Jason's Daily Notes

I had the wrong number for Tyson. But got in touch with them, looks like he and Dean will be coming over!
SO MANY CERTS. IT'S AN AVALANCHE OF WORK.

Music: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, Taylor Hicks - Friday

I'm so so so busy.

monday april 4 2011

I am so stressed and buried with work. It's like I'm in a boat filling up with water, and I am just so tired of bailing out buckets of water.

There is LITERALLY a pile of about 100 certs on my desk waiting to be entered into the system. And about 25 new certs come in every day. I only have time to enter about 10 into the system each day.

I just can't do this. Ugh.

Friday night: Party at Ruchi's. Finally met Marc (from Liechtenstein). I had my shirt off. Ruchi left to watch the Cricket World Cup (India beat Sri Lanka). "Flauschig" vs "geschmeidig." Jan, Carina, Chris, and I spent about 2 hours (at 4am) looking for the car. Gave up, walked home. Didn't return until 6am. Esther had gone home with Marc.

Saturday: The drunk brunch was cancelled. We made pumpkin pancakes for brunch; Felix drove us to the pillow fight downtown. It was AWESOME. Loved it! Another fun event.
Walked around - saw Eliana and Iris, and then Parrish. Continued to walk, had some pizzas from 7-11, then met Bernard and Carl, two fascinating people with whom we talked for like 1 hour.
Returned the rental car to LAX, then rested, and then Esther and I went to Kevin's party at the W in Hollywood. It was a great party with great friends. Didn't go to Julia's - she didn't get back to me until too late.

Sunday: Farmers market in West LA. Stayed in the apt. Then went to eh Grove and had Ethiopian food (Awash). Picked up Ruchi before going there (I was "so confused" after waking up from my nap - Marc had been there and lost his iPhone). Morgan met us at the restaurant, then we hung out back at the apartment for a little bit. Stephanie came over. No Ty and Dean.

I parked the car all the way in, Felix blocked me in yesterday. So couldn't get my car out; I rode my bike to work today. It's squeaky and needs some oil.

It's hot still.

I'm working, non-stop. The flood of shareholders certs continues. Answering phone calls, receiving certifications, and trying URGENTLY to calculate the biggest losers for our LP deadline on Tuesday.

This is insane. I'm being stretched thin.

Lunch: Pad Thai leftovers from Wednesday.

Gotta rush home, get the car, meet mom at Universal (or wherever)

End of the month. Chris's birthday. Baseball opening day!
Had a "viewing party" for ANTM last night. It was not that embarrassing.
Picked up Thai food with FG and MR; Brian, Vincent, and Chris then showed up and we hung out. Michelle had to leave, Chris picked up his mom but we met up again and went to the Verdugo - TWICE. Second time with the other Michelle joining us. Then Denny's. Didn't finish til 3am.

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Woke up 7:30 and ugh. Drove through really bad traffic to get to work. It took 1.5 hours on the freeway.
Meeting with a web developer today for our firm's new website. I requested a refund for my UK visa application (I'm going to re-apply as a "prospective student").
Lunch: Office snacks only.
It's hot today. Like 90F.
Starting to make a SoCal bucket list.
Worrying about my traffic tickets. Bleh.
QWOP-ing. How have I not discovered this before?! LOL

At the apartment last night. Watched Jeopardy, ate veggie burger, and slept early (9:30). Woke up. Felix was in the shower as I need to use the toilet. So I just drove to work. 8:30

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HELLA busy at work. 2 new cases (NIVS and Wilshire Bancorp) to add to our burgeoning shareholder workload. The emails and calls are non-stop all day.
We're going to re-do the firm's website.
Lunch: Fries from Fuddruckers. Mayo, cheese, ketchup. Yum.
Music: Muse - Feelin' Good
I'm on ANTM tonight! Viewing party at my mom's house.
Chris's birthday tomorrow.
Downtown LA with Felix and Patricia tomorrow (hopefully)
Felix's party Friday.
Julia's party Saturday.
Kevin's party Saturday.
PILLOW FIGHT Saturday!
Waiting for Tyson and Dean to return!

I was treated out to dinner (late) last night at Pizzeria Mozza. Thanks to Mine and Leanna. I felt kind of weird; they were insistent on a nice night out, with valet parking and all. Mine had rented a car too. That kind of stuff is just not my thing. Didn't get back until midnight. Since dinner was late, I munched on half a bag of doritos beforehand. I was tired.

I have my bedroom in the apartment again! (Matthias moved out over the weekend). Felix had his first day of the quarter (he's gonna have a lot of work). Esther was there.

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Work has me as swamped as ever - with shareholder emails and emails. This Chinese comp;any's stock has been halted so everyone is calling in, not knowing what's going on (and I can't really provide answers so I often just sit there for several minutes listening to shareholders venting their anger).

Lunch: Leftover slice of pizza.
Cancelled my UK visa appointment. Now I'll re-apply as a prospective student instead.
Called KP dependent eligibility to straighten things out. Was on hold for nearly 30 minutes.
I have unusual shoulder pain. Maybe from my healing tattoo? or just sleeping bad.
Considering buying a surfboard.
Music: Rupert Holmes - Escape (the Pina Colada Song); Bed Intruder Song
...looking for a new digital camera...
I'm gonna get paid extra this month. Yay.

Drove to work from Glassell. Took the freeway. 7:50am - 8:50am. La Brea to Pico.

"Schadenfreude" shuffled up on my ipod at the exact moment I drove by a car broke down on the side of the freeway. Good timing!

The shareholders calling this morning are so rude. It's getting me down. Also, I'm still worrying about my traffic tickets.

I think I might be a tiny bit autistic. Just enough to make me extra smart.

Lunch: Leftover tofu and rice.

Music: Mumford and Sons - The Cave; Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out; The Kooks - Seaside; Cold War Kids - Royal Blue (they're going to be at Coachella - damnit!)