i'm still at work. i've been here since 7:30am, and it's well past 8:30pm...

27 more documents left to redline, re-proof, and turn in to chicago by 12am.

dead tired.

will do a fanime recap post hopefully by the end of the week.

question, friends.

rangiku's hair color. manga, it's strawberry blonde-ish. anime, orange. i iz confuddled. must learn right from wrong before i bleach these locks of mine.

because i am. it shall happen. i have deemed it so.

well, my mom's talking to one of her friends now, so the whole "mother's day" crapfest is hopefully over now. i still haven't eaten dinner. phooey.

thanks, kame and ef... blah. stupid holiday. i'm never going to have kids. feh.

i thought everyone would benefit from stephen colbert tonight... i certainly had a bazillion laughs- his korean is a hundred times better than mine~!!

i caught the cold over the weekend, and this morning i woke up so many freakin' times because every time i turned my head on the pillow, there'd be this cold patch of drool wherever my cheek landed. the droolage was EVERYWHERE... my blanket, both sides of all 3 of my pillows, the bedsheets- i feel gross.

and today, i've been sneezing out boogers and several co-workers have pointed out that i sound like a nascar drag race, or a tuba, or other non-juliesque sounds.

nyquil no longer works for me, everything i eat tastes like sawdust, and i want to go home, but i'll just sleep and wake up all droolified again.

gads, my poor future husband. he's going to want to sleep on the couch where it's MUCH drier.

*blows nose*

i can't pronounce my 'm's, 't's, and 'n's. i'be dot doig fide ad all. X3

you've probably seen this video already, but watch it again. that little girl is SOOOOOO adorable!!!

dude. read this article: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3119381&page=1

my friend told me that some lawyer was suing a dry cleaner store for $67 million for a lost pair of pants.

$67 mill is utterly ridiculous. i can't believe the nerve of this asshole. this has nothing to do with the fact that the sued are koreans (i really couldn't give a rat's ass- i don't have an ounce of korean pride in me), but this bothers me because my dad and some of my uncles own dry cleaner stores around the bay area, and if this lawyer wins his case, it'll give tons of people free reign to pull this shit on my family. whenever my dad lost or damaged an article of clothing, he'd call me to find an exact replica or find out its monetary value, apologize to the customer for any inconvenience, and repay said customer with money or a new pair of clothes.

this amount is just bullshit. it's like that one person who sued mcdonalds because he burned his mouth over a hot cup of coffee, or that other person who sued some dryer appliance because he nearly died of asphyxiation when he placed himself in the machine and closed the door. or what about the man who sued a woman for breastfeeding in public? thank goodness that loser didn't win. geez- i'm glad it's perfectly legal for women to feed their children.

i know there are good lawyers out there who are generally in the interest of serving the public because they have ideals about what's right and wrong. then there are THESE chumps who really piss me off.

i hope that guy loses his license, gets fired as a judge, and lives with this shame for the rest of his pathetic little life.

i don't get why all the married women i work with constantly ask me about my love life, or lack thereof.

there's a new hire here, an engineer, who is very, very clingy. she's very touchy... and for those of you who REALLY know me, y'all know that i like my space... but that little octopus of a woman keeps touching my plushies, man-handling my trigun figures, touching my nail polish and telling me how pretty she thinks the shade is... i'm sorry, but it's got to stop!!! not to mention the fact that she asks WHY i'm not married, WHY i don't have a boyfriend, WHAT i do on the weekends...

grrr.

and it's hard to be mean to someone who seems nice and is trying to make a friend, but dude. that girl flits around like a butterfly on speed, runs around me in circles, talks a mile a minute, and makes me go cuckoo. sldkfjsdlfkjsdf.

in other news, over the weekend, my friend, stace, married her boyfriend of 7 years, wilson, and it was such a beautiful wedding. needless to say, i was blubbering when she walked down the aisle, and her granduncle gave me a tissue. i love her family. they're all so nice and welcoming!!!

it was great seeing a lot of my friends from college, too, especially little jen, 24/7 jen, and jenn (lol- jennifer's a common name among koreans!), awax, and bing-lao (beverly)... they talked about this program on the discovery channel called "man vs. wild" and now i HAVE to see it. especially since the british dude that hosts the show is some crazy survivalist who does bizarre shit like pee on a shirt and wrap it around his head to keep cool in the desert...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand... i think i'll give everybody a sneak peek of my matsumoto cosplay in a few days. jdlfjskdfsd it's a month away!!! BIG BOOBIES~!! they're fabulous~!!

this has been another random post by yours truly.

i honestly don't get one of my friends. she's been in the carribbean for med school, yet instead of focusing on her upcoming rounds in chicago, she's constantly hounding me on gtalk about what i know about the latest fashion trends and whatnot, updating me on the state of her hair, or asking me if she should cut her bangs...

my dear pet, please focus on your studies. your future patients would appreciate that immensely. i don't want you to have malpractice suits slapped on you.

also, she's somewhat obsessed with finding me a boyfriend- last week i got this random email from this guy she says is interested in me.

( cut to hide the most poorly crafted email i have ever received. ever. )

anyhoo, he's 33, and he's 5'5". as in practically 3" shorter than me. and why does he sound so... dorky in a bad way? reading that email offended me for reasons beyond my control. and, i mean, he doesn't even know how to use punctuation marks correctly!!! also, shouldn't one generally ASK if it's okay to divulge email information, rather than hand it out freely like some pamphlet for erectile dysfunction or something? this guy SOUNDS harmless, but my friend began telling me that he's the type of person who would fly out to meet someone.

hurr, guhh, WHAT?!! sorry, but that's kinda scary, if you ask me.

the old roommate must die. she's the same person who set me up with mike the "flyboy" geekazoid, and i don't think i'll ever live that one down. i'm still trying to erase the memories from my most awkward first date ever. *flops*

her gestures are kind, and i know she means well, but when she tries hooking me up with people that i'm the least bit attracted to based on hearsay, well... she doesn't know me as well as she thinks she does. it's quite disparaging, especially since we've been friends for a decade though i've known her since the 7th grade.

date, shmate. phooey.

in other news, i have no other news. just busy at work. work and ebay are my life.

so i've been a little busy these past few days/weeks, but i thought i'd give everybody a small update on what i've been up to.

aside from the unrelenting workloads and whatnot, i never resolved my ticket issue (because i'm still a scared piece of dog-doo). the fine IS immense, and they WILL take away my license to drive (and probably for the minimum amount of days, since this is a first time offense, which is exactly a month). i found this out from my friend who is a cop, and sadly, he can't bail me out of my mess though he was very informative and helpful and told me that the longer i wait, the more i'd pay.

i think i can live with that. and i doubt i'll be getting any more tickets in the near future (knocks on wood), so i'll worry more whenever i feel would be the right time to come clean. stupid infractions et wot.

nextly, i need to find a second job- not that this one doesn't pay well (laughs, because i could get paid more) but i want to live on my own. i love my mother, but at times she's just too much for me to handle, and she's been bitching about my spending habits. she doesn't see why i can't save money, but i've always been a person who lives in the NOW and can't plan ahead (unless it relates to fanime). life would be much easier if my friends weren't being wise with their investments and buying houses, and if my mom's friends stopped calling to tell her that their sons and daughters were buying houses, or just recently came back from fabulous vacations paid for by their children...

bah.

i am, and always will be, a dork. a poor dork, but a happy one. boo-yah. mom, when i win the lotto, you can have anything you want. pinky-swear.

speaking of fanime, my costume is complete- well, aside from wanting to spray paint my sword (yes, i have one) the same brick-red rangiku's is. and sometimes, when i'm in an uber-dorky mood, i'll don the whole outfit. it's kinda sad at how much more excited i am about how the whole thing looks than i was at, let's say, my college graduation. i have whacked priorities.

saw "300" on saturday with my mum. holy loincloth, batman, that movie was hot. as predicted, i couldn't look anywhere above the neck. glistening bronzed bodies moving across the screen had my attention the entire time. arms, chest, abs, and DAMN, those thighs. homina, homina- dear sweet jeebus, it was beautiful. and i loved the gory fight scenes, and damn, scars are freakin' sexy.

it was just a tad unsettling that there were some love scenes in the film, and my mom was sitting right next to me.

after the film, my mom was quick to point out how the movie reminded her of "gladiolus".

me: "mom, a gladiolus is a flower. you meant, "gladiator"."

my dorkiness is inherent. *nods head*

and ef- sorry i missed your call... our new vp was in our department. needless to say, i was reprimanded for having the volume of my ringtone at maximum (but heck, i have a hard time hearing it when it's in the desk!!!)

and later tonight, i'm going to see josh groban in concert~ row 22, center row. so close, and yet so far. but most of the people in attendance are probably middle-aged women, so i might try to climb over them just to get a little closer... i love the name josh. it was the name we gave to my first dog. which is strange, because i'd never approach a man and say, "your name is josh? that was my dog's name!"

how horrible.

i had 3 cups of iced coffee, despite the fact that i swore myself against it back in college. but when you add half a cup of non-dairy creamer and 3 packets of splenda, coffee is gooooooooooooooooooooood.

i miss you guys. sorry i haven't been around much~!! if i take any pictures tonight (which i doubt, unless my cousin allows me to take a close-up of josh's nose because for some reason, i really want a pic of that, and she'd smack me for admitting that..., i'll post some for sure~!!

I SWEAR, PEOPLE of asian-indian decent, tone-deaf little girls and 40+ year old male pedophiles, STOP VOTING FOR SANJAYA!!!

you mo-fos are ruining my "american idol"!!!

freaking turning this three-ring circus into "INDIAN IDOL"...

and how could you vote felicia off of "amtn"?!! i really thought she'd be one of the final two...

oh, television deity, you have ruined my wednesday night. there is no justice left in my bleak, bleak world...

i have been robbed of sleep, and my clock says 8:12am, when it feels much, much earlier than that.

why are americans such freaks that we have to observe something so stupid?

took this from miss bubble's journal, and was fairly surprised by the results.

( frick and double frick~!! )

apparently i'm not as asian or as american as i should be.

julie - internet access = instant doom

had i known that i was going to be sans internet the moment i left work... i may have been tempted to stay longer. my mom called aol to cancel the service (which i pay for) because she wanted comcast hi-speed dsl whatchamajiggy which is going to be installed TO-MOR-ROW. why couldn't she cancel the darn thing TODAY, huh?!! ((is absolutely bewildered))

so all weekend, i was a snarky little bitch (actually, looking back on last week, i was one then, too). there's only so much shopping one can do before one realizes, hey- that's not quite enough... especially when ebay is so shiny and pretty and it's easier to find everything i want online...

gads. so sorry, people, if i haven't responded to your posts or comments- it wasn't done intentionally.

i can't stay mad at my mom for too long, though- with this comcast thing, we'll get our cable back and i can finally watch what i've been missing on "avatar", my cartoon network goodies (i can't begin to TELL you how much i've missed "foster's home for imaginary friends"), and COMEDY CENTRAL FOR "SCRUBS" RERUNS!!!

yeah. i live my life in front of screens... computer, television, and microwave.