Holy Shit that was a good episode of 24!! TiVo paid off majorly for me tonight because I had all these distractions around my apartment and normally I woulda gotten annoyed because I would have had to wait until the DVD came out to watch it again, but because of TiVo, I just paused, rewound, watched from the beginning, fast forwarded through the commercials, and finished the episode at 11:15. I love my TiVo.

There were two major OH SHIT moments during the episode. So goooood!!! The second OH SHIT moment got me depressed but its just 24 being 24. You NEVER know whats gonna happen.

I got a new TV this weekend to go along with my TiVo - its a flat screen one from Costco and I've just been watching regular cable TV so far. I just put in the True Lies DVD and the quality is AMAZING! My old TV sucked ass. Whenever I watched Laker games, I couldn't see the score on the bottom of the screen. I get this new TV and I realize the score is a freakin inch above the bottom of the screen.

Heehee, this is great - I can watch an entire hour of Passions in 15 minutes... by fast forwarding though all the crappy scenes. Wait a sec - Why is it even taking me 15 minutes?? There is a huge difference in quality between the three soaps I watch sometimes. All My Children is the best, with real actors and shit. Days is ok, but it takes a while to move story lines along. Passions is totally crap. Yeah, I don't know why I watch it. I'm watching yesterday's episode of the Daily Show right now and I'm cracking up over Stephen Colbert's correspondent report. He's "in England" reporting on the Prince Charles scandal and he says slander laws prevent him from saying what he found out but he's using hand gestures and he just took a huge bite of a banana :).

I like this assistant so far. He instant messages me when he has questions and that just saves us so much time and hassle. I think this is the first time I've ever used AIM for work purposes and its great. Eileen is on AIM too but we only use it to say things we don't want anyone else to hear. Stan already complains that we talk too much in our office.

Will Ferrell is eating a banana now!!! Oh my god, I love the Daily Show.

From Justin to Lawsuit - $100,000 for a rear-ender?? Some people are just so freakin greedy and they don't want to work for their money. They have so much nerve! Poor Justin Guarini, can't seem to stay out of trouble...

The new guy started today... he seems pretty good so far. Not butt ugly either. He had the same last name as this ugly fat gross guy who liked me in junior high and all I can say is, phew. He knows English! Whoohoo! Never take that for granted - an assistant who can speak/write English.

TIVO BABY!!! I've finally joined the cult after talking about getting one for so long! (Nozomi says I've been talking about it for YEARS but I don't think its been that long.)

As with everything in my life, it was harder for me to set up the TiVo than it is for 'normal' people. First off, I don't have a phone line at home so I didn't think I could even get it in the first place, but I mentioned that to Steph, she said her co-worker had TiVo and she didn't have an apartment line - you use this USB network thing to connect TiVo through your cable modem (which I have). I called TiVo support yesterday after I bought it and they told me I'd have to pay an extra $99 to use the network connection... they're so full of shit... the web site says you don't need to buy that option. (I haven't tried it yet to see if what I did works). I had to go to Amy's apartment last night to do the initial set-up using her phone line and I couldn't disconnect that thing for 4-8 hours so I just left it there and picked it up this morning. I played with it a little this morning too - by now, TiVo shoulda taped The Daily Show (repeat) and when I get home, All My Children, Days and Passions shoulda been taped. (Not that I'm gonna watch all those crappy soaps, I just like having the option to).

Lakers game tonight - forgot to have TiVo tape it but thats ok - I get off work at 6:00 and I get home at 6:05 so the only thing I might miss is a couple of starting introductions. I can't wait to use my Live TV replay when I watch the game! New Orleans is my second favorite team - I love Baron Davis but I gotta root against him tonight. So glad he's doing well in the NBA.

I'm glad it rained yesterday because I was feeling jipped from Friday. I had my car parked in my spot at the apartment and when I went to my car on Sunday, half the car was spotless clean (from the rain) and the other half was dirty (I don't have any awning, etc... the building covers half my car). On Sunday night, the building next door to me ran their sprinklers or something so when I got to my car Monday morning, a quarter of my car was wet, so that left me with only a quarter of my car completely spotless clean :). I need to clean out my car anyway. My mom was gonna get me a new TV last weekend when we went to Costco but she said I needed to clean out my car first so we can fit the TV in there. Yes, I am a spoiled brat.

I'm not looking for a new car because I love mine but Dante saw this last week on recycler.com - a 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK 55 AMG on sale for $15,000... It's silver (the best color ever!), it has a clean title, 30,000 miles, excellent condition, fully loaded, etc... AMGs are amazing and this car brand new would go for more than $60,000. He decided to call the guy about it yesterday to ask him why he was selling it so cheap and the guy told him it was sold already but it was so cheap because he just inherited $290 million and he needed to give this car away. My lease on my Audi is up next year and I woulda done whatever I had to to get this car if Dante had told me about it earlier. (If all else fails... Mommy!! :)) No one in our family ever buys used cars though but my Audi wasn't new when I got it - I just took over my sister's lease because she leased a BMW X5. She was paying both payments and the Audi was just sitting in the garage. I hate leases because you're paying all that money for a car you'll have to give back in a couple years and you're limited on what you can do with it (mileage wise, etc). I would love to keep my current car after this lease though, if I can afford to. At the very least, I coulda bought that CLK from the guy and sold it for twice what I paid and I could use the profit to pay off the Audi and everyone woulda been happy! :) Oh well.

This is a prime example of how the rich get richer. One of my clients has been directing a couple of episodes of a sitcom this season. The star of the sitcom has been sick for 7-8 days and the DGA stipulates a per diem of $3,500 a day... that means my client gets $28,000 PLUS the $25,000 directing fees. Must be nice.

Alright. Who wants to run in the next marathon with me?? Yeah, stop laughing. Isn't running a marathon one of those life changing events? If you can run a marathon, you can do anything in your life. Is that true or have I been watching too much "inspirational" TV? Diddy is doing it, I think Ozzy did it last season, Oprah did it...

On second thought, I don't think I'll do able to run the 26 miles... I can't even get my ass to the gym :) heehee.

Steve - I'm serious about the skydiving though... Let me know where/when and I'll do it!

I don't think I'm going to the gym tonight... just watching P. Diddy train for his marathon on MTV while eating my Taco Bell is making me exhausted. Say what you want about the man, but he's hard working and successful.

BULLETIN: I'm getting closer to going to the gym. I was going to go the last two nights but it hasn't worked out. Tuesday night I finished watching the game and it was too late... last night I just fell asleep after the OC. My New Years Resolution totally went to waste - don't ask me why I couldn't keep it (going to the gym at least once a month). I think I'll go tonight (for the first time since June I think) because sweeps month is starting on Saturday. I'm planning 10pm because of Friends and Scrubs. Why did they stick Will & Grace in between those two shows?? Just drags out the night. Oh - and for those of you who missed it, they're replaying 24 at 9pm. (Usually Eileen and I check the listings sometime in the afternoon but we're super bored today). I lost my 24 Hour Fitness card though... I wonder if I can just have them mail me a new one.

Sex and the City 8:30p repeat was exactly what I was talking about yesterday - letting someone help you out. It really is wonderful to not have to do everything yourself but no one is as dependable as yourself. Carrie got mad at Aidan because he BOUGHT her a new computer after hers crashed. I think Carrie has problems but I see her point there... she's so used to depending on herself that she doesn't want anyone else's help because what happens when you start depending on them and they can't be there for you or the relationship breaks apart?

I need a boyfriend like Jon Stewart. He's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week (I 'borrowed' it from the receptionist area last night). He's smart, funny, hard-working; he knows what's going on; he can talk politics and pop culture... and he's cute enough. This is the exact line from the article: ... the kind of guy who's smarter than you but doesn't rub it in your face; the kind of guy who drops references to Wilford Brimley and The Breakfast Club into conversation, yet talks intelligently with Henry Kissinger; and the kind of guy who's become the media elite's It Boy, but still identifies with Revenge of the Nerds. I know plenty of smart guys who just don't 'get it', and I know dumb guys who are... just dumb. :)

All these superstars on the Lakers and my favorite one is... Rick Fox! Just like me to go with the pretty boy. Will that be the starting 5 when Rick comes back from his injury?? The game was fun to watch but I missed the part where Kobe came out to the bench at the end of the 3rd quarter because I was watching 24. I never thought I'd like Karl Malone but I was so happy to see him get a standing ovation when he left the game in the 4th quarter. Gary Payton got one too (deservedly).

Supposedly Shaq and Kobe are cool now. Last season it was Rick and Derek who took it upon themselves to keep peace on the team but now they have Karl and Gary to help. If I were Rick or Derek, I'd feel so relieved that it wasn't on my shoulder to keep the team together. It always helps to distribute the work around, especially when you have two other superstars taking on the brunt of the work. Shaq and Kobe might not listen to you but they HAVE to listen to Karl and Gary. I'm so used to doing everything by myself in my life that when I do get help, I appreciate it so much more... like doing laundry or going grocery shopping with Dante - so nice to have someone else carry the heavy stuff :). My parents don't know English too well so I'm usually stuck trying to translate (so tough, especially cause I barely know Taiwanese) but when my siblings are around, I feel better because the pressure is taken off me.

This is my first time watching 24 during the season and I can't believe I have to wait a whole week til the next hour!! Awww - Tony and Michelle are married :)... they make such a cute couple. Tony is my favorite guy on that show. And the bad guy so far this season (Salazar) is the guy in Only You (Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.) who was trying to get with Bonnie Hunt. I've watched that movie way too many times! Anyways, season looks good but I'm trying to figure out what next year's plot will be - they've already covered assassination, nuclear bomb and bio-weapons...

The Sex and the City rerun on right now is about defining relationships! This is the episode where Miranda's boyfriend pees in front of her and Samantha first meets her lesbian lover. Charlotte is trying to define her relationship with her estranged husband/boyfriend/lover and Carrie is hanging out with Mr. Big again. I think thats what my relationship with Dante is like - Carrie and Mr. Big. We're not boyfriend/girlfriend anymore ... we're friends who have fun hanging out together but because of our past, we're more than friends (?). I don't even know. The relationship is undefinable. Oh - and you guys are gonna kick my ass (I deserve it) but he's moved in again. Don't know how long its gonna last this time but this is the last time I (sorta) promise!

Oooh! The last line of the episode - "So thats it. What ultimately defines a relationship is another relationship." A lot to think about. I think that if I find another guy I really like, Dante would be out of my life. I told him that once too... "I've always thought that if I start dating someone else, they'd have to get used to you having a big part in my life. But, I started thinking - if I date Justin Guarini, he's so lighthearted and easy going, I wouldn't want to hurt him like that. I probably couldn't talk to you anymore." This was after I watched American Idol 1 the Bonus Disc - A Day in the Life of Justin - and he seems so goofy... that gets me every single time. Of course this led to Dante making fun of me and telling my friends I said that, but still!

ESPN.com - 'Passing' comment restarts Shaq-Kobe feud - oh give me a break! It's probably the media making too much of nothing, but if there was really a feud, I'd probably take Shaq's side - his personality definitely makes him more likeable.

The first game of the season is Tuesday night... I'll watch the first hour and a half but after that, I'm out. I hope Dante isn't around Tuesday night because he'll want to finish the game but it's my TV, my choice. The 24 season 3 premiere is on (without commercial interruption) and I'm not gonna miss that! Someone tape it for me just in case, please :). Thats what I hate about digital cable - you can't watch one thing and tape another.

Oh my god, yesterday was my one-year anniversary for this journal! Being a true Gemini, I hardly ever stick to anything that long. Yay me.

And yay, extra hour tonight so I can finish an extra hour of 24. I should be done with Season 2 tonight.

I can't believe I just wasted a couple hours watching The OC marathon on FX. Why am I hooked on this show?? There are so many things that annoy me about it and the actors aren't that great or good looking. I have so much cleaning to do too! Oh well.

I had a total Office Space moment yesterday - "Umm, I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow..." He might have even had a coffee cup in his hand, I don't remember.

So here I am at this crappy office on Saturday. I don't mind though because I need the overtime.

Oh - by the way, dumb assistant left a week ago because she said she had a long commute and she wasn't learning anything here... boohooo. If she had an IQ above 10, we coulda taught her something. Eileen was the one giving her all the work. I do everything myself because I need things done perfect. If I do assign her anything, she'd give me the work with a ton of spelling errors and a messy layout. The assistant's job is basically deposits (the thing she fucks up the least on), disbursements (paying the bills - sometimes she can't distinguish between business and personal expenses and she pays them from the wrong account), bank reconciliations (oh my god, let me tell you how many times she messes these things up!! she's messed up the software for a couple clients), some financial statements (I redo them because of all the spelling errors and messy layouts) and filing (she can't even do this right). Add this to the fact she was always sick or late. Stan always took up for her though - she's sick, she's got some stomach problems (we think its all in her head) - and he gets on our case for little shit (being 10 minutes late, etc). Eileen and I are glad she's gone and we don't have to deal with a liability in the office.

So I go over to the assistant's desk to see what needs to be done. She didn't do the investment statements filing for the last two months!! And she kept asking us for work to do because she "had nothing to do"!! She made no secret of the fact she hated filing, but that's what I had to do when I had her position and that's what Asher did when he had that position and you never heard either of us complaining. Duh, who the hell LIKES filing?? It's part of the job when you don't have experience. There were so many times she came to me and she told me she couldn't find a file, and I look where she was looking and I pull up the file instantly. She doesn't file chronologically either and sometimes she'd just stick the papers for a whole bunch of clients into one file.

My knees are still bruised from 3 weeks ago when I tripped and fell (stupid shoes!! the price of fashion) so everytime I kneel down to get to a low filing drawer, I'm in pain. Oh well. I need to get new shoes though. I've almost fell a couple times since then.

4 more hours of 24 to go!

Speed was on the other night and I watched about 3 minutes of it before I had to turn it off. I loved that movie so much when I was in high school but there is no comparison to 24. I was comfortable in bed already and I didn't want to get up so I was flipping channels and Speed was the only decent thing on. It bothered me so much that I got out of bed to find my DVD player remote so I could finish another hour of 24. (I have 8 more hours to go!) I thought Keanu Reeves was the cutest thing ever back then but now I prefer Kiefer Sutherland to Keanu. This one episode actually had me crying! TV never does that to me.

It was nice to see Kobe back on the court last night but his legs are like toothpicks now. He is s-k-i-n-n-y!!!Understandable though... I am 99% sure he'll be acquitted but you never know what will happen. Sometimes even when I am 100% sure about an answer and someone starts questioning me about it, I start to get doubts. This is his life at stake too, not some stupid test that has no bearing on your life in a year or two.

So much has happened this week at the office. A couple months ago, a client called and said she thought one of her employees (W) was stealing money from her (when W bought toys for the client's kids on the client's credit card, she'd also pick up a couple things for her own kids and charge it to the card). (See the August 25th entry) We thought we got that resolved back then, and the client kept W as an employee, don't know why. W has a sister (M) who has worked for the client for a couple years and who the client absolutely adores. The client hired W and M's husband because of M. M is a maid and she makes more than 1.5 x my salary. (She barely speaks English and she makes more than me!!) M has a charge card in her name so she can purchase groceries for the house, toys for the kids, etc. The client set up this thing for M so that if the client dies, M gets $15,000/yr to take care of the client's dog. M is substitute trustee on the client's will if the client's brother dies. We thought M was the good sis. :)... you can see where this is going.

The client calls us on Monday and says $20,000 cash is missing from her safe and she thinks it might be M. We agree we need proof before we can do anything. Oh yeah, and last week M requested 2 months advance salary so she can put money down on a new house. We gave her the check on Friday (before everything happened) and I guess it was too late for her to cash it at the bank. (Why you would cash a check that large instead of depositing the check in your bank account is beyond me). The client asked Eileen to stall M from cashing the check because she wanted to be sure and she didn't want M to get suspicious. The nanny cam is set up that day. On Tuesday, the client calls and says she caught M stealing from the safe on the nanny cam. Apparently, the client wrote down her safe combination somewhere and M somehow found it. The client called the cops and they're gonna arrest her on Thursday (Eileen and I were sitting by, waiting for the action, and we were mad that they were waiting that long). All day Tuesday and Wednesday, M is calling Eileen every hour to ask when she can cash her check because she really needs the money and Eileen comes up with bullshit stories like there is no money in the account, we're switching banks, we're just gonna wire the money into your account, the messenger will give you the cash instead... I swear, we got new relevations everyday. Eileen figured M really didn't buy a house because M kept coming up with bullshit excuses why she couldn't fax over the escrow papers. Then, the client's brother says his stepson told him he saw M and her husband smoking crack behind the house (I don't know how long ago that was). We think they need that money for drugs and because I watch too much TV/movies, I came up with: M needs the money to pay off a drug dealer before a certain deadline or the drug dealer is gonna have her killed. When Eileen was analyzing the checks that M wrote (the client took away M's credit card after W was caught stealing and she added M to a household checking account), she realized Wednesday was M's birthday. Maybe thats why the client wanted to wait til Thursday for M to be arrested. Eileen and I didn't do any work on Thursday because we were waiting til 5:00 hit because thats when the detective was gonna show up. Eileen and the nephew were supposed to make sure M was at the house then. Eileen was trying to figure out why M didn't call her to bug her about the check at all Thursday. M waited an hour to call Eileen back too. 5:00 came and we didn't hear anything from the house... at 7:00, the client's personal assistant calls Eileen and tells her nothing happened. M confessed, said she was sending the money to her dad in Guatemala, etc and the personal assistant was supposed to take M to the police station the next day because the client didn't want to have M arrested in front of her kids. We were disappointed - we wanted more action! M was even spending the night at the client's place. I don't know about the client, but I would not feel comfortable sleeping in a house with a thief. Today we find out that M found a copy of the police report that day and she called the police earlier on Thursday telling them that the nephew had a gun and was threatening her (which was total bullshit). The Malibu police were over there and I guess they determined nothing happened. I don't know why the client didn't know the police were over there until this morning but when she found out, she had the cops come arrest M right away... forget not wanting to do it in front of the kids. The client now thinks that M stole some of her (dead) mother's jewelry also. Geez!

I Love the 80's Strikes Back is on. I don't know how this is different from I Love the 80s though, just new material. Nick Lachey is a comment-er! Did his album ever come out?? I should buy it just to support him because I feel sorry for him. Anyways, I love this show! I never watched I Love the 70s because I don't know anything about that era and I wouldn't be able to relate. They're talking about Field of Dreams right now - "If you build it, they will come." Our high school went through a whole Kevin Costner phase because he's a VPHS alum. I had a some football coach/health teacher who would just bring in Kevin Costner movies when he didn't have any material planned (which was often) and then he would point out some short bald chubby white extra in all the movies and say that was him.

Richard Marx!! Heehee, "Right Here Waiting". Oh my god, I love this show.

Whoohoo! I have a clean car! My car looks so awesome when its clean. I had been holding off on taking it to the car wash the past 3 days because even though I have a coupon for a wash for $6.99, it's $1 more on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. I can't believe I'm cheap like this (been hanging around with Mike too long!) and I just spent $10 on the lottery. Totally throwing money away! Oh well. The CA lotto is $92 mil and Powerball is $162 mil. I'm buying $10 in tickets ($5 for Mike) in the CA lotto and Mike is going to throw in $5 extra for me in Powerball.

Damn Raiders. Thats all I gotta say. Philip Buchanan, I'm looking at you. So pissed.

I've never had so much "fun" vacuuming!! Dante broke my vacuum (big surprise, he breaks everything) so I borrowed my mom's vacuum last week. The thing has this dirt sensor and I spent the whole time just staring at that thing. I tried tricking it too, vacuuming corners we don't go in, but it stays green. Then I go to the desk area and of course I get massive levels of red. The carpet in front of the mirror also has massive levels of red too - Dante has to look at himself in the mirror at least four times a day. I'm embarrassed to let people know how dirty I am but I spent forty minutes vacuuming the living room. We have no furniture in there because my roommate and I are both broke so no one spends any time in there (except to walk to the kitchen) and we don't bother vacuuming it. I just saw that vacuum in the Sears ad though - I can't believe my mom paid $250 for a vacuum!!

I am the biggest dumbass! I went to Costco today for my mom and she wanted me to buy a lot of stuff so I took her car instead of mine. My trunk is filled with so much junk and I didn't feel like cleaning it out. It's hot as hell today too... I finished putting the things in her trunk and I just slammed the trunk shut. Then I realized, oh shit! The keys are in the trunk!! In my car that wouldn't be a problem because I just push this thing on the trunk and it opens, I don't need a key after I unlock the car. I had unlocked the car before I opened the trunk but because I didn't open the doors and start the car, the doors locked automatically (I thought I could open the door and just pop the trunk). Thank god my cell phone was in my pocket! I called my brother and had him pick up the extra keys from my mom and bring them to me... then I got home, opened the trunk to unload the stuff and I slam the trunk shut with the extra keys also in there! This time, I hadn't locked the car so I popped the trunk open. I appreciate my car so much more now.

Only finished 8 hours of 24 this weekend... 16 more to go before October 28th!

Best show ever!!

My plans for the weekend - clean the kitchen, vacuum my room, and watch as much 24 Season 2 as I can before the new season starts in less than 2 weeks... oh my god, I'm only on hour 4 but this might even be better than the first season!

Ok, search thing works but it only directs you to the right archive page and then you can do a browser search (Ctrl+F, Find on this page thing) from there. That is, if you care that much :)... and the permanent links didn't work so I'm deleting them.

Just spent the last two hours adding things to my blog... a comments thing, permanent links and a search box (the search probably won't work yet because I'm too broke to pay for the service so they make you wait until they're finished with the priority people). I'll probably get rid of the 'tagboard' at some point because I'm tired of seeing that huge gap at the top of my template... if I knew anything about html, I'd be able to fix it. Thank god blogdesigns (the place I found this template) made it so simple for me. I have no idea what java is even though thats what this page is written in. I heard about it back when I was taking computer programming classes (I took two my freshman year - we learned Borland C++, does anyone use that anymore? did anyone use that in the first place? what is it even for??) and now, 7 years later, I play around with templates for this journal and I see CSS, RSS, XML... huh?? I feel so behind.

I haven't watched any of the baseball playoffs (I don't every year because the Dodgers either don't make it at all or they're out in the first round) but I wanna say, yay Aaron Boone! He hit the home run in the 11th inning to win the game and the series for the Yankees. Another Villa Park High School grad (he graduated a year before I started high school)... and this one doesn't suck. :) (Not that I'm implying anything Mr. Chenowith :) heehee. I'm just kidding - but I remember how he played his freshman year in high school and I can't get that out of my head.) Aaron has another brother who went to my high school when I was there - Matt Boone. I vaguely remember what he looks like but I remember thinking he was cute in high school. He'll be in the major leagues soon enough - he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the draft. Of course, people know their dad Bob and their other brother Bret...

ESPN.com - Lawyers say Kobe's team made strong case - he is soooooooooo gonna walk! The judge will definitely send the case to trial (because they just do) but Kobe will be acquitted. I don't know why they're going to waste millions of dollars on a trial when there is so much doubt (no jury is going to convict a guy of something this huge when it comes down to a he said/she said with suspect evidence). I guess with the media, et.al., it brings Colorado millions in revenue? Anyway, how dirty/dumb do you have to be to wear 'dirty' underwear (one from a previous night you did it with someone else) to a rape exam?? Thats just gross.

screencaps from breny.com (Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Simpson, Omeletteville, Michael Bolton)

Last week was the first time I watched Saturday Night Live since the 2000 elections and JT was awesome on it... just makes me like him more. He did a punk'd episode as Ashton Kutcher and in the end, he signed off with "I'm Ashton! I'm AWESOME! and I love Justin Timberlake!" I love him in an omelette costume too - he started singing and dancing "I'm a slave for you... bring it on in to Omeletteville!" Oh, and by the way, you know I watch too much Newlyweds if I know Jimmy Fallon has the tattoo on the wrong arm.

Watching SNL is weird for me now - I can't imagine SNL without Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, Chris Kattan, Ana Gasteyer... thank god Darrell Hammond is still on. I loved Will Ferrell's Bush impressions, the Spartan cheerleaders and Celebrity Jeopardy!

I took last Friday off work to do some errands and I can't tell you how happy I was to finally have an extra day off. I got so much done on Saturday. Did my laundry, cleaned my walk-in closet out (who needs a million and one Target bags sitting in the closet just in case I need a trash bag?) and hung up all my clean clothes in the closet. My closet hasn't been that clean since the day I moved in! I set up the laundry sorter bags so now I can just sort clothes everyday instead of trying to do 2 weeks worth of clothes for 2 people right before I go to the laundromat. I was so happy about the clean closet I spent part of the weekend sitting at my desk with the closet light on and the door open so I can admire my handiwork.

So someone broke out of jail at a maximum security prison in Pennsylvania. I thought stuff like this only happened in movies! Hollywood has desensitized us to everything. When my brother was in the accident and the car flipped over, he and his friend ran from the car cause they thought it would explode (like it ALWAYS happens in the movies). Breaking out of prison is a goal in most movies and in 99% of the movies, the inmate is successful doing so. We even root for them to do so!

Steph and I were talking about something else that always happens in TV/movies/commercials - meeting guys at the grocery store. Of course, most of the time the guys aren't losers but "Hollywood is make-believe". Last week I went to Ralphs and Albertsons on consecutive nights and both days I had changed out of my work attire into American Eagle jeans (I tell ya, these are "magical jeans"!! the super low rise flare AE Downtown Hipster jeans... everytime I wear these, guys are always staring :)) I went to Ralphs by myself and this guy who worked there was stocking but also following me around and finally I just stopped shopping and talked to him. Thank god they'd get in trouble if they ask for your number or give you their number when they're on the job! He said he's a dancer and he's supposedly in this show thats gonna be on HBO soon. The next night I went to Albertsons with Dante and even though this guy knew I was with Dante, he was smiling at me and trying to talk to me when Dante turned his back. He was cute though, if I wasn't with Dante that night, I would've talked to him. Forget the clubs I guess, the supermarkets are where its at! :)

Even with all the details released about Kobe and the "incident", I still think he's gonna walk. We've only heard her side of the story and now they're saying that there were 2 men's sperm found on her underwear. What is up with that?? Kobe's attorneys are the best there is in Colorado (hiring Johnnie Cochran wouldn't have looked good in that small town in Colorado) and they know what they're doing. Good defense attorneys are worth every penny they're being paid. Aside from the obvious OJ case, the attorneys I worked for before got John DeLorean off drug charges based on government conspiracy! Anyway, the prosecution's case couldn't have been all that solid if the DA waited two weeks to file charges and had to call people all over the country to get their advice. He is in WAY over his head.

Eileen and I were just talking about how there are no other major newspapers in LA but the LA Times. No surprise, but I hate the LA Times. They not only define the "liberal bias" in newsreporting (the Arnold thing was just the most recent case) but they've been the cause of so many UCLA sports scandals in recent memory. They were the ones that came out with the Baron Davis SUV story (nothing ever became of it except a lot of bad press I think... might have led to Jim Harrick's firing), they "broke" the UCLA football players - handicapped permits scandal, and they ruined DeShaun Foster's senior season. My client was the one who "lent" DeShaun the Expedition... he's not an agent!! He's just an actor/director. Anyway, if I didn't love ads and coupons so much I would've cancelled my LA Times (Sunday) subscription also.

"I voted for the winner. Congratulations to Arnold. Hopefully he does a good job. I had dream one time that Arnold was governor, Magic (Johnson) was mayor and I was sheriff. Only in L.A." � Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal, reacting to the results before the team's first exhibition game in Hawaii.

I just finished watching the game tonight and halfway through the game I thought I recognized the white guy sitting next to Shaq on the bench... I thought about it, ran through all the tall white basketball players I could think of - that's not Mark Madsen, we didn't get Shawn Bradley, I thought we got rid of Travis Knight... Then I remembered - that player that never smiled was Eric Chenowith!! I went to high school with the guy! VP represent. He played at U. Kansas and I remember him getting drafted but I thought he didn't make it.

Some other observations: I thought #5 looked kinda cute but he'll never replace Rick Fox in my heart. Karl Malone does play dirty. It was NICE seeing Shaq, Karl and Gary on the court. I still can't believe thats our starting lineup for the year. Kobe, Shaq, Karl, Gary and some random player (throw me in there)... you can't double team 4 players on the court! This is gonna be a fun season.

Anyway, bedtime. Great day today. Don't know why, but started feeling sorry for Gray Davis. Happy we have the Governator now though.

Wow - Jordan could get the call to replace Kobe. MTV Cribs was good last night - Shaq has so much personality. His bed is 15 feet long and 30 feet wide and circular!! Thats bigger than my room! And he told the camera, "I'll be watching MTV Cribs and if anyone tries to get a bigger bed than me, I'm warning you. I have room to make it bigger!" Their bathroom is about the size of my apartment. His wife looks like she is good for him. Sometimes you look at a couple and you think that one person is dragging the other person down but she looks like she is successful on her own and she just makes him better.

Trading Spaces: $100 Grand last week was amazing. I don't know if I can watch a regular show again. Doug's kitchen/dining room/living room looked straight out of a home magazine. Laurie's room was good too but you could tell she was just buying really expensive things to fill her room (a $2800 arm chair that didn't look that great, $1800 for some ugly small circular mirrors from hundreds of years ago). Sony donated plasma screens, DVD players, entertainment systems and laptops so those didn't come out of the budget and I think the homeowners said later that Banyan Productions even paid their gift taxes. How lucky can you get? What would you do with $50,000 to redecorate a room?? I woulda liked to see Vern do a $50 grand room instead of Laurie.

I was watching Tough Crowd or something like that (the Colin Quinn show on after the Daily Show) and they had Stephen Colbert (from the Daily Show on)... Colin asked them how they would declare their candidacies for office and Stephen said something like, "I would become a huge movie star, marry someone famous, declare my candidacy on a late night talk show ... and three days before the election, I would cure cancer." How can you not win on that?? Like I said, if Gray Davis and his people find Saddam or Osama, I'd vote for him.

I've gotta watch the Daily Show tonight. With this kind of material, Jon is gonna be amazing. I was on the Daily Show website and the downloadables are great - they have a wallpaper "The Iraq War Finals" set up like a March Madness bracket and they have a wallpaper where you can sit at your desk and stare at Jon sitting at his desk staring at you.

The Siegfried and Roy tiger attack was seriously scary!! See why I'm afraid of animals? Yeah, a 600 pound tiger is different from a little chihuahua but you know where I'm coming from right?

Can't wait til tomorrow... the first Lakers preseason game!! Oh, and the recall :). I miss watching my boys out there on the court and I'm excited now that Karl and Gary joined the team. (Mike says I sold out now because I don't hate Karl Malone anymore). Too bad Rick Fox is out til January and Kobe has all that stuff going on.

There was a long article on Kobe in Newsweek this week - pretty interesting and it points out a lot of stuff that I'm sure a lot of people didn't know. Poor guy - he has all the skills in the world but he doesn't have street smarts or social skills. He had a girlfriend when he asked Brandy to prom (he told the girlfriend his agent wanted him to do that). Brandy didn't know who he was but she thought he was kinda cute and she wanted to go to a prom so she said ok. When he moved out here, his parents and Brandy's parents tried to get them together but he was too boring for her. It mentions he liked Beyonce, Kelly Rowlands, Venus Williams, and Tyra Banks but then he met Vanessa. Everyone was against him going out with Vanessa cause she was too young and uncultured compared to the other successful women he romanced in the past but he wouldn't listen, he wanted to get married against everyone's wishes, didn't want a prenup either. Michael Jordan and some other NBA players called him and told him to at least get a prenup (when Michael Jordan calls, YOU LISTEN!). Anyway, the article covers way more (it was a gooooooood article!) but the thing that shocked the hell out of me was it said he went to go see a divorce lawyer in March and when Vanessa found out about the meeting, she had to be taken to the hospital. I've heard some pretty messed up things about their relationship from other sources - most likely rumors though - he paid off all the debt her family was in, bought them a lot of stuff, etc... James told me he heard on the sports talk shows a while ago that one day Kobe came home to their house in Newport Beach and the front end of his S-class Benz was messed up, he asked Vanessa what happened and she said, "My ex-boyfriend came by and was driving the car and wrecked it." How messed up is that? (IF IT'S TRUE).

MTV Cribs tonight is ALL Shaq - all 3 segments. It's gotta be good.

Tiger Attack May Cost Mirage Huge Loss - I hope the Mirage doesn't go out and sign some sucky singer to headline their hotel now. Celine Dion is taken already so the only one worse is Michael Bolton.

Big Surprise: Look where California is on this list.

Yahoo! News - Crowd Cheers Schwarzenegger After Apology: Gray Davis groped me ... While reaching for my wallet. Best line I've read all day.

I can't believe it's come to this - digging up a quote from an unpublished book proposal from 28 years ago!! Damn. Stop wasting your time on this crap (cause you're still gonna lose) and send your cronies to freakin find Saddam or Osama... you'll get credit for it, don't worry. And those unnamed women who accused him of sexually harassing and groping them between 1975 and 2000? Why didn't they file any charges or lawsuits?? You know people are good for doing that these days... Everyone called it though - dirty dirty dirty. What did you expect?

Dennis Miller tells it like it is... Arnold has taken on two endeavors in his adult life and became the biggest success in the world at both of them.

Oh and that CIA "leak" thing? If you didn't make it a BIG TIME story, maybe 99% of the world wouldn't know about it. You know how things happen, a few people noticed it and then it goes away? No big deal until you bring attention to it! Back in high school, my friend Darryl panced (is that how you spell it? pulling pants down) his brother Geoff at a football game and no one would have noticed if Geoff didn't yell out. When he did, everyone turned to look at him and thats when they knew what was going on. I can't believe I just used that analogy. So now they have her name published, they know who her husband is, they know she has a kid and I'm sure they can find out info about her and the things that she did. I'd feel sorry for her husband but wait, he's the one who brought it all out in the open! It is serious though - I can't believe the reporter would name her in the first place and then say she's an undercover CIA agent. Common sense, people!

Alright, enough political mumbo jumbo (I watched Family Man again last night and "mumbo jumbo" just stuck in my head)...

Is Scrubs the best show on TV or what? This is NBC's best hope next season when Friends is over. I love Joey but I don't think his spin-off is gonna be that great. The first segment of Scrubs was J.D. with headphones on singing and dancing along to 'Faith' - "Well I guess it would be nice, if I could touch your body..." this black dude walks by and J.D. was like, "oh, sorry, not you." 15 seconds into the show and I realized how much I missed it over the summer!

We're running out of time!! Steve - you're the last one of us to turn 25 (I think, if there's anyone else, I'm sorry!) and you'll be 25 in 2 weeks...

Top 10 things to do before you turn 30.

I've actually been working at work (big shocker) this week!! Monday I had to do my timesheets so I could get paid on Tuesday (timesheets suck! I get behind and then I have to do weeks at a time), Tuesday was the end of September and because my two biggest clients' corporations had fiscal years that ended in September, I worked my ass off that day. I made up for it yesterday by barely doing anything all day.

I got a haircut yesterday... decided to go with bangs now because I'm sick of having the same non-hairstyle since junior high. I don't know what prompted me to do it either - I was flipping through Lucky magazine on Saturday at the laundromat with Steph and we decided they look cute so both of us went out and got them.

I finally watched the repeat of last week's Newlyweds last weekend and all I can say is, good thing Jessica Simpson has her looks and her chest. That girl is D-U-M-B!! "Jess, do you want buffalo wings?" "No thanks, I don't eat buffalo." ... later on ... Drew: "Haven't you noticed buffalos don't have wings??" I'm developing a little crush on Nick and Drew... watching them move the furniture across the ladder onto the balcony this week was awesome - they are so creative!

I want Arnold to win next week and I'm certainly rooting for him but I feel sorry for Gray Davis... the recall became more than just talk after he signs the bill to triple the vehicle registration fee and now we're gonna have the recall election a week after the new fees go into affect. All those newly broke people in line at the DMV are sure happy about that! :)

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I had to look for my old cell phones this week so my sister could turn them in and get the $50 mail in rebate from Cingular... I didn't realize how much junk I accumulated in my apartment in less than 2 years. I need to take an entire weekend and just organize everything in my apartment! I have a lot of those Office Depot white boxes stacked up in my closets filled with useless junk I don't need (great set decorators for Office Space by the way - Peter has some stacked up in his apartment also). Anyway, I found a case of CDs I forgot I had... 98 Degrees!! They were my favorite boy band because they were the cutest group... except for Justin. I don't know why Monica ever thought he was the cutest but we made fun of her taste all the time. Like I was telling Steph, Justin from 98 Degrees soils the Justin name :). Nick was my favorite and watching Newlyweds makes me like him even more. He and Drew are so cute when they hang out! So now, the CDs I have in my car are: 1. Justin Guarini, 2. Justin Timberlake Justified, 3. Tyrese (the newest one) (just so when Dante drives my car he can't complain about me only having gay CDs in my changer), 4. 98 Degrees (and Rising), 5. Pop mix CD, and 6. 80s mix CD. My five minute commute only lets me listen to two to three songs a day.

Back to the cell phone bit - I found this old old old Sony phone I had for Sprint... this was when people first got cell phones and gave up their pagers. Must have been around 1996-1997. The thing was huge and heavy!! I know that when the Cingular people open the box for the rebate, they're gonna laugh at how ancient it is. Its amazing how small cell phones have gotten now. The Sony one was about the size of a TV remote...

In other news, I love Bruce Willis... I cried in Armageddon (won't give it away for people who haven't seen it).

I caught the tail end of the Bachelor last night - just the rose ceremony... this one woman was crying hysterically because she wasn't picked. It's the first freakin episode and she's talking about how her heart is broken on national TV. What, she knew the guy for like 2 days? And she already knew what she was getting into with the show! Its not like he misled her or anything, he just didn't show any interest in her.

Amy's boyfriend Rob needs a place to stay and Amy's parents don't want him living with her so I offered our living room for him to stay at a couple nights a week. Right now he's staying with her friend in Santa Barbara and he has class at Pasadena City College one day a week. That is a hell of a commute, even if it's for one day! He was talking about payment and we were just joking around - I told him buy me From Justin to Kelly but he can't buy it online. He has to go to a store so someone can see him buy it. I was telling Mike about this and Mike said that wasn't enough. He has to wear a "Justin Guarini Rules!" shirt so people know he's buying the movie for himself and not a sister. I've hung out with Rob three times and we're already on terms where we make fun of each other relentlessly. How does a relationship like that start anyway?? I just realized that this is the way I am with my close Asian male friends (Mike and Steve mainly) - I have no romantic interest in them so I feel comfortable around them. When I first met Rob, I told Amy "he's really good looking for an Asian." That�s a huge compliment coming from me :).

The assistant is single handedly keeping the copier/fax repair service in business!! The admin person made a comment yesterday, �It seems like every time she touches the copier, something happens to it.� She burned her hand trying to fix a paper jam a couple months ago and I don�t know why she tries to figure out how to fix anything wrong with that machine. She breaks it because she simply can�t just hit �COPY/START� � I don�t know what fancy shit she tries to do with it. I honestly don�t know how she survives. This girl is dumber than Jessica Simpson!! Eileen and I were comparing her to Milton from Office Space, where it�s just impossible to try to talk to her about anything.

I got the 24 Season 2 DVDs last weekend but I haven�t started yet. I know that when I do start, that�s all I�ll be doing non-stop for the couple weeks (there are 7 DVDs this time and a lot of deleted scenes � I gotta watch the whole season first just the way they showed them on FOX and then re-watch the season with the deleted scenes added).

I am such a spoiled brat. I was telling my mom I was going to Costco to get those DVDs and I asked her if she wanted anything from there. She wanted these two little cleaning supplies and then she gave me enough money for everything. I want to be able to do that for my kids someday. My mom, sis and I had lunch on Sunday and whenever we go out, we never worry about the price of anything, we just order whatever we feel like. Shark fin soup costs like $20 a bowl (!!) and my parents are cool with it. We spend $200+ on certain dinners� that�s TiVO right there!! If I spend $20 on a meal, I think it�s too much, but that�s cause I don�t make too much and I�m just used to fending for myself. I don�t know how I survived before I got my raise. I�m still broke all the time!

The California Recall debates are on right now and I can tell a lot of people are watching it. My neighbor in the next building is watching it the same way he watches sports. I can hear him cheering on Arnold so I guess he's on my good side now (he usually roots against the Raiders and Lakers). Everytime Arianna Huffington speaks, he yells "shut up! shut up!"

I can't believe these candidates are supporting the drivers licenses for illegals without security checks, etc!! Arnold didn't want to come out and say, "They're illegal!!" (he talked about security risks instead) but I'm glad McClintock did at least (he said they cut in line and we're rewarding them for it). The other three candidates were talking about how great illegal immigrants are for this state. For all the hard-working illegals out there, there are enough of the opposite. And, so many legal residents don't have auto insurance, what makes them think the illegals will get auto insurance now that they have legal drivers licenses? The law Gray Davis signed sucks for a million reasons but mostly it makes it easier for terrorists to change their identities and assimulate into our society.

Stan is at a seminar today :)...

This week has completely sucked. Emmys sucked and the show was boring. No one I wanted to win really won anything (except The Daily Show). I think the only time my favorites won most of the awards at any show was the Oscars the year Titanic won everything. Kiefer was looking cute but he looked out of place at an Emmys and not an Oscars. I really really wanted him to win... I wanted 24 to win also but the same old shows always win. Geez, how did I know Sopranos and West Wing was gonna win everything. Sopranos gave us a break last year when they took a season off.

The thing that sucked the most this week is the Raiders game last night. It was unbelievably horrible!! I owe a couple Broncos fans dinner now. :( We have this bet twice every year though and I got lucky last year. Oh wait - I remember something that sucked even more. The UCLA - Oklahoma game. I knew we didn't have a shot against the #1 team in the country but still, we coulda at least scored half as many points as they did!! Steve and I were talking about the good old days when we were in college and we had an amazing football team led by Cade McNown and we were ranked #2 in the nation... we went into games knowing we'd win, the only question was by how much. (We beat Texas 66-3 one year). We don't know how that feels anymore. Say what you want about Cade McNown now, but back in college, he was an incredibly smart QB. If we just needed a yard or two, he would go to the line of scrimmage with no play called and just draw the defense offsides. We had a fun offense with a ton of trick plays - our WRs would throw passes to the QB sometimes... Ah, the good old days. We're lucky to score anything this season.

At lunch today, I watched the suckfest that is Passions. I can't believe Sheridan is still in that basement!! And I thought she was sleeping when they kidnapped her so why is she wearing high heels?? She's been in that damn basement since July and her kidnappers are 2 females who aren't always armed. Why the hell doesn't she run for it and try to escape?? Stupid Sheridan voluntarily gets in position for the kidnapper to tie her up with masking tape after asking them, "What are you doing??". Kim from 24 escaped/attempted to escape from kidnappers so many times and they definitely had guns! So today, one of the kidnappers was attempting to take Sheridan somewhere else and then Sheridan thought she heard Luis's voice. Instead of yelling "Luis" like she has been for however many months she was in the basement, she does nothing. Oh, I guess the kidnapper stopped her from yelling by softly placing a hand over her mouth - that's why she didn't yell. So they get back in the room and she waits until the door is closed before she starts yelling "Luis!!" Oh my god. I think this is why I love 24 so much - they don't treat the viewers like idiots.

Forbes' List of 400 Richest Americans - I envy each and every person on this list, but can someone tell me how the person who came up with Beanie Babies ended up #30 on this list? $6 billion dollars just from selling those little stuffed animals?? One of my clients gets the FSB magazine (Fortune Small Business) and this month's issue has more stories on how people got started (Hugh Hefner, Kate Spade, Charles Schwab, Tom Golisano (Paychex), Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza) ...). I don't know if I could ever be that innovative but you have to take a huge chance to make it big. I was reading about how Kate and Andy Spade struggled when they first started and they were thinking about closing the business because they were putting all their money into their business while all their friends were buying their first homes and putting money into the stock market. It just seems like they were destined to succeed. That goes for all these people who are profiled in the magazine. I want to read about someone who tried and failed miserably! (just to make me feel better). I've only failed to get something I really wanted once in my life (I'm still young) so I need a reality check.

Yahoo! News - Tens of Thousands Warned to Flee Isabel - Isabel looks too much like Israel... I thought something huge was happening... and that Bush would somehow get blamed for it.

Some GEMS from the *brilliant* assistant... the exact text of some memos she wrote us:

1) After Stan and I discussed, we have agreement that I will work part time temporarily, and the schedule will be from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. This schedule is adjustable according to my doctor appointment or other physical necessities. I appreciate your time and understanding for this request.

2) I have an appointment with M**** M**** International on Friday Sep 19, 2003 at 1:30 a.m., and I won't be in until 5:00 p.m. If you have anything that needs me done, please let me know earlier.

1:30 AM?? Is that a booty call?? I had to block out the name of the company in case someone knows them because I don't want them to know what a dumbass bookkeeper they're stuck with. (Or bookeeper, according to her resume). I was going nuts last week because I had to go through and do work on some files and she either puts stuff in the wrong client file or she doesn't file them chronologically. An easy 20 minute task turned into an hour of cleaning up the file. Eileen told me, "Don't blame her. Filing wasn't on her resume. FILLING was."

Oh yeah - something I forgot to mention earlier. Roomie's boyfriend came by Saturday (don't know how he got in, I was asleep) and I guess the roomie was hanging out with some other guy in her room. All I heard was yelling, banging, knocking stuff over, etc... He kicked a hole in her door so big she has trouble opening and closing the door to her room now. The instant I heard him leave, I signed off instant messaging onto my other name. I didn't want to deal with that shit anymore. Fucker was back the next night. Yeah, I don't expect to see any of my security deposit after I move out.

FINISHED!!!! I finally finished 24 and damn, that was a good ending! I was up til 3AM last night watching it because I couldn't stop. The show was perfectly cast too, even the guest stars. I don't think anyone could have done a better job in those roles. I never thought I would like Kiefer so much either. (It's not as bad as liking Nicholas Cage) He sorta became a nobody after Julia Roberts broke off their engagement but now I like him better than I like her.

I also caught the repeat of Sex and the City. I kinda knew it would happen but ... BLAIR!!! I know Miranda loves Steve but Blair is perfect!! If she doesn't want him, I'll take him. He's a doctor for the Knicks too... I loved last week's episode when he offered Steve the courtside seats and Steve turned him down because of pride - "Naw, I like sitting up in the nosebleed seats."

Is $10k more a year worth a commute from West LA to Pasadena?? I'm so used to my five minute commute to work, to not having to work hard, to having lunch with Dante every day... but Debbie IMed me yesterday telling me that she left Deloitte to work at a mid-tier firm, they're hiring like crazy over there, and she has lunch with the recruiting manager all the time. It's a tax position and it's a better career path than I'm on right now. (I don't know if they'd hire me because I don't have the relevant tax experience though.) I like what I'm doing now, but business management for celebs won't get me that far later on. Jay told me this when I almost left to go work with him last year. I'd have to get my own clients if I wanted to make it big. Eileen has been here for 8 years and she doesn't make that much and they're not gonna make her a partner here. I've reached as far as I can get at this company also and I've only been here 2 years. I'm in charge of a couple client accounts. Whoohoo. We have an incompetent assistant here who would probably be given my job if I left. Hmmm... thats scary. I don't know if I can do that to my clients. :) But anyway, at a mid-tier accounting firm, you move from staff/associate to senior to manager and maybe even partner with time. You can even go into the private sector after working at these places. I'm not sure about mid-tier firms, but the Big 4 accounting firms give you laptops, meal expenses, pay for your travel and all these extra perks. I'd have to work harder but thats what I thought I would be doing at this age - work my ass off so I can make more $$ later on just sitting on my ass and bossing people around. We'll see what happens. I don't want to get my hopes up.

My brother was in a car accident this weekend. He was sitting in the passenger seat of an BMW M3, it was 12 midnight, they were driving 120 on the canyon roads in OC. They hit a water spot, the car went out of control, flipped a couple times and landed upside down. My bro and the driver (19 year old white guy from a rich family) were just lucky to be alive but my bro has scars on his face from the glass and the driver got this huge gash on his head (you could see his scalp). My brother did tell me something funny though - he said when they were telling the cops that they smelled gas so they hurried and got out of the car and ran, the cops told them, "You guys watch too much TV." In every movie/TV show, cars explode after they crash. You come to expect it. Anyway, I'm just glad they're ok. If anyone out there races, DON'T DO IT!!! Its SO not worth whatever high you get from it. We knew a guy in high school whose brother died while racing one of my mom's friend's sons. The mom's friend's son just left the guy there too and drove off and I can't remember if they charged him with anything but the mom of the guy who died had a nervous breakdown. Just not worth it.

There's this girl who Mike doesn't like talking to but who calls him all the time. He complains to me on AIM that she's on the phone yakking and how the hell can someone talk so much! I told him to come up with a list of excuses to get off the phone, like Seinfeld did. He came up with, "My pimp is coming over, gotta go." I told him, "No NERD!! You're the pimp!! You're supposed to be the pimp! You're supposed to say, 'My hos are coming over, gotta go.'" Hmmm... I wonder if anyone remembers the sweet old Lucy from high school and college. I've changed so much.

I'm watching the UCLA game right now and I look at all those students in the crowd, especially the freshmen... its their first year, first football game, first time living away from home, etc... so much to look forward to in their next 4 years. I miss that time in my life. When I knew so much was possible, when I didn't have any worries about anything but studying, laundry, finding a TV before Friends and Seinfeld came on... and getting up to Hedrick Hall for dinner because the basketball team ate up there. I feel so old! I had a great time at UCLA and I wouldn't trade that for the world. When I was there, our football team didn't SUCK either! Wait, they did my senior year but the first 3 years were so good that it made up for the last year. It was so good those first 3 years, it made me think Cade McNown was the cutest. I'm not even gonna get into that.

finished another disc and a half... so much has happened already and I'm only a little more than halfway though the season!

finished 3 discs!! So I've sat through 12 hours of full concentration. This show is affecting my mental health though - I don't trust anyone and I'm paranoid that people are out to get me.

Mike and I are planning a 2 season marathon when he gets back for winter break. We figure we need about 48 hours total because each episode is probably about 45 minutes (without the commercials) so TV time would be about 36 hours. We also requested a little break between seasons, a couple breaks to get food and a couple bathroom breaks.

So someone's car was booted because of unpaid parking tickets... right in front of his job too!! I'm nervous cause he's driving my car to work now. He drops me off, goes to work, picks me up for lunch and picks me up after work. Actually, we trade off on who drops who off - I have a parking spot in the garage though so its easier for me. Good thing we live/work so close. This forces me to be good though - I can't sneak out if I don't have the car.

I've been way to busy watching my 24 Season 1 DVDs to do anything else recently. I'm on hour 10 right now and it is so gooooooooooood!! So many twists and turns! I've always been a spoilers freak but I discovered how much fun it is to watch something without knowing what's gonna happened next. Steve better get used to me IMing him "that bitch ****!! I can't believe she did that!" :) (I won't ruin it for people who haven't watched but seriously, you SHOULD watch!) I watched bits and pieces of season 2 when FX had that marathon on Labor Day but now that I know the characters - WOW. Another show to add to my roster of shows I watch... basically, anything on TV. I need my TiVO before the fall season starts!

I still like my roommate but damn, stuff she does unintentionally BUGS me! She's 21 so I just ignore what she does because she's young and she doesn't know any better, but still. Apparently she has all these guys in love with her... she was whining to me one day, "My boyfriend wants me to stop talking to other guys. I can't do that!! I don't know what to do with all these guys. They all tell me they love me. You're lucky, you only have one." Am I wrong to be offended by that? (And besides, I'd rather have my ONE instead of all those ugly ass guys you talk to!) I was a little pissed off when Dante told me she was in my room hanging out with him and watching TV on Saturday after Jenny and I left to go to my sister's apartment to tan. She also told him that those other girls he talks to (2 of them came by the apartment) are pretty. What the hell is up with that? And why was she in my room kicking it with him?? If they were in her room, fine, he went to talk to her. But its different when she goes to my room to talk to him. I don't go to her room to hang out with her boyfriend when she's not there. That fucker keeps messaging me to bitch and moan about her but I'll get to that later. I never hung out with Eileen's husband or Kristi's boyfriend. I think its crossing the line - am I overreacting??

Ok - on to her boyfriend. Everything was cool Saturday night, I was in my room watching 24 :) and then I hear a bunch of noise outside my room and then I hear the door slam and I heard him start his car. (He doesn't lock the freaking door to our apartment anytime, especially when he leaves the apartment mad, which REALLY pisses me off - we don't live in a gated building and its not like this is the Friends set where they can always leave the doors unlocked.) I shoulda signed off AIM right then and there but at least I'll know for next time. (Add uclalu to your buddy lists - thats the screen name I use when I don't want to talk to certain people.) So, he gets home, he gets on IM and starts messaging me and I couldn't pretend like I wasn't there because I was chatting with some other people so it doesn't do the "idle" thing for me. He goes on to BITCH and MOAN about how bad his life is, how bad she treats him, etc. for 3 FREAKING HOURS!! After the first hour, I kept telling him every IM - You need to get some sleep, blah blah blah. (trying to throw in a HINT)... I even had to turn off 24 because I was rewinding every 2 minutes. That was pissing me off more, wasting my time while I was watching 24. Some things I found out during those 3 hours. 1) He parks his car across the street from our apt to see what time she comes home, who she comes home with, etc. 2) He goes up the other set of stairs to look into our apt to see if she is hanging out with anyone in the kitchen. 3) He checks her email, instant messaging. (Great, 2 fucking stalkers for our apartment... some of you can guess who the other person is - "bean bag"). He talked about how badly she treats him, how she made him come that one night and take her to 3 places to buy food for this guy she was hanging out with that day and she prepared the food for the guy, had the boyfriend give her chopsticks, spoons, napkins, etc. to give to that guy (my reply: Why do you put up with it then??)... how she calls him fat and ugly... how he has to lie to his parents to spend time with her and how she wants him to spend the night all the time and he can't do that (She just needs attention, when she sees me having fun with Dante, she'll get all moody and stuff)... how he's not enrolled for classes this quarter because you gotta be there the first day of class and that day she wanted him to take her to an interview for this job that she just started and she doesn't like now (You can't live your whole life around her. You need to do stuff on your own. Nicer way of saying - Get a Life.) The thing is, I DON'T CARE!!! Bitching and moaning to me isn't gonna do anything except waste my time and make me avoid you next time. You're not even my friend!!! Get a freakin blog to bitch and moan! :) I can put up with bitching and moaning from my friends cause they're my friends and thats what we do! This idiot needs to get some friends and get a life. He kept telling me how much it hurts, how its over, etc... Whatever. I knew the idiot would be back over the next day and to my *absolute* amazement he was.

I need to get my own place. I've had that scene from Home Alone running through my head lately - where Macaulay Culkin is jumping on the bed yelling, "I'm living alone! I'm living alone!" *sigh* Someday.

2 nights ago on Big Brother they had an update on Justin and the other people in the jury house... Justin and Nathan were talking about how Justin got his "cardio" in with Dana. Dana is so ugly and so manly!! Just in the right place at the right time. I was thinking about earlier this week when Dante and I were talking about Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri (this was before we read about her dumping him over the phone) - how we don't know what she sees in him. Chris Rock was saying on the MTV VMAs that "It's like a Bentley being on sale for $4 and you just missed buying it!" Anyway, thats how I feel about Justin and his "exercise partner".

So Stan had a date last night!! Heehee, and I'm publicizing it to everyone. When Eileen found out she called me right away and we were planning on going by to see what this lady looked like... what type of person would consider going out with Stan. We're so mean :).

I should not be allowed to touch money. I just bought a large Jumbo Jack combo at Jack in the Box just so I could get the "free" Raiders antenna ball. Of course I'm full halfway through the meal... and I'm gonna have to throw the rest away. I have trouble finishing the regular sized combo meals!!

Two weeks ago, I bought the Schick Intuition razor (the one where you don't have to use shaving cream, gel, etc) because it came with a free FM shower radio... I admit, I really like the razor, but I didn't need a new one! My Gillette Venus was fine. That said, the Intuition razor is the best idea ever for us lazy people! My legs are constantly shaved now. Heehee - no more "cutting down rainforests" when I shave. You don't have to lather your legs and keep your legs out of the shower stream while you shave. The more water, the better with this razor.

Gotta go change... finally tanning today! Whoohoo! No more pasty white legs.

Eileen says Justin Timberlake is too skinny. :( He's still so HOT though!

It's alimony time again - not for me but for my client... Even though its not my money, it still hurts to write that check for $4000 a month (used to be $6000, including child support but the kid finally turned 18) - doesn't that suck though?? Just because you're the more successful of the 2 of you, you have to pay for a mistake you made, while the other one gets to benefit from it forever (unless they got married but who'd willingly give up free money every month??). Thats what sucks about taxes also... you get punished for working your ass off to succeed - the more you make, the more you give up and conversely also - the more you sit on your ass and the less you make, the more you benefit. Oh well, can't change the way things are. I think I'm just sick and tired of having to deal with other people's problems and having to watch out for them. I appreciate certain friends so much because I know they can take care of themselves. Anyway, the client is married to an actress now (who is also my client) and she is awesome - I guess its worth $4000/mo. to be married to her instead.

Watching the repeat of the MTV VMA Awards... damn, Justin Timberlake is so adorable!! "I can dance!" Put a smile on my face for once tonight - pissed at Dante as usual...

Who thinks I'm gonna break down and buy this?? I can't believe this is a $20 DVD - I guess they gotta try to make their money any way they can. I noticed that the record companies kinda anticipated Jessica Simpson's new CD sucking so they sold that for $7 debut week... this DVD should be way cheaper! I should just wait until they sell it for $5 at Blockbuster (the previously viewed stuff) - it'll probably be another week or two before they start doing that anyway. :)

Oh - I got a new cell phone and a new cell phone number - email me if you didn't get my email with the new number. The new cell phone is so cool - I've been playing with it all day yesterday and today. It's a Motorola C350g - I guess its a new model cause I can't find too much info, downloads, etc. for it online.

Roommate thing is too complicated to explain. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't stop talking to other guys. She says they're just friends but we all know those guys want more. So he breaks up with her Sunday night and a guy comes over at 2am that night, then someone else comes around 11a, then when I get home from work, she's hanging out with an ex. Dante and I go see Freddy vs. Jason and when I get home, that ex is still there. Then the boyfriend that just broke up with her comes over and the ex is lying on her bed watching TV... they have a fight in my room and the boyfriend takes off. Then 2 other guys come over with a girl and a little kid... yeah I know - GEEZ. Dante and I are hanging out in my room and one of the guys comes in and was talking to us about how she's saying crazy things about suicide, etc. He says he was over at 2am the night before to make sure she was okay and she was throwing herself all over him, etc. but he didn't do anything because he has a wife (the girl who came with them) and a girlfriend already and he's not interested in her but his friend (one of the guys who was over) was crazy about her. It was about 3am by then and Dante and I were playing around in my room, he was tickling me and throwing me on the bed, etc and the kid was laughing at us. Then I guess my roommate started feeling lonely and she started crying uncontrollably and I had to stay with her in her room to make sure she didn't do anything to herself. I was feeling a little annoyed and I feel bad for saying this but it was one of the few nights Dante spends at my place and I wanted to be with him. Am I too selfish to want that? It was already 4am, I needed sleep because I have to work at 9am and she wouldn't go to sleep. I couldn't find that boyfriend's number so I call her dad and he comes over so I finally went to bed. The next morning, her boyfriend is IMing me telling me how much it hurts, etc. and I tell him how bad things were the night before (I didn't tell him other guys were over, of course!) and after an hour, I finally convince him to give her another chance. She called him when he was IMing me, telling him she needed medicine for her stomach and he told me he was going over. Then she called me on my cell just to talk and after a while, she mentioned that HE called her and then he said he wanted to come over but she told him, naw, it's ok :). I spent the whole morning at work making sure things were ok with those two, got no work done. These young ones... I just don't want to deal with anyone's problems anymore!

Damn... add to my day yesterday - a suicidal roommate (her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't stop talking to other guys, even as friends) and 4 hours sleep. I'll go into more detail later. Did NO work at all today cause I was trying to mediate, etc. Plus, I'm reallllllllllllllly sleepy.

Yay! Big Brother on tonight. Damn, I'm pathetic.

And I was expecting a normal day...

So one of our clients called and said she thinks one of her employees is stealing money from her and that we're her witnesses in case the employee tries to kill her. Turns out the employee confessed and she "won't do it again." Yeah whatever. I hope the client fires her. The employee's sister also works for the client and the sister is way more trustworthy. The sister and her husband were the ones who sorta ratted on her. Oh yeah, and their mom stole about $5000 from the sister and the husband a couple years ago. Great family.

My sister called me on Friday and was asking me what to do if they found out someone was stealing money from their company. Someone wrote two checks totalling $14,300 from the company bank account and deposited it in a bank in two peoples' names in Torrance. How freaking stupid can you be?? Like the embezzler here who stole from the clients and wrote the checks payable to her name. Dumbassssssssssss. Anyway, I told my sis to call the cops, report it, and file charges later on.

My friend's credit card was stolen in the mail twice and activated both times. You're just sitting there minding your own business and people decide to involve you in some fraud shit so you have to take action to protect yourself. We totally live in a messed up world. You can't trust anybody.

And last but not least... drama with the assistant. I had nothing to do with it! I guess she messed up her computer AGAIN this morning and she had to go to the big boss (he's the computer guy) and maybe he was lecturing her or something cause I heard her cry out and then I heard the door to the empty office next to me slam shut and then I heard her say something like, "I'm tired everyday, I don't know what I'm doing here..." and then she left and I haven't seen her since. Eileen was eating in the kitchen and she said the big boss came in and had a talk with her - the assistant might not be back because she was miserable and unhappy here. Oh well. Its not like my workload is gonna get any bigger cause I never gave her any work in the beginning. She did all Eileen's shit. The only extra thing I'd have to do is the deposits and that doesn't take me that long.

Other than all that... same old shit, just another day.

I miss Justin already. Watching Big Brother isn't the same without him, but I know why he had to go, so its ok... gotta get rid of the strongest when you can.

Group Probing Schwarzenegger's Father - Oh my god. Get over it already! Why do they keep wasting our time with something a candidate's DAD did a million years ago?? The guy is freakin DEAD already! So if someone's dad did something questionable when a kid was young, the kid who grew up to make something of themselves could never be truly successful without someone mentioning what their dad might have done? Lets take Kobe's kid for example. Lets say Kobe is acquitted, and in thirty years, Kobe's daughter is running for Congress. Is the press going to come back to this story and try to dig up more info?? Why doesn't the press concentrate on what a candidate did himself TWO years ago?? Bustamante Scrambling To Salvage Credibility Using the N-word in a speech to black union leaders. Niiiiiiiiiice. I think someone was saying that the word doesn't come out accidentally unless you're accustomed to using that word in real life. Has the media brought this up at all since he announced he was running for governor? Stupid liberal biased media.

FOOTBALL?? No Big Brother tonight!! Normally, I would be psyched for football, especially a Raiders game, but I need my Big Brother fix, and I�m not gonna spend $25 to get the live feeds on the internet. Even if I felt like ordering it right now, it would be a waste of money because the show is halfway (or more) over and because my favorite guy was kicked out last week � Justin. He coulda been a jerk for all I know because I only started watching the show three weeks ago but he�s cute! Maybe I just like his name :). I was looking through the message boards where people posted screen caps and I found this absolutely hilarious picture of him in the shower pressing his butt against the shower door. Goofiness wins my heart every time. I started watching the week Dave was kicked off but he seemed like a funny guy too. I saw this segment where Dave would cannonball into the pool every time someone was relaxing or sleeping on the hammock and finally someone managed to get Dave back when he was off-guard. The guys on this show were actually good looking � Justin, Dave and Nathan. They were all kicked off and only the ugly ones are left. Some people say the same thing about the girls � the pretty ones have all been kicked off and only the ugly ones are left.

I watched that Newlyweds show with Nick and Jessica and I have way more respect for Nick now. He has tons of money but he doesn�t want to spend money to get a maid or hire movers. He does everything himself and I totally respect that. Some may call that �being cheap� but for a celebrity, its called �keeping your head straight�. Jessica is a total spoiled brat though but that�s the way she was raised. Her mom still does everything for her, picks up after her, etc!! I loved that look Nick gave her when she asked, �Why is tuna called �chicken by the sea�? Its tuna!� (It�s the same look I want to give the dumb assistant. A �I can�t believe you�re that stupid� look). Overall, a good show. Love their house though. I�ll probably keep watching just cause there�s nothing on Tuesdays at 10:30p.

I'm running into random people everywhere this week! I got into the elevator in this sorry ass building one day and this Asian lady got on the elevator two floors down. I thought she was looking at me but I wasn't sure so I just ignored it. Then she asked me, "Do you know Mona??" It was Brandon's wife! Brandon is the immigration attorney whose office was next to Mona and Don. Brandon, Mona, Don and Anthony always had their Christmas parties together and Brandon's wife (can't remember her name!) recognized me from that. And today, I went to Panda Express (3rd time this week) and saw Steve there. I never see my friends randomly in Culver City! Just Westwood.

The first two times I went to Panda Express this week, I went with Dante and there was this cute black guy there who looked like a way more mature version of Dante. I was sitting at the table facing Dante and the guy sat a couple tables down, facing me, so I got a look of the two of them side by side. Same coloring, same face structure� I woulda totally tried to get to know that guy! I was really attracted to him, unlike the gas station guy a week ago. So today, I was just there by myself just picking up the food and I didn�t see the guy there. Oh well.

Stan told us he sold his condo (on Sunset in Pacific Palisades) and he's just going to rent now. In the meantime, he's moving in with his mom. Imagine that. A 60 year old single man living with his mother. Heeeee. We've been laughing about it for two days. I don't want to end up like him. He's 60 years old, divorced, no kids, no property now, and a leased ES Lexus (the ones that look like the Corollas). I think we just like making fun of him because we need something to do. When I'm 60, I want to have the house, the husband, the kids, hopefully the grandkids and the job where I can just sit back and boss people around.

Ooh, I just realized my underwear matches my shirt today and my nails match everything! Ok, I know you guys didn't need to know that :). Steve - sorry for your pending nightmares, heehee.

Stupid Blogger. Save your posts before you click the "post" button.

You guys will be proud of me... sorta. Dante and I got into a huge argument on Saturday and I was so pissed off I was helping him sort his clothes (from mine) so he could move all his stuff out. I also asked for my key back... Don't open the bubbly yet. We talked and made up an hour later and I gave him back the key. Oh well. I'm getting closer to kicking him out of my life though.

I spent half the day yesterday trying to unclog my toilet. I went to Rite Aid and bought the cheap plunger they had, didn't work. James suggested I go to Home Depot and get the "master plunger" and I did, didn't work. I called the manager yesterday and left a message but I didn't expect them to come anytime soon. I got home today and my roommate said the maintenance person was here, fixed it in less than 5 minutes! It bugs me that I wasn't able to fix it myself because I am so used to finding my own solution to everything and not having to depend on anyone else.

My roommate and I decided to sublet our living room to my roommate's friend's brother (we have no furniture in there) and save a little on rent. My part of the rent is going down $100 a month! Every little bit helps - that $100/mo is going straight to my savings account though.

Sex and the City last night - I did NOT need to see Harry naked like that!! Its taken me a while to get over my shallowness and start really liking him. That said, damn, Blair Underwood is hot!! :)

Hey - just a word of warning to those of you who go down the stop signs on Manning... I've been going down that street rollin through the stop signs for about a year and a half now and yesterday was the first time i ever saw anyone get pulled over. Luckily for me, Dante was driving and he stops fully at the stop signs (he gets pulled over for little shit so he doesn't want to make it easier for the cops).

Freakin computer is so slow right now and Quickbooks freezes everytime I try to open a different client's file. That, on top of Ms. Incompetent (me: "Have you seen the Writers' Guild Declaration forms?", 5 seconds later, her: "uh, Wr-i-ters' Guild??", me: (think) "FUCK!" (say) "Oh, it's ok - I'll find it"). You think she does this to get out of working hard?? Play dumb, they won't give you work to do. I don't know what it is about this company. They hire the ones no one else wants to hire (with the exception of Dante) and they don't think about firing them when they realize how incompetent they are. The lady who had the assistant job before I started here was a 60 year old Russian woman who could barely speak English and they just moved her over to another part of the company. Thats what we're hoping they'd do with this girlie. Pay us more, we'll handle everything. Hire a student part-time to do the filing 2-3 days a week.

I'm quitting. Can't stand this anymore. I need to call my immigration attorney and my head hunter.

So much to say, so little energy.

First off, some guy gave me his number at a gas station yesterday at lunch. Should I call? And if so, when should I call him? He was ok looking, he's black, from England, looks older than me and drives a Benz CLK (I didn't forget about the other black guy in a Benz E-Class I met a month ago on my way to Target, but who I didn't roll down my window for... thats the only reason I took this guy's number - so I can call him, just in case I felt interested). He wanted to talk but I told him I was running back to work before my boss got back so I didn't have the time right then.

This morning, I was exchanging e-mails with a client's personal manager -
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Hi Harriet -

FYI - we got a check from the DGA yesterday because they did an audit on *** and found that "***" owed Michael some residuals... The check was for $77,558.85 and I will be mailing you your 15%commission check today.

Lucy
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Lucy

Go kiss Stan for me RIGHT NOW ...

Thank you ...

Harriet
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Harriet -

Ewww! NO. Haha.

Lucy
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Those of you who have seen a picture of Stan know how gross that is! A client got him in the Hollywood Variety last year and he had to send them a picture to publish... it was just a small square picture but it was NOT a pretty sight. Didn't help him get more clients either. I wish I had a cuter boss. The guy I would've worked for at the Beverly Hills company was way way cuter!

Couple of things from watching too much TV this past week -
*On Tuesday's episode of Big Brother, they showed the housemates talking about the Lakers and what a wonderful devoted family man Kobe was. Just made me realize how sequestered they were and how much news you miss in a couple weeks. Hey! Eagle County - There's your jury right there! You don't have to worry about all those "leaks" the sheriff's dept/DA's office has let out. I don't think I can stand being sequestered like that and not knowing what is going on. Every half hour or so here at work I'm checking "My Yahoo" to see if anything new happened!
*Last week I watched The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the first time in a long time. It was hilarious and I keep watching now to see segments like the one that night but it just hasn't been as funny. Jon was talking to an "Iraq correspondent" - it was supposed to be 4am Iraq time but the sun was shining brightly in the background. The correspondent was telling Jon about how we were only 24 hours behind Saddam, then 6 hours behind Saddam. Then he says something like, "We're getting closer to capturing Saddam any day now but our fear is missing him and ending up 2 hours ahead of Saddam. The chasee will become the chaser."

Dumb assistant burned her hand trying to fix the copier yesterday. Why does this not surprise me?? Oh and she "broke" her computer again. I thought it was a problem with the network connection cables in the walls (cause it happened to me the week before) but the computer guy came and checked it out and he said the connection was fine. The assistant started April 1st and you know how many problems she's had so far with her computer?? Too many to count... and thats not counting the a) not plugging the printer power cable into the printer, b) not plugging the power cable into an outlet and c) changing the damn computer settings unnecessarily so nothing works unless you know the original settings. AARGH!!

I'm sure I have more to say but she's in here filing (or "FILLING" like she had on her resume) and she's bugging the hell out of me right now so I need to take a walk.

I was just watching Big Brother... ha! They didn't get me with the product placement this time - it was Subway and it does look good but I'm not going to be craving it like I was craving Burger King the other week. I am craving a soda though. Fast food sodas are always better than the liter and can ones you have at home. We go through so many liters of soda, lemonade, ginger ale a week here at the apartment, I have to buy a liter or two of whatever everytime I go to the store.

My niece messaged me during Big Brother to let me know Justin was on TV (the Miss Teen USA pageant) so I had to switch for a couple minutes. I can't believe how hooked I am on Big Brother though. I avoided the first 3 seasons like the plague. I was never into Survivor either... although I loved Steve's shirt with the "DON'T VOTE ME OFF!!" on the back.

One request though - Jun, the Korean chick - PLEASE put on some clothes!! She's always wearing bikinis and last week they showed her body from the day she moved in the house to the current day and damn, she gained a lot of weight. Almost makes ME want to go workout. Almost.

I don't understand why the assistant comes with a soundtrack. She's just filing and I have to listen to her sighs, grunts, deep breaths, etc. Oh, and I need to hang around more people who speak proper English. I'm starting to talk FOBBY now! The other girl I have lunch with sometimes graduated from UCLA but she didn't grow up speaking English so her intonation is all off and I'm trying so hard not to do that. Anyway, the assistant continues to bug me because of her incompetence. Last week she did a chart for Eileen detailing a client's maid's personal charges on the client's credit card. She labeled the spreadsheet "Visa Charger Make by Myra" and gave it to Eileen to give to the client. What the hell?? We can't give the client something like that!! I won't even send out a cover letter with one little spelling error or some irregular spacing no one would care about. So unprofessional. She wrote this memo last week telling us she's not gonna be here this and that time the next day and she added, "if anything need me done by Friday, please tell me." This is supposedly a college grad too!! Cal State LA... sigh...

I saw another commercial for "The O.C." - since when did OC deserve a "The" in front of it?? "The" is reserved for shit like "The Rock" or "The Hulk". I admit, I did watch the show when it came on the first time. It was on and there was absolutely nothing else on TV. I swear, thats the only reason I watched it! The main character seems like a poor man's version of Russell Crowe. It doesn't look like the show is gonna last that long. It doesn't stand out - looks like another 90210 wannabe, like Malibu Shores and some other shows that came out after it.

So I bet Kobe is happy Arnold decided to run. The news media started focusing on the recall instead of Kobe's case. The recall is a huge thing but the media wouldn't care shit about the recall if Arnold hadn't run. We forget the news is entertainment also - they need their viewers. Poor Laci Peterson - she had the attention of the news media until the war started. Now you hardly hear anything about her case. I learned about stuff like this in either a communications or poli sci class. The media tells you what to think, what's important and what's not. Korea looks like a dangerous situation but the news media doesn't care enough about covering it so we don't think its that big of a deal. We've had a standoff for like nine months but Korea gets no media coverage.

We just had a pizza lunch at the office. When the big boss is gone, the other partner throws a pizza party for us, on the company. The other partner is such a sweet guy and I'm sure he's a wonderful father. He was telling us that he took his kids somewhere this weekend and he got a terrible sunburn all over his chest. His daughter goes up to him and hits him where the sunburn is... instead of being adult about it, he hits her right back on her sunburn!! Makes her cry and run to mommy. Heehee, awesome guy.

Oh my god. It's 2:30 am, it's freaking hot and I can't sleep. I kinda knew this would happen already though. Steph and I had boba tea tonight and this was after I took a 2 hour nap at 6 pm. Good thing Evolution is on right now. That is my current favorite dumb movie... replacing Dumb and Dumber. I know I'm gonna regret this when I have to wake up tomorrow morning.