easy like sunday morning

the 6 am flight from vegas this morning was the worst flight of my life. still drunk from leaving the club only two hours before, i had some coffee to sober up and stay awake. big mistake - i passed out on the flight, but woke up in oakland feeling like shit - tired, dehydrated, yucky. went home and proceeded to throw up coffee before passing out (anyone remember when i did that in dc, too?). disgusting. i heard lionel in the airport as i boarded the plane and thought of how much i love and miss my stoner boyfriend.

highlights of the weekend:
-half of little bottles of alch. on the plane with bot thursday night
-smothered cheese fries @ denny's
-chippendale's steve butter-popcorn-chicken marinade
-two-hour brunch buffet @ bally's
-chilean sea bass @ the bellagio
-santori time, rj
-getting felt up by a red m&m in the creepy m&m exhibit!!
-pictures of julia's boobs
-obsession with steph chang
-awesome awesome new board!! the best we've had yet
"i lost 25 cents at the penny slots today. BUT i won 50 cents yesterday." - chance

here are some pics. can people send me their pics from this weekend too?

the best part about vegas is the subtle patriotism.


cute japanese woman who was probably thinking "what the fuck is this place?"


the bot, being the bot.


i don't really like this picture of me, but it's something. i kept bitching about how fake the eiffel tower looks, as if authenticity is what vegas is really concerned with.


yay new board!!!! they are way more rad than i.


donuts getting glazed.


a self-explanatory picture.

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"us," regina spektor

I'M GENERATION GOLD-COLLAR!!

best first line of gawker stalker ever:

Spied Elijah Wood spied at the “baggins” claim at JFK, arriving from Long Beach.

get down, john roberts III!

what is up with bot and red-heads?
seattle was a nice weekend trip. i haven't been there in four years (almost exactly), but the weather was gorgeous, and the conference left me feeling really excited and inspired. meeting people through the org. has always been easy and fun, and i met lots of cool people i look forward to keeping in touch with!

getting to the conference itself (at UW) was kind of a hassle. my family's apt. is in north seattle, and it took me about an hour and two buses to get there. the one night i stayed in the apt., i was really creeped out by the quietness and the empty rooms and the covered furniture. i slept with the light on. the next night, i decided to just stay with felicia in her gorgeous apt. in downtown seattle. felicia is all about feng shui, and seeing her tastefully ikea-ed out apt made me consider it as well. she said that as soon as she put a fountain in the northern corner of the apt, she got three job callbacks. felicia also gave me some sweet samples to try after showering the next morning. what a great hostess. she is working for cranium (yes the game), and her boyfriend works at a company that makes wine bags (bags for wine bottles).

the highlight of seattle (besides the food at the conference - it's true what someone there said: "when women run conferences, the food is better!") was swimming and laying out in the sun at the condo. i used to play in that pool all time when we went there on vacations when i was a kid, and i have many many fond memories.

one funny thing about the conference is that it made me realize how women really have to put aside their BS with other women. there were a few women there who i knew or knew of, and, let's say, had a distaste for, based on either shallow or dumb reasons. but once i really talked to them and got to know them better, i saw that my pre-conceptions were wrong. luckily, from previous experiences, i have learned to give people the benefit of the doubt and not let my prejudices prevent me from being open to them. so lesson learned this weekend is: get beyond petty (usually male-created) bullshit with other women. it really is just a tactic used by men to separate us and take away our power.

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this kept the all interns occupied for much of today. i had to do something exactly like this for columbia's entrance exam, but it was for asia. i got 64% right, while my fellow interns got from 71 to 89 percent right. "europe is overrated," in owen's immortal words.

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i was looking through my archives, and i found this. CFW: see #9. reminded me of fire-crotch. also, bot: remember HOT FAX?

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antony and the johnsons, i am a bird now

movies watched in the past week:
million dollar baby
l'avventura
the piano teacher
harold and maude
city of god
my friend totoro (snooze)

anyone in new york: my friend minnay is having a party!

check out humble blurb redux in this week's bay guardian (second listing) - see you at the show tonight!

this is so sad. less becuase she was an ivy league student, more because she was trying to stand up to and educate men who called her and her girlfriends "bitches."

what is there to say?

trying to be patient and loving and giving as best i can. trying to make myself happy for a change. trying to keep busy but still have time for myself. trying to occupy my time (short-term and longer-term) into manageable bits so as to not be engulfed by too much wallowing time. trying to tell myself good things, such as "still got my health," "still doing what i love," "still got great friends all over the country who care about me," "still living rent-free," and of course "still got nice legs." also: "24 is still really young" (that one's direct from laurie's mouth). must keep repeating that last one especially to stay sane.

etc. etc.

i finally broke down and registered for page six online. had to read that goddamn zach braff/mandy moore tidbit. apocalypse near. but in the meantime, send me page six stuff to read (minnay).

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mama needs a new pair of shoes
oh, yes she do.
vegas, july 28 to 31.
looking forward to lots of little bottles of liquor while sitting next to the bot on the flight.

the new magma
if you hear me mumble something (bot?) about "putting that in my play," it's because i'm taking an asian am. playwriting workshop for the next 8 weeks. i thought it might be a good and productive use of my time, not to mention pick up a sorely needed creative skill. the first class was last week, and it was really neato. so thanks in advance for giving me great characters to write about.

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rad new band: art brut (esp. "good weekend" and "my little brother")

"the diamond sea," sonic youth: oh, how i've missed you.

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this is possibly the funniest thing i've read in months.

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also, i think i may have topped the best chaser ever (gum after 151 shot) - a spoon of sorbet after a vodka shot.

check out my humble blurb in today's sf bay guard. (under thursday)

funny pop culture "quiz"

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salon on the new wonka movie

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politics of finding housing in dc

Best voice message since I started work
From a Washington DC gossip columnist: (bright voice, British accent)
"Hi, this is D---- M-------, returning your call. I'm so sorry I
missed your call, but I was at a luncheon. Feel free to call me at
home, but I have to warn you I'm about to make myself a stiff drink,
so it may be better to try me tomorrow morning. Take care!"

I can imagine her with her martini in hand, reclining (legs up) on her
divan couch in her Chanel suit.

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here are some pics from the past few weeks:



my mom made boston baked beans. yum.



here is the yummy pizza i made, per rachel's recipe, from minnay.



finally, my mom's been cleaning out her papers, and she found this envelope. it's an old worn envelope that reads "Lisa's garage sale." we haven't had a garage sale in at least 15 years. the envelope is sealed, but from the sound of it, there is only change inside. maybe 80 cents. i'm going to keep it closed, for a really rainy day.

man, ebay will be my downfall.

am i the only sad soul watching live 8 on mtv today? did anyone see the jay-z and linkin park performance? that guy from linkin park couldn't stop jockin hova. it was so obv. how much he wanted to do him. chris cornell is a sad substitute for zach de la rocha on "bulls on parade."

london.

i'm going to seattle july 21-23 for this conference! just found out they're giving me some monies to go. AND i'm gonna stay at our apt. in seattle that i've never stayed at alone. whoo! anyone want to keep me company?

funny thing at the office today: our kiwi managing editor is introducing a new copy editor to the interns. he says, "this is L, J, and A." then spotting michael around the corner, he says totally deadpan: "and over there is michael...who is wearing a dashiki of some kind." i had to hold in the LOLs. m, a white-ass white boy, really does wear these funky ethnic shirts all the time. too funny.

this is a great blog with snippets of conversations around the bay