Drinking the Kool-Aid
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WordPress app
In Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 at 1:08 amI just updated my WP app and realized that I’ve been missing out on all this “on the go” blogging.
My coffee dilema
In FML, New York City, coffee on July 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm |
| From New York City |
I’m not quite sure what to file this under, but I’ve suddenly developed an intolerance to coffee. I’ve been in NYC for 9 days, and I’ve only had coffee once and I couldn’t even finish the damn thing.
I’ve been googling (and binging) my “symptoms” and from what I gather, its because of stress or I have grown an allergic reaction to it.
On a side note, I discovered something that you can do with coffee that made me clench
Now coffee and me is as synonimous as me and my bad taste in music (to others). So I’m sitting in a coffee shop right now as I right this, and I’m drinking green tea.#FML
Now at the same time that I’ve discovered this new intolerance, I’ve also realized I can drink more alcohol in the city than I ever could back home. So did something happen to me?? A cruel joke? WTF?
Answers please!!
Adios, San Francisco
In New York City, San Francisco, dreams, friends, laugh, life on June 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm
2 years ago I came to San Francisco to start anew. It seemed like a big risk with lots of potential. I arrived on July 2nd, 2007, which was also the same day I had ever set foot in San Francisco (yeah, I was sheltered). In that short day (I arrived around 6pm), I realized that Ingelside was not really San Francisco, and that Ocean Beach was COLD. In the 24 months since then, I have made incredible friends, had ups & down in life (and work) and now know where I truly want to end up someday.
Yes, someday…I will be back but TODAY I am leaving SF which the eventual destination of New York City. I’m scared as shit, yes, even at 35. But that’s how I pretty much felt when I moved here, and look how that turned out 
Wish me luck
and thank you friends
Roman
So I didn’t tweet for 3 hours
In Curse, Twitter, WTF?, laugh on April 9, 2009 at 7:42 pmIt must have been funny to someone up there (God, John Belushi, or whomever is manning Heaven these days). Almost immediately after someone makes a comment about my constant Facebook updating, I get silenced.
So the story goes like this
My smart ass friend Gina (@snosberry on twitter), who I’ve known since summer school (1991) decided to make a comment (smart ass) about my Facebook updating velocity. I synch up my Twitter feed to my Facebook status, and thus the “constant updates”.
visual reference:
So I basically told Gina to kiss it. After that comment (at 7:33pm), I fell asleep while watching TV. I had made plans to attend a concert with my friend Kasey around 9pm, so I set an alarm, etc so I wouldn’t oversleep. When I work up, I realized that I had about 20-30 minutes before I needed to leave the house, so I decided to go walk the dog.
Now for those of you who know me, you know that I do not have a dog (see where I’m going with this?). My roommate volunteered to babysit her friend’s dog for a week. Since I’m a kind person (and unemployed), I volunteered myself to take the dog out to do her “stuff” while exploiting the “cuteness” of the dog in attempts to meet single women during the day (granted, they were probably unemployed as well).
So back to the story, I decided to take Tootsie (yup, that’s her name) out one last time before I went out into the night. I was tempted to “tweet” about this, but knew Gina would give me crap, so I left the phone on the sofa, grabbed the “poop” bag, leash and car keys.
I locked the door behind me, closed it and then realized I had the car keys. Not to be confused with the HOUSE KEYS.
I locked myself out, with a dog and a bag to gather poop. I won’t go into the details of how I walked around the blocks for an hour trying to figure out my roommate’s phone number (sorry to the guy I called and interrupted his Lost watching). I ended up at Kasey & Ben’s house to wait it out, at least I had the car keys.
So basically I blame Tootsie:
And that is why I was tweetless in San Francisco for a few hours. And I’m traumatized.
Milli Vanilli – Blame It On The Rain
In Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 at 9:16 pmI feel like shit, and I blame it on the rain. Thank god I’m not playing baseball today, then I’d be really pissed.
more about "Milli Vanilli – Blame It On The Rain", posted with vodpod
Lily Allen’s The Fear Video
In Uncategorized on February 8, 2009 at 6:56 amI love Lily Allen
“Now I’m not a saint and I’m not a sinner, and everything’s cool as long as I’m getting thinner”
more about “Lily Allen’s The Fear Video“, posted with vodpod
More social media conducive? Country Music or Porn?
In Social Media, Twitter, Vodpod, While I was tweeting, music, video on February 7, 2009 at 11:38 pm
more about “Sweet Thing Video by Keith Urban – My…“, posted with vodpod
I really like this new Keith Urban song, not sure how I feel about the video. I find it interesting that Myspace got the exclusive for this, but then again, the question may be “Is Myspace more conducive to Country Music fans?” Compared to Facebook, what do you think? I have actively searched out certain artists on social media platforms and it seems that Country music artists tend to have a more “hands off” approach to social media, but their fans take the torch and creative fan sites/user ids, etc within these properties. Keith is one of the exceptions.
Personally I would love to see more artists utilize social media tools to give us a more in depth look into their lives, after all, we are willing to pay $90 (plus fees) to see them play for 2 hours, why not allow us to live vicariously through you while you’re deciding whether to order a latte or frap. I feel the differentiator between those who “get it” and those who don’t (re: social media) is those who have twitter accounts. You really can’t “half ass” twitter, you’re either in or out.
Humans are naturally curious, we’re like cats, but with bigger egos. One of my favorite twitterer is @sashagrey. Sasha Grey is an adult film star. She is extremely witty and intelligent (I’ve seen interviews, so not just basing this on her tweets). And no, she’s not talking dirty She realizes that in addition to people wanting to see her scenes, they’re probably curious about who she really is as a person (stereotype disolving).
“You must bump this”
In San Francisco, friends, life, love, shitty on January 21, 2009 at 12:32 am
I am enjoying this “not working” thing like no other. I’m catching up on episodes of HIMYM.
I know this is just TV, but god, I really am having way too many flashbacks of what Barney is going through (with being in love with Robin). I know it’s random, but I remember falling for someone in high school and it basically derailing the rest of my year because everything and anything was for her.
So why do people do this to themselves? I wonder if it’s because it’s the safe thing to do. Safe–you may ask? Well it never works out, right? Who DO YOU KNOW who fell in love with their friend, their mate, the one girl who is always there for you when you need someone to:
1) Go to the movies
2) Take that extra concert ticket you bought (months before, hoping you’d be dating someone by the time the show date)
3) Listen to you damn all the other girls who don’t want to see you
The list goes on and on. So yeah, it kinda sunk in that I know what you’re feeling Barney, and to that, we can bump.
Guayaquil
In Ecuador, Guayaquil, image this, life on January 7, 2009 at 6:04 am
The first few days of my stay in Ecuador was very chill, full of late night conversation and HOT & HUMID. This is definitely the “summer” part of South America they were talking about. I had about 2 hours of sleep before getting to the airport in the morning and I looked it (exhibit A above). It’s a nice city and I’m excited to do some exploring today, but here are some pics I took so far:
Now that I slept on it…
In Overheard in my mind, South America, WTF?, image this, shitty, travel on January 6, 2009 at 1:18 pmI didn’t want to end my last night in Peru with a bitch blog post, so instead I loaded up 3 that were in the queue. But now that I’m in Ecuador, I’m going to happily tell:
So being in Machu Picchu was the most amazing thing in the world. It was an experience of a lifetime and I highly recommend you go. Though a few words of advice (based on real life/recent experience):
*If you are scared of heights, do not try to climb up to Machu Picchu. You will surely shit your pants and probably have a panic attack
*If you are scared of heights, and take my advice above, then make sure you sit on the aisle for the bus ride up to MP and DO NOT LOOK OUT THE WINDOW.
*If your driver of that said bus (bullet point 2) looks OLD, GET THE F@$#$ OFF THE BUS
I am/have always been scared of heights and you would think that flying on a plane would get you pass that fear (yeah, kinda). But nothing will prepare you for Machu Picchu, especially the bus ride. There were a few times where I looked out the window and couldn’t actually see the road that the wheels were supposedly on and there is absolutely no guard rail.
Oh, If it rains (which it usually does), you’re likely going to be even more scared of the trip up/down from the mountain and your train ride will likely be delayed by hours.
Oh shit, it's flooding!
On to the second part of the advice:
You need a tour guide and agency to do the Inca Trail or Machu Picchu. I suggest you hire an ex-pat rather than a local. I know that seems outrageous but a lot of the locals are shady. I was suppose to have a ride back (with one other passenger) from the train station to Cusco, I ended up on a ride back with 19 other people (on a 14 passenger van). Yes, 19 people. The asshole tour guide decided to sell off spots on the bus to pocket some extra change. Now I’m not going to give the guy shit for creating his own stimulus package on the spot, but there were only 11 seats available (if you mins the 2 plus himself).
He didn’t care, and it was the longest ride since Noah’s Ark. I did the “American thing” (and I usually don’t) and bitched his ass out in Spanish after we finally got back into town. I’m expecting a refund.
Ok, I’m done 
Is that a pickle?
In Uncategorized on October 12, 2008 at 5:02 amI would’ve posted earlier, but I’m still a little bummed that I’ve seen Arizona lose 3 consecutive away games that I’ve attended in the state of California. I’ve seen losses to UCLA, USC and now Stanford. I didn’t expect us to beat UCLA and ‘SC, but jeez, the Cardinal??? They better pull a bowl game out of their ass this year or I might just give up. I dragged my friend Jen with me, since I needed the company and we had a lot to discuss, mostly things that have no relevance to world peace or the current economical condition of our country.
Probably the highlight of the day was Jen reacting to the Stanford Tree by asking “Is that a pickle?” I think I cackled. I was hoping to go out tonight, but I’m glued to the televion watching Game 2 of the Sox/Rays series. We’re at the bottom of the 10th inning, tied at 8. The Sox did their job by winning last night, if the Rays lose tonight, they’re in trouble.
Kim just text me, they’re at Lucky 13, and Jen wants to go to Supper Club, but all I want right now is for Papelbon to retire the side. We’re headed to the 11th…
red wine songs, track two
In Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 at 4:42 am
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
red wine + beer+ friends=hangover
In San Francisco, friends, while I was drinking wine on October 5, 2008 at 7:34 pmI am actually surprised I can type right now, I have this fog above my head (or in it). It was a good time, happy birthday Kelley your bottles of wine (I swear I counted 25) that went back and forth amongst 12 people was great. And in the end, when we looked down and saw that it was “only” 12:15am, someone should’ve said “let’s call it a night”. But instead, we ended up at the Gallery Lounge, and wine turned to beer (who says magic is not real).
