my last night in kansas…. i met up with dan for lunch today, whom i adore. i really miss being able to have talks with him. he still has that penetrating stare that just makes me want to confess everything to him 😉 anyhow, he’s probably going to propose to his girlfriend before the year is over. dan–>engaged?! not that i can’t imagine he’s prepared for it…but wow. i just never thought he’d find love so young…but i’m definitely really happy for him. tonight, emily and i went over to erin [bresnahan]’s apartment where she lives with her husband now. she got married last summer. so many of my friends…

i just noticed how every time i come home to kansas, i stay out really late. no wonder my parents think i’m such a party animal. i saw Unbreakable Friday night with my matt mcguire—I was a little disappointed. Not the hype that I expected it to be. I mean, there was a cool twist at the end and all, but I just didn’t really get into the comic book analogy. I can honestly say I enjoyed The Sixth Day more than Unbreakable. Is that bad? I shopped all day today…well, started off with the usual dim sum at Bo Ling’s at the Plaza with the Wongs. Then met up…

happy turkey day. oh how nice it was to wake up this morning and slowly crawl out of bed…to find a nice, warm lunch all prepared for me already. i spent most of the day preparing for the dinner..and making some phone calls to long lost friends in between. my thanksgiving is unlike the typical thanksgiving. it’s like “let’s invite all the chinese people we know in kansas (2 families) and eat chinese food…and throw in a bit of turkey.” I was actually surprised this year–we had mashed potatoes. We never have mashed potatoes. Anyhow, I prepared the salad and pumpkin pie…which turned out really well (yay!). The Wongs came…

well, i’m home now in kansas. [sigh] right after i got off the plane, my parents whisked me off to this really yummy French bistro in downtown Kansas City–called something like Le Fre Frogue. My parents just call it the French Frog restaurant. Anyhow–the food there was delicious and I had a good dinner conversation with the parents. I was sad to arrive home and find out that my brother isn’t coming home for Thanksgiving—I thought he was. This will be the very first Thanksgiving without the entire family together. So then we slowly drove home…I was quickly reminded of how extremely flat Kansas is. Then we took the ever…

okay, so things are supposed to be calm at work. yet, i’m still here. is there something wrong with this picture? i’m just getting too wrapped up in things. boy, i need a vacation. for the first time in months, i had someone ask me about my future career plans here. that just feels so good. i feel like i’ve been neglected for the past 10 months…i’ve had FIVE freakin’ managers in this last year. i don’t know if i’m bitter. well, i am. but i know there’s really no one to blame. a lot of it is due to reorganization. but god, i just needed someone to reach out…

i’m getting so bad at adding anything to my web diary…as bad as me answering emails nowadays. what is this overwhelming need to keep this updated? is it more for myself or to keep everyone informed? i don’t even know how many people actually read this thing. so given that, i’m just going to say it’s for me. besides, my site is down. i’m sad. alex is switching ISP’s so meanwhile, everything’s down…i can’t check email, nada. i’ve successfully switched DNS servers…but i still need an IP address…which I can’t get until alex has a much cooler ISP to deal with. so if you click anywhere above on any links,…

my site went down this week. freaked me out briefly. i’m sick now. fall is truly here along with yucky health. i’ve been sniffling all day…and made the mistake of downing benadryl and nighttime theraflu at 1pm. i was pretty drowsy throughout the rest of the day. i’m excited to go home—2 more weeks. i haven’t been home since last year. i really wanna make a pumpkin pie. the time after a breakup is interesting. you have to re-access your time and your friendships. i suddenly have all this time and don’t know what to do with it. saw legend of baggervance last night. it was much more of a…