what a nice weekend...I got to hang out with people that I don't see that often. on friday night, brad invited me to his friend rick's bday dinner at typhoon where i met a bunch of his college friends and his best friend from san fran. afterwards, we just headed back to brad's place where i engaged in the most interesting conversation with his good friend matthew, matt, sousa...whatever people call him. anyhow, i had a really great time meeting all of brad's friends and just talking to all of them.

i then spent all of saturday with phoebe in southcenter. that place gets more and more ridiculous i go there...it's like a huge vacuum cleaner, where it sucks you up and won't let you out until you've spent at least $100 in one of its hundreds of stores. i got a new alarm clock (yay!..my old one died), a new minishelf stereo system (the cd player on my old one is fried), and lots of other random things that i don't really need (i.e.--the Eurosealer...it creates that seal on plastic bags...and functions as a refrigerator magnet at the same time!). and we ended the evening watching "billy elliott" at the b'way market theatre...god, i loved that movie. within the chaos of the events in his family's life, this young boy found pleasure in ballet! i love it! phoebe and i were in giggles, bringing back memories of dance classes.

and today, i went to steven's pass with the whole music site-dev team. manine and boris took ski lessons and everyone went off and did their thing. last minute, i decided to snowboard, which i'm glad i did. i don't think i could've survived today on skis....and it was so much fun on a board...the snow was soft and easy to fall on (not that i fell that much..ahem...[eyes wander])
but i'm exhausted now because i woke up at 5:30am and really only got about 3 hours of sleep since i always find myself staying up til 2am at least. but i've gotta crash now...me very sleepy....

ick...what a hard week it's been in the company. there were really huge layoffs on tuesday--15% of the company. i had a few friends that were let go...so sad. the overall mood is fairly somber, especially within editorial. some friends question the integrity and soul of this company. i don't know what to think. i feel like this is definitely a good move..and if we hadn't done it, i don't know how we'd survive in the eyes of the investors this next year. at the same time, could we have accomplished our goals without the layoffs? this is a much bigger hit than last year's which was only 2%. fortunately, i don't think anyone in web dev was affected.

other than that, the week has just flown by...working pretty long hours trying to get my project done..we're supposed to hit beta tomorrow. for the most part, i feel good about it all.

i caught temptation island for the last 10 minutes for the first time last night...what a disgusting show. can you imagine being one of the single people? and being paid to literally be meat?

yay--phoebe is back in town!

i didn't make it to the gym this morning..[sigh] but i went on monday, tuesday and wednesday..pretty good for me. i've decided to try to make my tuesday and thursdays a morning gym routine. gotta get in shape to go to puerto rico with linda!

another week goes by...

oh, i'm living the single girl life...and enjoying it. i'm able to do so much that i couldn't do while i was dating matthew. i swore to myself that i wouldn't date/hook-up with another co-worker....but who else do i know in this freakin' town? i guess it's not a bad thing. fun, in fact. but i should watch myself so i don't get too carried away.

i went to steven's pass with olke on saturday--so much fun! i'm deliriously proud of myself because i snowboarded all day and did a pretty decent job. i didn't fall at all on my very last run...given, it was the daisy chair lift run..but still! i was able to go down some blues without killing myself too...i definitely have a lot more confidence. most of the time, i was boarding with darlene, olke's new woman...so sad...she's *so* into him and i think he's having hesitations. i hope things work out. Jon also went, kickin' olke's butt in the snow--ha ha. another person went too...but i didn't see him...and i shouldn't have even been looking out for him...but i was. how sad.
then we all went to see the kronos quartet at the moore theatre...what a fantastic show. i need to go out and see more concerts, plays, ballets, etc...afterwards, we went to jeanne's bday party which was kinda dying down..but there were lots of people there that i knew that I hadn't talked to in awhile.

superbowl sunday. my first time watching the superbowl since..gosh, i don't know when...high school? this event kinda came and went while i was at smith...no one seemed to really take notice except for lori, the only die-hard football fan amongst my whole crowd of friends. i was disappointed in the commercials this year, which is what i was looking forward to. i mean, if you're going to spend x gazillion dollars per minute on an ad, be a little more creative.

i've decided my entries are super boring..but that's because i don't really divulge much. i'm more of a private person than i ever thought...at least when it comes to this. i only hint at the events of my real life.

i'm getting used to the hair...even liking it. had a pretty good weekend...though worked a bit. saturday night was "the big sexy", or the annual amazon ball..this time at the westin. it was a blast---we first went to see olke's video installation at the fuzzy engine in ballard, which was awesome. there was this piece called "get me the damn out of childhood" that involved a bunch of blowtorch-fused toys funneling out of a record player....and then, there was the ball. i loved seeing all my coworkers all dressed up, whether that was in formal gear or some crazy costume. we all ended up at olke's house afterwards...fun with the coworkers...[sigh]...perhaps a little too much fun ;)

went rockclimbing yesterday on sunday with ben...i really like vertical world...better than stone gardens. i'm so weak. blegh.

eugene had a birthday shin-dig at his place on sunday night--he's 27! wahoo!

then it was back to work yesterday....and Bowling Night in Canada 2001! yeah, so i go bowling with members of the music team...it's actually a ton of fun and i got to hang out and talk to some people i hadn't seen in awhile.

i chopped my hair off today. it's really short.

yes, i'm still at work. that's become a resounding theme in my entries lately.

oh, i'm hungry.

went crazy and spent a hundred bucks on cds tonight. that's what happens when i'm working too much...i feel the need to treat myself to something.

i've been listening to "set adrift on memory bliss" on repeat...it brings peace to me. this is a song that will always relax me.

hung out with brad the other night...yay!! he and i should hang out more often..it's always so fun. too bad that at any given time, one of us is always needing to work late.

i lost my badge. or i think i did. i'm now wearing a loaner one and my actual one is deactivated. =(

saw 2 movies last night: thirteen days and save the last dance...both fun to watch. i didn't know too much about the cuban missile criss, and the movie was pretty good--i really liked the actors who played the kennedys. however, i couldn't stop laughing every time kevin costner gave a feeble attempt at a boston accent. and the latter movie made me really want to go out dancing. it's so sad: seattle really lacks any good hip-hop clubs/bars. what gives?

i wonder if brian reads this.

oh, I am so tired now. Work is just draining me. I can't see any content. I don't know why. How sad. A bunch of work I did in the past 2 weeks just went ka-put. Now I have to start over. I've been here for almost 11 hours. So much to do....

Whistler was really really amazing. I'll upload my pictures eventually..but I took a lot of great ones. I ended up not snowboarding at all...and skiied the entire time, which was well worth it. On Sunday, we went up to Seventh Heaven, which was ridiculously gorgeous. It was above the tree line and all whiteness everywhere. I didn't fall very much...but I must have fallen super hard at some point because I have a huge-ass bruise on my left hip now that hurts a lot. Didn't get much sleep either---we always partied and stayed up late...and then woke up really early. The group I went with was really huge--17 people...which made it hard for everyone to hang out together...too bad. It would have been nice to get a huge group shot of everyone holding their skis/snowboards at the base or something like that. It's hard to coordinate something like that...kudos to Jed and Eric for taking on the planning.

Just before I left for the weekend, I got a really long letter from Tanyel in Germany...wow, I haven't heard from him in so long. His writing is so eloquent and deep.

Aaron also apparently went snowboarding this weekend in Vermont with people from RISD...and he broke his wrist!! My mom's all worried sick.

I wonder who reads this.