what a long week---and i havent' written anything here in so long. i feel guilty about it somehow. like, y'all come here to see what i've been up to lately--and i don't write for one week and suddenly it seems like i dropped off the face of the earth.

on wednesday, we threw a birthday dinner party for betina at the melting pot---yum yum yum.
on friday, i made a very serious decision about my life here at work...i decided to leave my current team and to join another. it was kind of hard but i just needed to take that risk and do that. i've had such a tough year too and just need something refreshing. it'll be sad to leave but at the same time, i'm ready for a fresh start elsewhere. anyhow, my transition won't be for awhile--like, next year so that there's time to train a new person.

jed and i won the "dumb hikers" award yesterday. so we decided to hike mt. si...but we started off a little late and still decided to climb the full 4 miles up to the top. by the time we started descending, there was only like one hour left of daylight left; needless to say, we ended up walking at least the last 1.5 miles in almost completely darkness, led only by the light coming out of the LCD monitor of my digital camera. and it's a pretty rocky trail too...my ankles were not happy with me at all. [sigh] but all in all, it was a crazy and unique experience. never going to do that again.

finally finished reading Hannibal this last week. it was just like darren explained it to me--it's pretty good throughout most of the book, keeping the reader captivated in Harris's words..and then the last 40 pages just blow up and all hell's loose. what the hell happened?! it'll be interesting to watch the movie...now I know why jodie foster decided not to take up clarice's part again.