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My own spot to rant about my day.
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wFriday, December 28, 2001 |
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Finally, blogger has decided to come back up.
I feel like Christmas kinda went around me rather than my actually being a part of everything. I will tell more about this later. I am alive and my living room is full of paper and boxes and gifts. woo hoo!
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nea at 9:01 AM
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wFriday, December 21, 2001 |
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Lord of the Rings is good. Getting out of 4 1/2 hours of work to see it for free in an IMAX is awsome. Yeah CGI!
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nea at 9:24 AM
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wWednesday, December 19, 2001 |
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We had a very interesting potluck at my work today. It was "foods from around the world" where you brought in stuff from your culture. So I made Swedish rice pudding. I know, real exciting stuff. What I thought was interesting, though, was that even though many people in our department speak Spanish natively, none of them that brought stuff are Mexican. Instead we had Cuban, and South-Western, and Salvadorian . . . just a whole random mix. The food was nifty, but I was allergic to something and got all messed up. I turned this lovely shade of bright red and, because I don't want to use my last half of a sick day for the year, I spent the afternoon moving real slow and not doing much. It sucked. I also had to cancel tutoring this girl who has a math test tomorrow. I felt bad, but knew I couldn't drive that far without puking. Instead I came home, took Advil, and crashed until Dave came home from the movies.
Tomorrow I get to see Lord of the Rings with my company for free! I was wondering if we would since, after all, it is our client and a big one. Plus, we get to go to the new big movie theater near Howard Hughes. I am excited. Time off of work, even though word is hectic and I'm a little behind, is all good to me.
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nea at 9:51 PM
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Still going. I hope some of you are entertained by this. I think it's one step off from all those forwards you got when you first had an e-mail account.
Which Evil Criminal are You?
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nea at 9:37 PM
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wTuesday, December 18, 2001 |
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I swear these things get wierder and wierder. I don't understand this one at all:
 | If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Rakhmaninov. I lived in the early Twentieth Century and was well known for my compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet I am melancholy despite this talent. My famous works include my nearly-impossible piano concerti. Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test |
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nea at 9:16 AM
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wMonday, December 17, 2001 |
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Just a quick hello to all. I am tired. I had what should not feel like a long weekend, but does.
Friday night Dave and I went to a little gathering at Neil's. Got to talk to Diana for the first time in who knows how long, who reminded me that I really need to get it together about bridesmaid dresses. Why my dress was easier than theirs, I don't even know. Also got to try a couple new concotions and AIM with a bunch of people. I know, I'm sad, I AIM at parties.
Saturday was tutoring and hella shopping. Poor Dave got to be more or less my package holder. I did get almost everything done though, which makes me happy.
Sunday I spent most of the day working, which sucked. But overtime is good for nea's wallet, so I will live. Afterwards Dave and I got it together and went to my dad's for Hanukkah. It was crazy! Lots of kids and people, plus two dogs. But then one of the dogs bit one of the kids (it really was the boy's fault) and the owners of the dog felt horrible and left. That kinda put a damper on things, and slowly people left. The party only went like 3 hours, which is strangely short. I had a good time but felt very lost among everyone. I kept starting conversations with people, but then they would stop because both of us would run out of things to say. Very wierd.
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nea at 8:44 AM
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wThursday, December 13, 2001 |
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Happy Santa Lucia Day everyone!
The lay-offs continue. There have been like 6 or 7 in my office, and as many or more in Chicago and NY. I think it is very lame to get rid of people when we are already understaffed. Year-end accounting, yuck. I'm happy that my job is secure, crappy as it is, because looking for a new job during the holidays is no fun.
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nea at 10:37 AM
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wWednesday, December 12, 2001 |
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I think I must be crazy to end up as a Salvador Dali print and a banana.
When there are other people living in your house, the dynamics change. With Weston in the house, I totally feel like Goldilocks. Dave and Weston are totally the two papa bears, towering over me (Dave is like 6'1" and Weston is probably 6'3", while I am a whopping 5'4") and very into food. I come home from work and they have Italian ices. Then we go to C&O's, where we get these enormous platters of food. Then Dave wants to go get boba! I convinced him out of it since by then I was ready to explode. The other thing is that Dave and I are not so used to others in our house. This morning, I had to find and use my bathrobe. Dave couldn't check his morning mail because all the computers are in the guest room. But it is always nice to have company and change is good.
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nea at 2:06 PM
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wTuesday, December 11, 2001 |
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My company started doing lay-offs yesterday, mostly of middle management. This is after two weeks ago the president of all the US offices came out and said that there were no lay-offs planned, and that we were fortunate enough to not have to eliminate any jobs. haha. And they wonder why morale is down and people are leaving the company. I think a lot of people, including myself, are annoyed at being lied to. I know my job is safe though, which is good, cuz it's not like I'd get severance pay or anything.
One of Dave's friends, Weston (who quite possibly reads this) is coming to visit us today, and staying until Friday. So all weekend was a big fat cleaning frenzy, since our apartment was really disgusting. Like cobwebs and mounds of dust and boxes all over the floor disgusting. But now it is pretty and clean, which makes me happy. I like to live in a place where the tabletops sparkle and the sheets are clean and crisp. It just doesn't happen very often, due to time constraints and the fact that I have better things to do.
We also put up our lovely fake tree, a Walmart special from Dave. Dave is allergic to pine. It looks pretty though, with the four generations of ornaments that are on it. Why do I already have all this old stuff? Should my parents still be sticking it on their tree, you may be thinking? Well, my dad was given most of my great-grandmother's ornaments when my parents got divorced. Since my stepmother is Jewish, my dad didn't really need Christmas stuff anymore. When I moved into my first apartment, I realized my dad had all this stuff just sitting in the attic of this house he rents out, and got it from him. A lot of it is pretty neat: satin thread wrapped bulbs, elves and angels made from this wierd painted paper, and a old tree topper with red bells on it. There is no way I could find any of this in stores. I'm glad I get to have a tree that looks like a family effort, rather than one topped with just a couple boxes of K-Mart bulbs or something.
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nea at 9:28 AM
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wThursday, December 06, 2001 |
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In the way of cheap entertainment:
Strawberry: 30/100 Pear: 40/100 Banana: 80/100 Tomato: 10/100 Lemon: 0/100
Take the What Fruit Are You? test by  webkin and aaronr!
I have started getting into Christmas shopping. Actually, I have been helping Dave pick presents and keep to his budget, which has been going really well so far. Yeah nea! As for my own shopping, well, I have two presents bought. Now, for those of you who know the size of my ridiculous family, two presents is not even the tip of the iceberg. But I will get there . . .
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nea at 9:48 AM
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wWednesday, December 05, 2001 |
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My access at work is increasing! haha, terror strikes among the billing department! No, really, I just was given access to quite a few new things. This will make my life much easier (no more bothering people with "Can you print out . . " or "I need you to look up . . " Soon I will also have access to the same programs for our NY, Chicago, and SF office.
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nea at 12:55 PM
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wTuesday, December 04, 2001 |
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I am kinda depressed today, because I have no time. My lunch break has been stolen by Christmas party planning. My dinner with Dave has been taken by more tutoring. Tomorrow I am working overtime, Friday I am working overtime . . . there are times where I debate if the extra money is worth it. I really feel like I can' t keep up with life or cleaning the apartment or anything when my life is like this. To add to all this, my POP mail is dead cuz @home went bankrupt. So if anyone has sent any e-mails to me in the past four days, they are gone. I can not get them. And don't try sending them again, cuz two of my e-mails forward to the dead one. It's bad enough my computer died a few weeks ago. Now my e-mails dies. I am not happy with technology right now.
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nea at 10:42 AM
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wMonday, December 03, 2001 |
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Life has been pretty random. It was totally a weekend of "stuff." As in "What are you doing this weekend?" "Stuff." Went to one Christmas party, one APhiO banquet, one dim sum, one movie, one time to the gym, two loads of laundry, two meals at home . . .
The Christmas party was another defining moment in how my job sucks. We went to Dave's party, which was at this pretty good Italian restaurant. Everyone was allowed to bring one guest, and we were allowed to order whatever off the menu. This meant hella appetizers, soup, salad, main course, bottles of wine, dessert, whatever. At the end of the night, the owner of the company and his wife picked up the tab. Everyone was happy, full, and felt that the party went well. Also, it was nice to see everyone (I see these people like twice-thrice a year) and you could tell that Dave and his coworkers liked the chance to meet outside of work and just hang out.
My company is having a bowling party during working hours. No spouses or guests. Instead of fine Italian dining, we will be having pizza and getting drink coupons, probably each good for one beer. yuck. As Dave said, it feels more like those class parties you had in school than the sort of party a large company should be having. This makes me sad. Though I do like bowling . . .
Dave, Greg, Quyen, and I went and saw Life As a House yesterday. I realize that my plugging New Line Cinema is kinda lame, since they're my biggest client and all, but I really liked the movie. The characters were a bit strange, but the plot was great and the dialogue was pretty good too. Go see. I can tell I don't go to the movies often though--I had no clue a matinee was $7. I remember it being $4! Man, I'm getting old.
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nea at 10:53 AM
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