End Is Near

it's unbelievably hot out today. but more weirdly, i read a book.

seriously.

every occasion for presents, my sis gives me books, clothes, and/or makeup. i guess she thinks i should read more and look better. anyhoo, over the last 4-5 years, i've accumulated a pile of books from the little sister, and i finally picked one up and....finished it. either i'm really bored from the new unemployment or the book was actually fun. try it out: magical thinking by augusten burroughs. it's a quick read.

Palabras

last night, i held my final tastination food tour (stan is taking the company forward from today on). it was at an oaxacan restaurant and i played tour guide. for the life of me, i could not pronounce the word "oaxaca," which is supposed start with the "wo" sound, not the "oh" sound. no matter how much i heard the word in my head, i just couldn't replicate it verbally -- i guess that's what happens to a korean girl trying to imitate a white girl trying to pronounce spanish. what can i say, my tongue is MIK ("made in korea")!

speaking of words i can't pronounce, why is the word "prepubescent" the hardest word in the english dictionary to say? don't ask why i was using the word to begin with.

anyhoo, more english fun. we made these marketing tshirts for the company yesterday which has the slogan: "take your tastebuds places." unfortunately, the tshirts dudes screwed it up and dropped the last s: "take your tastebuds place." the thing is, my fobby self actually went to approve the proofs and didn't even catch that. oh well, it's just a meant-to-be tribute to original mr. fob!

The Hills Quality

i think i've finally caught up on all episodes of one of my fav shows on the discovery channel: mythbusters. for those of you haven't seen it, the show has been around for about 5 years -- these guys go around trying to confirm or bust "myths" such as the "five second rule" and "your eyes will pop out if you sneeze with your eyes open"...stuff like that. it's probably my inner geek that enjoys this show (they're almost as geeky as alton brown / good eats! my heart just skipped a beat). but is it only me that when i watch any show on the discovery channel i get that bloodhound gang song stuck in my head?

...you and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals...

hmm. "sweat baby sweat baby" just doesn't mix with these mythbuster geeks. though i think in season one, they busted a myth that silicone breasts can explode at high altitude or low pressure. kinda related.

okay, onto my next obsession -- korean soap operas on the internet. yay.

My Hos

i was at a starbucks in silverlake mid-day yesterday, and this morning around 10, i went to get some bagels at noah's in larchmont. both times, it was smack in the middle of a workday, and these places were full of people lounging around. i'm not even counting the moms with kids (why they bring kids to a coffeeshop is another q) or the students pretending to study (i can spot these peeps easily...i was just one of those :)). seriously, what do these people do? i guess they can be actor-slash-waiters or hos-by-night, but they look so normal...and so my age...and...

wait, i guess i was there too. maybe they're all unemployed mbas already looking to move on from their startup gigs as well.

Brrr

i don't think there is much i miss about working in an office building -- except the ever-blasting a/c. the other day when the summer LA sun boiled my room to a toasty 90 degrees (even with celing fan on high), i kept reminiscing about my summer days at chanin. vps and mds who had windowed offices would lower the temp control so freakin' low that we little plebians who lived in the inner cubicle bullpens would just freeze our little arses off. after a lot of useless bitching, i remember debbie and i resorted to bringing in scarves, gloves, parkas, and even beanies to keep ourselves warm. yeah, a little ridiculous for august, but hey, a girl's gotta do what a girls gotta do.

ah, a useless story. but i just told it so i can feel a little cooler. okay, it's time for me to take yet another cold shower. my new slogan -- "cold showers: not just for drunk people anymore."

hmm.

Inspirational Medical Fraud

i was just catching up with my college roomie lani and reminiscing about our interesting medical ways during college.

lani had this esophogus issue where the tube bent in a weird way. so when she swallowed a piece of food, she sometimes had to bend over and let her head hang upside down in order to proceed with her digestion. to make sure she didn't look odd in the process, we (christina and i) used to "accidentally" drop things on the floor during meals so that she can pick it up and digest at the same time. we were good roomies.

as for me, i was in this new topical drug clinical study to examine some skin flare-ups that i had. in order to track my progress, they asked that i fill out a nutritional chart -- i had to write down everything that i consumed in this calendar. the biggest problem was that each date had only a small writable real estate, and on the first day, i filled up the entire box by 10 am! i felt like a pig and stopped writing.

then, it came for my monthly checkup. i realized that i had a month full of non-data, so i did what any clinical trial patient would do -- i made it up. the girls helped me sanity check by crossing off data such as having a burrito four days in a row. we were good roomies. (oddly enough, the doctor did not find any correlation with my food intake and flare-ups. ha.)

so what are the roomies doing now?
christina is a registered nurse and lani is getting her phd to better understand the effectiveness of certain medical treatments.

Yum

more from the headlines: grocers to sell dunkin' donuts coffee
(yay, more reasons for me to go play at target!)

as for the weekend, no idea how it flew by, but it included a lobster, a ginormous king crab leg, caviar, and a zantac.

Four! I mean Fore!

during our golf game yesterday, we ooohed and ahhhed over tom's iphone.

tom: "one of the best features is the google maps. you can type the address or if you forget the name of the place you're looking for, you can type 'cecil's and ribs' and it will bring up the map, address, and the phone number, so you can call it directly!"
me: "um...doesn't the blackberry do that?"
gabe: "yeah dude. mine does."
tom: "well...um...mine has a touch screen!"

good work tom.

for me, "good" wasn't exactly the word that i would have used for myself yesterday. i sprayed and losted seven balls into the bliss of the desert course. needless to say, i need to play more and get golfy back!

on a side note, today there's one piece of news that doesn't affect me at all: "milk prices rise to record highs." go lactards!

Fav Weekend Trivia

abby said she recently met these irish-mexicans who call themselves the "leprechaunos."

i love it but couldn't think of one way to work it into everyday sauj-speak even in my 2-hour drive back up from sd. anyone?

okay, time to pass the f out from the long, fun-filled weekend. happy b step-on-me!!