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Archive for March, 2005
Today I am typing up a report at home, so I can eat all the snacks I want… here is the list, all consumed between the hours of 10AM to 4:30 PM:
Tea, 3 large pieces of bread, with butter and raspberry quince tea jam.
4 pieces of Italian marzipan (about 4 months old).
2 packages (two crackers in each), sweet and salty rice crackers.
About 10-12 caramel filled Hershey’s kisses.
A large bowl of linguini with olive oil, salt and pepper, parmesan, and whatever veggies were in the fridge.
A grapefruit.
Two handfuls of dried cranberries.
More tea with milk and sugar this time.
A bag of microwaved popcorn. (literally the whole bag. Maybe minus about 20 un popped kernels.)
Some wine (it was already open).
Some more tea. And some more cranberries. Something I thought was a cranberry I dropped but turned out to be colorful lint. Some peanuts I found in a bag in my room while procrastinating the writing and moving onto some cleaning.
I read a cook book too. Does that count for something?
I think that is it now… but it is almost time for dinner. Someone stop me! I am going to end up like Kirsty Alley, minus a career on the comeback (loved her in Troop Beverly Hills!). I love snacks… yum. -professoreric
I just got spammed with well over 1000 comment/trackback spams in a 2 hour period!
Yay!
(I wonder why my blog keeps breaking.)
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Dear Waldorf=Astoria Hotel,
Y’all suck!
I booked a room for a week at the corporate rate of $259/night.
But due to a mistake made by my booking agent, I noticed that the check-in date was 1 day later than it was supposed to be.
So when I called back to fix it, you told me that the new rate for all the nights will now be $460?!?! I would understand if THE FIRST NIGHT was at this rate, but ALL THE NIGHTS?!
Y’all suck!
UPDATE: After being on hold for 45 minutes (cutting into my precious lunch hour), someone was able to fix this so that the rate held at $259 for the entire stay. Thanks Waldorf=Astoria, not only for fixing this problem with my booking agent, but also for holding the corporate rate.
Now if you could get me back the part of my lunch hour I missed…
I read about this last week at T’s blog and had to share it here:
From this post:
i’m catching up on some work reading (i work at a medical center/research/grad school). well, researchers have discovered a new oncogene – a gene that causes cancer. what did they name it?
POKEMON
they are already developing the “Pokemon protein” to combat it. and my head is filled with visions of Pokemon stadium.
Oncogene, with the power of transform, will face the newest poke, “Pokemon Protein,” or PP. He’ll face Oncogene with the power of a crippling punch or knockout.*
i can’t wait for the game to come out. my nephews & i will have a blast.
*Knockout is an actual term used when genetic engineering inactivates a gene.
But wait, there’s more!
A few days later, T posted an update with a picture of ONCOGENE by xalres!
I posted the picture here, but you can read T’s post here.
I know it sounds like this is all a big joke, but this is true. And in all seriousness, if you had the Pokemon gene, it would be really really bad health news. I mean, could you imagine if your doctor told you you had the Pokemon gene?
…cutting them with my office scissors, that is…
How did this giant thing
get from the bathroom to our bedroom? (It is approximately two-and-half to three inches long.) [Note: Photo is not actual size.]
I was afraid to get close enough to kill it, so I shut the doors to the bathroom and instructed Yoshi not to open the doors until the mosquito (eater) died and I could vacuum it up.
But now it is hanging out on the wall near Yoshi’s side of the bed and neither of us had let it out. How did it get there?
Tis stkyrice’s birthday today!
If I have to play this at another Baby Shower, I’d better win it. I was almost the winner of this game (someone got one more right than me) so I’m writing down the answers to this game here so that I can hopefully retain this knowledge when there are more good Baby Shower prizes to be had. (Play along and I’ll leave the answers as an update in a day or two. Sorry no prizes for playing.)
Instructions: As you undoubtedly know, there are babies also in the animal kingdom and eat has its distinctive name. Write the “baby name” of the animals listed below:
UPDATE 3/18: Answers added
1. Bear :: cub
2. Sheep :: lamb
3. Duck :: duckling
4. Frog :: polywog (not tadpole!)
5. Swan :: cygnet
6. Chicken :: chick
7. Hen :: pullet (not chick!)
8. Horse :: colt or foal
9. Swine :: piglet
10. Deer :: fawn
11. Cat :: kitten
12. Whale :: calf
13. Goose :: gosling
14. Cow :: calf
15. Oyster (hint: it is NOT “oysterette,” which was my brilliant guess) :: spat
16. Lion :: cub
getting up at 7am, making breakfast for both Yoshi and I, and then going (of all places) to Fry’s at 10am, followed by a trip to Costco immediately after that.
Let me tell you how accomplished we felt when we’d spent several hundred dollars by noon.
After we got home, I was going to clean, or organize my desk, or fix some stuff with my computer, or even play the Sims for a while, but instead I fell asleep until Yoshi woke me so that I wouldn’t be awake all night.
Now I’m sitting here, blogging for a moment, wondering if there is any possibility I will get anything productive done this weekend.
But at least I got my rest.
And then I went this evening to my cousin’s baby shower (that would be this cousin who got married it-seems-like-yesterday).
As usual, I didn’t win any games.
I did, however, win a prize but only by virtue of other people being lazy. The invitation for the baby shower said that we should bring a baby picture of ourselves for a game. I was only one of 3 people who brought a picture. But I got bonus points because I brought a baby picture of me, my brother, and two of my other cousins. One of those other cousins was there at the shower and didn’t bring a picture, so I won a glass cutting board.
Now I’m eating some leftovers from a nice dinner we had last night with my Mom at Twist (at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel). It was nice enough, but not spectacular (even the view was mediocre). If we’re going to go out for another pricey dinner, I can think of 10 other places in L.A. I’d go to before going back there. But I’ll still eat the leftovers… yum.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the baby shower was co-ed and that kids were invited. There were a lot of kids there. Oh boy, were there a lot of kids.
Somehow I don’t think my chances of that are all that great.
I saw this at Gingersmack’s and thought I can put up a link for Adagio Teas in exchange for free tea!
These are some barely-edited chats I had today with a friend who used to work in the office I’m currently at.
her (12:10:59 PM): hey
joz (12:11:02 PM): yes?
her (12:11:22 PM): no i’m back
joz (12:11:29 PM): you were gone for a while!
her (12:11:36 PM): yes
her (12:11:43 PM): i was in the storage closet
joz (12:12:15 PM): Sounds simultaneously interesting and scary!
her (12:14:15 PM): yes it was!
her (12:14:20 PM): we’ve got so much crap back there
her (12:14:28 PM): we have more pens than stalpes
joz (12:15:51 PM): Did I tell you how I labeled my pens here?
her (12:15:58 PM): WHAT?!
her (12:15:59 PM): no!
her (12:16:04 PM): why?
her (12:16:05 PM): lol
joz (12:16:48 PM): Because my pens kept disappearing!
joz (12:17:03 PM): I had two blue pens that I used but I kept having to get new pens
joz (12:17:25 PM): So while I was on hold with people on the phone, I’d make little labels for my pens
joz (12:17:45 PM): Guess what? Within 2 days, Bossguy came out of his office three times to bring me my pens back
joz (12:17:47 PM): haha!
joz (12:18:18 PM): he probably thinks I’m nuts
joz (12:18:44 PM): But I started doing that at my first job where all my stuff would disappear… my pens, my stapler, my tape dispense, staple remover!
joz (12:18:47 PM): At least here, it’s just pens
joz (12:20:48 PM): And also, I know now where my pens keep ending up!
her (12:30:23 PM): lol
her (12:30:32 PM): yeah, he used to take my pens all the time
her (12:30:41 PM): and i used to yell at him
joz (12:39:24 PM): haha
joz (12:39:45 PM): The first time he was all “What? You’ve got your name on all the pens!”
her (12:39:56 PM): lol
…a few hours later…
joz (4:05:08 PM): So the IT guy is supposed to give me a new computer
joz (4:05:18 PM): Because my current computer (practically brand new) still makes that awful grinding noise from time to time
her (4:05:24 PM): omg
her (4:05:25 PM): still?
her (4:05:37 PM): what’s taking so long?
joz (4:05:43 PM): He was here today working on it and he disappeared
her (4:05:43 PM): ok
joz (4:05:58 PM): In fact, I have a second computer sitting here on my desk waiting for the swap!
her (4:06:06 PM): lol
her (4:10:36 PM): did he leave already?
joz (4:11:14 PM): I don’t know! He was here all bright and early at like 9-10
her (4:11:23 PM): lol
joz (4:11:26 PM): Then was like “I’ll be right back” and I never saw him again
her (4:11:32 PM): lol
her (4:11:34 PM): typical
joz (4:11:43 PM): If worse comes to worse, I’ll take the extra computer hostage
her (4:12:54 PM): nice
joz (4:13:25 PM): Maybe I’ll go around and steal everyone’s mouse
joz (4:13:32 PM): Then he’ll have to come over and investigate
joz (4:13:43 PM): And I’ll hold them all hostage til I get my new computer set up
joz (4:13:45 PM): haha
her (4:14:03 PM): lol
joz (4:14:24 PM): I bet I’d get my new computer up and running real fast.
joz (4:14:41 PM): Can you just see me? Waiting for people to leave their desks, sneaking in and stealing the mouse?
her (4:15:47 PM): lol
her (4:15:48 PM): yes i can
joz (4:16:30 PM): Then I could hold my own little auction for people to get a mouse from me.
her (4:16:46 PM): what would you ask for?
her (4:16:49 PM): $
joz (4:16:50 PM): No one would ever laugh at me for labeling my pens anymore because they’d all be too busy labeling their mouses
her (4:16:55 PM): lol
joz (4:16:58 PM): Just kidding
joz (4:17:01 PM): heh
her (4:17:11 PM): no you arenot
her (4:17:18 PM): hehehehe
joz (4:17:20 PM): I’m only HALF kidding 
joz (4:17:34 PM): I will steal HALF the mice I was originally plotting!
her (4:17:48 PM): lol
joz (4:17:56 PM): You know, it would all be unnecessary if IT guy just came over and set up the computer!
Seriously though, I don’t mean to sound like one of those bitches who complain loudly about people who are helping them. I had told the IT guy in advance that it wasn’t a huge rush to get me set up as long as I wasn’t left hanging out without a computer. I just didn’t realize he was just going to leave me hanging, period!
I’m not mad or upset, just amused because I had two computers on my desk, plus my work laptop, plus my personal laptop all spread out on my desk today because I kept thinking he was going to come back at any minute.
blahdie blah blah blah
Eggplant, pinecone, paperclip, magenta, opulent…. sincerely, professoreric.
I got an invitation to join my friend Diane in watching her on Jeopardy! tonight! That’s right, Jeopardy! And that’s not just any regular Jeopardy! episode… it’s part of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions!
Diane was a 5-time champion (the maximum limit before they changed the rules, ala Ken Jennings) on Jeopardy! in 1993 (Season 9) landing her in the top 100 all-time Jeopardy! champions with a five-day total of $ 65,479. (I think she is approximately #65 on that list.)
Here is the cute little invite she sent out for tonight’s viewing:
If you go on to the Jeopardy site today, you can see her listed as an “Upcoming Contestant.”
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