The following was written yesterday afternoon but I forgot to post it before leaving work. Since I am going to be mad busy today with Design Review fun and probably won't have time to write anything, I'll just put it up anyways and you can all pretend that today is yesterday.
A Glimpse Into The Life
- I have been suffering from a sore throat and stuffed nose for the past few days. Yesterday after work I made a cornish hen because Olivia said it would help me get better. God bless her soul, but I ended up burning my tongue on the soup and now I have no sense of taste in addition to losing my sense of smell to the cold.
- It's a great luxury for my day when a lot of people update their blog/xanga pages. Sometimes I feel like Grandpa Simpson and his mail: "Maybe if I go to sleep for a few days some good mail will build up." So maybe if I stop checking everyone's pages for a few days, some good updates will build up. Props to all the regular updaters out there, you know who you are.
- I watched parts of "Saving Silverman" on TV last night. Normally I don't watch movies on TV, because I always switch the channel during commercials and forget to turn back, and also I don't like the fact that they are edited. But for some reason, I stuck to that channel and caught most of the movie. It turned out to be ok actually, stupid with some funny parts. Although I probably would've been pissed if I had paid money to rent it or watch it in the theater.
- Other than the obvious negative of having to go back to work, another bad part about Mondays is that the baseball schedule is usually much thinner. This hampers my normal routine of keeping my eyes glued to my monitor, following the CBS Sportsline MLB Scoreboard and Yahoo! StatTracker windows. And I guess it also ends up causing me to do more retarded things, such as watching Saving Silverman on TV.
- Today was yet another instance of waking up to the video for Linkin Park's 'Faint' on MTV. It wasn't one of my favorite songs on the CD, but maybe the repeated exposure I get every single morning is making it grow on me. They should've released 'Numb' as a single, that is the best song on the CD in my opinion.
- My daily breakfast consists of cereal with lactose-free milk. When I run out of milk and/or cereal, the backup option is a jelly sandwich. Both options were chosen for their relative ease of construction. Occasionally, I will have some leftover cake or a couple slices of pizza, and those days often turn out to be spicier than the others.
- The drive to work is short and sweet. I could probably make the trip with my eyes closed by now. Usually, I only catch about half a conversation on some morning show. I don't know why I listen to the radio at that time to begin with. What I really need is some music that will put me in a good mood and fire me up for the day. Not much help from the CD changer, which I have managed to fill with sleepy or depressing stuff. I think I need to bust out Doggystyle and put that CD on repeat. Or, just burn a CD with that Ying-Yang Twins song over and over... "to the WINDOWWWWWWW to the WALL" ... I still have no clue what that song is about. But those Ying Yang Twins, they sure have some catchy and ghetto music. Last year's favorite for me was "A-YI-YI-YI-YI", and I don't know what that song was about either. The repeating of syllables seems to be a trademark, maybe they just have a stuttering problem.
- My daily lunch consists of a sandwich (usually turkey, roast beef, or chicken on wheat), chips, and a Capri-Sun Big Pouch, Mountain Cooler flavor. I've found that turkey does indeed make me sleepier in the afternoon. Sometimes, I substitute pretzels for chips, but only if I feel like being spicy that week. Occasionally, I upgrade the lunch experience by treating myself to some fruit.
- I try to drink water regularly at work. The rage these days seems to be those Nalgene bottles. Everyone and their mama has one, except me and my mama. I guess it must be good, and comforting to know that you can run your water bottle over with a car without it breaking, but I've decided to drink my water out of good old plastic cups. Partly to be different, but mostly because I don't like to wash and reuse a plastic bottle. I choose disposable, baby.
