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NOVEMBER '08 ARCHIVES 10:22 PM 11/5/2008wow, where do i begin. mccain's concession speech, in my opinion, was an absolute masterpiece. it was heartbreaking but gracious, eloquent but remarkably genuine. i was ambivalent about this election from the very start (HILLARY IN 2012!!!!!!!!) and i still am. mccain is a class act - well, except for the whole cheating on the first wife thing (although honestly, his infidelity is irrelevant because we forgave clinton, didn't we?). while i am happy to finally have a democrat back in the office, i also feel bad for mccain's supporters because i remember how much it freaking sucks to be on the losing side. democracy is truly a double-edged sword. if we really do value having a government of the people, by the people, for the people, then we have to be willing to live with the fact that occasionally "the people" will make decisions which appear to make absolutely no sense. like prop 8, for instance. I JUST DON'T GET IT. look, some of you are anti abortion. anti welfare. anti war on drugs. i may totally disagree with you, but i can sorta get it. but to institute a constitutional ban on gay marriage because of its supposed threats to traditional family values? ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. given how much we heterosexual folks have completely screwed up the definition of marriage today, i seriously doubt the ability of gay people to inflict additional damage. i could go on and on and on but frankly i'm just too disappointed right now to be able to express myself eloquently. if the die-hard hippie of all hippie states can't even get its act together to strike down intolerance, then man, do we have a lot of work to do. anyways, i'm still slammed with work so i'll cut this short. for all you obama fans, please be gracious about the victory. don't be obnoxious assholes (though some of you just can't seem to help it) - we're supposed to be better than that. and please don't get all your hopes up either, because our nation is in for some tough times ahead and obama will be facing a very, very steep learning curve shortly. he better be at least half as good as he thinks he is, for all our sakes. lastly, to the obama-haters: if you find yourself subconsciously wishing that he fails spectacularly, you ought to reexamine your priorities, fast. for the love of god, you're an american. there is nothing more unpatriotic than wanting your president to royally suck just so you can have the satisfaction of saying, "well, i told you so." so if you're threatening to kill yourself or move to canada, go right ahead. if a political setback can give you enough of a reason to abandon this country and all that it has to offer, then um, we don't want you anyway. i'll leave you with my favorite parts from mccain's speech (nothing from obama today, we'll be hearing enough from him over the next four years): A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that. It's natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. damn straight, senator. 12:23 AM 11/10/2008 let's see, what could be more fun than taking a break from working nonstop to update your webpage at 12:30 AM on a thursday morning? um...don't answer that. well, it's almost mid november. it's been a cruddy month so far - i'll just leave it at that. last friday night i went bowling with lynn and donny (i know, it's a crazy life i tell you). the entire way there i was secretly hoping that i had somehow miraculously managed to get super good since the last time i bowled back in 2000. you know, kinda like how i used to really hate running and was totally bad at it and then got up one day last month and ran a five and a half minute mile without breaking a sweat. oh wait, that never happened. ANYWAYS, i won't tell you what my exact scores were, but i will say that we played two games and my combined score for both WAS LESS THAN A HUNDRED. that's right, do the math. connie + bowling = public humilation. and people wonder why i hate this game so freakin' much. i'm horrible at it and it hurts my wrist and jeez, have you seen what it does to manicures? plus the shoes....oh god the shoes. there's nothing grosser than wearing bright fluorsecent shoes that have been used by 5,039,409 people in the past, of which approximately 75% probably have some sort of athlete's foot or something. on the bright side, me and lynn spent about $5 playing some police academy shooting game and now we are both commissioners. on the resume it goes. haha. ok, but back to bowling. since i stupidly put "bowl over 100 consistently" down on my list of 30 things to do before i'm 30, i am going to force myself to go a little more frequently to see if i can practice and pull myself out of massive suckage. though judging from my most recent performance, i might have to shoot for breaking 100 when i'm 50. ugh. i also went to andy's wedding last weekend. that was a trip. half of the ceremony was in korean and i found myself wishing that i had actually learned some useful phrases back in college, instead of all the dirty stuff that daniel, eunice and melissa taught me (i.e. gochu sarang hae). i debated about passing on some of my limited knowledge to my coworkers but i didn't think a wedding would be the most appropriate place to proclaim "hey, i like your boobs!" in korean to anybody within earshot. actually, maybe that would be the perfect time and place to do it. anyways, i digress. it was a nice affair. i was forced to eat weird sweet sticky rice stuff by some of my coworkers in honor of korean tradition. some of it was...interesting tasting, to put it tactfully. so i promptly washed it down with a corona (in honor of american tradition). haha. this was my first time at a full korean wedding and i must say that 1) almost all korean girls are fantastic dressers and 2) damn, some korean men can seriously moooove. if i ever get married one day, i'm gonna hire random korean guys just to get on the dance floor and entertain people. i'm not kidding. ok, i need to sleep, otherwise i will wake up tomorrow looking like a grandma. speaking of which, i taught a class yesterday at EY's training session near LAX and some guy came up to me afterwards to thank me and exclaim, "wow, you look so young!!! i mean...to be teaching. you can't even be 30 yet! are you?!!?" that was the highlight of my day. i should have lied and told him i was 45. adios, kids. have a great week. 12:59 AM 11/17/2008 damn, these fires are brutal. it's still hard to breathe and this is TORRANCE, for pete's sake. my heart goes out to all the people who had to evacute their homes all over southern california.  1:24 AM 11/19/2008 A RANDOM RANT AT 1:30 IN THE MORNING: okay, what is UP with robert pattinson? the more pictures i see of him, the more grossed out i get. let me get this straight - he's supposed to be the next "it" guy?? since when did the pasty stoner look start representing the epitome of masculinity and hotness? i read twilight last weekened and i probably would have liked it a little bit more had i not been so plagued by the mental images of robert's sickly face. also, note to stephanie meyer: if you want to write a book about seductive vampires and their human girlfriends, THEN PUT SOME STEAMY HOT SEX IN THE STUPID STORY. none of this hand holding, cheek kissing crap. and don't give me that b.s. about how the book is geared towards 13 year olds and therefore shouldn't have any x-rated parts. 13 year olds shouldn't be reading about sexy vampires in the first place, all right? this twilight madness is seriously getting out of hand. every girl and her mother screaming like a banshee about the book, the movie, or mr. pale stoner needs a big piece of duct tape slapped onto her mouth.  SERIOUSLY? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HOT? AND WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HIS HAIR!?!?  words fail me here.  THIS is what hot looks like. no nasty stubble. no hair flying in every direction. "there is a bomb on this bus!!!" for those of you who don't already know, my mom is in the hospital. i should say back in the hospital, because she had emergency surgery about two weeks ago, and after coming home for recovery, had to go back in with more problems, which meant a second surgery last week. she hasn't been doing well and today they had to put her back on the ventilator. i'm really worried about her. plus work is still a nightmare, as usual. im super stressed, as usual. i'm not getting enough sleep, as usual. woe is me, as usual. on the bright side...i have the bestest best friends in the whole wide world. lynn and keri (aka larry & mary) brought some tasty goodies over a few nights ago which was totally awesome. coincidentally, i also have the world's best bf who will write blog updates for me when i can't bring myself to write about difficult subjects. so things could be worse. so i'm trying to keep my chin up and not drive my car into a bridge abuttment on my way to work some morning. besides, i will probably fall asleep at the wheel and crash and burn anyway. so, there's always a painful, fiery death to look forward to! please have some good thoughts for my mom and the rest of my family. thanks, hope everybody has a happy turkey day! 11:20 PM 11/29/2008 man, what a month. i ate thanksgiving dinner by myself at the hospital, which was rather depressing. then i spent all night in my mom's room either up on my feet next to her bed or trying to sleep while sprawled over two plastic-covered armchairs. it was not fun, to say the least. my mom's still on the respirator so she had to write things on a piece of paper in order to communicate, half in english and half in mandarin. thanks to my poor reading comprehension skills, i had to do some pathetic guesswork when it came to some of the unfamiliar characters (remember, i cheated my way through chinese school), which made her roll her eyes and sigh. i took it as a good sign that she was feeling better. around one in the morning she wrote "hungry?" to me in english, and i shook my head and told her i ate an entire snickers bar at midnight. she rolled her eyes again and scribbled out "happy thanksgiving" in response. and though she was being somewhat sarcastic, i very nearly lost it because i realized at that very moment how grateful i was to have a mom to worry over. anyways, i am severely sleep deprived so i'm gonna keep this update short and simple. did you guys get a chance to check out the black friday sales? i went to beverly hills yesterday morning to hit up saks fifth avenue and neiman marcus. boy, was that a mistake. 45 minutes of sleep did not prepare me for the madness of competing with fourteen billion persian women crammed into every square inch of both stores. i had no idea southern california had this many persians. actually, i didn't even think IRAN had this many persians. it was difficult to manuever around all the women shrieking in farsi and and kissing each other on the cheek (apparently every persian female in the western hemisphere knows each other). after 15 minutes of getting pushed around by the crowd i finally gave up and went to the century city mall nearby, which was slightly less chaotic. i stayed long enough to buy ysl's muse two bag in cream and a black rebecca taylor dress and then got the hell out. might go back for this purse though:  i can't explain why i like this clutch so much. i saw it in real life and it's borderline silly but still super cute. don't forget guys, the season for giving is rapidly approaching. just a friendly reminder.  hmm. maybe we can, after all... | |||||||
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