Things I’ve meant to blog (and thanks to writer’s block, I will): This past weekend, a bunch of friends and I drove to Lathrop, California to get lost in a field of corn. What? You never heard of Lathrop? Ha, neither has anyone else.
Maybe a back story is in order: [...]
(The scene: Ernie and his mom in a car, driving to his parents house to get the last of his childhood momentos, since the parents are moving and going to throw everything away otherwise. Exhale by Whitney Houston comes on the radio. Like always, Chinese is in italics.)
Radio: “…Shoop, Shoop, Shoop [...]
(Background Info: Ernie is in the middle of his morning drive to work, which takes 20 minutes or so.)
Internal Monologue #1: Something feels wrong. Something feels very, very wrong.
Internal Monologue #2: That’s because you’re fiending for a cigarette. You have that stupid nicotene patch on your arm, get over yourself.
IM #1: [...]
There’s been some additional stress in my life lately, with family and work and feelings of inadequacy and general I’m-25-and-unsatisfied-with-life things that all 25 year olds that are unsatisfied with life go through, I guess. I’m not eloquent enough to put those feelings into text. I start typing out words, but they get [...]
(Ernie runs into the room excitedly.)
Ernie: Jen! I just bought this new CD.
Jen: Cool! Who is it?
Ernie: John Mayer. I just heard of him on the radio. You should totally get this CD, it’s really good.
Jen: Uhmm. Ernie? I have the CD. [...]
6:59 AM. Ring ring, goes the telephone.
Ernie: (Where the fuck am I?) ‘lo?
Voice: GOOOD MORRR-NIIING ERR-NEE!!! Time for you to wake up.
Ernie: I’m awake.
Mom: You said you were going to try to get to work earlier. With all this time, you should walk around the block.
(Ernie briefly [...]
I just got this e-mail from Patrick:
just popped over to your portfolio site (since i’d never looked at it). the link for deluxetrader[.com, a former client site I had done work with at marchFIRST] now redirects to… well… masterbates.com.
it’s funny if you’re familiar with web culture (two clicks away from porn!!!!), probably fairly upsetting [...]
Mom came over for dinner yesterday. (Mandarin in italics, English otherwise.)
Mom: (Between bites of pot roast and scrambled eggs with shrimp) I haven’t seen you for a while. Are you doing anything else besides working and staying at home?
Ernie: Not really. Oh wait, that’s not true at all. [...]
Cool referral link of the day: a weblog for an English school in Japan. (Also designed by kc!, former dot-com co-worker and otherwise known as the DJ at my birthday party.)
I don’t know why I get such a kick out of this. Maybe it’s the secret hope that somewhere in Kojima, little [...]
“Posting 100 Things About Yourself” memes are fun, because they don’t require you to actually think of things to write about. (Can you tell I’m having writer’s block right now?)
Very rarely will I buy cookies or ice cream, because if I see them around the house, I will EAT THE WHOLE PACK IMMEDIATELY.
I love [...]
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