have you seen mr. winkle yet? funny looking dog. he had an appearance on sex and the city a few weeks ago..but i thought it was just a stuffed animal cartoon character. guess which one is the real dog in the picture.

fred and i decided to subscribe to the symphony—listener’s choice. wahoo!

i guess i’ll take a stab at commenting on one of eugene’s recent posts, which essentially reflects on how boring it is to hang out with friends that are in relationships because their whole world revolves around their significant other. in a lot of ways, I agree with it..but i think it depends on how long your friend has been in their relationship. for example, phoebe is practically like another single girlfriend, but she’s been dating ray now for practically 9 years and they’re married now. for friends in the first year or so of a relationship, the tendency tends to lean towards the type of behavior that eugene writes…

yay! susan is back! welcome home sweetheart! man, it’s fun having HBO…now i can watch the Sopranos and all sorts of movies.

work is starting to get to me. i hate frustrating meetings. i hate seeing good people get frustrated and leave. i’m getting to a point in my career here where i don’t necessarily trust all of our business decisions anymore. now, i’m not a “biz person” at all…but i just feel like i see more people frustrated than excited nowadays. perhaps i’m just getting more cynical. i am happy with my career and my job. I’m definitely learning a lot and appreciate it. maybe i’m just tired and need to go home. i wonder how my brother is doing . i should call him.

i woke up at 6:30am this morning to get ready to attend the rolling requiem at safeco field. i picked up rachel, drove to pacmed, took the shuttle down to uwajimaya, got some chai at tully’s and walked over. it was weird standing in line at the stadium as i looked at the crowd around me. since the whole thing was around 8am, most people had planned on going to work right after the ceremony…so i saw a lot of people in business suits…and overall, more dressed up than your typical baseball crowd. the whole event was simple with a short speech (i thought it was neat that the idea…

the buzz this week: will it be kelly or justin? i’ll admit that i’ve gotten caught up with american idol…but of course, my biggest guilty pleasure is any sort of reality tv/competition. my vote: kelly. she just has such a rock star voice and has been the most consistent out of all the contestants so far. her performance last night completely blew justin away. justin was FLAT even! she definitely sang those original songs much better. what a controversy it would be if justin won though. overall, i think everyone knows that kelly has the more phenomenal voice..let’s just hope. oh–and last night, they brought in the winner of the…