no-show
Posted on Mon, February 1 2010 at 6:19 pm
so today, we were supposed to have an ex-coworker gathering with an old colleague of ours, craig. two bummers happened: first, craig forgot, so he didn’t show up. and second, the place where we were supposed to go, corner place (a korean restaurant), had closed down! yup, i got there first, and when i peeked in through the window, the place was completely vacant. ah, bummer. corner place is my favorite place to get yu ge jang with ramen noodles. sigh. i wonder what happened. were they closed down forcefully? i know they lost their liquor license a while back.
so we wound up dating a few doors down at another korean place, sui-tofu. i got 11 steamed dumplings for a light lunch. tim came; i hadn’t seen him in years, so it was good to catch up with him. he’s doing invisalign, so i asked him about how that was going. he said that it hurts for 2-3 days every time he switches sets of mouthpieces. ugh. that must suck.
i think i’m headed to jimmy and sabrina’s place tonight to watch _the bachelor_. after that, i’m rushing back to my house to welcome william, who’s crashing my place tonight. it’ll be nice to have some company.
artists on my iPod playlist today: tangerine dream, tears for fears (i had forgotten how beautiful “woman in chains” is), terence blanchard, they might be giants, thompson twins, thunderball
i’ve been in an argyle sweater-wearing mood lately. today is the third straight day where i’m wearing one. i have three argyle sweaters. i don’t know why i love argyle so much. i own about a dozen pairs of socks with that pattern. it’s just so cool, i can’t explain why.
i was watching _manswers_ a few weeks ago. it’s such a trashy show, but hella addictive. one question in particular that they addressed interested me: what animal’s vagina feels the most like a woman’s? the answer was an animal that i had never even heard of: a dugong. a what? apparently, this is a sea creature that looks kind of like an ugly seal or a manatee. but it beats me how anybody ever found out that it feels like a woman. did somebody actually have sex with it? or did they just do a finger probing and said, “yup, it feels like a vadge?” crazy shit, this tv show.
so i took care of some business today. first, i made an appointment to take my car in for its 108,750 mile checkup. that will be done this wednesday. issues to be addressed are a broken right headlight and that ever-so-persistent dies-after-ignition problem.
and then, more importantly, i made an appointment for a long-awaited and badly-needed physical. i haven’t had one in about 3 years. my primary care physician at PAMF had retired by this time, so i called and got another doctor, this time a woman. so my physical will be this friday at 10:30am. i will be asking for every test possible. my previous doctor was a dude. i wonder if i’ll feel embarrassed when i do the testicle/cough test. i doubt it, as it’s all business-like and stuff. but should i ask for a prostate exam? is 34 years old the time to start getting them? i better make sure i wipe my ass clean before i get it, right?
i have one last piece of business to take care of. my electric razor’s foil has a hole in it, so the vibrating slicing blades are cutting into my skin when i shave. i need to get new foils. where can i get them? i bought my shaver at sears, so i guess i’ll start there. these things are dangerous. i wonder how the hole developed in the first place. hm.
anyways, maintenance. that’s what i’m talking about. they’re not sexy things to do, but they’re jobs that have to be done. car, body, appliances.
should i be embarrassed that i don’t know how to run a dishwasher? i don’t! i used to wash the dishes sometimes at home growing up, but my parents never ever used the dishwasher. yup, so i washed all of them by hand. and since i live by myself, i only ever use but one plate or bowl, and i never host dinner parties, so i never need to use the dishwasher. but i really need to run mine once to see if it works before my house’s one-year warranty runs out. but i don’t know how! *turns red*
did i tell you that my friends were at the staples center for the grammys last night? yup. my friend shoji is in the band hiroshima, and they were nominated for an award for best instrumental album or something like that. that award wasn’t presented during the televised ceremony, but they got to go to the whole show anyway. shoji’s wife emi designed her own dress and everything. she saw quite a few famous people. how awesome!
i watched part of the grammy’s last night. the taylor swift/stevie nicks performance was pretty sad. taylor couldn’t hit the high notes on “rihannon.” ugh. i watched the lady gaga/elton john performance on youtube, and i thought it was pretty interesting. lady gaga is a freak of nature, but she intrigues me. is she really that weird, or is she just trying really, really hard to be unique?
how much can you tell about a person from the music that he/she listens to? say, a girl says her FAVORITE artist of all time is celine dion. what do you get from that? that she’s a total velveeta cheeseball and has no originality? for some people, their musical taste is pretty generic. what i really admire is people who find out about really obscure bands. that shows that they’ve taken the time and energy to seek out cool, hidden talent. and that they’re different, not ordinary.
i have some weird shit in my music collection. although, most of it is really dated. most of my 700 CD’s were bought in the early and mid 90′s. i used to spend hours culling through used cd’s at record stores. although, i haven’t bought anything outrageous lately, though, as my musical tastes have become more mainstream. my last out-of-they-ordinary musical dabbling was into lounge (downtempo electronica) music like half a decade ago. now, i just buy some stuff on iTunes now and then.
ok, i need to call up jimmy and see when i can head over.
