i'm so sad today.

god, i'm still at work. i feel like blegh. i need a break.

wow. my entries are getting further and further apart from each other. it's been one whole week since i've written anything here. but what does that matter except for all of you so curious about my mundane life?

i can't even remember last week. it flew by. i probably just worked a lot. surprise. the weekend was pretty fun--hit the 'ol fenix underground for the first time in months where this funny cover band, kryboys, was playing. sunday evening, i went to a smith recruiting event where only 2 high school students showed up. so sad--there was such a great turnout last year. anyhow, it was fun to just sit and chat with a small group of us about our lives at smith. it's odd how *any* alum from smith can just reminisce and talk for hours. i don't know if i should be scared about that. nah. i seem to also appreciate smith a lot more since i've left. i mean, look at me now--i'm involved with the club and in charge of getting together the most recent alums to have fun.

last night, a group of about twenty members of the music team went bowling over at roxbury bowl in west seattle. my team was "tania's teasers" with robert, ron, mukund and christina---and we won!!! oh yeah!! i played a ridiculously good game for me--my last game was somewhere around 168. we were the only ones in the entire alley and the staff dimmed all the lights and turned on the disco ball. [sigh] what a fun team.

what a crazy 2 days it's been. a new web dev for the music team (wahoo!!) just started and i've been trying to train her. it's overwhelming to think about how much i've learned since coming here.

another crazy day at work. i can't believe that i was able to get a certain test up and running--kudos to joe wilson. he totally saved me.

Look! I'm an Internet appliance!

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.

geekcruises.com. this is a little scary. I read an article in Wired magazine last night about some guy's experience aboard the Perl Whirl cruise to Alaska with people like Larry Wall and Randall Schwartz.

boy, it's been awhile since I wrote here. the weather's starting to get colder here in seattle. i can't believe it's october already. whatever happened to the pretty fall leaves to remind me that fall was around the corner? oh yeah, i'm in washington. it's bizarre being here in this city where it's green year-round. it always looks the same---just a little colder and some rain here and there.

last weekend was fun. betina had a friend come into town that she's known for years. turns out her friend's mother knew my mom growing up in hong kong. this world is too small. we attempted a night out in kirkland, which failed. then tried to cross the bridge back to seattle and ended up getting stuck because of some random test for boat crossings. and finally, we went bowling until 3 in the morning. not a bad game for that time of night.

i'm alone in the apartment now. betina's in vancouver to recruit UBC kids like I did last week. what an interesting experience. i wasn't sure what to say when a computer science student came up to me and asked what the URL was to "my company's website". * * * * doh. I just tried archiving my entries for the first time cuz' they're way too long. now i've got 2 of the same entry...oh well.

what a yucky day. it was such a gorgeous weekend too. on saturday, i had lunch with jed sitting in the sun down at the waterfront eating clam strips. then we drove around to the aboretum and volunteer park. this city is beautiful.

matthew comes back today--yay!

ate brunch with katrina and had the best conversation with her. also met up with phoebe to talk about the first potluck dinner with 'junior smith grads'.

i don't know what i'm doing with my life. i'm still doing what i did when i first graduated. i've always wanted to open up my own massage/spa shop.