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Thursday, July 03, 2008

I'll be coming home tonight for a couple days before I go to work on Sunday. wah.
Hope everyone enjoys their holiday. Don't get arrested.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Panama? Costa Rica? Tulum???

AHHHHH.

Monday, June 30, 2008

We got back from camp yesterday around 4pm. It took an extra 2 hours to get home.
Thank you Gay Pride Parade!
After waking up at 4:50am to work on a Sunday and underneath the sweltering sun, I needed you to give me that one last kick into the ground. I didn't realize you would be coming through at the exact place and time that I would be there. Everything was barricaded off w/ grey metal fences and yellow tape. All I could do was look across the street and see where I wanted to be, but in order to get from point A to point B, I had to pass through points G thru T first. BAH.
If it hadn't started to downpour at the exact moment, maybe I would have enjoyed it a little more.

The parade was pretty neat though with a lot of positive energy. Lots of happiness and of course, pride. I even got flashed by a well endowed gentleman wearing balloons (and ONLY balloons) Although, I feel like there was a significant number of girls who were claiming to be gay so they could be scantily dressed

I saw WALL.E tonight! I recommend it, it's quite cute.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

I've been in JC for a little over a year now and still do not have a television set. Having had opportunities to adopt t.v.'s that people were throwing away or upgrading from....I figured it was probably better that I had less distractions. Besides, I get my fix on youtube videos! Unfortunately, the one movie I am craving to see is Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels and no one has posted it up - only bits and pieces. I watched this one intro clip of Takeshi Kaneshiro's character in the movie and I was absolutely smitten. The dynamics of the roles he chooses to play are incredibly attractive to me. Funny how I overlap reality with fantasy - how I'd like to know everything about Kaneshiro's personal life when the person I'm really interested in, is the movie character - that animated, nutty guy with an energetic love for life (but this person is not real, so the closet thing is the actor portraying the character I love). Is this personality the side of me that I am not getting in touch with, so I seek it in others? Pondering about this, I realized that there are a lot of misplaced emotions whirling around - especially in America with our In Touch, People, and US weekly magazines. What is this celebrity infatuation rooted from? Aside from good looks - just from the characters they portray in movie roles? How funny it is to be human! Har dee harr harrr Anyhow, aside from Kaneshiro's character, I've heard this movie is a must see.

I have to get up at 5am tomorrow b/c I'm going to diabetes camp to recruit study subjects. It's basically me running around with a human shaped butterfly net catching little children and big adults for their bloods. Sometimes, they try to outrun me but I leap and tackle - ok, maybe that's a little of my imagination creeping in, but wouldn't that be more exciting? Trying to look at the brighter side of things, I have over 2 weeks of vacation days to spend b/c I've only taken 2 days off for the past year. I'm getting bent out of shape from work overload and HK/Taiwan prospects are looking meek (until maybe the winter). So I'm looking to go to Costa Rica or Panama or whatever suggestions people will give - it's all fair game.

Co-worker (w/ type 1 diabetes): Marrryyy, my sugar is in the 300's...
Me: I'm sorry...is there anything I can do?
Co-worker: I hate this...I don't want diabetes anymore, find the cure!!
Me: ::heartbreak:: I'M WORKIN ON IT!

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

I wore a dress w/ stockings to work yesterday. Commuting from JC into the city, with plenty of walking, catching two different trains and being squished side by side w/ other commuters, my stockings kept their form w/ no runs.

I get out of the subway that drops me off in front of my work....and my stockings get caught on a pineapple.
A PINEAPPLE! That doesn't even SOUND possible.
-This is Washington Heights, where you can buy peeled mango on a stick. Damn these street vendors and their delicious tropical fruit

In other more important and unfortunate news, I was informed that citizens of Zimbabwe have had their fingers and hands cut off by opposing parties b/c they want to vote. There is something to be said about hope; that sometimes the less you have, the more you compensate with faith - because things can only get better when you're at rock bottom. A vote means so much to these people because they truly believe it is capable of changing a country.

We take a lot of things for granted here in the states and that makes my heart hurt.