don't ya hate it when that happens?
Sunday, June 26, 2005
work
lots keeps happening that i want to post about, but i keep having to... gulp work. :) i actually have to work now... before it was just busy work, now it's like deadlines, getting stuff done, meetings that actually mean something.. i love it, but it's wearin me out! and that stupid ass guy.. i wasn't going to say anything before, but he's actually leaving the program i'm on soon, so i don't have much to complain about.. he's the only one out of everyone who gives me such tasks.. we'll see...I forgot if i mentioned but on june 12th we did the "find a cure" day at sbc park where we formed a red ribbon on the field with the players... i got to shake barry bond's hand! more pics to follow later :)
the rafting trip i planned (based on viv's oh so wonderful trip last year) went soooo well! 20 people camped, 19 people rafted. 1 person cancelled with enough time for me to find someone and one came down with the flu, but miraculously, someone came through and we had enough. they both won in the end... he got the cheaper price for the upper class and she got her money back. things weren't going so hot in the beginning.. i lost my planner the night before, i misjudged the drive up, my ex hooked up with someone on the trip, and people just didn't seem to be coming through with their previous promises.... but it's really funny how things end up. i ended up finding my planner a few days later, everyone made it up safely, i stood up for myself instead of let something get to me, and with the help of everyone else on the trip we managed to get everything to work out just fine. even the drive felt short with the humorous banter of the one-two kevin- julio combo. they just can't stop cracking me up! basically we played scategories the whole way down. everything cracked us up. we even stopped by 3 burger kings on the way down just to find the "limited edition" darth vader.
side note: did you know that in spanish they call darth vader "bad badder" hahaha. and if you ask a spanish speaking person about it they're like "yeah, so?" it's just so cute! we asked juio why they call him that and he's said, " b/c he's bad, but like badder. ya know"
anyhoo, the actual rafting part was awesome! everyone in my boat ended up falling out at least once. at one time 4 people fell out at the same time!!! le sigh.. soooo much fun!
Friday night may brought over some exchange students and we had a little bbq.. afterwards i saw batman begins...loved that movie!! usually movies take awhiles for me to love, but this one did an awesome job in terms of comic book explanation. i didn't think katie holmes would be that great, but she was pretty believeable. christian bale was hot. who woulda thought he'd come this far. i remember those days he was in pretty woman courting jo... i didn't think he was cute, but maybe things do get better with age ;)
sat i got lost trying to find the coporate track meet. we (lockheed martin) ended up getting second place behind at&t. there were others there: sbc, yahoo, scval, and ibm. pretty fun actually. b/c i got lost i ended up missing my 5k race.. which in turn made my fearless leader, danny, make me run the 800 with tina. ick ... that race is pure pain. tina and i actually started out too fast.. we headed the first lap only for me to succumb to two runners in the end. by the end i felt like i was dying... after the race, each swallow felt like there was blood... danny say that's from not training my body to remember how to breath right during the race.
i did actually do the weight throws.. on the way to discus i threw up twice.. lotsa projectile water with bits of banana in it. nice. ;) felt a little better afterwards. i really did want to throw well though.. guess i should practice.. my shot was looking feeble as ever. turned out one of the throwers there was actually at the trials too! her name's patty purpur. she was also in one of john powell's instructional videos on how to throw. awesome!!!!
hmm, would be nice to pole vault again. they do have open meets, but i'll have to get much better to compete .... by chance when i was at shoreline amphitheater to try pick up coldplay tickets (they were sold out, boo!) i ran into an ex stanford pole vaulter coach who gave me a number for someone who could train from for $. not bad at all...
today we had a little fondue party. two courses: cheese with bread and wine and chocolate with the ripest, reddest strawberries ever:)
2 Comments:
Haha, yeah what is with the Star Wars name translations? Darth Vader in Italian is Dart Fener, which is a tad less imposing, Id say. And Han is Yan. Yan Solo. Sounds like a swedish pastry chef.
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1:23 AM
you got shake barry's hand? cool !
