gack!

I registered to take the GMATs today. So its official - June 4th is the date.

Gack!

That pretty much sums up how I feel. I spent most of the evening making flashcards on algebra, geometry and obscure arithmetic concepts that I haven't used since 7th grade. Seriously. When am I going to use inverted fractional exponents in real life? Or reason through the breeding pattern of Mongolian cattle?

I've still remnants of the food poisoning from Thursday, and a horrible headache. I'm sure that re-learning the area of trapezoids didn't help.

gas stations and herbivores

Despite my exhaustion and queasy stomach, I joined Miriam and friends for drinks and dinner.

I rolled out of a ineffective nap, stuck on my glasses and headed to Madrone, a new lounge in lower Haight. It took a little bit to find, since there's poor signage on the door. The only thing that looked remotely like the address was the Arco gas station... I was starting to wonder if I was still asleep or hallucinating. I was completely out of it, so it wouldn't have surprised me!

After driving around 5 times, I finally found it and joined fflood, Sean, Agnes, Paul, Ashton and Miriam at the lounge. Its a cute little place inside, and both fflood and I inquired about having a party there. Best of all, well drinks are only $2 for M-Th happy hours! I didn't drink, of course, but its good to know :-)

We then headed over to Herbivore for an amazingly yummy and inexpensive vegetarian dinner. I'd been meaning to check this place out, and I'm so glad we did! I had a roasted portabello mushroom sandwich that was just so tasty, and yet not too heavy. I think we might have found a good place for our late-night dinner meetings! I give it 4 out of 5 cowbrains.

a little song, a little dance...

Yesterday, I started my song and dance workshop. Yes, people - I am actually taking a class where I learning how to sing and dance on stage. Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you want to look at it), I won't be performing - the performance date is on the same day as Mission in the Mix, the hip hop dance show that I committed to several months ago.

We started out with "Do a Deer". Ok, its geeky. But its lots of fun! There's only 5 of us, so we get to have input on the songs and choreography that we put together. I'm the only hip hop dancer there, so I'm pushing to add a little booty drop to the mix.

One of these days, I'll be just like Roxie Hart - a STAR! The audience will love me... and I'll love them. And we'll just loooove each other, because none of us got enough love in our childhoods.

Um. Just kidding?

rats with wings

OMG, we have a pigeon stuck in our fireplace!



Somehow it flew in through the chimney a couple of days ago, and it can't get out. Heather and I were home doing some spring cleaning today, and we did everything we could to try to get it out without having it sh*t all over our living room. We even tried to build a pigeon trap by putting some crackers into a trash can, but no dice.



What a dumb creature. I really hope that we get it out before it dies of hunger or something. We tried recruiting Nathan to help, but he's all out of ideas to pigeon-free our house.



Damn.

a girl's day

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.

~ Laurie Kuslansky

There are just some days where you know how fortunate you are by the girlfriends that you have.

After days of rain, the weather cleared up for a gorgeous Friday. Today was Laura's last day working at eBay (haha, I'm her client!) so we went to lunch with Marie and Marissa.

It was great to see Marie again. We'd only met a couple of other times, most notably during Halloween 2003, but she's totally fun. As a bonus, she also works in my building, and was enthused about going to the eBay gym with me! I'd been looking for a workout buddy for a while to motivate me, and just the other day, Virginia and I made a pact to finally go to kickboxing every Wednesday. Now I have another gym/lunch buddy, which will make the long commute down worthwhile.

After work, I swung by Victoria's Secret to stock up on some basics. I'd always been a staunch no-underwire girl, but after being refitted, the sales girl convinced me to try on some of their more comfortable underwire bras. Its like a whole new world opened up! I'd always been limited to super-boring basics because of my aversion to underwire (90% of the bras out there have underwire), so now I can pick so many more styles. Yay!

I rushed home and met up with Michelle and Becky for some crispy Hong Kong noodles at Go-Go Cafe, and then we headed out to - you're not going to believe this - an Asian party. Not only an Asian party, but a Tribecca party. Surprisingly, I had a good time. We were at a mellow new bar on Geary called Alpha Bar, and we hung out with the owners for a while.



Of course, to prepare myself for the Asianess, I had quite a few drinks. Michelle was already on a roll, and this led to some interesting encounters. First, Michelle dared me to kick her ass, so I gave her a huge wedgie - she had to go to the bathroom to fix it :-) Then, Becky and Mich dared me to moon the Toyota dealer guy who was still working at midnight. Somehow, we ended up in caloric stupor at Jack in the Crack, before we headed home.