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5.30.2002
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ah, the famous "i need space" argument. a popular maker or breaker of relationships. i'm new to this particular argument, so advice, suggestions and comments are appreciated. you see, i'm normally the space needer but suddenly i find myself in a space taking role and i have no tools with which to navigate. it's an ugly beast, this space conundrum, and i fear its bark is just as nasty as its bite.
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5.26.2002
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the other day i was talking to someone about society magazines such as w, magazines that require you know the lineage of supposedly important families not unlike the hiltons. i was saying how it's sort of fun to read those sorts of magazines if only to get a glimpse of a world you'll never be able to relate to. he was on the other side of the coin, saying he had no interest in reading about things that had nothing to do with him that he couldn't fully understand anyway. his argument was that people tend to write in an "inside joke" manner that comes off as cryptic and vague and ends up pissing him off instead of entertaining him.
that's when i decided not to tell him about my website.
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5.24.2002
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it's a little bit of karmic justice how jokes can sometimes backfire and turn against you. last night at my party i was, in good spirits, making fun of a friend for name dropping before he even got to my party and because i failed to let people in on this joke, certain people began to make fun of me for doing the same. i guess that'll teach me for going overboard with my not-so-funny teasing.
by the way, did you know that the dakota smith was at my party?
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5.22.2002
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i just started using this online weight monitoring service that allows you not only to journal your meals and exercise, but also affords you the freedom of not constantly calculating your fat/carb/calorie intake, metabolic burn, or activity-based caloric burn...it does all the math for you. it's a surprisingly effective system that provides accurate results. for instance, to lose one pound per week, i must burn 3500 more calories than i consume in that amount of time. so far this week, i've burned just under 7000 calories and have lost 2 pounds. voila...accuracy at its finest.
one of the most impressive elements of this service is the food database. when i do a search for a particular food, it pulls up as many as 10 pages of options for that particular food item. if i search for "hamburger", for instance, the results range from something as simple as "hamburger with condiments" to something as complex as "d'angelo's - hamburger d'lite pokket (for kids)". conversely, the activities database is very much not complex. it includes a lot of random activities, sure...but fails to include some of the more popular types of workout activities. for instance, it includes gardening, chopping/splitting wood and sex (both moderate and vigorous), but does not include things like sit-ups, push-ups or pull-ups.
despite these downfalls, i gotta say, any system that tells me i can lose weight by planting flowers or doing it with my boyfriend is the system for me, indeed!
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5.8.2002
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i am currently 9765 days old but don't feel a second over 9700.
for a long time now, i've been led to believe i was born on friday, august 13. however, upon doing a little research today (after like 15 years of wishing i knew but never bothering to look it up), i discovered i was in fact born on wednesday, august 13. i'm not sure if my mother was lying to me to make me feel bad because i was born under the sign of the devil or if maybe i was the liar, telling all the people who accuse(d) me of being gothic that i had no choice because of being born on friday the 13th. whatever the case, i am no longer living this lie and have decided to out myself as being a less than interesting wednesday the 13ther instead of being the super cool and not at all cursed friday the 13ther i thought i was.
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5.3.2002
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last night we went to the crab pot in long beach and ordered something called "the westport" - a concoction of crabs, clams, shrimps, mussels, sausages, potatoes and corn on cobs. they have these concoctions pre-netted in back so that when a customer orders it, they can simply drop it into the boiling water for cooking. then they put the whole shabang into a large metal bowl and bring it to the table. on the table, the server has already placed two large sheets of butcher paper and on these sheets of paper are hammers, small forks, wooden blocks, lemons and butter. once the concoction arrives, the server dumps it right onto the butcher paper and then sets the empty metal bowl on the floor. at this point, the customer digs in and begins cracking shells, pulling off legs and heads, dipping things into melted butter and dropping the unusable bits back into the same metal bowl it arrived in.
before last night, i was convinced that i hated seafood and wine. today, i'm happy to report that i only hate clams and mussels and really love shrimp and crab and am learning to like several different white wines.
oh sweet los angeles, what are you doing to me?
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