whenever i breathe through my mouth, i have this automatic reflex to cough. my menstrual cramps incapacitated me the whole day yesterday (why do i always want to type "decapitated" when i mean "incapacitated"?). my body's gone to shit. damn.

i could probably comfort it if i ever get around to allowing it to have a regular sleeping schedule--but no, i'm a stupid slavedriver. yeah, not just a slavedriver...but a stupid one at that. =)

you know what amazes me these days? the astounding variety and sophistication of...asian instant noodles. [yeahyeah amanda, you know me too well.] it's unbelievable. you look at the american instant noodle offerings--cup o' noodles being the primary popular example--and they just cannot compare to things like the beef noodle soup i ate last week at home. the thing came with its own minifork and a beef retort packet that contained REAL MEAT. i'm not talking about dehydrated crap that looks like soggy beef jerky--but actual preserved meat in this thick sauce somehow. and the little instant pho cups i tried not only had collapsable miniforks, but contain dried cilantro and little leafy vegetables that taste so natural when they're rehydrated. freaking amazing. and the chicken noodle soup thing my little brother had? besides the rehydrated vegetables looking like real, big, freshly boiled choy, that soup was quality since he left the leftover soup sitting for at least two hours and the powder didn't come out of suspension like with normal instant noodle soup base! i am in awe of asian ingenuity. this is why i prefer asian guys--better instant noodles! gotta love instant gratification.

beyond the above randomness, i slaved away on a new layout for the stanford kdphi website. go take a peek. no new pictures yet, and it's all pretty simple, but better for navigation, right? change is good though. if you don't think so, shush and let me be deluded.

oh, and you know which song is absolutely catchy? "addicted" by a simple plan:

i heard you're doing okay
but i want you to know
i'm a dick
i'm addicted to you

haha, okay, so the lyrics aren't that deep...but you gotta love a song that plays with "a dick" in "addicted". reminds me of lit's "miserable": "you make me come / you make me complete / you make me completely miserable." ah, good stuff.