today was so long. 8am meetings are not my thing. my team met from 8am-5:30pm straight today. no break. well–5 minute ones about 3 times. it was all information that i found interesting. i felt like i was back in college though—slouching on my chair…in the same position for 2 hours. my new hotel stations is lacking. broken arm chair, no monitor, just a heap of plastic accessories thrown together in a plastic bag sitting on the desk. how inspiring. halloween was pretty trippy but overall lots of fun. went to 2 parties–the first was at some friend of ben’s. and the second was a party sponsored by the church…

i’m hangin’ out over at my friend Ben’s place right now as he transforms himself into Neo to go out to a halloween party. He and I went shopping all day–at North Bend and then a little at Bellevue Place. I just had this urge to just go out and shop. This happens after every breakup–the need to go out and splurge and spend lots of money on myself…only to come back home and pity myself. It’s been a really really hard week. It’s hard having someone that is a constant part of your daily life suddenly not want to be there anymore. someone who knows me so well…who knows…

here’s a halloween idea to have wild eyes

i’m so sad today.

god, i’m still at work. i feel like blegh. i need a break.

wow. my entries are getting further and further apart from each other. it’s been one whole week since i’ve written anything here. but what does that matter except for all of you so curious about my mundane life? i can’t even remember last week. it flew by. i probably just worked a lot. surprise. the weekend was pretty fun–hit the ‘ol fenix underground for the first time in months where this funny cover band, kryboys, was playing. sunday evening, i went to a smith recruiting event where only 2 high school students showed up. so sad–there was such a great turnout last year. anyhow, it was fun to just sit…

another crazy day at work. i can’t believe that i was able to get a certain test up and running–kudos to joe wilson. he totally saved me. Look! I’m an Internet appliance!

what a long week—and i havent’ written anything here in so long. i feel guilty about it somehow. like, y’all come here to see what i’ve been up to lately–and i don’t write for one week and suddenly it seems like i dropped off the face of the earth. on wednesday, we threw a birthday dinner party for betina at the melting pot—yum yum yum.on friday, i made a very serious decision about my life here at work…i decided to leave my current team and to join another. it was kind of hard but i just needed to take that risk and do that. i’ve had such a tough year…

geekcruises.com. this is a little scary. I read an article in Wired magazine last night about some guy’s experience aboard the Perl Whirl cruise to Alaska with people like Larry Wall and Randall Schwartz. boy, it’s been awhile since I wrote here. the weather’s starting to get colder here in seattle. i can’t believe it’s october already. whatever happened to the pretty fall leaves to remind me that fall was around the corner? oh yeah, i’m in washington. it’s bizarre being here in this city where it’s green year-round. it always looks the same—just a little colder and some rain here and there. last weekend was fun. betina had a…

what a yucky day. it was such a gorgeous weekend too. on saturday, i had lunch with jed sitting in the sun down at the waterfront eating clam strips. then we drove around to the aboretum and volunteer park. this city is beautiful. matthew comes back today–yay! ate brunch with katrina and had the best conversation with her. also met up with phoebe to talk about the first potluck dinner with ‘junior smith grads’. i don’t know what i’m doing with my life. i’m still doing what i did when i first graduated. i’ve always wanted to open up my own massage/spa shop.