Jason's Daily Notes

CS: Dominik (from next to Munich)
It's cloudy and cool. Hasn't been much of a summer. (Guess the weather's in line with my personal experience)
Felix arrives in 2 days! I might be hosting one of his exchange rate colleagues in the meantime.
I declare my apartment the German Consulate.
So many people on facebook now just posting random news articles and getting all political. I miss the innocent days of poke wars, etc.

"Don't count the days, make the days count"

Jason + Nathan = Jathan. It has happened again.

Lunch: A leftover burrito I found in my fridge this morning. (?! Maybe Chad's?)

At work a little late today - reconciling our Google ad bil.

Found a map of South LA gang territory.

Friday night: Watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It wasn't that bad actually.

Saturday: Mailed my rent and netflix.
Matthew came over to get the mattress.
Organizing/enhancing photos with iphoto (there's so many pics)
Interview! Went to Little Tokyo. It went well, and I was very natural. Not to get my hopes too high, but it would be freaking awesome to get this job.
Home. Didn't do much.


Sunday: Mom was sick, so I went on an errand run for her. Mainly groceries. And Porto's, haha.
Stayed home. No new episode of Entourage :(

Monday: Labor Day.
I drove my mom around, to meet with her friend for lunch.
There was an Anthony Bourdain marathon on TV.
New to my bucket list: Firing a gun.
Drove back to the apartment. Met Dominik, who dropped his stuff off then left to return his bike to Hollywood (and pick up the rest of his stuff from the hostel).
Started watching Bend It Like Beckham.

Had dinner with Leslie and her family (and Jenn) last night @ Versailles in Culver City!
- soon going to Washington DC. I'm obviously so jealous!

Music: Jack's Mannequin - Holiday from Real; American HiFi - Flavor of the Weak; Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down; Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight (what's with all the old songs?!)

Updating the travel blog. Gradually. Have a lot of posts to fill in, but it's looking good so far!
Casey like my curly hair, lol.
I gotta pay rent for this month.
Casey and Jack saw that I had Blink-182 up on my computer screen and began to discuss.

Washed dishes furiously last night. Tried to dran-o the sink. No luck.
Kevin accidentally left his key with Crystal.
Stephanie and Chad arrived again (from Simi Valley). Chad was feeling sick (because of eating only greasy fast food, I presume). I stayed up talking with Stephanie til midnight, talking about travel, working, drive-ins, differences between CA and AR, historical buildings, adoption, starting my own tour guide company.
Kevin was up early this morning to meet the installer for his new apartment's dishwasher. Chad went out to buy Jamba Juice and donuts.

Drove to work - 9:10. Almost hit Casey in the parking garage, lol.
Leslie's in town! Having dinner with her family tonight!
Lunch: "Philly cheesesteak" (aka refried chicken kebab made into a sandwich) from the farmers market. Every other stand was closed at 2pm. $8.
My mom called in sick to work. She's sick from a vaccination.
It's a busy day at work. I'm pulling complaints, making binders and filling in charts for a complaint.
News: Hurricane Earl to brush North Carolina
Music: I have a song stuck in my head bu I don't know who sang it or any of the lyrics. It's got a prominent snappy bass line, a melancholy dark-sounding lead singer, and it goes "ooooooooh" - how frustrating!

Happy New Month. Hopefully my allergies aren't too bad this September.
Hung out with Jenn last night. BAD Sushi - actually the sushi was good, the service wasn't great though... the waitress seemed frazzled from the influx of customers since they mailed out a bunch of 50% off coupons. Friendly though. Deep fried ice cream.
I wasn't feeling well - I had come down with a case of the BIEBER FEVER! Then back at my apartment, MARIO KART 64! Thanks to Kevin for bringing his N64 here. But something was terribly wrong: Jenn and I kept losing! I don't ever remember sucking at Mario Kart, especially if I was trying. I was consistently getting 7th-8th place in many of the levels. I improved as we played some more, but still! Kevin was out with Crystal for her 21st birthday; they returned and Kevin was tipsy (happy) from one pina colada :) I drove Jenn back to her apartment.
Music: Incubus - Oil and Water; Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy with It
News: US combat in Iraq has officially ended now. Hurricane Earl is bearing down on the east coast.
My coworkers = anti-spontaneity, use sarcasm but not irony, see only hard facts, no abiguity or subtlety in things.
Handling a lot of couchsurfing requests.
Lunch: Spinach souffle. Microwaved. It was yucky.
Updated my travel blog!
I should start thinking of Halloween costumes.

Steph and Chad stayed last night. From Arkansas. They saw a taping of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Note to self: Go to a TV show taping!) They arrived early at my apartment (6pm), before I was even there (I was kept at work late). They got Taco Bell for dinner (boo).
I walked to Vons, mainly for beer. I also bought bananas, baking soda, and baking powder. We talked, mostly about the mundane differences between AR and CA. There are bugs there apparently, and more fast food here, and they have "meteorologists" where we just have the "weather guy". Haha.
Chad is a camera man, not even 20 years old, and he's not even considering going to college. That is so weird to me. He just wants to go to the beach and get away from his mom. That is not weird for me.
It's Crystal's birthday today. 21st. A good day for all, hopefully...

I only slept 6 hours.
...showing Ryan how to bates stamp documents. And I have a headache. Or head soreness.
Music: Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life; Taking Back Sunday - You Know How I Do
I just don't get my coworkers' humor.
Lunch: Mrs. Winston's Green Grocery. I made my own sandwich! Vegan (well not the turkey breast or mayo), organic, delicious chipotle spread! $4.05 (they weigh it).
I don't want to spend my career citing prior precedent. I want to set new precedents. I.e. do my own thing!
Law school makes you a bad writer. - one of my lawyer colleagues
Might apply to be a part-time tour guide! :)

Well-Rested. Sort of. Drank tea and had a banana this morning. Commute - arrived at 9:05.

Mike's back in the office from his trip to Bora Bora.
I dreamt that some friends were visiting me at work, and we were late because we had to walk a block or two over to Deloitte's westwood office (and Westwood included this elevated wide empty walkway like a museum). There was no parking. [for once I remember my dream!]
...paying down my car loan. Ugh!
Lunch: Panda Express leftovers.
Career: Finance. I should go for wealth management. Eventually.
Registering for the Foreign Service Officer Test today! October 2! I'm OFFICIALLY REGISTERD. OH CRAP.
I have the unique lack of an ego and the ability to put others' priorities ahead of my own. I think that's a good compliment.
I told Lionel about CouchSurfing. He doesn't get it. I feel that a lot of my coworkers don't get a lot of things.
Joined Reddit. Digg sucks now that they've remodeled the site.
First: Watching an NC-17 rated movie.

Friday: CS club night in Hollywood. I went and then left. It felt awkward. I then drove home.

I've lost weight. Yay.

Saturday: The plan was to get new cell phones. But that didn't happen. The weather was cloudy and cool most of the day. Not typical late August weather in LA.
I got back into playing Civ III. Old school, but addicting.



Sunday: Church. Glendale Galleria. Verdugo Bar! (Played Uno and Jenga) Then Milk. Sugar overload.


Back at home, caught the latest Entourage (Vince and Sasha Grey, Turtle and Mark Cuban, and Drama finally going for Johnny's Bananas).