Jason's Daily Notes

I love checking the weather (yes, I am a weather geek), but I especially love it this time of year. It has been absolutely perfect the past week or so. Seriously, sunny and warm in the 70s every day. And unlike days in the spring/summer/fall in the 70s, the air is clean too - no fog/smog/smoke! And what makes it even more perfect is that the rest of the country is in a total deep freeze:


There's also record cold and snow holding Europe in its grip. Another wave of snowfall is expected over the UK and Ireland again this weekend. Crazy; it only snowed once when I was in London - and that was in April!

In any case, this is why I've been itching to go to the beach all week!

Status: Jason is productive and well-rested this Saturday
Mood: Surprisingly upbeat
To Do: GET WORK DONE, then go back to the apt, then go ice skating!
Current Music: Mayday Parade - "Jamie All Over"
Current News: The Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai) opened this week - it's the tallest building in the world. Needless to say, I WANNA GO.
Latest Meal: Breakfast burrito from Dolores (Matthew got the pancake sandwich, which looked so amazing!)
Weather: Some high wispy clouds but a perfect day, 73°

I ended up going to Barney's Beanery last night with Markus. It was cool, met some of his housemates from his prior house (Jeff from Wisconsin, Hide from Tokyo, Adrian and his brother Arturo from Mexico City, and Paul). The Beanery is a cool place, very un-WeHo, even though it's in the middle of WeHo. Good times.

I have work to do but I kinda just wanna stay in and continue to update the blog!

Got back from work last night feeling overworked and horrible. I shrugged off and immediately plopped down immediately on my bed.

I fell asleep.

It was only 7:15pm.

I woke up, groggy, in darkness. I rolled over and squinted to make out the time on my clock radio... 12:59. Grunt. I went to the bathroom, and now I was fully awake. Markus was still up, so I chatted with him for a bit and microwaved myself a corn dog. I tried to go back to sleep but I felt really well-rested--which is not what you wanna feel at 2am! I checked my email and ended up browsing for jobs and playing online games. Around 5 I was finally sleepy again and returned to bed... and my 7am alarm was unpleasant as usual. And so it goes again, another day.

The morning routine: Tea, banana, shower, driving, frustrating traffic, work. Okay, it's a little calmer at work today compared to the immensely busy past couple days. But there's still a backlog of things to do; continued my address/phone lookup project; received a new document production to check through before uploading it.

Lunch: Thursday Farmers Market! Thai/Mex BBQ ftw!
I got the chow mein/rice/chicken combo; of all the stalls at the market, I think Thai/Mex is the most consistently good.

Hawaiian bbq is just not worth braving that insane line:

Jack and Rob have each moved into new offices. My office has been feeling quite surreal lately.

Yet again my eyes hurt. I'm stepping out for a walk outside (5:25pm).

Songs: The Wombats - School Uniforms; David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure; Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over

Just updated the blog with a cool new look; thanks to www.deluxetemplates.net!

Above West LA

Now working on updating [this] blog, since yesterday [been back-posting items].

Slept in again... My bed has been extra comfortable lately!

Drove to work. Driving, even for 15 minutes, is stressful, especially when it's along super-packed and crazy-driver infested Santa Monica Blvd.

Work is so busy again! Things just keep getting piled on me! . . . I'M GONNA HAVE TO WORK THIS WEEKEND. Major suckage.

Lunch: Celeste pizza!


So much work. Work work work. It's gonna be like this the rest of the week :(
... continuing my project searching for peoples' addresses. So tedious.

I'm gonna need a drink tonight.

Song: Journey - Lights ["When the lights... go down... in the city"]

Weather: Mid-70s and sunny. In early January! This is why we live in LA! Absolutely glorious. (I still can't say "absolutely" normally anymore - I say "ebsolutely" I have the New Zealand "eccent" stuck in my hed. It's messively ennoying sometimes!)

Stayed up late last night uploading pics. I had to (or chose to) drop off/pick up Matthew from his Kendo practice on campus last night. I didn't get to bed until 1:20am. Markus is still staying over; I guess he can stay over the entire week.

7:35am. So hard to wake up, especially with a sleep deficit and with the heater so warm and cozy. I forced myself up, forced down some oatmeal, a banana, and some tea, and after a quick shower, I'm driving to work (for the first time this year, no bus for me!). And I'm back to being stuck in traffic. Ugh, there's inconvenience either way!

I sometimes wish I could be in someone else's mind - you know, just to see what their subjective experiences are like and to really know their motives and thought processes. Do other people think the same way I do? I don't think we'll ever know. Oh philosophy. It's interesting how what was once novel and exciting becomes routine and mundane and often despised. Not that I despise my job, but I'm thinking about how the novelty has worn off. And hosting couchsurfers too... I think I should focus more on building long-lasting friendships/relationships. Maybe I'm just "afraid of commitment"? Maybe I'm just not that into you?!

Call me communist, but I think people should wear name tags more often. It can eliminate a lot of confusion.

Lunch: Leftover Ono BBQ, with tortillas (because there's no rice):


I am so busy today. It's ALMOST overwhelming. Almost. I'm just trying to maintain my casual, laid-back-ness. But productivity beckons! This afternoon, I mailed back Cloyce & Jessica's phone charger, which they left at my apt and which was buried under a pile of my clothes; I also picked up Matthew's pre-ordered video game at Game Stop. Now, back to work. I have to make a binder - pulling each press release, extracting important pages, making everything chronological, printing them out and making labels for the binders themselves. Argh!

Yeah, I should be in finance/econ, not law :/. Work isn't that bad, though; it's just not that exciting.

Random thought: Odd numbers always seemed to me to be more "male"; even numbers, female. (Trying not to get graphic here) Maybe because men have 1 "thingy" while women have a pair of "thingys"?

I've been getting static shocks a lot lately around the office. Must be the dry, warm weather.

MAN it's been so busy lately! I simply cannot even get a day's worth of work done in a day - there aren't enough hours! If that makes sense...

Still at work - 7:30pm. Finished the binder and now posting this blog post. Peace OUT!

Song: The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way

Back to work. I moved my bed against the wall, so now I can't really hear my alarm because it's by my feet. Markus, my former couchsurfer, now friend, is staying over this week (for how long I don't know yet, he's going to look for a new place by the end of the month). Eri (the couchsurfer from Japan) didn't show up. So much for that.

Off to work. Took the bus this morning, even though Matt's back with the car. Got on the crowded 704 and had to share a seat - yuck. Also, people were standing in my way when I was trying to cross the street. It's always the little things like that that get to you!

It's just one of those days where I have to persevere andforce my way through.

Work - soooo busy! Searching for clients (from our former attorney), pulling dockets, pulling financial records for healthcare facilities, and compiling a spreadsheet. Matthew's here already to pick me up (7pm)... and I'm far from done