I'm Still Full

i promised some of you this picture -- my breakfast yesterday morning. no, i don't eat like this everyday. yesterday was chusuk (korean thanksgiving) and this is the table our fam set to remember and honor our ancestors (please refer to lil sister's blog for a better explanation).

and you ask, how much of this did i help with? i transported almost ALL of the plates from the kitchen to the living room. not only am i full still, but i'm sore.

Lots of Girly Brainpower

on monday, misty and katie came from NM to visit LA, and so we had a quick mini-reunion watching monday night football. i just wanted to upload a pix of my favorite girlies. and rick. and the old gentleman who might seem like he doesn't belong in this picture but we actually know him and he's quite a social ladies man for someone who graduated from mit in the '50s. gooo tech.

Amigos

i was walking around old town pasadena today when these two kids asked for some money on the street. they looked about 16, had guitars and backpacks with them, and looked kinda nice for scruffy-looking kids.

anyhoo, it took me a few steps before what they were saying registered in my head:
"can you spare some change? we just want to buy a small bag of weed. just a small one. c'mon."

gotta admit, i kinda wanted to be their friend.

Analogies

sam bowie : mj :: oden : durant (i actually hope oden comes back strong...i feel so bad for those portland fans)

belichick : rule interpretation :: janet : wardrobe malfunction (go pats!)

everybody : fridays :: sauj : everyday!

tgif everyone!

Fashion Over Function

in a recent IM conversation with jenn, she said she's picking up golf. normally, my girlfriends who pick up golf ask me for recommendations on driving ranges, club fits, and easy par-3s around LA. normally. but you see? my friend jenn has her priorities straight. her first golf request? she asked me if i could go shopping with her for cute golf outfits, preferably pink tennis-like-but-okay-for-golf skirts.

me: i think girls do pastel capris
jenn: but i saw these women wearing them!
me: okay, okay.

later in the convo...

jenn: i really suck. i tried to putt with my pitching wedge
jenn: that didn't work the way i wanted to
me: hmm...that's...
jenn: it had a "P" on it so i thought putt!
me: ...creative...
jenn: bryan says i have to get lessons

halleluiah!!!!

Momentary Lapse

so bschool is all about getting a job. it's like a trade school for middle management so understandably, "employment statistics" are quite important to the school. it's been 2.5 months since graduation, and so for those of us who are career deliquents, we get friendly reminders and "check in" emails from the career center peeps.

for some reason, today's reminder bothered me a little more than usual. it told me that sept. 15th (the 3 month mark from graduation) is a critical statistics for the school; prospective students look at this stat along with recruiters and the people who rank the bschools. i scanned the current employment list, and it seemed like everyone had landed a gig...so, needless to say, i felt like a bad alum. for a second.

accompanying the career center email in my inbox was an email from tom addressed to a small group of our classmates. the subject? "unemployed and proud: let's get drinks," which suggested we celebrate the fact we can still go to a bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon. yay.

then, like a big dork, i counted the entries in the spreadsheet: 270. our class was 330 so hey, looks like more people than just tom and i are screwing up the stat. phew.

then, another thought hit me. after sept 15th, the career center won't be sending any more guilt trip emails for their stat! ahhhh. now i can sleep in peace.

White and All

elissa and matt got married this weekend. as expected, she looked beautiful, and they looked super cute together. yay.















the ceremony was great and reception was fun...though i didn't quite make it through the night. i gave my "i'm leaving" whisper to aly when the real dancing started. i say "real" dancing because there was no way i would have missed my second favorite part of this lovely jewish wedding -- the hora (first fav being screaming "mazel tov" and "l’chaim" at random moments during the night. oh, and the hora is that jewish circular moshpit dance intermixed with the married couple crowd surfin on chairs. double yay.)

so anyhoo, i slipped out with the rest of the grannies in the audience around 11 pm...and boy, was i glad. i was feeling a bit off all night due to the heatwave but it wasn't until i walked in the door that i realized i had broken out in cold sweat and dizzying neusea. needless to say, i didn't get a wink of sleep last night, which sucked cause the power was out all night as well. i hope everyone else was okay. i guess i'm just fragile. please, handle me with care.

well, the weekend didn't start badly though. it was actually really fun. on saturday night at the rehearsal dinner, aly and i had an opportunity to clear up an argument that elissa and matt have had for a while -- who actually asked who out on the first date. we gave a little speech during the dinner and gave out t-shirts to the family members. long story short, i agree with elissa and aly agrees with matt, and no, our little speech didn't clear up anything except who was on whose team.

anyhoo, hope you all had a wonderful weekend! now that labor day has passed, i'm putting away my many white dresses. cause you now me -- i'm a fashionista.

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!