a car (which is totally not going to be an issue anymore because i'm really going to learn how to drive. shooting for a car sometime in january).

anyway fallout is pretty much the same as fallout 3 except that you can upgrade weapons and ammo which makes it a little harder to play. my hunting rifle keeps jamming up so wandering the wasteland has become really difficult. there's also this hardcore mode that i'm intrigued by but it sounds like it's wayyy too difficult. you have to hydrate, sleep, and healing yourself is next to impossible unless you see a doctor. i don't think i could do it so i won't even try. kudos to anyone that can, though. /nerd.

oh and i tried red hook ale last night and it was delicious. the end.

greatest news!

woohoo! life is so exceedingly amazing right now. i am thrilled for the next few months! i feel compelled to celebrate. this weekend!

i am also incredibly in love. with what you may ask? pizza and fucking beer! i have decided that it is all i want in life all the time. i've been listening to "beer for breakfast" by the replacements every morning (well the whole all for nothing/nothing for all album). it's pretty much the life i want to live/am living right now. it's what i'm aiming for.

i am re-inspired to cook again due to the strange weather. i don't know why. the sight of greener trees and grass reminded me of veggies today and now all i want to do is eat? i know this train of thought makes little sense but oh well!!

this is all! so happy with everything and everyone in my life right now! as my best friend would say, huzzah!

what i do all day long

so someone asked me if i prefer people's company in person or on the internet. i don't know why this is bothering me so much but it's probably because i spend an overwhelming amount of time on the internet and feel like i need to justify why. it's mostly because of this.

i had to sign up for an online class to make it as a full time student. it's women's studies/ethnic studies... focus on asian and hawaiian women. i have to literally sit in front of the computer for at least ten hours a week listening to podcasts, reading papers and watching videos for this class alone. so i get bored really easily and end up posting stupid shit on facebook all day. consequence, really.

if i didn't have this online class i probably would be playing more video games or going out more or maybe even working more. this class alone takes up 50% of my study time and it has all these ridiculous deadlines. right now i'm trying to write a paper on a person i never even interviewed. ugh! so yeah that's why i'm writing this. because i'm avoiding that paper. oh and i'm bored of facebook.

in other news: it is crazy hot in my room right now and i would do anything to be at the beach. i downloaded faraquet's anthology and am in love. fallout new vegas release in three days. i am looking into making a pizza from scratch! i bought soy beans for tofu but lack a blender. this is just a ramble.

p.s. if you want to see my desktop... well here you go.

i could sit here and sulk

i totally got food poisoning on monday from yummy's korean bbq. i need to figure it out. the last three times i've had food poisoning it's been from korean food. coincidence? i think not. it's probably because their sides sit out in the heat for prolonged periods of time without proper refrigeration. shouldn't be legal. whatever.

i'm fully recovered now! my body took a real hit and i've been trying to sleep it off/self medicate with aspirin but to little avail. i even had to call in sick to work on wednesday because i was still feeling so wonky. ughh. thank god it's finally over. just in time for the weekend!

anyway i've been really addicted to foursquare. i don't really understand what the points system is for (because i don't even know where i can see my total). there are sometimes deals/coupons so that's kind of cool.

oh and i'm back to shooting with my LC-A and sticking with kodak for the moment. but they only had 400 speed at longs... we'll see how this roll turns out.

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a song about breaking up.

wearing pants in the kitchen

so on tuesday i woke up really late and missed all my classes. sometimes you just need days like that, you know? when you sleep in and let the body do it's thing. okay, so maybe my sleeping in might have had something to do with drinking the night before and getting in bed at 1:30am. but really, who are you to judge?

so back to the story. oh. i forgot to add this. i don't like to wear pants when i'm at home. is that weird? i don't know. i've talked about this with friends and no, it's not weird. i mean if my brother or mom are around then yes, of course, i throw on some shorts. but otherwise i am in boxers or underwear. you know. whatever.

so i was making bacon and eggs in my kitchen without pants on (because uh, it was 12pm and i was home alone) and BAM. just like that. the bacon crackled and the oil shot up in the air and hit my thigh. now i have this awful burn on my leg! okay, it's not that bad. but still. this is the point i was trying to get to.

always wear pants in the kitchen. always.

being ~healthy~

so my mom wants to try this whole eating better, save the planet, blah blah lifestyle. which is fine by me, don't get me wrong. but one of things she's been doing is cutting rice out of her diet (she doesn't eat it at dinner anymore) and cutting out meat/seafood/chicken from her diet. essentially just veggies ALL THE TIME.

i don't really dig it. it's mostly the lack of starch that bugs me. i love rice! potatos! noodles! bread! everything! i cannot let these things go as easily as i have let go of beefy-ness. but that's alright. i made this yesterday and it was really good. "tandoori tofu." i got the recipe from this site called eCurry. it's a veg website and everything looks super good. i wonder what kind of camera she uses.

anyway this morning i ate fried chicken from zippys with goma sauce all over. i have this new insane love for everything sesame. it's probably going to be horribly unhealthy for me in the long run since it's really high in phytic acid.

i should ~fill~ this void but i won't. because i can't.