San Francisco decreases in population! :(
According to the article, San Francisco has the possibility of becoming Flint of the 21st century. Sobby. Silicon Valley or bust!
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I upgraded my CINGULAR (i know it\’s evil) cellphone plan to 500 peak minutes with rollover and 5000 offpeak. Then free roaming around the nation. Enhanced voice mail aka reach voice mail through any touch tone phone. A $39.99 plan plus $9.99 for the extra line in the family plan. $10 less than the previous plan we had. Lots of features…BUT alas, there\’s no longer any more conference calling. Just 3 way calling.
I remember the days where I used to have conference calls. me, lele, yeh, alan, dinh, cat or me, naim, shroom, stacee or me, doreen, stacee, shroom, lele, cheez, tanner, alecky, naim or me, lele, e or me, e, mikkke or me, cheez, shroom or me, stacee, shroom The biggest was 7 people on the line at a time. A quarter of those people I don\’t speak to anymore. But I will always remember the confusion. My insane laughter which drowns out any attempt at conversation. Lele\’s demanding of singing. Squeals of annoyance. Silence. Having my sister come on the line and ruin the flow of things. People saying it was boring. People just not saying anything at all, because they were scared. You know who you are. Iming and talking at the same time. Salivated voices. And complaints.
Sniff!
AND now for some BLOGGING ANALYSIS. The stuff I really want to hear about. I probably would have done this awhile ago, but I didn\’t know of the tools available out there. Very interesting stats.
Lafayette. Nobody knows where it is. It\’s the city I grew up in since I was in the third grade. When people ask me, I usually say 12 miles east of Berkeley…if I can give them a geographic perspective. But Lafayette of California is a place where snobs live. The preppy white kids mixed in with a minority. The only minority are asians. In the sixties, an African American family moving into the area made headlines on the local newspaper. The most recent huge crime…was the murder of a woman in the West Side of Lafayette (I live in the EAST side fyi) in the area called Happy Valley. This is the area where most lawyers and doctors live. This is also where REAL three story houses dominate…and four car garages populate the area.
And recently, I got a small history thingie in the mail.
Brown\’s Mill, Brown\’s Corners, Centerville, La Fayette – our community has had many names. It officially granted the name Lafayette in 1855 when Benjamin Shreve, the town\’s first school teacher applied for a post office for the village…As the hamlet straddled the road thta led from the Moraga Redwoods to the lumber shipping point at Martinez, early Lafayette became a stop-over spot for wagon drivers…
I have hiccups!!!!!!!!! *hic* HICCCCCCCCCCUP!!!
Sometimes I am really silent in certain social situations. No offense the greatest host, but I was almost stunned silent by the amounting number of comments on celebrities\’ appearances. And then, it was nice for soemone to notice me. Sort of.
She gestured toward the socializing and commented with a great smile, \”So this isn\’t what you like to do, huh? What do you like to do?\”
I was surprised. The day before, I had given a very — answer to someone who had asked me. It was probably too inappropriate to tell someone who I had just met. Instead I said, \”I don\’t think I can really say…\”
\”Oh.\” She paused. Then as if a light went off in her head, she said with a big smile again, \”So you like sitting and reading?\”
Shocked. I saved myself by saying that it was a hard question. Only just a hard question.
It\’s interesting how once…you can find some common ground with someone, all the resentment just disappears. As if it never existed in the first place.
I left a mess in the kitchen while making my fried rice. I remembered that I had left all the pots, knifes and cutting board unwashed when I was at the tunnel. Then I remembered that I had left the frozen corn and celery out on the kitchen table. And the whole chicken left defrosted in the sink. Whoops.
AND NOW THE ART OF KISSING, first printed in 1936. Outdated? Maybe.
Yesterday night, I saw some teenagers in the parking lot near my house…making some noise. A huge POP every five minutes. Then I poked my head out and they saw me…they paused. They couldn\’t tell if I was there to scold. I then had to return inside.
Later as I was walking back up my driveway, I saw two teenage girls and a teenage boy rush into a car. My dad told me later that they were only 15…and were driving illegally.
My first thought was KIDS. But then I realized I was still young…and still possessed their maturity. And I never liked age restrictions. Yet, I felt resentment as I saw them crawl into the car, laughing. Having the time of their lives. At least thinking they did. And my own resentment from not having the same when I was their age.
I never liked the fact that I was standing alone in my high school pan picture.
As of right now, i have 137 people on my (non-security group, that is I HAVE YOU IN MY I AM NOT STALKING YOU GROUP) buddy list, and of those 137 people…
the numbers may include repeat names or an approximate number
*12 are white
*1 THINK THEY are black
*59 are female
*77 are male
*1 are asexual
*76 are younger than me
*61 are older than me
*0 have yet to reach high school (there is ONE in my security group)
*5 are currently in high school
*99 are now in college
*10 are working full-time (meaning out of college and working. that includes CHEEZ!)
*2 claim slacker status
*3 i consider family (REAL blood-related family)
*24 are old friends
*26 are new friends
*15 aren\’t really friends at all (this is not including the 56 people in my security group)
*52 live in Nor. Cal (orginally from nor cal)
*8 live in So. Cal
*1 live in Texas
*6 i have been to concerts with
*5 i talk to every day
*8 i talk to once a week
*ZERO i have dated (because i don\’t \”DATE\”)
*27 know my secrets
*– i find very attractive (i don\’t judge on superficial things)
*15 i have no idea why i still keep on my list
*5 could be my sisters (one is and two males have a feminine tendency)
*5 are airheads (including MIKE FERNANDO)
*3 are super smart (HI I HAVE HIGH STANDARDS)
*2 i often envy (you know who you are)
*70 have a driver\’s license
*4 cannot legally operate a vehicle
*3 scare me when they drive
*4 share my brain on occasion
*1 shares my brain all the time
*– wear cute clothes (see above)
*– probably shop at wal-mart
*1 make me crazy on a regular basis (THAT\’S YOU)
*31 read my online journal
*27 have online journals of their own
*18 i have hugged
*13 i miss
*11 are religious
*2 are superficial
*11 i hope to see when i sign on
*0 smoke cigarettes (at least that i know of)
*27 drink
*1 dare to do drugs (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)
*24 are clean as a whistle (sXe anybody?)
*6 make me laugh hysterically (doesn\’t mean i laugh in a good way either)
*70 are currently single
*21 are currently involved
*9 i have worked with
*39 i have gone to school with
ADDED:
*14 i have never met in person
*6 i have never even spoken to online but i have you on my list because i want to stalk you (this doesn\’t include the approx 20 people in my security group)
*13 i haven\’t talked to for over a year
*11 rarely are online
Yesterday, my mom gave me the job of doing gate duty at the swimming pool next door. That is, because the swimming pool is a private club, every single member has to serve gate duty (sit at the front desk and make sure people sign in…and enforce the rules of the pool). Some had decided not to do their share and my mom was called as the substitute. I spent about 3 hours at the pool staring off into space…reading a GRE book (surprisingly, the GRE seems easy) and learning GRE words. Fun.
I got to my internship today and found that the ceiling had collapsed over one of my fellow interns. Something…a pipe probably…had finished leaking and started surging breaking the ceiling…and poured water all over two monitors, a keyboard and a mouse. Building damage. Other interns had observed that the ceiling was discolored from the first day we were there. Combined with our sporadic power blackouts (from having 15 computers with two monitors each, two routers, two printers, and a projector on two circuits)…how is this company going to survive?
In other news: since HE doesn\’t read it. I have succeeded in asking only questions for about 15 minutes (reminiscient of the question game that I played at the BLAH club). My attempts in annoying/irritating HIM failed. But we\’re still at bitter opposite ends. At least I know I am.
Hey, it\’s not you, Naim.