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	DAILY UPDATE MAY '10 ARCHIVES two weeks after 4/15 and my life is still like this: when it should really be like this: that's a red panda napping in the trees, in case you couldn't figure it out. SO cute. anyways, things are just crazy at work (if you couldn't tell by the first picture above). i have a pounding headache and a few more hours worth of work to do tonight so woe = me. i am also flying out to DC this wednesday and won't be back until probably saturday. i like DC but i detest taking business trips to the east coast, mostly because it takes a few days for my body to fully adjust to the time zone and i really can't afford to be groggy during the day. i'm already not a morning person, so when my schedule gets pushed up by 3 extra hours, i get really cranky really fast. JET LAG, I'M GONNA KILL YOU. in continuing on with this visual post (i'm not being creative, i'm just too lazy to type lots), i went to j lounge this weekend for tracy's bday party and was reminded yet again of how i am getting WAY too old for this. take it away, jiggly puff: - of 21 year old hoochie mamas blowing their cigarette smoke all over the place. - of the crappy ass DJ who didn't spin anything good the entire time we were there. - of fobs who had no rhythm. the music was bad; the dancing was worse. - of all the asians boys who were dressed exactly alike: jeans, white shirt, dark blazer. yawn. seriously. our ancestors spent centuries building the great wall of china but you couldn't even devote a minimal amount of effort or thought in putting together a unique outfit for just one night? yao mo gao chor ah. haha, that's right, i just dropped some cantonese on my page. see what happens when you hang around fobs for too long? - of the chick who wore white denim booty shorts with sky high stilettos and a flimsy black top. white denim, people!!! the last time i attempted that was in 6th grade. - of the handful of asian boys with mohawks. FYI, the only person to pull off that look would be david beckham. these guys were not david beckham. okay, grandma is done ranting. i am rapidly becoming a fuddy duddy and you know what? it feels GREAT. now that i'm done updating this nonsensical post, i'm gonna get to work. JIGGLY PUFF OUT. 10:32 PM 5/11/2010 back from DC. can i just say how tired i am of traveling? and i mean the entire process, including packing, going through security, getting gouged by the airport starbucks, eating lousy food on the plane, peeing in the claustrophic lavatory, checking into your room at 11 o'clock at night, drying your hair with the lousy hotel blowdryer, scrambling to find caffeine in the morning, getting to work only to realize you left your laptop power cord back in the hotel.... okay, you get the point. i'm exhausted and i want a break. which of course means i'm getting sent to salt lake city on friday, and then DC again for more meetings towards the second half of may. haha. the base of the washington monument at night. don't hate on the lousy quality of the picture, i snapped it with my blackberry. anyway, i have a boatload of work to do, so i gotta cut this update short. i'll leave you with this quote from charlie munger, vice chairman of berkshire, in reference to the causes behind our recent economic meltdown: "Everywhere you look this problem has been caused by high-IQ asininity perpetrated by high-IQ boobs. People who know the edge of their own competency are safe, and those who don't, aren't...Investment banking will behave more responsibly if we as citizens force it to behave more responsibly." i like the line about knowing the edge of one's own competency. i am reminded of my own incompetencies at work on a daily basis and let me tell you, it sucks tremendously for the ego. but it's also what keeps me sharp and conscientious and one step ahead of failure (most of the time). interestingly enough, accountants were included (with i-bankers) in munger's definition of high-IQ boobs. while i see a bit of truth in that, i think it's a gross oversimplification on his part. everybody, from i-bankers to attorneys to accountants to investors to mortgage brokers to freakin' JANITORS should behave more responsibly if we as citizens really want to bring about a long-term change for the better. all this finger pointing crap being spewed out by supposedly intelligent people is SO ridiculously counterproductive. first it was the banks' fault, then the regulators, then the accountants, then the investors, then back to the banks. jesus, people. you know whose fault it was? every single person in this economy who had a gut feeling that said, "uhhh, are you sure you really want to do that? something doesn't quite make sense here...," and then deliberately ignored the feeling, pushed it aside or rationalized it away for the sake of convenience, more money or less work. as far as i'm concerned, there is very little difference between a greedy CFO willing to push the boundaries of financial reporting vs. a dumbass citizen who thinks he/she can afford to spend 10 times the amount of money he/she earns in a year. which, naturally, brings me to this picture: i seriously laughed for a minute straight the first time i saw this pinned up on arti's door in the dorms. i can't tell you how many times we'd cross each other in the hallways and whisper, "i see stupid people.....they're everywhere..." okay enough. this stupid person is going back to work. haha. i love my life. adios, kids. 10:11 AM 5/16/2010 damn, it's mid may already. work is still crazy. i'm in DC next week again for a few days - good thing i never really got around to unpacking my suitcase from my last trip. haha. with any luck, i'll be traveling through italia from june 1st through june 15th with jack. it's my first two week vacation from work since EVER. it'll either be the most incredible experience of my adult life thus far or me and jack will murder each other with our bare hands. perhaps both. in any case, i get to NOT be chained to my desk at work for a whoppin' 15 days straight, so i am super duper excited. i'll probably incur some massive international blackberry data charges from trying to send client emails from venice but you know what? it'll be worth every freakin' penny. by the way, does anybody out there know how to unlock my bb curve? i called AT&T today to get the stupid code but they were being jerks about it so, yeah. i'm still outta luck. help, please. anyway, this weekend was a blur. yesterday was lynn and jared's suprise engagement party @ yamashiro. they put all 28 of us in a private room and the ambiance was nice but the food was beyond disappointing. BUT, i am thrilled that we all managed to keep it a secret for almost two months. apparently all my threats via email worked. if you had asked all of us 20 years ago who would be the last spinster standing, the answer would have been yours truly. huh. i guess some things don't change after all. haha. half the party left before we realized that we didn't take a group picture. oops. so here's some of us. note that i am doing the kimchi squat in 4 inch heels. i KNEW all the lunges at the gym would eventually pay off one day. after dinner me, erin and brandon drove out to santa monica to meet doug @ cafe 50's for more food and several games of adult uno. and when i say adult uno, i don't mean something like strip poker, i mean a game where you count cumulative points like mah jong or canasta. me and brandon lost, no thanks to doug's rampant cheating. defeat makes me sad. :'( okay gotta run, more work to do. will somebody guest blog for me while i am in italy? adios kids.