01/08/2004 Archived Entry: "Words that Sound like “Satire”"

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated on my life. So sorry! I’ll try to make it up to you guys today.

My alarm rang as it has every other day this week at 7:20. I hit snooze a few times before deciding that I’d make it to work for 10 o’clock. A few taps of the snooze button later I got up and it was around 8. I had some Cheerios with milk I had to steal from Lachlan (dood, I owe you a bowl of milk) then made two peanut butter and jam sandwiches for lunch. I went back upstairs to get ready, got ready, and went back downstairs where Dennis was. We discussed bills very briefly before he went out to work and I left shortly after.

It was very bitterly cold outside as I walked towards the bus stop where Janet (from 205) was also waiting. I talked to her (or was it her talking to me) while standing there, she recounted the epic tale of how she thought the bus was supposed to arrive 10 minutes ago. When the bus got there, we got on, Janet found a seat while I opted to stand since I spend all day sitting down. We talked until the bus brought me to my stop where I got off; Janet didn’t get off because she was going a couple more stops. As I stood in the shelter, my toes were freezing and I was wishing I had either worn my boots, bought thick socks, or had toe sox (this is an in-joke with someone who may or may not be reading this). When the bus finally arrived I went all the way to the back only to hear 3 dumb guys proving to each other how smart they were by knowing that everyone was going to get off the bus at the university. Fools.

Anyways, I arrived at work at about 10 as I had expected. Not too much exciting happened there. I discovered that the program I’m working on uses one more database than I had previously thought, that makes THREE. Utterly ridiculous. I’m hatching plans of integrating it all. Also made progress in tracking down the bug I’m looking for only to be thwarted around 6 by a global variable being declared somewhere that I cannot find. Such are the perils of debugging 32,462 code files and 3 databases with notepad as your only tool.

I also emailed Mike a few times at work and msn’d Arthur, Phong, Andrei and Melissa Py at varying times throughout the day. Found out some interesting things about Mel, even though she keeps thwarting me when I try to flirt with her.

Ate one of my sandwiches around 11:30 and Jane asked me if I wanted to join her and Adrian for lunch around noon. I asked her where they were going and she said the lunch room; I had to decline partly because I didn’t need to eat my second sandwich yet and partly because I fear being in that lunch room with the rest of the staff. I hate being in a room full of strangers where I know I’ll stand out. At about 3:30 I ate my second sandwich with a delicious fitty-cent can of pineapple juice I bought from the then-almost-empty lunch room. The guys in there tried to talk to me about the weather and discovered I was very badly equipped for such a conversation.

Around 4, Sean was leaving for the weekend and told me I could use his computer to look at that mysterious 3rd database I found. Mine couldn’t see it because I had an older version of Access. Andrew then found the computer that was supposed to go to me being used by someone else so I’m stuck with that p2 until a new one can be built for me.

I left around 6 to catch the bus home; I think I was the last one out of the office again. On the bus, I saw Patrick Szeto. By the time I decided that I should maybe talk to him, I had already sat down and thought it was already too late to make it seem less weird. He got off the buss in front of Philthy’s and I got off the next stop and headed to Arthur’s place. There, I asked Brian some more questions about the badminton club, I’ll probably go to next week’s introductory meeting at the very least. I scrounged around their kitchen for some food to stave my growing hunger and snacked on a slice of bologna and some kind of dry cereal. At 7, Arthur and I left to go to Waterloo Martial Arts Academy.

It was my first class, an intro to how things work – for free! Remember when I said I didn’t like standing out in front of strangers? Well, it happened. I was in my black and red gym clothes while everyone else were in their white gis (pronounced like the french name "Guy"). Great. The warm up consisted of 10 laps with 10 push-ups between each lap. It wasn’t too bad, I think 3 more laps and I would have been really exhausted. The stretching part was particularly tough. My poor hamstrings.

So while everyone was practicing things they’ve already learnt, I had my own instructor for the 45 min session who taught me some basic stuff. Its pretty tough to co-ordinate all these body movements at the same time but I think I did okay for a first timer, but certainly not the martial arts prodigee I was hoping to be. Anyways, it’s 75$ for 3 months and that includes a free gi. I’m very seriously considering joining if only for having a gi around. Haha. It’s only 20$ to join the badminton club. Brian vehemently denied that the money went towards his basketball shoe collection. I might join both.

I was thinking of going to the pac to do at least some back extensions but Arthur didn't feel like it so he drove me home and came in for a bit, he talked about martial arts and sparring while I chopped up some vegetables. When Dennis got back, the two of them went off to Dennis’ room. I continued cooking oblivious to the laughter and screaming coming from downstairs. Dinner was Teriyaki beef stir fry on hot rice. It took 40 mins, cost 5$, and I made enough for 2 meals. And it was rather filling and tasty. Arthur left after he and Dennis were done; I had finished dinner by then.

Dennis and I then proceeded to look at all the crazy apps he has for tuning his 7.1 speakers, there are many. I gave him some of the x-mas cookies I still have left over. I want to finish them before they get any more stale. After that, I came upstairs and did the dishes and put away my leftovers. Then came up here and wrote this entry. 1 hour later, I finished. See my dedication to you guys?

I’m not sure what else I’ll be doing tonight. Prolly some reading, situps, a shower, then bed at midnight.

Replies: 6 comments

Talk about a LONG friggin' entry...:P!...but I have to admit this following statement of yours is GOLD!!!..."with a delicious fifty-cent can of pineapple juice"...sounds like something strung out of "The Catcher in the Rye"...it seems to magically convey more description than the words would allow...

Posted by dAN @ 01/08/2004 10:41 PM EST

mAN, you're misquoting me.

I said fiTTy cent. Dis-respect guy!

Posted by Rayne @ 01/08/2004 11:28 PM EST

Was this one dedicated to me after what we were messaging about??? ;)

Posted by smujee @ 01/09/2004 12:48 AM EST

wow ... i didn't even realize it was fitty and not fifty ... how our mind tricks us as it trips over words and molds them to fit those with which we are familiar

great entry ... when do we get more like that? ;)

i especially liked the anecdotal remarks made about yours truly .. getting mentioned here makes me feel like a star ... or vedette, if you will

Posted by melpie @ 01/09/2004 09:26 AM EST

I chose to correct you Thai...I saw the fitty...:P!

Posted by dAN @ 01/09/2004 02:14 PM EST

?>KLSH>KJNA.,a hs; KSA:ABS>KhDD>V K>B K;aWLF l/mdva:

whoops, a monkey got loose in my room.

it's late (8:33 am). i need sleep.

you said tasy when describing food, and i shook my fist at you.

Posted by shawnathan @ 01/11/2004 08:27 AM EST