6-16-02
i'm having a totaly cute day today. ever have one of those days when you walk by the mirror and say "god damn i'm foxy!"
today is one of those days.
the weather has been absolute perfect for the last 2 days also which always helps with spirits.
i added one of those "how well do you know me" quizes to my aol im profile so check it out.
not much else going on today, been inside doing homework, called my dad (father's day)... melissa called. i looked up info on upcoming carbon leaf shows etc in d.c. thought a little about my move... that's about it.
6-15-02
we had out sentra meet today in rockville. there's some pictures here. we went to a place called dave and busters wich is just this absolutely huge resteraunt and bar. but then on the other side, they have an equally huge arcade. and the place is basically only for adults. there's a button on all the games you can push if you want someone to bring you a drink.
that's pretty cool i do suppose. it was the first time i've ever met people that i've "met" on the internet. it was interesting. very diverse crowd, all ages and types. we were supposed to go out to the go kart track but i was getting a bit tired at that point, and it was getting late so tetsuya and i drove down the street, hopped on a train, and went into chinatown in d.c.
they're having those free concerts at the smithsonian all summer. this week was cake. they were pretty cool... weird, fun, and good i guess i'd say. at one point they played "shut the fuck up" who's chorus is "shut the fuck up"... so they had all of downtown d.c. shouting "shut the fuck up" repeatedly. i think there was an opera or something near by, too bad it didn't let out right about then.
they also did jesus wrote a blank check, the distance, i will survive, short skirt long jacket, sheep go to heaven, italian leather sofa and some others
sadly the opera thing let out right as the concert did so the train station was a bit wild for a minute.
melissa roberts and dave shellard were i guess supposed to meet us there but they spent all day moving into their new apt (i guess dave came from nj) so they were a bit too wiped out to come... bummer.... but there's better than ezra next weekend so maybe we'll see them then.
we were heading down the escalator into the train station and as i got off at the bottom, somebody totaly grabbed me and then did that 5 finger tips nail scratchy thing between my shoulders. i turned around expecting to see someone i know, but instead saw this totally hot strawberry blonde girl who smiled at me and then walked off into this crowd all in the span of about 2 seconds.
i guess this lends further proof to my current theory that i'm hot... (and don't forget cuddly!)
by the way, check out emodeERROR MSG if you haven't. they have great tests. so far my theme song is "ac/dc back in black"... my iq is 133, and i'm semi-evil.
6-14-02
we went to see bad company tonight (chris rock / anthony hopkins). it was really pretty good. this is one of the rare instantces where stefan and i don't have polar viewpoints on movies, but it's a bruckheimer movie so it's expected.
sadly so young was sick and couldn't make it out with us. ayon did bring his friends mario and alison though, both of which are pretty cool so maybe we'll expand our social circle another tier.
everyone is going out tomorrow but i won't be there... i'm going to meet up with my car club guys and then go hang out with melissa roberts and dave shellard.
it should be good times for sure, but it seems like cool crap always happens when i'm away doing other cool crap. i have a social structure in md now. weird.
i go into the store and run into folks. freaky. good times. later. -p
6-13-02
today we basically put the final touches on the project i've been doing for a year now. the paper is being written for submission, all is well.
i picked up so young and we went out and met vincent and the japanese guys for sushi tonight, which is always good.
most of the day i spent fixing this weird computer mess. i'll spare you the details but people spent all day asking me why i didn't quite my job and go do that... mostly because it gets boring, and it's hard to use a biology degree there.
seems like biology is pretty happnin' lately. larissa is converting, melissa was also saying something about how she liked bio in highschool and can't figure out why she didn't go into it. also this new clipping they put up at work rates "biologist" as the best job you can have.
sweeeet. well, sometimes it's boring but, usually it's pretty good.
i challenged ayon to find a better song that "laid" by james.. he failed thus far, but i think pearl jam's yellow ledbetter (today's song) may qualify.
i think pearl jam's best album is yield, though 10 is a must have classic that is 100% good beginning to end. a top 10 all time album for sure.
i'm excited to have my car "club" meet this weekend, and also to go see cake in d.c.
there's a whole bunch of shows, next week is better than ezra, who i totally love.
every morning i see this car covered in god stickers at work, and it really bothers me. it says "why worry? god's in control".
have you seen a news paper lately? terror this, murder that... if god's guiding this, he's one messed up dude. so if he is in fact in control of where this is headed, i'm scared shitless precisely for that reason.
6-12-02
i met god this afternoon. riding on an uptown train. this gorgeous blonde chinese girl sits down. she tells me she's a nymphomaniac but she only likes jewish cowboys, so i said hi, i'm bucky goldstein.
ok so maybe that didn't happen, maybe it's not even original... anyway
we had a mild spring as i've said. cold even. these days it's been pretty damn hot. i walked out of work today at about 6p.m. and said "wow, it's a lot cooler today than it was yesterday" then i looked up and the thermometer said "90F". must have been about 600F the last week then.
wednesday night is beginning to be better than saturday. i work pretty hard monday-wed with work and class (i have homework given on monday due when we meet again on wed but i have a class in between) so it's kinda wild in between. i like it though, it works well with my insomniac like patterns of behaviour....
what can i say? i sleep better when i'm not alone. 
so by wed i'm exhausted and wound up, which is a ton of fun actually
i get kinda wild, kinda hyper. i'm soo excitable right now. actually, i have an away message that says exactly that, i'll have to use it tonight.
it seems everywhere i go lately, class, work, etc.. i'm surrounded by exactly two people popping their knuckles. many of you know this makes my brain come to a grinding haul and i thank those of you who avoid doing it when i'm there.
i don't know why this has come up so much lately, but it makes me want to stab then in the neck with a hot soldering iron.
i want to hold a challenge.. find a better song than james "laid" can't do it can you! bropapapapappapapapaa hooowwaaaaaaa....
6-11-02
the updates have slowed a bit as school has picked up. mon-wed are more or less packed now a days.. i don't even sleep much then. but it's really not so bad, kinda fun in a way. i spent most of sunday working on a project with rebecca from class.
i'm giving a presentation for cell bio tomorrow which i think should go decently.
i posted a special treat in the music section for today so check it out. my dsl router came today so i'm excited. 800 megs of ram and a fat pipe to the net. good times.
the summer concert season seems far from over. sister hazel, better than ezra, live, and carbon leaf are all playing balto/d.c. in the coming weeks so i'm pretty excited about that. probably head to d.c. to see melissa and shellard and catch a show.
good times. cheap times too.
6-8-02
saturday... welp, got up this morning, went shopping for soap etc, washed my car, went to work for a tad, went to china buffet for lunch, then went running.
i did mange to call melissa today. she and dave moved to d.c. recently. at the time i called though, she was out cruising in a convertible so i couldn't really hear what she was saying.
last august, stefan and i went car shopping and i put a deposit on a mitsubishi eclipse spyder (convertible) gs-t (turbo) 5 speed. basically one of my favorite cars. an absolutely beautiful mint condition turbo convertible eclipse. i signed some of the paper work, so technically i owned it for about 3 days, but ultimately i decided it would be a poor idea to buy this expensive piece of machinery (i'm po' fo' now).
this is heartbreaking to me... i got to drive it exactly once. granted it was at obscene speeds with the top down. but to own one, but not own one... god does that blow. i love that car. this girl jessica i had a rather weird relation with at the end of highschool had a brand new (at the time) 1997 one she'd gotten for her birthday. bright red. (drool).
i guess i fell in love with the car then because she didn't like to drive, and i love to drive, so i drove it a lot. people honk at you constantly when they see you driving a car like that. i don't know why though. let's just say we had some good times for a bit with the car. sadly however, it was automatic.
i remember sneaking boarding students out of my highschool at weird hours in that car. they weren't allowed to ride in student's cars. i can't remember exacltly why the car was there at the time considering jessica (who owned it) was a boarding student. i guess it was the end of the year or something.
bottom line, i'd give my left nut for a nice turbo convertible. polly tells me i love things like no one else. might be true, but i really do love them, and take care of them. speaking of polly, today's her birthday. she's one of about 2 people who's birhtdates i remember. if you're not one of them, i'm sorry, but i'm terrible at it. unfortunately i didn't really remember that today was in fact the 8th so it was still a flop on my part.
people have been telling me all kinds of interesting things this week. like helga, she told me "you accept irony in your life like you accept that the stuff in your fridge will be cold " which i guess is about 110% true. i figure ironic shitty things are going to happen no matter what (actively happen that is, as if some intelligent force were guiding these shitty happenings) so you may as well be prepared for them.
i went out with gustaaf and audra tonight to watch the mike tyson / linux luis fight. i lost 5 bucks to gustaaf on mike tyson.. but who cares. there was a period of time of really weird shit between me and them, but that passes and all is cool. a lot of times with me, if you're like hey, sorry about that, then that's it, it's over... in the past. that's not to say that it's always entirely the fault of others... i fuck up a lot for sure. but i'm trying more and more to own up to it.
well anyway, back to melissa. she sent me an email about this free concert series in d.c. that seems to be happening all summer long. specifically, she mentioned better than ezra. as any good person knows, the way to get my attention is through better than ezra or pearl jam / dave matthews. so that's why i called her but couldn't talk due to the convertible... hence the convertible rant... did you ever see that show "connections" on pbs where they tell you how like, a guy choking on an apple in 1100 a.d. lead to the bullet train or some weird shit? kinda like that i suppose (my stream of thought).
but uhhh.. oh yah, stuart called, he's in town... i'm supposed to meet him at dave sugar's house tomorrow so we can go out for breakfast. should be cool. his v.w. gti has been in the shop for a lifetime getting tuned, but it should be totally bad ass when it's done. something like 435 horse power in a golf... that's more than a corvette. i think my car is going to get me arrested as it.
welp, gotta do homework tomorrow and think about crap i have to do for my move.... nighty night. -p
6-7-02
god damn white boy!
well i guess it's friday. today wasn't especially productive at work. we went out to this nice sandwich place as usual (friday ritual) and i had my usual cheese steak. good as always. i went to the gym.. (i'm such a sexy bitch... as the women have been telling me lately, i have a strange animal magnetism).
if acutal women hadn't told me, i would definitely not believe it. i guess i got some good stuff going for me though....
at any rate (i say at any rate a lot here...) stefan was out of town this weekend for his 5th h.s. reunion. i did that a few weeks back, as did yaz. polly was packing for her trip, and so young had some musical meeting. so it was me, ayon, and paul sitting around watching "the shield" (cop show) and "crank yankers" (comedy central puppet crank call show with the man show guys). we also caught young guns and then grabbed a slice of pizza.
that's about it, but fun none the less.
oh, and they've been filming hbo's "the wire" literally a few hundred feet from my house all week. apparently it's set in baltimore, and has something to do with dangerous areas? nah.... couldn't be. the strip club across the street it perfectly safe (i guess... i really wouldn't know. no really...) but it looks like god damn daytime outside at 3 a.m.
6-4-02
here we are again. it's getting to the point that i can't really go to sleep without wrapping up my thoughts like this. seems kinda therapeutic almost. ginny got a website so maybe you'll see that coming from her too in the future.
today, what to say about today. well, as i said yesterday, i've got class after work m-t-w so i had that tonight. today was the first day of adv. cell bio 2. it's 12:30 and i just got back from the lab (had to go back to the lab to do some reading after class tonight).
i've had 4 grad classes so far, and I've noticed that half of grad classes are more or less like regular college classes, and half of them leave you wondering why you're actually at the class at all. it's not that it's bad, it's just that they everything is powerpoint or overheads which they simply read.
they could easily print them out and mail them to you, and tell you what chapters to read. hell they could email the powerpoint slides to you. then you could show up for the tests. that would be basically the same. in grad school, especially when you're doing it