i'm freaking out again about how many random people read this. this was supposed to just be a small 'lil thing for my friends. but technically, total strangers could know everything about my life just by reading this. i need a little more privacy. i'm going to pause. probably not for too long, knowing me. at least until i can get over everyone knowing everything about me.

wahoo! KU beat Syracuse today!! Not only did we win, but we creamed Syracuse (87-58).

i'm still coughing but feeling much better. i'm excited to see tahiti 80 tonight at the croc.

blegh. i'm sick. i didn't go to work today so now i'm sitting at home, dialed up, looking out at the beautiful weather and watching some bad spanish soap opera.

american airlines is so dumb. linda called them today and they informed her that my bags are still lost. what idiots.

back in seattle. sick. tired. the last 2 days have been quite the adventure. our plane took off from san juan over an hour later and we arrived in miami just as our connecting flight to d.c., the last flight out, took off. so we were stranded in miami--yay! well, not really. it was supposed to be a fun night but we ended up waiting in the airport for hours and hours waiting for them to get our bags for us, which they never did. pissed off, we went back to the holiday inn, where i called up gary, who moved from seattle to ft. lauderdale last august...and he drove down and hung out with me a bit. we woke up the next morning, barely making our 7am flight to d.c., only to find that our bags were MIA and i was screwed since i needed to take a train to newark to catch a flight out to go to seattle. my train arrived in newark really really late and i finally got to the airport at 5:30pm for my 5:40pm flight...ironically, the only reason they let me on board was because I didn't have any bags to check in. i later on found out that they had found my suitcase and that american airlines was sending it on a random flight via dallas to arrive in seattle before i would--yay! nope. i arrived in seattle, only to find out that the flight my suitcase was on was delayed and wouldn't arrive until 3am. sadly, i went home and crashed. now i'm at work. my bag finally got to my apartment sometime in the afternoon. i'm sick because i think i caught something on the plane. i don't like getting sick from the plane--it just seems foul that there were all sorts of diseases floating in the air.

on the positive side, i had a marvelous time in puerto rico. it was gorgeous, sunny, warm, relaxing. linda and i ate at the most wonderful restaurants: metropol, la querencia and the parrot club where we met 2 really interesting guys: armando y carlos. it's good to make friends in P.R. since i'm determined to make my trip to san juan an annual trek and it's nice to have friends there. best of all--they can bailar salsa! i wish i had more time there...i miss eating the maduros fritos..i should just learn to make it myself.

but now i'm back to the chaos of my life and i'm sick. i can't wait to take a bath, crash on my couch and watch the sopranos all evening.

well, I decided to flee nyc after several people suggested me to. on monday, i slept in and went over to the upper east side to visit josh, whom i haven't seen in over 2 years. he looks so mature now, well-dressed, poised. it still amazes me how much he's accomplished in his life---he moved to nyc when he was only 16 yrs. old to begin college where he continued to work with Al Hirschfeld (sp?) and created some set designs for some major off-broadway and broadway productions. then suddenly, this last year, he decided to give up the life of the theatre to study medicine, which he's doing now. anyhow, so i went to his place, ate the best spaghetti carbonara in my life, went back to anna's, packed up and took the first train out of ny to d.c.....arriving around 10:45pm to smiling linda's face at union station.

she had to go to work the next day...so i just hung out, watched tv on her roomie's ridiculously huge projection tv thing and wandered around georgetown. we finally took off and arrived in puerto rico late late last night and are now staying at the ever familiar esj towers. it is so warm and sunny...i love it.

i feel like i've done so much in the last 24 hours. well, last night, i met up with debbie (sans husband) to go clubbing...we ended up at a place called ohm that was pretty swanky...bass-filled techno upstairs and laid-back hip-hop downstairs. it's really nice to be a girl sometimes...debbie and i walked up to the long line and were quickly ushered to the front where we were instantly given tickets to get in for free. anyhow, about 45 minutes later or so, we met up with my friend jimmy whom i haven't spoken to in over a year. he brought his girlfriend, carol, and his friend dan. it was a pretty fun night...i haven't gone dancing in a scene like that in so long. seattle can play music like that but no one gets dressed up at all the way they do in nyc. i must admit, it's amusing to see all the staten island guidos hitting on all the long island chicks. debbie left midway through the night and it was just me, jimmy, carol and dan....we continued dancing and partying it up until about 5am when we left the club and wandered around trying to find food, eventually settling at a pizza joint in union square, near dan's place. after eating there, dan insisted on "calling a car" for me to get Uptown rather than taking the A train all the way up. he works for some hedge fund where he can "call a car" at any hour to give him or whomever a ride to wherever, no questions asked. so we said goodbye to jimmy & carol and i went up to dan's place to wait for this car until around 6:15am...eventually getting back to anna's apartment near 7am. now that's a total night out in the city.

i didn't get much sleep, obviously...woke up in the morning and Anna & I left to go all the way to Chinatown to meet up with Li Mei to eat dim sum. Being on her crazy Wall Street schedule as she is, Mei only had about an hour to eat with us. it was nice chatting with her about everything that's occurred over the last year. After lunch, I attended a baby naming ceremony for a friend of Anna's mother, whom I also saw. We hung out there for awhile, took off, bought myself some Tevas and then headed over to the Circle in the Square Theatre to watch Rocky Horror Show Live, the B'way musical revival----what a fun show! It starred Dick Cavett, Joan Jett and Daphne Rubin-Vega. The actor who played Frank 'N' Furter was absolutely amazing. After the show, we grabbed some quick dinner and then met up with Debbie and her husband, Nick, for some martinis in the lounge at the swanky Royalton Hotel. This was my first time meeting Nick who was a really cool guy. I'm really happy for Debbie.

We're now finally back at Anna's apartment and ready to retire to bed...very tired. It was a very chilly evening...snow is starting to stick to the ground. I hope the snow doesn't become an issue for flying out of D.C.

slept in. so nice. left the apartment in the afternoon...went to the MoMA with Anna and saw the most amazing exhibition called workspheres about our work spaces and incorporating technology into the comfort of our homes. we spent so much time there that we ended up going through the van gogh exhibition in about 2 minutes. then we went to penn station where i bought my ticket to go to D.C. on tuesday and then did some shopping...successfully finding a $21 swimsuit at old navy. now i'm back at the apartment and will head out soon to meet up with debbie to go clubbing at twi-lo...i miss the city. hopefully, i can catch a show in the next few days. i feel bad that i didn't really take advantage of the arts here while i went to college out here.
everyone's talking about some huge snowstorm that's supposed to hit the eastern seaboard tomorrow through monday...at least a foot of snow. it's supposed to be the most snow to hit nyc since 1966...sounds crazy.

I'm in New York City now, typing on Anna's computer, listening to Kruder & Dorfmeister as Anna falls asleep on her bed....just like old times...Anna resting on her bed, I bent over on the computer. I pretty much stayed up all night, getting only about 45 minutes of rest before getting up around 4:15am to take a shower and finish up the rest of my packing before taking off at 5:15am for SeaTac (which is up and running) for my 6am flight to St. Louis & then to Newark. I arrived in NJ late afternoon and found Anna. We searched for my luggage and then randomly jumped on one of the Blue Shuttle vans to take us into the city. All the way over, we talked and talked to catch up with each other...god, it was great talking to her. We finally arrived at her apartment in Inwood, way up on 204th St. Such a cute apartment...walking around it brought back lots of memories as I saw familiar pictures and things on her shelves. I made a few phone calls to friends in the city and then grabbed some Indian cuisine for dinner. We went shopping at the grocery store and then came back to the apartment, spending the rest of the night eating ice cream and talking and talking. yay! I'm so happy to be back in this city...so many memories from places I've been to and of the various people I was here with. We had to cross the GW Bridge and that reminded me of driving a certain person from West Point into the city on any given weekend in my senior year. I can't wait to see old friends...

I went out with Jason again last night and had a great time....took off from work early, picked him up and we ate dinner at Andaluca...then saw "Shadow of the Vampire" and then headed back to his place for about an hour afterwards. It's weird to think that I only went on my first date with him a week ago....we've seen a lot of each other...taking this vacation will be good. tee hee..he confessed to me that he found my weblog. hmm..should be careful ;-)

what an interesting 24 hours. i started off the day yesterday waking up at 6:30am and meeting peter at 8 limbs yoga for our usual wednesday morning class. afterwards, we headed back to my apartment so that he could jump in the shower and i could change. around 9am, we drove over to b&o and grabbed some quick breakfast....and then Peter dropped me off at the hair salon so i could trim my short hair once again. after finally launching my project the night before, i felt like indulging myself with a haircut.
I got to work around 10:15am and started reading my emails, poring over all the press coverage on Jungle. About 5 til 11am, I started hearing some loud, clunky noises above me. I thought the people in the office above were moving large pieces of furniture or something...and then the trembling started...i didn't know what to think...i was confused. And then my huge 21" monitor started tilting towards me and all the contents of my bookshelf fell all over the floor. I noticed the hanging light from the ceiling swaying all over the place. I freaked out and ducked underneath my desk (thank god for sturdy amazon door desks). I sat there shaking so hard, literally thinking I was going to die. About 45 seconds later, I emerged from my now cluttered office out into the hallway to find all my coworkers standing huddled underneath door frames together or crouched below their desks, all still shaking and not knowing what to do next. We then all evacuated the building and gathered in a huge crowd outside, everyone hugging each other, thankful that we were all safe. We looked around, blown away by what had happened and forgetting all the issues we were dealing with at work just before the earthquake, issues that seemed so small in comparison now.
We were then told to gather our things and go home. I climbed the six flights of stairs and walked around, seeing all the cracks in the walls, computer monitors on the floors, ceiling light fixtures which had fallen and shattered its glass everywhere. I quickly gathered my things, sent out a few short emails and took off.
Walking home with Betina, we saw a ridiculous amount of traffic as everyone was trying to get home as soon as possible. I eventually got in touch with my parents, as the cell phone and telephone networks were all crammed. I spoke to them for awhile, calming my mother down and reassuring her that we were all safe. When we got home, Jocelyn was still a little shaken as she was home alone when this all happened. Fortunately, everything was completely intact at home...nothing major had fallen. We turned on the news and watched in awe at something that we had all experienced for the first time.
I logged in briefly to see if people were still working...which they weren't. Then I just sat on the couch, watching the news, answering many phone calls from concerned friends and relatives...forgetting to eat lunch. Eventually, I wandered out onto Broadway, shipped off my laser printer which I had sold on eBay, and grabbed a wrap sandwich from World Wraps. I didn't really know how to take advantage of all this extra time I had.
6.8 on the Richter scale. Epicenter near Olympia. Take a look at some pictures from a Cobalt employee.