Stuff is happening with the jozjozjoz blog.
It’s all good.
But if you come by and see my blog gone, stuff messed up, etc… just come back again later… things’ll be up again soon!
Thanks!
–The Management
Archive for October, 2003
Ok, instead of going to Office #2 on my Friday night (as planned), I have just been invited to join the KTLA’s Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Trivia Bowl team.
If you read the article from last year KTLA has won the dubious honor of the “Top Ramen” prize for coming in last place. As of last year, the big loser streak is 3 years in a row. Out of a possible 75 points, KTLA only received 23.
I think I’ve been invited to join the team to help maintain that streak. I checked out the questions from last year and I am pretty sure my sleep-deprived brain will be instrumental in helping our team hold on to this prize.
Wish me luck.
…that The Professor will be back in L.A. sometime this weekend.
Whee!
UPDATE @ 4:50pm: My sources were correct! He just called to say that he’s back!!!
So except for me, all the people in our office are downstairs for a studio taping.
As BossMan is walking out the door he says, “Well, we’re leaving you alone with all the toys. You can turn on and off all the lights, type on the typewriter, open and close all the file cabinets, send and receive all the faxes, use any one of 5 computers and more!”
I said I would try to take advantage of the opportunity and do all of that while they were gone.
I lied. I just stayed here at my desk.
Grand Opening. Hee hee.
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Grand Opening Of Erotic Museum Delayed
Museum Spends $250,000 In Anticipation Of Gala
POSTED: 5:54 p.m. PDT October 13, 2003
LOS ANGELES — The opening of the Erotic Museum on Hollywood Boulevard has been pushed back to January, but the museum has spent $250,000 on new artworks for the festivities, officials said Monday.
The museum is the second of its kind in the nation, following New York City’s Museum of Sex.
The brainchild of two Russian immigrants, it’s in a 6,000-square-foot, two- story building at 6741 Hollywood Blvd. — a stone’s throw from the Hollywood & Highland complex.
The museum includes a range of erotic art, including a collection of dry-point etchings by Picasso, as well as sex-themed displays, antique “pleasure machines” and a screening room/performance space.
According to curator Eric Singley, the new acquisitions include works from Julian Murphy and Jason Mecier, whose mosaics include a portrait of Jerry Seinfeld done in cereal, the comedian’s favorite food.
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So my for a good part of a week, James, Hot-Asian-Guy-Friend-Who-Hits-On-Me-Via-Drunk-IM™ kept sending me (via IMs at work) links of Britney Spears photos, starting with the Esquire pictures.
I’d already seen them & told him I thought they were nice but not really that hot. I guess this just made James want to prove to me how hot she is. So he kept sending more links of her pictures.
Then the links started to end in things like /britneyboobies.jpg, /britneynaked.jpg, and /britneyhothothot.jpg.
He’d send a link and I’d reply “I’m at work, I’m NOT clicking that!” The more adamant that I was about not clicking his links, the more it made him want to send me more and more links.
So even he had to admit it was perfect when I sent him this link and asked “Is that you, James?!”
Continue reading ‘I’m NOT clicking on that…’
Here is a photo from a great fundraising event my girlfriend and I attended last night. It was a blast, and I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants…. eight “bitches” in heat ….. ahem …… ladies…. and I use that term loosely…. competed in the “best in drag show” at the Wilshire Ebell theater. It was a fundraiser for Aid for AIDS and an event honoring it’s creator Alexis Pittman - who passed away from AIDS in 1999.
Ms. Florida - Sunny Delight was crowned the winner, Ms. New York - Eatin Disorder was the runner up, and other contestants were: Ms. California - Amber Alert, Ms. Minnesota - Malla America, Ms. Vermont - Mabel Syrup, Ms. Texas - Anita Longhorn, and Ms. Hawaii Aloe Ha. Celebrity judges included in the photo: John C. Reilly, Terri Garr, Kathy Griffin, Caroline Rhea, and Sarah Chalke.
In total the event raised over $125k for the charity. If you are interested in donating to a great charity, who actually does good work for a community - please consider giving a gift to Aid For AIDS, and make it in honor of Alexis Pittman. You can donate by going to their website. The link is above. Thanks for reading my post, and considering giving a gift to a great AIDS charity.
Alexis we all miss you……
thought i’d put this on a blog that people actually read, as opposed to my own…
is it just me, or are people getting more stupid? this woman has been calling me for two days looking for someone named nancy. i don’t know where she got it in her mind that my phone number is nancy’s number, but she did. she started calling me about an hour and a half ago, and when i picked up the phone she said, ‘i’m sorry, i must have the wrong number, are you nancy?’ she’s called about every 10 minutes since 9:30.
Continue reading ‘hello, wrong number’
I’m always yawning, it seems.
When I yawn, my eyes water. Then when I rub my eyes (I know I shouldn’t rub them), my eye makeup gets everywhere.
Right now it looks like I applied my makeup this morning while on a bull riding machine.
Oh yay.
Thank goodness. I am grateful that I have survived… sanity & pocketbook (mostly) in tact.
With the wedding in San Diego over, I can officially end the jozjozjoz Summer 2003 Wedding Season which consisted of:
5 weddings (none of which were mine)
4 bridal showers
3 bachelorette parties
2 times I got stuck wearing a hat to a wedding
1 time I got yelled at by my mom for forgetting my hat
0 times I caught the bouquet (whew!)
I am proud to announce that at the 4 weddings where the bride actually did a bouquet toss, I managed to successfully avoid catching it every time.
I was quite happy that for the two family weddings that my cousin Jennifer & I attended, Jenn caught the bouquet both times. She’s less than a year older than me and everyone kept asking us “Who’s next?!” and we’d sit there pointing at each other. Of course, at the first wedding, I grabbed Jenn, pulled her to the middle of the floor, pointed at her when her sister was going to toss the bouquet, and I held her in place so she couldn’t move away from the spot her sister was aiming for. The bouquet bounced right off her torso and fell into pieces on the ground. Jenn turned around and started handing pieces of the bouquet out to everyone. The second time, the bouquet was flying right at me and as I was panicking and trying to decide if I should run away to the left or the right, I saw her hands fly up over mine and the flowers land squarely in hers.
Anyway, this means that the pressure is happily off of me to be the next bride. I mean with two bouquets caught at two family weddings in the same summer, she’s going to have to be the next… because it’s sure not going to be me. More importantly, people will remember that she caught the 2 bouquets and will focus their attention on her and be nosy about her love life, etc, etc.
Continue reading ‘Wedding Season is officially over for me!’
As you may have noticed, I had a free zonkboard which has now expired.
I was never really a fan of the zonkboard, but I had it up since it was free, so you know, why not?
Well, now that I have to pay for it to have it, I am debating whether or not to keep it. It’s obviously not the money (it’s not that expensive), but now I guess I should probably think about it…
What do you think?
So as soon as this long-ass work day is over with, I get to go home, pack for the weekend & prepare for the wedding that I can’t find appropriate clothes for.
And tonight after traffic has died down a bit, I shall make the drive to San Diego, where I will be spending the weekend.
Fair warning: If I have your number, I may call you. (This applies to people not in San Diego, as well.)
Maybe being in the land of awesome San Diego bloggers, some of their blogger mojo will rub off on me…
Ow.
At work because I only have 3 sick OR personal days a year. And yesterday would have been day 2.
My benefits suck.
…and mine, too.
Don’t think anything perverted about me in the tub… this song DOES NOT DESCRIBE ME!
I just ran across these lyrics for a song by The Wyrd Sisters (pronounced “weird”) and thought they were funny. So in the absence of anything exciting happening today, I thought I’d share these lyrics.
Again, I found this entertaining, but it’s not reflective of me. Thank you.
–The Management
‘The Faucet’
by The Wyrd Sisters
my sexual preference is
my bathtub faucet,
you might say that I’m in a water closet.
my tank’s too small
my water bill’s high,
but my faucet and I get happily by
faucet and I
bye, bye, bye
I’m a HYDRA sexual…
… in fact, it got worse.
Much worse. With dizzy spells as an added bonus.
It was so bad that I did not go to an important monthly board meeting for Job #2 last night. (If Joz skips an important meeting, she must be feeling really shitty.)
I stayed home and rested and took a bunch of Excedrin. It didn’t help.
At 2am, I called in sick. I went to bed again and slept in. (Joz never calls in sick or sleeps in.)
And now I’m up again… my head still throbs and I can feel my eyebrow twitching.
Help…
It really hurts.
I never did find anything to wear to the wedding this weekend. And I have to drive to San Diego in Friday night traffic.
Gah.
Idiots chose their favorite circus performer and now he’s going to run the asylum.
I liked the former leader - he may have been a little plastic, you wouldn’t really want to hang out with him, but he was a good guy put into a bad situation from the get go (can we say Oil and Bush?). What a very sad day indeed.
So now I’ll either start a new recall or move to Canada…..
That is all
So I finally made it to work today, after going way-way-way out of my way to vote. For the privilege of casting my vote, it really wasn’t any kind of sacrifice at all, actually. (More about this in a separate post.)
I mean… 
Had I actually turned in my request for an absentee ballot on time, then I wouldn’t have had the pleasure of actually going to the polling place today.
Though (in reference to voter fraud) the famous phrase “Vote early! Vote often!” was coined about Chicago, this phrase really could have been used today at my fabulous polling place behind the Orange Curtain in Anaheim, California.
I got to the polls this morning just past 7am, right after they opened. It was a total zoo. There were lines (the word “line” is used loosely in this case) of people going out the door. I knew that this would be the first “rush hour,” so I was prepared to wait… I just had no idea I was going to be as bad & disorganized as it was.
Evidently, there were three different “lines” for people to check-in by their last name (A-H, I-P, Q-Z). This was not apparent at all. I had been in the giant line out the door for a good 10 minutes before I realized I might have been in the wrong line. I was kindly directed to the correct line by other voters, who were also waiting. Basically, the line for I-P was mixed up with the line for Q-Z, which was mixed up with the line of people who had already checked in & were waiting to get their ballots.
That’s right… instead of getting your ballot at check-in (what I’m used to), to get your ballot, there was a separate line that you were supposed to get into after you “checked-in.” This also happened to be the line that was going out the door. And there was no rhyme or reason to any of this & the polling volunteers (bless them) were too short-handed to deal with any of this.
Continue reading ‘Exercising my right to vote… 8 times.’
So today is The BossMan’s birthday and he’s been getting calls and gifts all day.
Late in the morning while the BossMan was out at a meeting, the Guard Gate called up to the office to say that flowers had been delivered for him. We asked the assistant to pick up the flowers from the security guards and she brought them back and left them near my desk for BossMan when he returned.
It is a really beautiful & fragrant arrangement of white roses and I have been lucky enough to have them in my office to enjoy. Later in the day, BossMan called to thank to the people who had sent the flowers and this is the conversation I heard:
BossMan: “Hi [flower sender person 1]! Thank you and [flower sender person 2] for thinking of me today! I was out at a meeting and I came back and saw these flowers sitting in the foyer and saw my name on it and…”
Evidently, my office is the “foyer.”
As much I as I work here, I would say “Servant’s Quarters” would be more accurate. It would explain a lot around here if the mini-fridge is really the “Wine Cellar.”
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P.S. to professoreric: I sent that conversation to K while BossMan was on the phone and she LAUGHED SO FREAKING LOUDLY. I have no idea how I keep from cracking up here most of the time.
P.P.S to professoreric: Guess who the “Flower Sender People” are?! (Do not leave your guess in the comments!)
In my many trips to Vegas & many stays at the Mirage, I’ve never seen Siegfried & Roy’s show (though we have seen the white tigers in the entrance of the Mirage).
Since the show has been canceled indefinitely, I guess I’ll never have the chance.
Roy Horn Of ‘Siegfried & Roy’ Critical But Improving
Continue reading ‘The Strip will be different without them’
I am pissed off because I had an entire blog entry written and it just went *poof!*
I’m going to go to bed now before I break my keyboard into tiny bits.
Today is my cousin’s wedding (the one with the cool toys!). I’ll be gone all day.
Yoshi was great enough to buy me a new memory card for my camera (256MB) so now I can run around all day and take lots of pictures… that is if my battery doesn’t die out on me.
Maybe I’ll have energy to write tomorrow.
If I haven’t been weddinged out, that is.
I quite enjoy a good debate from time to time.
I love the excitement of a debate: the verbal/literary sparring, the witty repartee, wordplay at its most glorious…
I share none of that with Michael. Check it out…
Continue reading ‘“Master Debaters” are we…’
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