Jason's Daily Notes

Angela's surprize party on Saturday. Fun times (Scrabble Cheez-Its?!!) but a bit too much drinking. (Leafblower, anyone?) I didn't exactly feel stellar afterwards. (People need to use the word "stellar" more.)

Friday, I was tired from work. Stéphane returns to the apt and we finish watching Funny People then take the (crowded) 720 bus down Wilshire to meet up with Michelle in Koreatown for Carla's birthday. Karaoke was fun but short (Tokyo Tea!). We soon move to Atwater and the Griffin, then to Glendale somehow, trying to track down Carla & Co. (who went for pho). I end up carving a path of destruction too - windshield wipers, car antennas, and "for rent" signs... none are safe!

CS: Stephané from France

bus. 8:50 :/ ... I really should make an effort to get to work earlier

work:
Morning - finishing my writeup (fixing citations, etc.) on apoptosis
Lunch: Panda bowl (Panda Express) - $5.99 + tax
Afternoon: chat w/ Cassy and Leslie
- new project: work on finding the addresses/phone for 500 people!
- staying late to get a good amount of this project done... and now my eyes hurt.


Songs: Beyoncé - Single Ladies; Lisa Loeb - Stay; Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning; Lion King - Hakuna Matata

Slept alone last night... was able to leave the windows open (since no one was surfing the couch)

• bus to work this morning - I felt good; everything was moving along, it was a all-green-lights morning

AAAAAH! I HAVE A RESEARCH PAPER DUE TOMORROW! The irony (just as everyone still in school is finishing finals this week)!

@ work til 7:45pm - ugh.

CS tonight: Stephané (from France).

Songs: Britney Spears - Circus; Haddaway - What Is Love?

I walked back to the apartment yesterday from work. Yes, that's right. Walked. All the way! It took 45 minutes! I had been meaning to try it for some time; especially after that time I jogged from my apt almost as far as Beverly Glen. Since then I've realized that it really isn't that far from the apt to work. And I had no change for bus fare, which was the excuse I needed to hit the pavement.

Julia left this morning (early, ~ 6:30am) to catch the bus to catch her flight.

Had tacos and a burrito last night (no sushi, despite how much I prodded Julia to try some!) - watched the first half of Funny People. It's a pretty good movie, but it's disconcerting how quickly it moves from morbidly depressing to light-hearted/gross-out hilarity.

Still unable to fully focus on work... I updated my facebook... checked my privacy settings, etc.... other web browsing... then did a little more research on what I've been working on (apoptosis and nicotine)... then online shopping... bad...

Looking forward to dinner with Jenn tonight (because it's hard to meet up when neither of us has a car)!

... but I have to finish all my work first! Ugh, why does everything get piled on me late in the day?! [at work til 6:30]

Song: The Killers - Spaceman.

• Woke ~ 7:30 - walked with Julia (CS) to the bus stop.
• Forgot my keys to work
• MASSAGE DAY! That's right - free massages for everyone in the firm. I was one of the first to go; it felt really good; but turns out, I'm really ticklish around my back. Apparently one of the massuses was in Disaster Movie or one of those films.
  
• Now I'm looking into Economic research positions/schools/think tanks. Who knows...
• Jack's still in NY - Lionel is out too - so the amount of imminent/urgent work is less.
• The lights in the office have been replaced - now everything is much brighter! Weird.
• Payday - yay! Well, not so much of a yay - all my income (and most of my savings) is going to pay down my student loans this month so I can maximize the (relatively puny) tax deduction.

Songs: Haddaway - What Is Love? ("baby don't hurt me" - listened to this after seeing a youtube video of a one man band playing this song, lol); Wax - California

It's Monday. And I'm just not that into work. I wanna just stay in my room and play some video game or whatever. I'm still constantly pondering my future, career-wise that is. Law school? Pursuing finance? Real estate? Public service? Urban development/planning? Development economics? Policy research? Other economic analysis? There really isn't one field that consistently gets me excited :/ ... except the thought of constantly traveling. I guess I just gotta put myself out there, network, and dip my feet into each pool to see which one feels best.

Lunch: Leftover Chinese food (Mayflower).

The Internet is down. The entire firm is paralyzed!
... Yeah, it's boring today. No Jack, no Sasha.
- but at least no rain! Still chilly though - high of 60, and the sun setting at 4:30 :(

Couchsurfer: Julia from Germany. She rode on the bus with me today to work.

Music: Lady Gaga - Paparazzi; Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van

• Drove back with Matthew ~10pm. Still hit traffic. Not that I care.
• RAIN Fri-Sat
• Fashion/Art show in Woodland Hills with Adrian & Priscilla. Fun times, free drinks, funky (looking) models.
• Churched it. Was scheduled to read this week but it was cancelled because the SBS students did it instead! Saw Leslie after mass. Crazy.
• Chinese food (Mayflower restaurant in Chinatown) for Henrison's graduation party - caught up with Gail (who just returned from Europe - aaah I wanna go back so much!)
  

- got dropped off by Matt
- HOLIDAY PARTY last night... was really nice!
- it's still rainy/showery

Tumblr. Set up an account/blog. I'm getting way too committed to too many websites to keep them reasonably updated.

Lunch: Lunchables (turkey/cheddar)! Oh yeah, you're jealous ;)

Songs: Snow Patrol - How to Be Dead; The Cure - Friday I'm in Love; The Limousines - Very Busy People; John Cage - 4'33"