May 6, 2006 by j.

it’s 5:46 am and i am just now freed to go to bed. the fucking birds are twittering and the sky is already a steel blue color with clouds outlined in dark violet. i have to be up again in two hours. is it worth even washing up and getting into bed? is it???

i will make myself some eggs while i decide.  got the munchies.

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May 5, 2006 by j.

The 12 virtues of rationality. This may squeeze your brain a little bit, especially on a friday afternoon, but it is worth the time it takes to read it. Here’s hoping that all of you find your spiritual center. http://yudkowsky.net/virtues/

And to balance that out, here’s a link for all you “24″ fans. The pictures are pure money. http://bauercount.com/

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May 4, 2006 by j.

Today I had a blip in the sunny skies of my days. All within an hour, I…

• Slipped my credit card into my pocket before going to lunch with a friend. When the very gay mexican dude with uber-bleached head at Baja Fresh rang up my order, I pulled out…. my Wegman’s shopper’s club card. Dammit! No money! Starvation and distended bellies and Brangelina!! My friend took pity and paid for my sad little burrito.
• Realized I was wearing my underwear inside out.
• Because the tag was hanging out the back of my pants like a retarded little bunny tail.
• Reflected, completely mortified, on the number of meetings I had in the morning and how many people must have seen

I didn’t even know any of my underwear HAD tags. What the hell kind of white trash underwear is this?! WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT that needs to be communicated about PANTIES, that you have to attach a retarded TAG?!?!  “Dear consumer, please put this article of clothing on your ASS. Keep away from small children and pervy old men due to suffocation hazard. Do not put in mouth. Wash in WATER.“  ?!?!?!??!

Incidentally, “panties” is kind of a … dirty word. Especially when used in conjuction with word “moist”.

This sums up how I feel about my lunch hour today:
Yeah, well here come two words for you… shut the fuck up.
– Robert De Niro

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May 2, 2006 by j.

I just bought a fanny pack online for my upcoming trip teeheeheeehehehehheheeeheee HEE!! YO QUEIRO TACO BELL EL BITCHOS!!  I’m so going to be that american that makes all americans in a 50 mile radius cringe. Whee! Which reminds me of a story.

So Kevin and I were in Cozumel and wanted to find a nice breakfast place off of the main strip. Some locals directed us to a place called Girasoles (sunflowers) a few blocks away from the water. It was simple and clean, with pink walls and a huge sunflower painted on the exterior wall of the building, and didn’t have the “mexican bling” like the touristy places, so we gave it a try. Turns out it was the best mexican food we’ve ever had. The guy at the next table wanted powdered sugar for his breakfast dish, and raised his voice louder each time the waitstaff (that hardly spoke any english) brought him something other than powdered sugar. The exasperated man finished off his tirade, red in the face, by miming snorting cocaine… “POWDERED SUGAR… it’s a POWDER.. you know, like cocaine??” He looked at us with big helpless eyes like we were supposed to help him out or something. It was one of the most embarassing moments I’ve ever had abroad as an american.

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May 2, 2006 by j.

Just heard this on my iPod, so pretty:

Though the storms of black night rage on
I still see your face
I still feel your lips on mine
And though my heart feels all alone without you
I still hear you sing to me
I still hear your voice on the sea
– Vertical Horizon

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May 1, 2006 by j.

Another perfect weekend, the streak continues..

Last night we went to a bbq at a friend’s place in Adams Morgan - the weather couldn’t have been more perfect, the kind of cool weather where the sun warms your back. Good food, good friends - the only low point in the evening was when I was happily describing a funny email pic that has gone around email (see below). The phrase “BIG BLACK ASS” came out of my mouth a few times, and I didn’t realize that there were several black people sitting behind me. Of the “big” variety, at that. I didn’t mean it in any derogatory way at all of course, I was just being descriptive. But several sharp kicks in the shin from Kevin later, I was shamed into silence. Was uncomfortable for the 40 minutes following that point, when friends finally saved me by whisking me away from the bbq to smoke some hookah a few blocks away. I would like to point out for the record, I am not racist!! Can’t help it if the big ass happenned to be black. I’m not blind. Anyhoo.

Sunday morning I got up at the buttcrack (har har) of dawn, to walk six miles for the March of Dimes with some coworkers in memoriam of a child that passed away recently. Sobering and sad. Kevin on the other hand, along with his buddy, put out a fire, alert the authorities, saved a life or four, waited impatiently for the fire trucks to move out of the way so that he could scurry downtown in time to run a 10K race in support of the underfunded DC school system. Somebody’s got a Jack Bauer complex, not naming names We also played more xbox - I am improving at halo but I’m still a girl, and I still suck ass big time (har har again). But, I no longer run in small circles staring at my feet, which is a vast improvement. Kevin likes to run up behind me and punch me in the head, not very nice. He did surprise me by appearing in my face out of nowhere - I think he was trying to give me a chance to punch him back.. but I was so shocked that I threw a grenade right at his head and we both exploded. Whoops. Got to work on that reaction thing.

Now, for the BIG BLACK ASS:

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