last night i went to cinespace with jen and sami to see nada surf play an acoustic set. admitedly i'm not a nada surf fan. not that i dislike their music. i just don't really know any of it with the exception of a couple of songs. but i went because i knew they would want to go and i was their ticket in. it was an event sponsored by my old internship (which i like to refer to as THE MAG sometimes). the mandatory tuesday night at cinespace. i used to go more frequently when i actually worked at THE MAG. but now that i don't i just go randomly when i get the invites sent to me. last night the old crush from THE MAG showed up with his gf. the gf he's had for about a year now. the one that put a jolting stop to all our flirtation at work. i finally got to meet her. she's asian of some sort. just like me. goddamnit i was certain the crush and i liked each other. and now i'm even more certain! anyhoo, i have my andy pandy. so it's ok. but it was nice to finally meet the girl that severed my bond with the former crush.

so it's getting to be that time of the year again. gift-giving season. let's face it. how many of my friends are actually religious and look at christmas as a holy day that just so happens to involve gifts? very few i'm sure. so really it's not christmas-time. it's gift-giving season. that being said, at work we are coming up with our holiday promos and marketing. so it's got me already thinking about what i want for christmas and what to give others. i've got andrew's gift narrowed down to a few options. still determining if i can come up with something better or not. i will make a preliminary list of what i want since i have ideas.

- 60 gb ipod - white (no engraving)
- hotel lachapelle by david lachapelle
- gift certificate to a good day spa for a facial
- konzuk powder coated ring (hot pink, plum, or azure blue - size 6?)

that's all i got for now. more to come when i think of it...

guess who messaged me!?! friendster boy who's sweater i gave to good will. yep that's right.

oh man. stacey and were thisclosetodavegrohl!!! we went to see the hot hot heat/weezer/foo fighters show and it was fantastic. hhh aren't that great live. at least not at this venue. which stacey and i both agreed was probably not a good place for them. not to mention weezer's shit was behind them covered so they didn't have much space. and overall the stage just felt too big for them. weezer on the other hand was actually good. i was expecting a poor performance since they were utter shite at coachella. but this time they were great. rivers was all over the place. they had good lights and set design. it was awesome. and rivers even went through the crowd and played behind the sound board which was near where we were standing so we saw him up close. good shit.

the foo though. they fuckin ROCKED the house. i mean i expected nothing less. i saw them a few years back at the el rey and they were great then. dave grohl is just fucking awesome. he's totally rock without being a dick about it. u know? he seems like one of those guys who just loves music and is out there to make more of it. he can scream like a motherfucker. their set was fucking awesome. they had these cool led light things going. strobes. the works. the set was cluttered with old amps, speakers, etc. just a pile of it. but all just so since it was designed that way. in the middle of the set dave did the same thing rivers did. he went thru the crowd and played behind the sound board. me and stacey were in shock and didnt start moving toward him immediately but then once we did we werethisclosetohim. fuckin eh. we could have touched him if we had gotten our act together. haha given him a titty twister like someone else did apparently. oh dave. we [heart] u.

today so far has been spent being lazy with andrew. fucking up the hashbrowns and making egg pods rather than eggs over easy. yes yes. aren't i just a wonder in the kitchen. i gotta finish up kim's movie poster and just organize my shit in general. also need to figure out what to be for halloween!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABERDEEN!!

yes yes my teddy bear is yet another year older. 14 years old this year. getting older and dirtier. poor thing... =/ i love my bear. so much that i will mention his birthday before mentioning that it is also stacey's birthday and rick's mom's birthday. yes yes. 3 in one! and tomorrow is tinna's! too damn many birthdays this month. breaking the bank.

anyhow, last nite i was going to see shaun's band play but here's what happened that made me so disgruntled i fuckin split. ok so the show was at the key club in weho which is a bitch for parking. there are tons of meters everywhere but they run all night. so i figured i'd just fill one for like an hour and a half and that should do the trick. surprisingly though, for all the meters around, most are so conditional. the first one i went to was loading zone. the second was 30 min only. then i found a row but they were permit or some shit. across from those were another row. seemed fine. so i parked. as i did that meter maid pulled up behind me and just sat there. so i watched her. she just sat there. so then i reread the signs posted like 10 million times but i was certain i must have been missing something. she was gonna ticket me the second i left. i just knew it. so finally after reading the signs over and over i assured myself i was correct in parking there. but to make sure i walked over to the meter maid's car and asked her, "are you going to ticket me? am i not supposed to park here?" she said, "did you see that bottom sign? do you think it's there for design purposes only?" i looked. it was the stupid sign that explains how you are supposed to turn your wheels when parking on a hill. now being that i'm from san francisco where there are hills EVERYWHERE and i learned to drive on hills and park on hills, i'm well aware of the way to turn my wheels. and i had my wheels correctly turned. wtf is this bitche's problem? so i say, "yea i see it. i have my front wheels turned toward the curb." she's like, "ok are you sure? did you put money in the meter?" i said "i will in a minute." she's like "well those are 15 min meters for the liquor store. back up and park where i'm parked." so then she leaves and goes around the corner and i back up. meanwhile some other car parks in front of me. they don't curb their wheels and a man tells them to. so i get paranoid and pull closer to the curb cuz i dont want that bitch coming back and telling me that even though my wheels are curbed my car isn't close enough to the curb or some such bullshit. so after all that ordeal i'm ready to put my money in the meter and go see the show. so i put my money in and guess what. the fucking meter is a 15 min meter!!! that fucking bitch lied to me. and i just wasted a bunch of quarters cuz i popped them in so fast i didn't realize it wasn't changing. bloody hell. i was so pissed. so at that point i just gave up and assumed this wasn't going to happen and left. didn't see the show. didn't have enough quarters too! and didn't have a place to park again. good grief. fucking bullshit. and that cunt ass meter maid was purposely trying to trick me so she could write me a citation. fuck those bitches. i hate meter maids. and that's my rant of last nite....

other than that things are good. went to work today and barely did anything cuz we rearranged the office and it took hours. watched the goonies up in the theater in the showroom. fun fun. apparently 20/20 is coming tomorrow to interview some people. i might be on camera! oh joy of joys...

stacey's bday thing is soon so i should hop to it.

sorry to skip a beat...or two...or five...

i swear it's been nonstop since last wedensday. bowling that night. then emily came for 4 days. then cut copy monday. freelance work tuesday night (and sporatically throughout the week in btwn the blaze of social activities). going to the gym, watching extras, and doing laundry wednesday night. lawrence's bday dinner thursday night. and amazing goodbye party for joe last night!!! it's been nonstop partying. and more to come. tonight is andrew's company party and maybe bang! afterward. then tomorrow is the architecture in helsinki show. too much stuff!!!

last night's party was awesome. andrew didn't come back from japan til today which sucked ass. he emailed me saying he was going to have to stay an extra day and it really bummed me out. but i made the best of it alright. got drunk. danced a shitload. took lots of photos. and ate pizza with some really good friends at 4am. what more can you ask for? well...maybe having your boyfriend there and not being harassed by shaun's prick-ass roommate. maybe i should rephrase. not harassed. he wasn't doing anything harmful. but he sure was a prick. i should perhaps preface this with a smidge of backstory. i think i mentioned it in my last entry but i'll reiterate in slightly more detail.

so last weekend we went out to little bar on friday. shaun came and brought his two new roommates -- steve and joel. i've met steve numerous times and joel once before at beer pong. but i guess joel didn't take much notice of me then. but he did at little bar. we talked and i got the sense that he was interested. but he had no idea i had a bf. and i figured there was no need to bring it up as long as he didn't ask me out or anything. cuz i don't like to assume shit like that. it's very embarassing when you are wrong. anyhow, at one point someone asked where andrew was and i said i wasn't sure. cuz i thought he was done working and just hadn't called me back and i was a bit upset about it all. so i blew it off in conversation and joel was like "who's andrew? you're crush?" and i said "no he's my boyfriend." so then joel went on this rant about how can we not see each other before he goes to japan. it must not be a good relationship. he assumed andrew must be asian cuz he's going to japan. all this stupid bullshit. whatever. i let it all go. but when shaun took me and rick home, joel brought it up again. "when are you gonna break up with this asian boyfriend?" etc etc. the next night at karaoke i got the same shit. whatever. it's fine. i deal. then on wednesday at brian's, shaun came over to get a hoody from me and chill and he said that joel told him to ask when i was breaking up with my asian boyfriend. so again, over and over. it's like a broken record. i know it's all in jest but it's annoying. but whatever.

well last nite. more of the same during the party. but i also noticed that joel seems desperate for some pussy. he let me go cuz he knows i have a bf but then he was hounding jordan's friend who jordan told me isn't single either. i bet joel just didn't know. then he moved on to some other chick who was just not cute. and i saw them make out a bit. whatever. good for them. get him off my back. but no...as he left with the chick he came up to me, in front of her, and said something like "hey jen. u should die your hair blonde. you'd be a knockout as a blonde. no really. i wouldn't date you. but if you were blonde i would." all said in front of the chick. what a fucking dick? who does that? i had no response to such a dickish thing to say. i told shaun and he said he already talked to joel about not being a dick and whatnot. but whatever. i think everyone now agrees that we don't like this kid too much. so maybe shaun won't bring him around as much anymore. we'll see....rick said he'd take care of him if he said anything really retarded to me. good ole rick, always looking out for me. =)

anyhow, aside from that the night was fantastic. i mean truly fantastic. that was a minor 15 minute drawback. and now it's nearly 3pm and i must get ready for this party and whatnot. good lord! i hope i don't feel awkward. company parties are awkward to begin with i think. so we shall see.

finally i will leave u with some highlight photos from the night. if u know me well enough u will be getting zip files of all the photos from the night including the saucy dance videos i took too!

the weekend wore me out. and i fell asleep for a few hours earlier in the night. now it's time to go to bed for real!

emily came down to LA on a whim this past thursday and left today. seeing her again made me realize how much i miss her. whether she knows it or not. when people move away it's weird because i miss them yet the missing isn't obvious. i conduct my daily chores without seeming to notice that i miss the person. but then every so often i realize they aren't around and i miss them. and then when i see them it really reminds of the fact. and i haven't seen emily since she left over a year ago! but her being back for a few days made me wish she was here all the time again. cuz we have crazy good fun together. oh emily, don't be a stranger for such long periods of time anymore...

the weekend was action-packed. she got here thursday and her, me and rick had lunch in japantown. later that night she and i chilled at my place and just talked. kickback night. friday a group of us went to little bar and that's where i re-met shaun's new roommate joel who i assume is fond of me but doesn't work that idea well. that night and the night after he was being a little bitch to me about andrew. i don't appreciate retarded joking remarks like "so have you broken up with you boyfriend from tokyo?" yea, doesn't work for me buddy. anyway, aside from that little bar was alright. i was missing andrew that night cuz he was working late. and has been working late since about tuesday which i think was the last day i had seen him til late last nite. he left for japan this morning and i feared i wouldn't get to see him at all before he left. and if it weren't for me jetting off to his house after karaoke last nite, i wouldn't have seen him. but i did such and we had a couple good hours together btwn last nite and this morning. albeit tired hours, but good nevertheless. he returns friday. just in time for joe's goodbye partay. woo! jello shots....

yesterday me and em went to melrose during the day. but not after her and i were accompanied by amanda and jen at the closeout sale where i work. $3 and $4 clothes. can't beat it. we spent $178 btwn the 4 of us and it was probably about $1000 worth of clothing. fuck yea. good shit. at night i went to a former coworker's bday party at el compadre. (tooo many october bdays!!!) note to self, never go to el compadre again. too small. too crowded. too slow of service. dinner was supposed to start at 9:30 but didnt start til about 10:30 and by midnight i just left in the middle cuz i had to meet everyone for karaoke. and when i did they were all good and wasted and it just wasn't the same for me being the sober one in the lot. *sigh* the bill came to nearly $500 and i had to regulate on that shit in order to get it all settled. i think i was labeled the bitch as a result by some but i didn't care. a $500 bill is not to be taken lightly. and i ain't frontin the cash for those who are too cheap to pay their share. no sir. in the end we were $6 short. not too shabby considering i'm certain a few didn't pay. thank the lord for those who paid too much including ole shaunie boy who threw down $60. thanks shaun! u rule.

anyhoo, that's about it. i feel like i had no time to rest. i drove around way too much. and this week is not letting up. only tuesday and wednesday are nights off for me. tomorrow is the cut copy show. thursday is lo's bday dinner. friday is joe's goodbye party. saturday is andrew's company party. and sunday is the architecture in helsinki show. fuck man, i'll be beat. thank the lord for not having a taxing job like i used to.

goodnite!

bleh. it's friday nite and i'm waiting to go out. i'm upset cuz i haven't seen andrew in a few days and probably won't see him until he comes back from japan in a week. we were supposed to make dinner together this week too and that didn't happen. bleh. this sucks. a lot. bleh. =/

welp, i'm back in LA and i started my new job. life is swell. the job is pretty easy. cut and dry. the design is so straightforward and clean. that whole swiss design movement. LOVE IT! i can't say the job is amazing and thrilling but it's good. and i like the people i'm working with. it's way chill. i love that. so i'm down to stay for awhile. ie, at least a year. i don't like bouncing around only because it looks bad on a resume. once i'm ready to dive into the freelance world i'll do it. i've already bought some clothes with my massive discount and i've mapped out more i want to get. it's bad. soooo bad. it's just so darn cheap and way to easy and convenient with the store upstairs! gah. this will be the death of me i tell ya.

on another note, emily randomly decided to come visit LA. so she's here til sunday. awesome. had lunch with her and rick today. we'll be spending lots of good drunken time together this weekend. can't wait.

oh oh! one other thing. i was parousing (did i spell that right?) this ring website that i sometimes buy plastic rings from and found that the woman who runs it has a ring blog. so i was checking out some of the links she put up and came across this really nice website for rings.

konzuk metalwear

anyway, there are some nice rings on there but the following 3 are my favorite.

the one on the far left is nice for a wedding ring. although i personally don't really want a diamond wedding ring. i don't think it would go with my aesthetic. wearing such a flashy gem all the time. but the idea is nice. platinum band with diamond with a stainless steel accent band. it's pretty. $2200. not too expensive for a wedding ring. although i think the diamond is like .10 carat or something. meh. i don't even know what that really means in terms of physical size. i assume not too big.

the middle one would be sort of how i want my wedding ring to be. i always said i didn't want an expensive ring. i wanted a platinum band that i designed myself. and this is nice. platinum with stainless steel. it's simple and elegant. and i think i could wear something like that day in and day out. $1800. respectable for a wedding ring i think.

the one on the right however, is something i want right now. it comes in different colors (shown to the right). it's stainless steel and $150. not TOO expensive. i think it's awesome looking for some reason. i might ask for it for christmas. and if a certain someone read this thing, i'd hope he'd get the hint and buy it for me. perhaps in hot pink, plum or aqua. size is uncertain. they apparently sell some of this company's rings at the SFMOMA gift shop. but i just learned of this and it's too late for me to check it out. so next time i come back to SF i'll take a look. ok off to bed!

up in norcal now. not doing anything tonight despite the fact that it *is* saturday. we went out thursday and friday and quite frankly i'm a bit pooped. yes yes, i know that sounds supremely old. but i don't care.

got in wednesday night and had din din with ky and jason at this amazingly fabulous burmese restaurant. SOOOOO good! burma superstar i think it was called. over on clement and 4th. highly recommended if u are in the area.

thursday me and ky went to the icer air event in the city. basically it was this ski jump event on the hills of san fran. yes folks, SKIING in the city. SKIING!!! SNOW!!! SAN FRAN!!! i don't know if u (ie, the people reading this shit) remember the winter olympics in utah (? somewhere in the US) awhile back. but johnny mosley was this hotshot young skier who won a few medals in moguls and whatnot. he just turned 30 and he wanted to put on this skiing event in san fran. (he's from norcal) the city stopped it in august but after much pushing and pulling, the event got passed and went on this past thursday. the idea was that 20 pro skiers/snowboarders would compete for some cash prize by skiing down a manmade ski jump in the city. so in the pacific heights area (ie rich fucking neighborhood) of san fran, they blocked off a bunch of streets so that they could lay down 200 tons of snow and create a ski jump. the jump started at the top of a pretty steep hill and went for one block. the skiers/snowboarders would go down that one hill and then hit the jump that was placed in the intersection and try to clear it and land on the next street which was another hill covered in snow. the person who got the best score (it was a judged event) won the money. there were 3 rounds. it was NUTS. i mean first of all san fran has been hot for the past few days. it was 80+ degrees that day which is so unusual for the city AND there was 200 tons of snow on the street! i mean fuckin eh. thousands of people showed up for the event. it was downright nutty. i took some photos and video. i won't post the video cuz it's too much hassle but here are a few photos.

i mean look at that shit. the sf bay in the bgd while they jump off this manmade ski jump in san francisco in 80+ degree weather. god it was fuckin cool and crazy. and look at that crowd of people! and that was just one side of the event. there were thousands on the other side too!

anyhow, so that was thursday during the day. at night me and ky went to popscene which is the SF version of bang! good times but not crazy times. we were too tired i think.

yesterday i stayed home during the day and did some work. then went to dinner with jason and ky. then we went to this club that just turned out to be not what we were expecting. total goth/industrial scene. no good! so we left and scouted out for other places but just ending up wandering the mission and seeing everyone out at the bars. then we went home around 2am.

today i had brunch with jason walked around the mission and the haight for a long while. then me and ky wandered irving street before getting a late dinner with melissa and matt. then i came home and just chilled. and here it is. 1am. i think i'll sleep soon. hopefully tomorrow i can get a quick bite to eat with jason and/or kyla before heading back to LA. gonna ride back with brian and crew. it was great to be in SF but short amount of time as usual. i miss andrew which is weird for me cuz i don't think i've ever felt that way before while coming to SF. a new sensation for me!