Friday, May 05, 2006

A healthy competitive instinct...

is anything but when it comes to eBay. "Damn, I've just been outbid! Take THIS!" Repeat a few times until you're the current highest bidder.

Then you console yourself with the cap you placed upon yourself for each different item. Except you suddenly realize you've just bid in SEVEN separate auctions. Possible Words of Doom: "Oh, I'm sure someone will outbid me before the auction ends."

How did I hold out for so long against the temptations of eBay until today?

I have a feeling I'll either lose all seven auctions I bid on, or somehow win all of them. Keep my money or gain a closet suddenly inflated with BCBG clothing? I am torn! Now it's left in the hands of the bidding community. As long as I don't click "Enter Higher Maximum Bid" again. It must be some weird index finger tic. Yeah.

And this is on top of my recent discovery of smartbargains.com. Just kill my checkbook now.

The evils of online shopping should not be underestimated.

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"Almost Forgot Myself" -Doves

So close
You're wasted again
I know, somehow...
I lost myself...again

Making me high again
I almost forgot myself again
It hits me so hard
It kills me again
Today

So close
Yet you're wasted again
I know, somehow...
We'll find ourselves...
I don't know, I don't know

Then we'll be high again
I almost forgot myself there
It hits you so hard
And kills again

I almost forgot myself again
I almost forgot myself there
It's hitting me hard
It moves me again
Again...

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

After the rains come...the allergies

Yaaaay, allergies. Nose has been constantly running today. My misery is closely mimicked by the photo below:

Yeah, I've got watery, bulgy eyes, have turned slightly green, and I've lost several digits and gained a tail and stuff. Whatever. I feel pretty nastyass. As I inevitably do every year. :) And I was just getting over my phlegm-y cough too!

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In tastier news, I tried Sonoma Chicken Coop in downtown Man Jose this weekend with Bea and Eric since the boy-thing was up :) The Chicken Coop's motto is "Inexpensive Excellence" and I think it mostly lived up to that. Stylish unpretentious place, tasty rotisserie chicken, dessert menu looks delish. Haven't sampled the sweets yet since Yeung and I baked a strawberry-topped cheesecake for my favorite nudie roomie. Definitely trying desserts and a steak or two the next time I'm down there though ;)

And now for the first of (perhaps) a series of:

BART Chronicles
Smelly Man
Whenever I take BART in the mornings, I habitually fall asleep, slouched in my patented public-transportation-napping position. The other morning, as I was getting ready to doze off, a disheveled man sat down next to me. Strange people sitting next to me are fairly normal, but this man was PUNGENT. In an interesting way. First, I could detect the scent of cigarrette smoke, which I find quite unpleasant to begin with. But overlaid with this odor, there was the smell of Chinese pain-relieving aromatic oil. Some of you know what I'm talking about - that clear oil that completely clears your sinuses, pores, and whichever other orifices are nearby. It's the only smell strong enough to cover up the thousand-cow-scent on the drive down I-5 going to LA.

So anyway, Smelly Man smelled like cigarettes and the nostril-flaring oil. Did I still fall asleep? Um...yes.

Trophy Working Woman
I was waiting in the Genentech shuttle line outside the BART station when I noticed this woman rushing toward the station, struggling with a very unwieldy object. Turned out it was a gigantic trophy of some kind. I suppose she could have been a teacher or judge of a contest who had to lug the monstrosity to school or something, but I amused myself with the possibility that she was just really, really proud of winning such a large trophy herself and couldn't bear to part with it. I should start carrying around my elementary school spelling trophy. It has a bee with glasses on top. Spelling Bee. Get it? HAHAHAHA. Yeah, I'm lame. But I wasn't the one who designed the thing!

Do Strippers Take the 8:00 am BART Train?
While in the same shuttle line, I also noted a small woman in a very long, black belted wool coat. She had on white sneakers and was rushing toward the station, so I couldn't help but notice that her coat had a long slit in the front and a long slit up the back, and that she was wearing black hose. So I looked up...and up...and up...until I barely glimpsed the shortest black miniskirt ever. Where was she going at 8:00 am dressed like that? It didn't seem like the most ah...business-like outfit, but I somehow suspect strip joints don't open around 8:00 am either. Or maybe they do, but it can't be a very lucrative shift. Ideas?