My friend sent this to me:

Which cities spend more than anyone else by category?
L.A.: gas and homes
Washington, D.C.: entertainment and insurance
Chicago: cars and cash contributions
Boston: healthcare and tobacco
San Francisco: booze and books

And then she said, “SF is where you belong, if it werent for the booze.”

Perhaps. But who says books are my first love? Only if it’s my writing! Yeah, I know a self-centered moment.

I don’t do caffeine. Period. I survived grad school without it so I can still survive life without it.

But perhaps with it, I’ll stop making stupid comments. Then again, what am I thinking, my incredible pseudo-OCDness gives me enough energy for every task that I want to complete.

For all the trouble and frustration I have gone through the past week, I want to buy myself a present.

A new cell phone. I know. There’s something to be said about buying a phone when I just signed a contract and am dissatisfied with my current one even though I already exchanged it once.

Or I mean, I was intending to buy myself speakers for my ipod or silk pajamas. But how can I really live without satisfying communication with the outside world? That first, please.

How I fixed the comment count in my blog.

I am good at getting the scripts from the Internet to do what I want. I am not great at writing them.

CSS is messed up for now. Still in the process of hacking the kubrick layout to fit my needs. :)

I don’t believe in blog titles because I believe they define the post and take away from its character. I want my blog to be taken as one single moment at a time. Content is not meant to be judged by its cover. Perhaps that’s why artists use untitled as the name of their work.

But besides that, I do sometimes hate change. I got a new phone with my cingular plan and didn’t like it. I returned it today to get a Nokia. 3 hours later, I decide that I want to return it.

I like my LG phone from Verizon. Even though it has no bluetooth. And this ridiculous winking smilie whenever I complete an action. But it really fit my needs.

I am thinking of switching back to b2 from wordpress. Even though wordpress has so much more functionality. I can finally use flickr and flock with it. I can manage my links more easily than the raw html I used to do. And furthermore, I won’t have to deal with any more spam comments again. But I don’t like how it does its search…the search page doesn’t even display all the content of the matching entries. I don’t like how I have to write my posts without being able to see my previous posts.

But this is me refusing to head toward the future. I hold onto the past, because my needs haven’t changed. I suddenly am rethinking my decision to move to the city because I want three-pronged electrical outlets and the ability to drive to Safeway, Wamu, and the Apple Store with only walking from the parking lot. But I gotta let the change happen and it’s my turn to adapt.

I finally succumbed to wordpress after my scripts got hacked and my posts were displayed from old to new rather than new to old.  Rather than spending hours figuring out how to undo the action, I took an hour to upgrade my blog to wordpress.

Not a five-minute install, mind you.  Because the b2 script I used was from 2003, it had been outdated for years and the import scripts no longer worked.  Not to mention the number of mysql commands I had to execute to get my comments working right.

But here I am, back in the modern age again! Yes, there is a real working rss feed.  Yes, I can now do trackbacks and all those modern blog things that go around now.

Even though I heard a great talk by Matt, one of the founders of WordPress, a few weeks ago, I still don’t like the interface.  b2 fit my needs.  WordPress is now a bloated, fat cousin with too many features.  I only need to write, search my posts, and manage my comments.  But with time, maybe I’ll be a true convert.

But look!  I used a title for my post!

Think about what you really miss. Do you really miss it or do you miss it for what it was…for what it used to be?

Alas, my potential roommate bailed on me.

Know anybody who is planning to move to the city soon?

Back to square one!

So I am having trouble deciding on an apartment in San Francisco. Go for the ones in a bad location, but a great update interior with the latest design and layout. Or go for the ones in a great location but horrible old old outdated interior?

After being spoiled so many years, I want to opt for the former. Even though I believe I will spend most of my time sleeping in the apartment rather than actually living there, the idea that I can comfortably return \”home\” is appealing. I want a place where I see as better than the office.

Today, I went to see a 2 bedroom/1 bath apartment right next to the muni. Great location, great shops nearby. But then I walked inside. It was ok..at first. The toilet was oddly in a separate room than the bathroom. I saw that the current tenants kept their electric toothbrushes in the kitchen. Only a few (two-pronged) outlets in each room. The second bedroom was more of an entrance to the laundry room the size of a small hallway. The lights flickered and the doorknobs were the old style. Doors had to be pushed shut rather than closed shut.

Some love the old style, but now I am thinking I may pay more for a modern style. Maybe.

Is apartment hunting about location, location, location?