great bball outing
Posted on Tue, February 2 2010 at 6:16 pm
basketball was great today. i played three full-court games (one 4-on-4, two 5-on-5). my team won the first one handily, so after that, we switched players to even out the competitiveness. then, we lost 10-11. my team was a bit bummed out, and we stormed back to win the third game decisively, 11-3. i ran a lot of fast breaks with my coworker W, made a few good jumpers, and even got a good basket in the paint, albeit with a shot that my *own* teammate called “ugly.” ha! to top it all off, i scored the winning basket in the final game with a nice 16-foot jumpshot from the left wing. anyways, i was tired afterward, but it felt good to play well.
i’m getting a massage today! i must have slept funny, because i woke up with a painful neck. it’s better now (i think basketball helped), but i have been craving a massage for months now. i haven’t seen my masseuse in a really, really long time, but i always have some reason why i don’t go on my usual thursdays. but today, i just picked up my phone and called her, and she was free. so. excited. massages are one of the few times when i’m completely relaxed, and my mind can just wander freely. sometimes too freely; i actually wish that i could focus on how good the hands feel on my body, and that my brain could shut down and not think about so much stuff.
_the bachelor_ was good last night. i went over to jimmy and sabrina’s after work, and jimmy cooked pork chops. we ate, and then we watched. sabrina and i both figured that corrie would be next to go. next week will be a total doozy. the previews show that there won’t be a rose ceremony, i.e. one of the girls will disappear beforehand. WHAT? i can’t wait to see what happens. and for some reason, jimmy’s laptop screws with his tv’s reception, so sabrina and i had to banish him (and his computer) to the dining room. haha.
yes, _the bachelor_ is a trashy show, but it’s so addictive. it’s funny (and sort of sad) how something so bad can be so alluring. i sort of pride myself on partaking in only good quality television (and movies, music, etc.), so i don’t really know what to say about myself about this one.
damn. getting hungry. you know the drill, basketball day.
i am about to make a major lifestyle change this friday when i get my physical. i am scared, anxious, but optimistic. it’s about time i did it.
speaking of that physical, i am NOT looking forward to getting my blood drawn for my blood tests. that HUGE, diagonal needle scares the shit out of me. when i got my H1N1 vaccine, the nurse told me that i can ask for something called a “butterfly,” which is a much thinner needle. maybe that’s an option? i’ll inquire about that on friday. the last time i got my blood test, they even tested for syphilis. hehe.
after i got home last night, william came over to crash at my place. he and oh are trying to recruit me to join their company. they both joined this startup company that seems to be doing quite well. there are some rumors of an acquisition or something, and i think the financial fallout could be quite nice for my bank account. but the thing is, i think i have a good thing here at my current company, and you all know me, i like stability. i’m also a lot more risk-averse these days compared to my younger self, and the thought of re-learning an entire engineering environment just doesn’t appeal to me. yeah, i’m a wuss. but yeah, working with william and oh *would* be fun.
there are two elevators in my company, and my favorite one is broken. why is it my favorite? because it’s faster. and how is it faster? because doors open from the middle (the other elevator’s door opens from the left side), so the time it takes to open is cut in half. yes, i am weird.
i notice a lot of small details like that. for example, in my company’s building, i noticed when they changed the faucets in the bathroom. i noticed when they changed the 3rd floor button in the slow elevator. i know that the number of stairs in the stairwell are 15, 13, 13, and 13. (why is the first half of the first flight two more steps?) things like that. i am either cursed or blessed with scrutinizing every small detail of my surroundings.
carolyn decided she isn’t coming up from LA this week. maybe next week or the week after that. i love carolyn (platonically). she was the first girl i talked to during freshman orientation at stanford. what’s really bad, though, is that one time, i called k1 “carolyn,” and k1 got really upset by that. of course, it’s totally understandable why she got pissed off, but i swear, i don’t have romantic feelings for her. why do brains fart like that? it sucks. it’s also really, really weird, how our minds short circuit like that once in a while.
i am wearing my penguin boxers today. they’re dark red boxers with dark blue/white emperor penguins all over them. they’re really cool. and ever since my martini boxers faded away and got torn, these penguin boxers have taken over as my favorite piece of underwear.
hungry. ok, i must take off for my massage soon. WORD.
