jimmy

There are four shows coming up in October and one in November I want to go see: Sufjan Stevens (10/9), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (10/14), Ladytron + CSS (10/17), Yo La Tengo (10/23) and Islands (11/10). It’s an extravaganza! Roomie had invited her friends over to sample sugar cane juice. When I got home last night I almost cried and came at the same time: all of the boxes in our living room had gone away! Everything was put away, and my house looked like an actual home!

Last night, the movie night crew watched Princess Bride with some help of a mashed potato bar. I had reservations about it, but it was very very yummy. I helped! I brought some bacon and pancetta, and I turned the water in the sink off and on. I’m so talented. It was fun to hang out with angiewarhol‘s boytoy outside of the confines of a restaurant. He’s funny. 🙂

It’s funny how our landlord tends to only respond to me. I don’t know what it is, but he tends to be nice to me. *shrugs* I made some adjustments to my pork chop recipe I made a couple of weeks ago. I used leeks with cubanelle peppers. I heart leeks.

Work is so fucking boring. I know I’ve been complaining about how slow it’s been the past month or so. But this is just ridiculous! Since every possible person I report to is on vacation this week, I just left early. After taking a little nap, I made some din-din and just chatted online. I know, very productive.

I went to the farmer’s market in Hollywood with Roomie and lotusblossom. I bought cucumbers, cubanelle peppers and some leeks. I was still pretty pooped out, so I just lounged around and did a whole bunch of nothing. I love days like this sometimes.

My cousin Terry came over from the OC so I could show him around the different neighborhoods around here. He’s going to USC this semester, and he smartly has decided that commuting from Southern OC is just impossible. Afterwards, lotusblossom and I went to Souplantation where we ran into her ex-colleague Jesse who was fun dinner company. I was feeling very exhausted by the end of the night. I watched Circuit and fell asleep.

After work I went to evildork‘s bday dinner and drinking extravaganza. His friend Costin came over. I met Costin a couple of years ago at a Radiohead concert. I was on my best behavior that night. So when Costin greeted me as, “you’re that annoying guy from the Radiohead concert,” all bets were off. He was my target the whole night. And it was a lot of fun digging into him. It was a fun night, so much fun that lotusblossom is still sleeping in my bed. I went to bed with a girl. Ew!!!!

After work, I went down to the mom’s. She a bit crazy, but that’s why I love her. I programmed numbers and stuff into her new cell phone for which she was thankful for. My reward was Korean spicy noodles with kimchi. I actually had to put in more red pepper paste. Yum yum yum.

• Demon spawn of a kitten Squee woke me up 5 am when he somehow got into my trash can and threw my ashtray off the nightstand. The trash can is strategically placed under the nightstand so that it fits so snuggly even I have a hard time pulling it out to use.
• Go to the gym at 6 am. I start driving there and realize I have to take a shit. I have to turnaround, take a shit then head off again to the gym. I’m running late now. Thank heavens I’m salaried.
• I get home from the gym and Roomie is in the kitchen. She just discovers maggots in our trash can. No comment.
• I get the stupidest calls from vendors. I actually put the receiver by my ass and fart on a vendor.
• Lunchtime. I had made some cold spicy buckwheat noodles, but the noodles have clumped into a gelatinous mess.
• I have to go to Subway for lunch. The guy in front of me orders four sandwiches and insists on paying for them separately. I roll my eyes, and he turns around and asks me with full-on attitude, “Is that a problem?” Since I’ve been having a bad day, I respond, “Yes,” with all the attitude I can muster. “Oh well,” he responds, “I guess you’ll just have to live with it.” It took all the will power I had not to smack him upside his head.

The rest of the day went by swimmingly, but it’s just the morning that was a killer. I guess that’s what Newtwon envisioned in his 2nd law of thermodynamics.

It cooled down a little so I could finally just stay at home for an evening. It involved helping Roomie come up with a t-shirt design for her sugar cane juice company, making a taco bell run, saying goodbye to the ratty ass couch and surfing the net for porn. Mmmm porn.