my momma is old happy birthday to my mom! (link) Midori | | 11:32 AM

February 23, 2007 Soap Girl So I watched Soap Girl about a billion years ago (well, a few months). In short? WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN. There was this "fight scene". Gratuitous. Two asian girls in a catfight set to the cheesiest music imaginable. I was so embarassed for anyone involved in that scene that I had trouble sitting through the whole fight. Acting was terrible througout the movie. Script was embarassingly bad. And Luciano Saber needs to crawl into a hole and never come out again. I actually watched some of the "behind-the-scenes" stuff on the dvd and it looked like he was supercocky. It also seemed like he couldn't remember the lead actress's name when asked about her. Ugh. Don't ever watch this film. Seriously. (link) Midori | | 11:10 AM

synchronicity! dude so when i was driving to work there were two radio stations playing the exact same song which wouldn't have been weird if the song was not "let's groove tonight" by earth wind and fire (i mean come on it's not played THAT often) and if the chorus was not lined up perfectly on both stations so it sounded like they were sharing a broadcast. i think that's going to end up being the highlight of my morning. (link) Midori | | 10:16 AM

February 22, 2007 TWENTY FOUR HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STEPH!!! (link) Midori | | 4:32 PM

February 21, 2007 fuck you fucking fuck I almost forgot... ...there was this chunky little old dude (well, maybe 65ish or so) walking up and down the sidewalk in Old Town Pasadena (close to Lush) saying "LOOKATMYSHIRT...hehe...LOOKATMYSHIRT". The shirt said something along the lines of FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK Or perhaps it was "FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK". I forget. Anyway, I wanted to take a picture but I didn't want him to take any notice of me so I didn't/was not able to. edit: thanks to dannoballs who gave me a link to the photo of the actual shirt (it's a facebook link...check the comments for the url) FUCK YOU YOU FUCKIN' FUCK (link) Midori | | 3:48 PM

February 19, 2007 rain and presidents' day so it rained last night in the few hours between the time i got to my apartment and the time i went outside to take out the trash. how did i not notice? perhaps it was because i was watching back-to-back episodes of arrested development (finished season 1 in two days thanks xin!) yar i'm at work but at least parking is awesome! oh and happy new year to those who celebrate new year's at around this time of year. (link) Midori | | 10:12 AM

February 15, 2007 valentines yesterday: got off of work at 9, drank wine, made truffles, made a mess (wine buzz + ganache + cocoa powder = mess), watched a dvd. (link) Midori | | 4:23 PM

February 14, 2007 Brief Saturday: Mirah at the Troubadour followed by Starshoes and pizza. Sunday: No teachers' meeting! Today: Happy V-day to you all maybe sort of but if not it's okay I'm single too! Oh, couple next door had another big fight this morning, but this time at a more reasonable hour (8:00AM-ish) (link) Midori | | 12:21 PM

February 10, 2007 yesterday night... minibar and parao i need to shower. (link) Midori | | 2:24 PM

February 09, 2007 mmm am eating a cookie that is so good and buttery-ish and is probably oh-so-bad for me. yum. (link) Midori | | 1:27 PM

February 07, 2007 Purity Balls (yes, I said "balls" ;) ) Daughter says... I pledge to remain sexually pure...until the day I give myself as a wedding gift to my husband. ... I know that God requires this of me... that he loves me, and that he will reward me for my faithfulness. Daddy says... [I] choose before God to cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity....I will be a man of integrity and accountability as I lead, guide and pray over my daughter and as the high priest in my home. The above are the pledges made by fathers and daughters at "Purity Balls", fancy-schmancy father-daughter events at which daughters pledge to remain "pure" until marriage and fathers vow to protect their daughters' virginities at all costs. Um, who here is weirded out? Disgusted? Hear me out, now. I have no problem with people who make the decision to wait until marriage. I have no problems with people who choose not to wait until marriage. I don't even have a problem with people who choose sleep around, as long as they're responsible about it. First off, how come there are no purity balls for boys? Why just the girls? Why is it the father's job to protect his daughter's virginity until she gets married until she's handed off to her husband at which point, presumably, her virginity is his to take? Call me a feminist but I'd like to think that a girl should be in control of her own virginity and it's the parents' (father and mother) job to maintain a good relationship with their children (daughters and sons) and educate them so that they will grow up to make responsible, informed decisions regarding their sex lives. Another major issue I have with this whole purity ball deal is the fact that there are extremely young girls attending these shindigs. I mean, seven year olds pledging their virginity? What freaking seven year old is really cognizant of what's going on at this purity ball? What she knows is that she gets to wear a pretty dress and spend time with her father. If some girl is going to go through with this whole pledge thing, then fine. As long as she's mature and informed enough to be aware of what exactly she is doing. Which the seven year old probably isn't. And, okay, is it just me but is it just plain creepy to attend an event involving your dad and your sex life? I'm all for the father-daughter bonding part of the event, but does it really have to involve the whole "purity" bit? I mean, come on! Here's the first article I read on the event (link) Midori | | 11:36 PM

My Personality Neuroticism 94 Extraversion 20 Openness To Experience 58 Agreeableness 31 Conscientiousness 12 You are introverted, reserved, and quiet with a preference for solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends. You can be easily upset, even by what people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be sensitive and emotional. A desire for tradition does not prevent you from trying new things. Your thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others you appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others' needs than with your own. You like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized. Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report Browse 1000s of the most popular myspace layouts or create your own layout. did the 120 question test this time...results are still about the same ;P (link) Midori | | 11:23 PM

February 05, 2007 in related news... ...i love this girl. she's roughly my height (well, and a whole lot thinner) and explores everything from difficulties in finding clothes to difficulties in getting comfortable in a standard office chair (i've resorted to using either my computer or my space heater as a footrest). if only she updated more often! (link) Midori | | 5:29 PM

sigh things just keep getting better and better... (link) Midori | | 3:32 PM

February 02, 2007 dump So the couple living next door to me had a huge fight in the wee hours. Their yelling woke me up at around 5:00AM and continued on until 7:30ish when I heard her run out of the apartment and down the stairs to who knows where. You'd think I'd be pissed off, seeing that the fighting kept me drifting in and out (more out than in) of sleep for over two hours, I thought I'd be pissed too. The thin g is, I wasn't upset at all. I think it may be because I empathized with them. I have no idea what they were fighting about, but I do remember what it was like to fight and cry for hours. With the ex (I don't think any of his friends read my page anymore and I don't think he ever really did) I'd often cry so much that I couldn't even s leep afterward because of the headache it brought on and my eyes would be swollen for two days. We'd fight for up to six hours straight sometimes. We'd fight in the mid dle of campus in the middle of the day, me trying to talk to him and him not listening and pushing me away and me crying in frustration. In retrospect, the whole thing w as kind of embarassing as I'm sure we drew all kinds of attention, but at the time I was so upset I didn't even think about what we must have looked like. One time we were fighting in the parking lot and I was sitting on the curb crying. A woman who was walking by stopped and asked if I was okay. I told her I was so she kept on walking, but I don't think she believed me because she kept looking back at me. Looking back, I can't believe I put up with all I did. At the time, though, I thought that's what a relationship was. I mean, every relationship is going to have its rough spots, fights, disagreements, but if someone is making you cry every day for weeks at a time, there's something wrong. I was about to start writing more except I just realized that I've already written a lot and I also kind of forgot what my point was. I feel like I just did a brain dump all over my blog. (link) Midori | | 4:06 PM

I'm a neurotic bitch! My Personality Neuroticism 93 Extraversion 13 Openness To Experience 60 Agreeableness 26 Conscientiousness 7 You are introverted, reserved, and quiet with a preference for solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends. You can be very easily upset, even by what most people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be extremely sensitive and emotional. A desire for tradition does not prevent you from trying new things. Your thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others you appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others' needs than with your own. You like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized. Test Yourself Compare Yourself View Full Report Browse 1000s of the most popular myspace layouts or create your own layout. (link) Midori | | 3:11 PM

garbage am loving the acoustic version of "medication" by garbage (thanks to the virginian coworker!) (link) Midori | | 11:08 AM

February 01, 2007 Online flirting? So there was this study... "...conducted a qualitative study over the course of one year, recruiting subjects from chat rooms such as Yahoo!’s and Microsoft’s Married but Flirting. In all, 76 men and 10 women participated. Initial online flirtation doesn’t count as cheating, the subjects told Mileham. More than 80 percent felt it was just “talking with a computer.” But online dalliances have a tendency to escalate, Mileham found: 30 percent of those she spoke with—26 people—went on to a face-to-face meeting with someone they met online. And all but two ended up having an old-fashioned affair." I guess you have to ask yourself (indefinite you) a couple of questions: Wy am I doing it to begin with? Would I feel comfortable telling my significant other about it? I think it would probably count as cheating in some way, shape or form simply because I think I'd be very uncomfortable if it were my significant other doing the virtual flirting. What do you think? (link) Midori | | 11:08 AM

SF Day 2 (I) San Francisco Day 2 (I) It's about time I got the next update up, yes? Anyway, April and I woke up Saturday morning without an alarm which was, believe me, freaking NICE. I think we got up at 11-ish. Or maybe I got up at 11-ish. Anyway we got showered and dressed and went downstairs to buy an internet card so we could look up the location of Pizza Orgasmica. We caught a cab on Geary to take us there since it was kind of far out. Why did we get the most talkative yet unintelligible taxi driver ever? He had a thick Vietnamese accent, but for the most part, that on it's own is fine. What made it more difficult was that he had a lisp or something that made it nearly impossible to understand him. He looked like he might have been in his forties and had shoulder length dark magenta-ish hair. Longest cab ride ever. It's difficult to talk to someone who keeps asking questions you can't understand. The place was pretty close to empty when we got there. They had an interesting beer list and an even more interesting pizza selection (see above ;)). Pizza Orgasmica was a recommendation from Skim who had heard about it from his sister. April and I ordered beers (her, Hef, me, peach Hef) because hey, it was the weekend and neither of us was going to be driving anytime soon :) As for pizzas, she ordered a small "Inspiration Point" and I got a small "Menage a trois". All I have to say is DELICIOUS. The menage a trois was basically a cheese pizza with four different kinds of cheese (so yes, it's a misnomer) and YUM. The beer wasn't bad, either. We tried calling a cab after lunch but when we finally got through, the cab never came =\ We decided to wing it and take the bus. Miraculously, we chose the correct one to get on ;P After making it back to Geary and Powell in one piece, we shopped for the next four or so hours, just waiting for Xin to arrive via BART. I finally got a stick of eye makeup primer after years upon tragic years of creasing eyeshadow/liner. Among other things. We both got hot chocolate at Godiva just because. Xin called around then so we headed back up to the hotel room. And chilled. (link) Midori | | 9:20 AM