look! i'm not dead!

hmm...  been a few days since i've blogged...


they seem to have revved up the blogger interface.  spiffy.  the plus side for me being...  now, when i type two spaces, they'll actually show up as two spaces.  without me having to type " " for one of them.  'cause i'm lazy.  yes, properly formatted typing =D


sooo much to catch up on.  oops.  this might be monstrously long, or i might just skip over a bunch of stuff...


oh, i forgot to mention...  while we were at lunch, the guys were ragging on the interns that i don't like...  i always felt like such a bitch for not liking them.  i mean, some of the others seem to think that they're nice...  but...  yeah...  so the guys from lunch agree with me, and i feel better.  but then again, josh thinks genevieve is hot, and...  well, none of the rest of us did.  not *that* hot, at least ;p


so...  wednesday morning, i saw a touareg on the way into work, and i was thinking how they're a lot more common than i expected (for instance, keith drives one)...  then i saw it again, and thought "that's not round enough to be a cayenne."  yeah, hun...  that's because it's not...  <shakes head>  i was so tired...

at work that day, keith came to talk to us...  apparently the lady that yelled at us for using her vending machine went to keith and told him that we'd been cleaning out her machine every day since...  which is somewhat funny, 'cause neither of us had been to the 5th floor since then.  plus, she called us "a young lady and a hispanic guy."  um...  huh?  right...

i guess because of what happened, damkot later yelled across the office at me...  "hey, intern!"  so i wander across the office...  he says "get me some hohos," and hands me two vendos (one at a time, dramatically enough), so i asked the other interns to check their respective floors for me.  no hohos.  mike's reaction to that was... that damkot rang a bell, and i appeared.  so then he started ringing a bell in chat ("<rings bell>"), and i'd answer "yes, mike?"  it seemed to amuse many people.

leah then said something about getting mike's request to get his server racked, and that maybe she'd be the one to rack it...  which, of course, we all jumped all over.  so the joke of the rest of that day, as well as the next day, was that leah wanted to rack mike's server (which, btw, is just a 1u that's been on his desk.  and was still there when i said bye to him at the end of the day thursday...  yeah...)

that night, i went to brush my teeth, and the sink was covered in dry, yellow liquid.  it looked...  yeah...  ugh.  but it turns out that it was tomato plant juice.  it smelled soooo good coming off the sink.  yum.  too bad it had to turn my stomach first ;p

 
thursday, we had our last full intern lunch.  i'd invited jax (i figured it'd be good since he's cool with most of the interns anyway), and tried to invite alex, but i couldn't get ahold of him before we went.  anyway, we were all in chat, lamenting that we still had to wait for lunch...  when it got close to lunch, josh's away message went up with the message "lunch with the wifey."  which i didn't think much of, since he uses the same messages a lot...  figured he might have just hit a lunch message.  but when we got to the lobby, he wasn't there.  we were waiting on him, and i mentioned his message.  everybody got a bit ansy, 'cause he was kinda the reason we were having the lunch...  but he showed up with maseh right about then, so it was all okay then.

driving out to the chinese buffet, we were supposed to follow leah, but she disappeared.  josh saw stephen drive off, so he went after him, and i saw josh go off, so i went after josh.  i don't know where stephen ended up, but josh and i were stopped at the light ourselves.  i was looking around for leah, since she said we could follow her, but i had no idea where she went.  well, we turned at the light, and josh was driving so fucking slow (in the left lane, too!  i would've hoped that he at least had an idea of where the restaurant was...), then leah sped by on the right...  so i sped by josh on the right.  he switched into the middle lane just in time for leah and me to swtch back to the left...  and leah doesn't signal very often...

anyway, at the restaurant, they gave us an entire section (linda was smart enough to call ahead...  yay for linda =D), and the tables formed kinda funny.  the girls (except me, of course) were at one table, the left over tech people (except me) were at another... and then there were four more tables.  one was just josh.  geoff was nice enough to move over to keep him company.  how cute =]  josh had to jet early, though (to take his wifey to lunch, of course), so geoff ended up moving back to the tech table.

stephen grabbed a bunch of chopsticks and distributed them among the tables.  they somehow ended up pretty much with the right people (except for ajax...  he didn't get sticks).  i have no idea how to explain it, but i thought it was somewhat cute =]

we were busy racking stuff when we got back (they'd been talking about it since before we left, but they still weren't sure of the details), and i didn't get back to my desk until 4:15 or so...  at which point josh told me that i had to get my butt downstairs if i wanted to see him, since he was leaving at 4:45.  i went downstairs, and we talked some.  he didn't actually leave 'til nearly 5, though...  at which point i ran upstairs and said my goodbyes to weymouth and mike, since i was taking friday off for...


king's dominion!  yeah, dad's company tickets (soo cheap ;p) were going to expire...  well, today.  so we had to use 'em friday.  'cause lines suck ass on weekends.  on a weekend, we definitely wouldn't have been able to go on every coaster 4-5-6 times like we did...  anyway...  michael's grown up soooo much =D  he now loves coasters.  grizzly (michael "we went over the tippy-toppies of the treesies!")  =D  yay for wooden coasters ;p  he also went on anaconda (which i kept confusing with the avalanche...  name-wise, at least) with me a few times, and...  he's so funny.  he makes funny noises the entire time.  it's really him going "eeee," but because of the movement, he's like...  a vibrating "eee" ;p  coupled with dad's fake screams the first time we rode (me and dad in the back car, michael and mom near the front...  'cause michael's still a bit of a wuss and won't go straight to the big drops in the back...), i don't think i rode the anaconda once without cracking up the entire time.  giggling madly.  no, i'm not delirious.  really...

oh, and there was this little kid in line for the scooby doo in front of us.  he was probably between 1 and 2.  and he was super excited to go.  i mean, it's a kid's coaster, but it's a real one.  it's a real wooden coaster with real hills.  and this tiny little kid couldn't wait to get on it again.  amazing little kid...

we went on a few water rides...  they made me so hungry (being in water nearly always makes me hungry...  unless i swallow a lot of water while i'm in it.  then it's anybody's guess when i'll be hungry again ;p  anyway, i'm still disappointed that they took down the monsoon chutes.  yeah, the 80 ft, nearly vertical drop waterslide.  the one with two drops was the most fun, i think, since you'd pick up speed on the first mini-drop, and then fly off the ledge for the second one (at least i would), so you'd be free-falling for maybe 60-65 feet before the slide catches you again to curve around to the ground.  if i ever wore a bikini on that, i'd definitely lose the top.  since i'd lose my straps sometimes anyway.  and the water hurts a bit 'cause of the speed.  oh well, it was fun, and it's gone, so there's no use talking about it anymore anyway...

i didn't get to go on drop zone, volcano, or xlc 'cause nobody would go with me, and i didn't want to make people wait around with me (those are the rides with longer lines, since they're newer and stuff).   thing is...  i didn't really care that much =/  i've gotten somewhat jaded with most of these rides...  not that i don't enjoy them.  they're just not as...  exciting as they should be.


saturday, matt showed up later than he told me he was going to, but it was alright since michael was still at his swimming lesson.  he was also invited to go to the pool with a friend while he was there.  talk about being tired out...  did i mention that he slept until mom woke him up for swimming lessons?  anyway, after they got home, michael showered, and called his friend back...  then we went out for pho.  we dropped michael off at the pool on the way home, and then matt and i crashed on the couch and loveseat.  oddly enough, matt was on the loveseat, and i was on the couch.

by the time we woke up, it was time to head out to peter pan (yay for peter pan!), and so...  we set out =]  i called vinny like i promised i would, but they were still at the park.  when we got there, the oysters weren't in their normal spot.  michael asked to try some, so dad got him two, and he liked them.  there weren't any more then, so we just continued eating.  matt came back with a plate of crabs and mentioned that there were more oysters,  so i asked him to get a plate...  he returned with a mountain of them.  we ate them all =]  i got more later, too...  yay for raw food ;p

we watched some naruto that night, but matt was behind me, so i was just watching old eps.  gave that up after a while...


i woke up early this morning, even though i asked matt to set an alarm for 9.  i was all ready to leave and everything, and mom made us eat breakfast.  matt wasn't feeling so well, so i ended up eating his breakfast as well.  we didn't leave my house until nearly 10, which was when we were supposed to be there.  i thought i was going to cry with matt following me, since i head the jetta.  i had to slow down at every light to make sure it didn't turn between me going through and him approaching it.  and at random other times too, since...  he's afraid to get a ticket.  oh well...  i guess it's good for me to drive a bit slower...

on 66, i saw the sign for exit 47, and i started panicking.  when phil gave me directions (directions he got from mapquest), he told me to take exit 47...  but mapquest did not give a or b...  and there was definitely an a and b to exit 47.  vinny's phone wasn't ringing through, so...  i took the first exit as a blind guess, and it was apparent pretty quickly that it was wrong.  the first left was supposed to be 0.3 miles from merging only sudley, and...  sudley had pretty much turned into a backroad right after the first light.  so we turned around in a parking lot, and found the right intersection...  and then i had to pull into every left-turn lane to read the street signs.  i don't think matt liked that too much.  we eventually found our way to huey and vinny's...  about 10-15 minutes late.  sk wasn't there yet, though.  and vinny wasn't awake (huey said he'd only slept a few hours in the past few days).

huey offered us breakfast, but, of couse, we'd already eaten.  then he asked me (jokingly) to cook them breakfast.  i agreed ;p  i asked them what they wanted, and huey said bacon and eggs.  i told them about my bacon in eggs.  they liked the idea, so i cooked that.  they each requested three eggs...  six eggs is a lot of work to beat ;p  so...  i served up a massive coronary for breakfast =]  but bacon makes *everything* yummy!

sk showed up at around 11...  apparently she woke up at 10 ;p  phil had looked up movie times (we were going to see i, robot), and told us two different times for two different theatres...  huey thought they were both for regal (formerly hoyts), and we headed there for the 12:10 (12:15?  something like that) showing...  except it was showing at 12:30 there...  so we wandered border's after we bought our tickets (matt's brilliant idea...  to buy the tickets first, not to wander border's), and everybody went into a scifi discussion.  i felt so left out...  even sadder that they didn't have a toy section there.

movie kinda sucked.  but it was worth seeing.  especially with matt's pre-movie statement.  "i get to see will smith's ass for my birthday!"  he also tried to grab phil's ass after that, when sk was taking a picture outside of the theatre...  uuh...  okay...

we went to uno's afterwards for food, but i missed the turn.  vinny told me just to drive until i saw uno's, but there was no sign for it.  and nobody told me to turn.  so i ended up all the way back out at sudley.  thanks guys, really.

speaking of them riding with me...  i got lots of complaints about how fast i drive.  phil was convinced that i was trying to kill him...  first the unhealthy breakfast, then trying to give him a heart attack via driving him around (notice that he said heart attack, not car accident...  don't start with me on the asian female driver stuff...), and he and vinny were joking that they'd vote me for scariest gl driver.  i don't think we have any basis to vote for that, but...  anyway...  not a title i'd mind having, i don't think...
 
oh, and at lunch...  matt pointed out that the hostess's ass was huge.  i was in the bathroom when they were seated, so i didn't ge to see until later.  yeah, it was...  all bubble-like.  it would have been soooooo nice, but it was somewhat cottage cheese-ish.  through thick pants.  what a waste =/

after lunch, we went back to vinny and huey's, and we all got online...  and then vinny went and took a nap.  and we all talked to cait =]  we all posted (except for matt...  he just sat at one of the computers), and eventually matt left for bburg (nearly two hours later than he'd anticipated).  when i got back inside, we played spades.  well, phil taught me how to play spades, and then we played spades.  and phil and i kicked ass =D  it was mostly luck (hands that were easy to read) and phil being able to pull off nil bids.  i pulled mine off by luck on the last hand.  sk had run out of everything but spades near the end.  <whew>  sk and i both left after we finished the game.

 
i've been noticing bruises all over my legs and a couple on my arms.  just as some of them started disappearing, i got two bug bites at king's dominion.  so i'm still somewhat spotted.  kinda funny, but definitely hurting my sex appeal.  <rawr>  or...  not...  but at least i'm filling back out...  i'm now officially like, 108 =]


and how am i remembering so much to blog about?  i've been making voice notes for myself.  yeah, talking at my phone.  and you know what?  while it's useful...  i hate my voice.