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it's friday night. i'm staying in. cuz i'm old.
actually, i had dinner with jl earlier. went to siam inn. bangkok jumbo shrimp. yum.
she's leaving for london at the end of this month. at least until january. she's exploring the world. i envy people who don't have any baggage. they can just up and leave and wander all over.
but then again, to some people baggage equates to foundation. stability.
it's a matter of how you look at things sometimes.
the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
before she leaves, we're gonna have lunch at Mercer Kitchen. restaurant weeks are coming up. i'm taking the 24th off. that's when she's leaving. (i actually took the 24th off because i thought i'd have to take mom to the airport for her houston trip. but that trip has since been cancelled. it cost $100 to cancel and reissue the tickets. what a fucken waste.)
not that jl and i are really that close; we used to be coworkers who hang out. but after she leaves, i will have one less activity partner.
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i made a lunch reservation at Asiate. but who am i going to take? actually, i don't even have that day off work. but my boss might be away on business that week. maybe i can play hooky. but, who am i going to take?
i should clone myself. i think i'd enjoy my own company. i'd have lots of things to talk about. but you can't exactly talk to yourself and then talk back to yourself. at least not in public.
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left work early today. guess what, we all actually had drinks at the office in the afternoon. we had an mx meeting, and then did rm stuff. spring development is looking very good and B got into a really good mood. plus, it's friday, the sun came out after a rainy morning. so we're like, let's have a drink. so we secretly put a bottle of Moet hidden inside a plastic bag in the fridge to chill it. went to lunch, and in the afternoon, 6 of us toasted with papercups of champagne. it's not the same in papercups, but the fact that we're secretly drinking champagne in our boss's office (with the boss present) on a sunny friday afternoon is pretty priceless. and on top of that, B's like, you guys can leave early. nice.
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before i left work, i wrote back to E and D. (D is a new one since Tuesday.)
E had mentioned the idea of possibly hanging out this sunday. but i'd already made plans. even if i hadn't, i thought it was rather too early to meet up. he doesn't know me well enough yet. but then the Voice made me start entertaining his suggestions of hanging out at the beach, hitting some balls at the batting cage, getting some drinks on the boardwalk at sunset, and listening to some live music. could be nicely casual and fun. but in any case, can't do it. when i got home from dinner earlier, he'd already written me back a quick note.
so D is a new guy who happened to email me on the night that the match account was expiring, meaning the last day that i could send emails. i was about to log off when i noticed his message. the thing that made me reply was that he has an italian greyhound. i was intrigued. we've since emailed a couple of times about dogs and tattoos. he's very different from E. he's a few months older than me, E is 10 yrs older. he's asian, E isn't. he's kind of kiddish, E decidedly is not. i can maybe picture D hanging with sal's crowd, E decidedly not. thus far, D seems like a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky man-in-transition, whereas E is kind of mysterious, possibly smoldering, with a preference for Harlem jazz and obscure french movies with dogs running on the beach scenes.
well, at least one thing they have in common is that they like dogs. and we all know how i feel about dogs.
actually, i had dinner with jl earlier. went to siam inn. bangkok jumbo shrimp. yum.
she's leaving for london at the end of this month. at least until january. she's exploring the world. i envy people who don't have any baggage. they can just up and leave and wander all over.
but then again, to some people baggage equates to foundation. stability.
it's a matter of how you look at things sometimes.
the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
before she leaves, we're gonna have lunch at Mercer Kitchen. restaurant weeks are coming up. i'm taking the 24th off. that's when she's leaving. (i actually took the 24th off because i thought i'd have to take mom to the airport for her houston trip. but that trip has since been cancelled. it cost $100 to cancel and reissue the tickets. what a fucken waste.)
not that jl and i are really that close; we used to be coworkers who hang out. but after she leaves, i will have one less activity partner.
*****
i made a lunch reservation at Asiate. but who am i going to take? actually, i don't even have that day off work. but my boss might be away on business that week. maybe i can play hooky. but, who am i going to take?
i should clone myself. i think i'd enjoy my own company. i'd have lots of things to talk about. but you can't exactly talk to yourself and then talk back to yourself. at least not in public.
*****
left work early today. guess what, we all actually had drinks at the office in the afternoon. we had an mx meeting, and then did rm stuff. spring development is looking very good and B got into a really good mood. plus, it's friday, the sun came out after a rainy morning. so we're like, let's have a drink. so we secretly put a bottle of Moet hidden inside a plastic bag in the fridge to chill it. went to lunch, and in the afternoon, 6 of us toasted with papercups of champagne. it's not the same in papercups, but the fact that we're secretly drinking champagne in our boss's office (with the boss present) on a sunny friday afternoon is pretty priceless. and on top of that, B's like, you guys can leave early. nice.
*****
before i left work, i wrote back to E and D. (D is a new one since Tuesday.)
E had mentioned the idea of possibly hanging out this sunday. but i'd already made plans. even if i hadn't, i thought it was rather too early to meet up. he doesn't know me well enough yet. but then the Voice made me start entertaining his suggestions of hanging out at the beach, hitting some balls at the batting cage, getting some drinks on the boardwalk at sunset, and listening to some live music. could be nicely casual and fun. but in any case, can't do it. when i got home from dinner earlier, he'd already written me back a quick note.
so D is a new guy who happened to email me on the night that the match account was expiring, meaning the last day that i could send emails. i was about to log off when i noticed his message. the thing that made me reply was that he has an italian greyhound. i was intrigued. we've since emailed a couple of times about dogs and tattoos. he's very different from E. he's a few months older than me, E is 10 yrs older. he's asian, E isn't. he's kind of kiddish, E decidedly is not. i can maybe picture D hanging with sal's crowd, E decidedly not. thus far, D seems like a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky man-in-transition, whereas E is kind of mysterious, possibly smoldering, with a preference for Harlem jazz and obscure french movies with dogs running on the beach scenes.
well, at least one thing they have in common is that they like dogs. and we all know how i feel about dogs.