I was just reading through old posts.

Please refer to Wed March 17:

The last sentence in the first paragraph sounds really fucking sick. Not at all what I meant. I meant that I made friends, and that they all hapenned to be freshmen or equally young. Boys and girls. That's all.

This weekend was...interesting.

Friday got off work very tired, went to Ziba with Yvonne, then to Final Choice and Target. Still tired. Went to sleep. Woke up and went to the ARC. Left my keys in the ARC, but thought I locked them in the car. The window was oen 2 inches, but I couldn't get inside. A nice guy saw us struggling (I still assumed I lef thte keys in the car-the thought that maybe I left them in the ARC never crosed my stupid-ass mind) and offered his cell. I insisted all I needed was a hanger to hook my sweatshirt out of the way and grab the keys. The guys took us to his house in AV, the Kappa Sig house, and gave us a hanger. On the way back we came across a better hanger on the ground... Go figure. But it gets better. I undo the hanger, stick it in, and start getting the sweatshirt out of the way. Yvonne gets the very good idea to run in and check the ARC. I don't find the keys. She does. As usual, my girlfriend is a genius, I am an idiot, and we are late. Leave for Vegas.

I will not go into detail about the weekend, partially because it's not necessary, and partially because I prefer to forget it. That will officially be my last trip to that God-forsaken place.

Got back last nite, and it was pleasingly warm in the OC, so Andrea, Luis, Yvonne and I went to TK burger to continue the gluttony and walk around the beach. Fun stuff. Then Yvonne and I stopped by "My 99 Cent store." On the way home.

Now I am at work and have never wanted to be out of here more. The downside of being out-no money. We'll see what can be done about that.

It's Friday, Vegas is coming. Fuv.

Wednesday night Yvonne and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary over well-done fries, a cheessburger animal style, and a neapolitan (sp?) shake. It was casual, but fun. Then watched the OC with the crew and had a few drinks. Ran into James Tsang, random. Thursday was alright, went to the ARC for a fast workout after work, ate at Asia noodle with Yvonne, then hung out at Dustin's and played BBall at Mesa, which was really fun. I was hittin the threes like no other. Now I'm tired and overexerted like no other.

*CAUTION- THIS IS NOT AN EXCITING BLOG, IT IS FOR DOCUMENTATION PURPOSES ONLY, AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MY LONG-TERM/INTERMEDIATE MEMORY. BUT IT DOES GET COOL AT THE END...*

Friday came home very tired and zonked out during "Spaceballs." Saturday ran some errands, went home, then met Yvonne for ice cream. Strickland's is pretty hott, good fresh ice cream and they hooked it up because it was closing time. Then Justin, Dave, Rob and the roomies played some Beer-a-mid and I got sorta tired/drunk and passed out. Saturday morning woke up and went to lab with Yvonne to inject some ratones. Then copped out of a workout, came home and hung out with Andy and Luis. Went to Ikea, Home Depot, etc. The weekend was over. Monday was cool, woke up late and went to comp USA on the clock to pick up the lab's new printer. Realized I ordered the wrong one and that the correct one was $700. Got the boss to pay for it, bought it and left. Headed to Bolsa/Mag for Banh Mi and other assorted Viet goodies. Had lunch with the lab, then had lunch #2 with Yvonne. Realized I had a USC interview the next day. came home, ironed my new dress shirt (poorly) then crashed. Woke up at 5:00 bright and early, got on the road at 5:40. Arrived at USC Med campus (near the lovely communities of Boyle Heights and South Central LA) at 7:00. Walked around, got tea at the University Hospital (swanky) and finally went up to the anesthesiology dept. Straight up OR floor, with suites, scrub rooms, prep and post op areas. waited for the chief of anesthesiology (my interviewer) for 20 mins. He comes by and escorts me to his office. He's been supervising his residents in 4 different OR's. They keep calling his phone and announcing his name on the intercom so we can't talk much. He throws me a set of scrubs and says, "here, put these on, we'll talk in the OR." HOTT. I get it all on, cap, mask, booties and all, and he leads me into an operating suite. There's a 450 lb woman on the table, intubated, eyes taped shut, on her way to a gastric bypass. the Dr. puts me 3 feet from her head, between the anestesia machine/monitoring equipment and the drug cart. Way hott. They can't get an IV in because she's too obese. For 20 minutes he explains the anesthesia process and all the beeping gadgets and the cool little bellow that pumps air into the lungs. Then he proceedes to QUIZ me on all the peaks of the EKG and what they represent. My memory came through for once and I aced his little quiz. Then we went back to his office for a few questions, which he asked lazily and pondered each response for 10 full seconds before saying more. sorta weird, but he seemed to enjoy my answers. Not the best sense of humor, those anesthesiologists.... Student interview was alright too, she was also antisocial and seemed intimidated by ME (should be the opposite...). Tha campus: pretty decent. Tha curriculum: STELLAR, I LOVED IT. Tha people: big class, everyone seemed really happy. Tha lunch: INSANE. We ate in thei version of the Niversity Club except nicer. Lunch on plates, bread baskets, servants to pur more water, the whole 9 yards. I was sold. Left at 1:00 (FAST!) got my new glasses, ate some mom food, came home and crashed. Now it is time for...

THE OC!

Woo Woo.

Last night was interesting. Got off work, picked up Mat and Sylvia, drove (FOREVER) to Westminster for Pho, went to wrong strip-mall, ended up eating at Pho 54, not so terrible, went to Van's, stopped by Irvine, went home. Tried to set up the internet, failed, drank a green screwdriver, went to bed. Got up at 6:00 to come to work. Did a dissection. Went home for lunch/to shop/prep for dinner. Came back to work. Started another dissection. In the middle of it now (incubation period so I can rest). After work, dinner at Yvonne's then Pub for a short while. Then sleeeeeep.

Yesterday was tuesday. After work Mat and I went to the folks' house, grabbed some grub, then loaded the old flowered couch onto the shell-less truck bound for SA. Ate some more, then went to the ARC to get POUNDED in the championship hockey game. 10-0. They had three girls, 2 two of which play for the UCI club team, and one of which was 5 feet tall but beat the crap out of everyone on our team without getting one whistle. I got smacked in the shin ful-strength by some guy's stick, and 3 other guys on our team were bleeding by the time it was all over. But it was fun (the game and the season) and I made some new YOUNG friends :)

Goals: Read a good quality piece of literature, take a class at UCI next quarter, call all my friends more.

Friday: Thank God work is done for the week. Went to the store to get food then cooked up some BBQ courtesy of Yvonne's yummy cheese-filled burgers. Watched Legally Blonde and crashed.

Saturday: Ran errands with Andy, crashed honors day for free food, then came back and hung out at Columbine. Met Yvonne and went to Cerritos Mall so she could shop. Ate Goldilocks Filipino food (not the greatest) then headed to Century Club with Yvonne, Sok and David. I was really tired which impeded my fun-having ability, but it was still alright. $10, but if I was awake and drunker from parking lot pre-partying it would be a blast. Next time...

Sunday: Home for a little B-Day brunch with the Sparlings and the folks, some laundry, lots of snacking, then back to Santa Ana. Ran about 3 miles with Andy, then we all raced a makeshift slalom course on Luis' moped. Good times. Ate dinner at Alberto's with the roomies and girlfriends. Fun stuff.

Monday: Work. that's it. Boss was out, not so bad. Worked out really hard at the ARC with Yvonne and Sok, then hung out at Yvonne's for Mom food. Yum. Yum. Came home and chilled.

Tonight is hockey finals. Money.

It's FRIDAY! Hooray. Work was cool today, just dissected and ate crappy food court lunch. My relaxing night was fun last night, we dragged our butts to the ARC and played raquetball then ran. Ate some crazy good Gail Hoang food, then watched TV until we got tired and went to sleep. Fun stuff. Maybe BBQing tonight but hopefully not many will show, I need to save money for Vegas...

So I skipped a day...

Tuesday I didn't feel like cooking so Yvonne and I went to Goro Sushi and then to active where I bought 2 pairs of jeans and left my sushi leftovers on the floor of the men's section. Oops. Played hockey at the Arc against LTD and their "Lil' Sisses." Despite Mat's being removed by security, we won. Yvonne and I both scored goals, hers was beautiful, mine was ugly and lucky, but what the hell, points are points.

Yesterday we went shopping for pizza stuff and headed over to babysit Kristina and Danielle. danielle had a mini-breakdown, but was eventually fine. Yvonne and I ate the majority of the pizza, and then we "made" (by "made" I mean placed the pre-cut dough on the sheet) some chocolate chip cookies, put the girls to bed with the requisite Christian "do the right thing" bedtime story and hung out until Jim and varena got back. Stopped by Dustin's to see if anything was going on for Mat's Bday, but they were all near passed out. Maybe this weekend...

Again, work is long and I am tired. Stuffed myself with sorta-healthy food for lunch. After work it's off to the ARC then relaxing the rest of the night. I can't wait to do nothing his weekend. Cleaning, gardening, and laundry need to be done, and that's it.

Here is my new blog, minus the stuff I don't want to remember, plus the stuff I do. This will serve as a journal more of what I have done, and less of how I feel and what I am thinking. The people who know that stuff know that stuff, and no one else needs to know that stuff.

Today work was (is) looooooong. I am cooking for Yvonne tonight and I don't know what to fix. Then it's IM hockey playoffs at the ARC. We're playing against LTD, one of whom was a bit too aggressive with my girlfriend last week, so if they pull any shit, Ima smack their ass down.

Interview season has all but come to a halt, I have one more at USC, and I'm sure that's it. Right now it's looking like UCSd, unless I get this paper published, write a brilliant update letter, and somehow get off the damn UCI waiting list.