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October 28, 2002
.11:35 PM
12 hours at work.
9am -> 9pm.
I'm fucking exhausted.
Slightly burned out.

Wednesday is the halloween party. Plenty of booze and ridiculousness. The whole day will probably be a write off so if i slaved on monday, i can justify getting ridiculously drunk on wednesday and feeling good (bad).

tired. i'm out.


October 22, 2002
.9:33 PM
Today I found out that I won a pass to go to the NOW lounge for a listening session of the new album from Icelandic post-rockers Sigur ros this friday. Yay! There will be party favors, food, and a chance to win cds and tickets for the concert on Monday. When I found out that I had won, I was so excited I almost pee'd my pants. No not really.


October 19, 2002
.5:04 PM
I caved in and bought an xbox this morning. The 2 free sega games included with the console, the S-type controller, and the sweet price at Walmart sealed the deal.
Now I need some games.


.12:16 AM
This weekend is officially my PT Anderson weekend. I rented the 'Boogie Nights' dvd from the Rogers video across the street from my work place at lunch today. I'm totally psyched about watching it especially after watching 'Punch Drunk Love' with P earlier this evening at the Silvercity in yuppieland. It's a fabulous movie. Don't be turned off by the fact that Adam "billy boucher" Sandler stars in the movie. Casting him in the movie was a brilliant decision because the quirky, awkward character that Sandler plays is strangely enough a perfect fit. If you go in watching this movie expecting some low-brow humor a la 'Happy Gilmore" you'll be disappointed. Nuff said. Go watch it. This movie is awesome and by awesome I mean totally sweet.


October 7, 2002
.9:31 PM
It was so freaking cold today when I left work at 6pm. On my walk towards the gym, I had many doubts about going. I kept muttering to myself (inside my head, of course) that I was too tired and stressed out to go to the gym. Blah. Wearing sandals to work didn't exactly help me feet either. I ended up fighting my inner demons and decided to go to the gym. A mixed blessing. The gym was packed full. I'll have to remember never to go again on a monday. None of the benches or machines were available. Sucked. So it's a good thing that I'm going home this weekend. I left most of my fall/winter clothing back home and i've been paying big time the last few days. The whole i-work-at-a-high-tech-company-and-i'm-a-geek-and-i'm-a-slob look of shorts and t-shirts just isn't cutting it these days.

I feel drained these days. Maybe it's the fact that the days seem shorter outside. Eternal summer is what I dream of -- where the air is warm year round and the soul is never cold. I miss cali already. I hate to admit it -- but it's true.


.9:19 PM
http://workingtv.com/nocaseforwar.html


October 4, 2002
.8:23 PM
Check this out: I got published in Clamor magazine. Guess which two reviews I wrote (this shouldn't be hard). Warning!! The link above is to a 2mb pdf file.


October 3, 2002
.7:41 PM
Blogs don't just have to be journal entries right? I'm gonna do something different today. Here's a list of tracks that I copied over to minidisc for my bus and train ride to and from work:

Antipop Consortium - Ghostlawns (Mike Ladd Mix)
Stephen Malkmus - Good Kids Eggs
Joseph Nothing - Dreamland Geist Orchestra
Radiohead - True Love Waits
The Cranberries - I Can't Be With You
Nightmares on Wax - Bleu my Mind
Beck - Where It's At
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
Aesop Rock - No Regrets
Sigur R?s - Untitled
Cut Chemist meets Shortkut - No Mistakes Allowed
Global Goon - Business Man
Marumari - Rocket Summer
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Nappy Roots - Awnaw
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
*** Playlist length: 1 hour 13 minutes 56 seconds

It's mostly a collection of underground electronic music with bits of mainstream pop (Cranberries) and futuristic hip hop (Anti-pop consortium).


October 2, 2002
.4:50 PM
So I've installed optimoz for mozilla just now and maybe I'm not used to the 'gestures' because everytime i scroll down when i miss the scrollbar, I open up a new window. Okay -- so it's not really optimoz's fault. It's my fault for missing the scrollbar.


.12:32 AM
I'm suffering from a bit of insomnia at the moment, so I'll post an entry in my blog. So it seems that I've finally recovered from my "nasty ass cold". You see last week some of the new hires at my company were going to have a little get together after work. I was feeling ill; horribly ill. I declined the invitation and wrote something along the lines of having a "nasty ass cold". One of the smartasses a.k.a. mr. i'm-too-witty-for-you remarked "those damn ass colds are really annoying" in a biting sarcastic manner. Fucker. Funny enough, this fucker eventually caught a cold at the end of the week. I was going to ask about his "ass cold" but decided against it. I'll have my revenge next time. The jerk store called they're running out of you.

So now that my cold is gone, I'm back in the mode of going to the gym regularly again. After not working out for a week and a half, I noticed that my body was signficantly weaker yesterday. It's almost as though my muscles (or lack thereof) have atrophied over the period. Damn. In a sort of compulsive manical way, I'm trying to hit up the gym everyday this week to make up for last week by alternating weights with cardio every other day. Yes I know it's crazy, but it's a good balance to the 8 hours a day sedentary lifestyle at work. Oh and after a good cardio workout, the high is fucking amazing.


October 1, 2002
.12:02 AM
Every night before I go to bed, I hear police/fire/ambulence sirens coming from the intersection of birchmount/huntingwood. ghetto!!!!


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