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	OCTOBER '09 ARCHIVES 1:07 AM 10/2/2009 no time for a real update, so this is gonna be total stream-of-consciousness writing. remember faulkner? of course you do. anyways, it's been a tiring couple of days. i got sent to denver for a last minute presentation monday evening and the resulting stress coupled with the sleep deprivation was highly unpleasant. it didn't help that the two presenters who went on right before me had a combined total of 50 years of experience in tax. i imagine for the audience of 100+ executives it must have been like sitting through a really great lecture given by the dalai lama and then following that up with almost 70 straight minutes of nonsensical ramblings from a crazy homeless crackhead. UGHHH I AM THE CRACKHEAD. on a positive note, nobody threw tomatos at me or booed me off the stage so i'm gonna consider my presentation a huge success. haha. in case you couldn't tell, i really, really, really hate speaking in public. i do it because i'm asked/forced/expected to but the introvert in me wants to fake a heart attack anytime i'm roped into lecturing. in other fun news, me and lynn played contra and supra contra this week on keri's old school NES and dude, those games NEVER ever get old. don't ask us how long it took to get the 10 lives code right though (thank you, google. right left down up a b start). our goal is to pass everything in one try by the end of next week. don't laugh, you know you wanna play too. what else.... my coworker ryan and i went to a private screening of paranormal activity tonight in hollywood, and i literally watched 90% of the movie with either my hands over my face or my hair over my eyes. it is right up there with exorcist and the ring in terms of pure scariness. one scene i jumped so hard that i launched my chanel bag (which was sitting on my lap) down the aisle and onto the legs of the random guy to the left of me. i had to feel around in the dark to retrieve it, which was a little awkward: "ummm......sorry. is my purse over there? i kinda dropped it. sorry....oh gosh, sorry..." i tried to control myself for the rest of the movie but it was really, really hard not to jolt everytime something scary happened. you know those annoying people at the movie theaters who drive you nuts by whispering "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" during every single tense scene? yeah, that was me. i wanted to watch cloudy with a chance of meatballs afterwards just to distract myself from the lingering fear. and before you go accusing me of being a pansy, i'd just like to point out that there were a couple of macho guys in the theater who felt compelled to yell out "aww HELLLL no!" during the freakiest scenes. i'm pretty sure that's the typical man response to scary movies because we heard something exactly like that during the ring from the dude behind us. look, men, it's okay. you can squeal like a little girl too. i promise i won't judge. ok fine, i actually will and i'll also tell all your friends how you covered your eyes and screamed like a freakin' banshee. but at least i'll do it behind your back so you can keep your manhood partially intact. okay, it's time to sleep. i am off to texas sat morning - i'll be back on tuesday, hopefully with lots of pictures of me inhaling the best bbq in the world. haha. later kids. be good! 10:18 PM 10/11/2009 you know your life pretty much sucks when over a week has gone by since your last update and you still can't come up with anything remotely interesting to write about. well, i take that back - i went to texas, aka The State Where Everybody Thinks They're Better Than Every Other American. i went tubing for the first time and it was a lot of fun, although i got chewed up by mosquitos. ate some really good meals at bohanan's and mi tierra and didn't work out AT ALL (arghhh). speaking of working out, lynn ran the long beach half marathon today and got a really cool medal because it was the 25th anniversary of the race. SO NOT FAIR - i ran that crap last year and ended up with the ugliest medal in history (in USC colors! how insulting), plus some crappy t-shirt that i think i gave to my mom. that was really poor strategic planning on my part, because i should have known that the budget for the 24th anniversary was cut in half in order to make the 25th even better. so now i am waiting for the 30th anniversary, where i fully expect to get a platinum-plated medal with my name spelled out in pink swarovski crystals. with a four carat diamond where the "o" in "connie" should be. only then will putting one foot in front of the other for 13.1 miles be worth it. since i have nothing else to talk about, here is round #2 of hideous shoes (i'm trying to find shoes online for work and not having much luck, obviously). you know who these would be perfect for? maleficent, from disney's sleeping beauty. i'd wear these. if i were a hooker. imagine trying to put these on in a hurry. sooo not worth the effort. apparently the bigfoot look is in. oh, these are classy. btw, if an asian female (such as myself) wanted to wear these, she'd have to hack at least two feet off the top. i guess you could make gloves outta the excess fabric. and since it's not nice to end this post with another monstrosity, here is a lovely pair of jimmy choos that i am currently debating about purchasing. i'd have to buy clothes to match it but isn't that just an added bonus? okay i'm out. stay tuned next week for an ugly purses edition. adios kids. 12:00 AM 10/19/2009 well,i'm sick again. i don't think it's the flu this time, because the symptoms are totally different. man, i remember when i used to have a kick-ass immune system. those were definitely pre-EY days. my throat is killing me and i wish somebody would just trample over me to put me out of my misery already. i'm sure there's gotta be somebody out there willing to do it. email me and we will work out the logisistics. i donated blood wednesday evening for my mom. as usual i had to look away from the needle because good god, who wants to see THAT going into your arm!? ew. everything went fine though, and i even went to the gym a few hours later. in retrospect, that was STUPID. i felt okay overall, with just a slight headache, but i ignored it and just did a lot of cardio. i took my bandage off at home afterwards and noticed a good amount of blood (way more than normal) on the gauze. uhh. like i said, STUPID. adding onto the pain was my workout thursday night, where i was introduced to something called the slosh pipe, or as i like to refer to it, every sadist's dream come true. for those of you who haven't had the ~~misfortune~~ privilege of using one of these in real life, let me try to explain what it is in layman's terms. it's basically this huge plastic pipe that is partially filled with water and sealed at both ends. my trainer had me hold it over my head while doing stationary lunges (as if stationary lunges by themselves weren't hard enough). anyway, the reason it's called the slosh pipe is because anytime you shift your weight (even by a gram), the water inside the piple sloshes over to one side and shifts the distribution of the pipe's weight, causing you to nearly tip over and eat it if you're not keeping your core fully engaged. which is almost what happened to me the first couple of times i tried to lunge properly. i think every muscle in my body was shaking by the end of the first set. i know it doesn't look that bad in some pictures, but oh my gosh. it was brutal. when i was climbing down the stairs i had to hold on to the railing for dear life. let's see, what else...tom's wedding started friday evening, and the entire event was outdoors at the muckenthaler mansion in fullerton. it was humid throughout the ceremony but cooled down a little bit by the time the receiption started. keri and i were five minutes late because we had the wrong address for the place and ended up at some random albertson's three miles away from the mansion. fortunately the ceremony was running a few minutes behind too, so we made before people started walking down the aisle. it was a cute, small wedding with less than 100 people. unfortunately, the soreness from my slosh pipe workout kicked in later that night along with the sore throat from hell. i had to pop two motrin before going to bed because i was hurting so badly. saturday i woke up feeling worse. today was yucky too. i am a walking mess. what i really need is a solid two weeks off from work from recuperate, but that is about as likely as me getting discovered by a modeling agency and becoming the next marisa miller. my mother goes in for surgery again early wednesday morning and i have got to believe that it will go better than last time. i'm not particularly religious so i'm not going to pray or ask people to pray on our behalf, but dammit, if my family has to go through what it went through last nov/dec all over again, i will seriously punch a hole in every wall of the hospital. okay maybe not (my hands would be pretty tore up after the first hole) but you get my drift. i think it sucks that the only times people realize how lucky they are to have certain people in their lives are the times when those very people's lives are in jeopardy. i know it's human nature and all but it still SUCKS. i hope to be better at that from now on. adios, kids. wish us luck. 5:57 PM 10/25/2009 crap, another weekend over. thanks to everybody who sent along nice thoughts about my mom. the surgery on wednesday took almost nine (!!) hours but overall it went pretty smoothly. she's getting better day by day but it'll still be a little while before she's 100% again. in the meantime, this freakin' cold still hasn't gone away. i'm coughing so much i'm giving myself a migraine. it's really annoying. i couldn't go to the hospital friday or yesterday because everybody was worried that i would infect my mom with my germs. i finally got to go back today, but only after taking the necessary precautions: my sister felt compelled to snap this picture of me in all my sick glory. hideous. also note that my gown, mask and glove are ucla colors. GOOOO BRUINS! speaking of bruins, we lost to university of arizona this weekend. tom sent me a smug text afterwards: "game over." what a massive jerk. my school has GOT to get it together already. but i don't really want to get into that right now otherwise my blood pressure will skyrocket. moving on... i was listening to the radio yesterday morning when a commercial for medieval times came on. i'm sure most of you who have been don't think it's that great of a show but i've never been and i am a sucker for cheesy entertainment so of course i am DYING to go. unfortunately i can never find anybody to go with me (i wonder why). a few hours after i heard the commercial, jordan randomly texted me out of the blue and told me that he and jeff had an extra ticket to medieval times for that very night - i was like, whoa. had i not been suffering from a serious case of tuberculosis, i would have totally gone. so what i'm trying to say is 1) i still want to go and 2) won't somebody please come with me so i don't look like a giant dork? alternatively, there is also the pirates' dinner adventure, which is right down the street. haha. that looks like fun too. come on, hand to hand combat! jousting! swordsmanship! plus DINNER! who wouldn't want to see that!? all right, i'm a loser. i've got a ton of work to do so i need to get going. plus i also need to think of a halloween costume. one of my coworkers suggested that i dress up as a EY partner - bald, white and old, with pants pulled up super high and thick glasses. haha. all the girls will be in their skanky costumes and i'll look like a 60 year old dude. sweet. lastly, i also have two more weddings coming up in the next month and a baby shower. AHHHHHHH! it's a good thing i don't really like hanging onto my hard earned cash. i should just get married and pop out a few babies to recoup my money. get ready to cough up some serious dough, kids. xoxoxo.