Saturday's Events
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Friends
Got to see NAV, PRI, CHR, LIZ at IHOP where we enjoyed pumpkin pancakes. Was weird to be in the same room with NAV again. I'm so uncomfortable with him. LIZ must have invited him. Finally gave LIZ her b-day present. TSK TSK on me for not making enough time to deliver it sooner. A.D. was nowhere to be found, not sure how he planned to get there at 5. GI was MIA.

Later that day, Jen and I were suppose to go to beer school, but it was cancelled.

Then I went to the Boo Ball with Bi, his sister and friends. Made fool of self. Dire consequences to follow. Bi is a great dancer, really surprised me. No more open bar for me. I was hung over till like 4PM Sunday.

Also, all of us went to wet to hook up with Ken, who texted me like 10 times earlier that day. We get there and after a while my friends leave. Ken ignores me the whole time I'm there, and I ended up hanging with his friends. His one friend was nice so it was OK but it was not why I came. Ken really pissed me off - you don't ask someone to come out and hang with you and then blow them off completely. If he was macking on a girl, it would be one thing. But he was just being a jerk. So I'm going to avoid him for a while, not good friend quality. There was a cute bartender there but I was too mentally involved at the moment with my car and with MD's deal to notice he was hitting on me. Ok so what happened is that somewhere between the first and the second club, I lost my car alarm lock. So I had to cab it back to transit and wait for AAA to unlock my car. What made it worse is that my cell died too so I had to borrow some dude's cell to call them. Crappy adventure.

Saturday's Events
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Family
Saw my cousins on the account of G's 21st B-day. Hope he likes his Grey Goose. Hung out for a bit and caught up. G's changed a lot since starting college. V always cracks me up.

Great Pumpkin Halloween Dodgeball Tournament
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Active
I am Dodgeball virgin no more.
Our team, Clockwork Orange, was really cool, Jenny B did a great job putting it all together.

Dodgeball is a game where 6 players throw six balls at each other until time runs out or until the players on one team are eliminated, by having the opponent catch their thrown ball or by getting hit by a ball. You can check out the Dodgeball USA web site for real rules.

Not sure how the game evolved, but I do know one thing, it's fun. There is a lot more personality and strategy then in other ball sports. There is a lot of teamwork, and it's very athletic and demanding. More adrenaline then other sports that I play, by far. Definitely a must do for everyone who likes a little competition.

Throwing the ball was tough, need to buy balls and practice. Need to wear adventure running shoes to not slip. Gets really hot, but good to cover most skin for protection from falling. Good to wear tight clothing because if a ball grazes clothing it counts as a hit. I throw like a girl. It doesn't hurt when you get hit, at least not very. I got hit in the head. I think in the men's league, it's bad to get hit.
There were a lot of people in costume, very entertaining. The fat men and Cobra Kai were some of the highlights. Sportsmanship is good in this game. It's good to have a lot of people on your team to help you get stray balls. Lots of laughs from all the dodging and catching and falling. Very fun game. Makes you feel like a kid again. Lots of psychology too.

Poop
Topic: haha
Reverting back to childhood, but this is funny. Note it's also very gross

I saw this driving the other day, and as it relates, I will share it at this time. You know who you are :-)

Tom Peters
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Hot People
Tom is hot because he has really good ideas about leadership and values the human capital and innovation in companies as what gives them the leading edge.

internet phone - free
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: web stuff
Thanks La, this is great. Skype is a service that provides free telephony through the internet. I recently discovered, thanks to Reed, that the same thing can be done through yahoo messenger. Must get a microphone to save moneys.

Andre Tolme
Topic: Hot People
Andre is hot because he golfed Mongolia. He's also decent looking. I'm also trying to get a date with him. Why not?

Andre is also hot because: he's a great enterpreneur, is doing something to help the world in a very unique way, is a world traveler, and is a very caring person. And he entertained me with his great story. I'd love to meet him. I'm a sucker for men like this.

Felix Baumgartner
Topic: Hot People
Felix is SOOOOO hot. I've been obsessed with him for years. He's hot because 1. he has a really cool job 2. he's the ultimate athlete 3. he's damn good looking 4. daredevils are sexy. they are the real superheroes. Superman doesn't exist, this man does. 5. I need to stop sending him obsessive emails before australia issues a cease and desist. Ok, just kidding, I've only sent him one.

Did I mention that he's one of the hottest men alive? Wonder what his life insurance costs?

10/21/04 Update: I got an email from the dude! I'm getting an autograph! How cool is that!!!!

Date #2 with MD
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: my own bachelorette show
So today I went on my second date with md. brief summary: he's being shady. I like him, but he's being shady. BTW, he's the 2nd guy I've dated with initials MJD. Weird to recycle that much.

Shady thing #1. He won't tell me his age.

shady thing #2, he lied about owning a condo. I believe he rents. I have my sources.

shady thing #3. He tried to come over to my place. Um, I don't know him that well. He said I can't come over to his place because it's a mess. He made no indication of whether we'll go out again. He leaves Sunday to go to florida for work - this has been verified. Now I have to take everything he says and apply the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to it. Everything that is said may or may not be true, may or may not be believed to be true by the speaker, and may or may not appear true at the time it will be observed.

He's affectionate, he has manners, and he is interesting. We have quite a few interests in common, but the depth is to be explored. What I like about him so far: looks - definitely my "type". voice - nice voice. height - yup, it works. clothing/style - very nice (couple of small notes on that - he knows I like numbers, so he prepared himself for the date by wearing this really cool shirt with a number pattern, but the numbers are so small they look like stripes. He was pretty proud of himself for it too when he pointed it out to me. Also, his jacket, was esseintially the same style jacket that I pointed out to La the day before... and essentially the same one La ended up getting the day after). He has a great smile and the eyes, love the eyes. He has a smokin' body. Why I wanna...(insert the karma sutra). Ok, that's the shallow stuff. Here's the deeper stuff: he's random. he doesn't mind that I'm random. Every thought doesn't have to be finished. He's creative and funny. He's a decent listnener. He's got wide-ranging interests. Some people know nothing and care nothing about a whole body of knowledge, such as art, science, technology, or sports. I think that this is shallow. MD doesn't have that problem at all. He can think and express his thoughts. You can't put this guy in a box. He's not totally closed up - he has shared some random personal statements and history. He's not too full of himself. I think he assumes I googled him. Good assumption Mr. but have you googled me?

The bad: games, appears to be slightly manic, possibly down right now. Can't make normal plans like a normal person and keep them. Maybe he just feels like I'm not interested and doesn't want to get hurt? Doubtfull.

Also he's a dork when it comes to new technology that's out of his field. Like cell phones - txt msg, photos... dunno, it's weird. Note, lack of knowledge is not the same as a lack of interest.

How about this for a perfect date though (minus him butchering the ending - at the end of the date he doesn't give me any indication of whether or not he's interested in seeing me again.)

1. mexican fine arts museum. We were both determined to do at least a drive by, even though we were coming kind of late.

2. bakery in pilsen. We got day of the dead, dia de los muertos bread.

3. nuevo leon in pilsen. md noticed a waitress sliding down the handicapped ramp, it was pretty funny.

3. art galleries and murals in pilsen.

4. ping tom park (where balloons fell on us from the sky and we had to fish them out of the river, and no one else was there at 7 PM on a warm night; For some lady's 40th bday 40 ballons were released from berwyn, and we were suppose to mail the card back with where we found it. instead we should mail it to england, per ken's advice and have it be sent back a month later from there, to perplex the receiving party.) Here's us at Ping Tom, with the ballons and card found in the bottom right corner.

5. Chinatown to get md chocolate fortune cookies and bobba tea - he's never had it and we shared one. We also talked about movies. He wants to see this really scarry one. I'll watch it, but ONLY if we can play sleepover afterwards (what, I need an excuse), I don't do well alone after scarry movies at night. I have an overactive imagination.

6. Osaka gardens. btw, he also has a fascination with the colombian exposition like I do. Yes, La, we went there at night (I have no healthy fear of the dark), and no one attacked us. And this time I found it no problem.

Um and he is sooo hot. And we talked about the weirdest shit that I can't even put here. I don't know what his intentions are. Mr. President of the fraternity and captain of the football team that supposedly didn't date a lot when he was younger - I dunno if I'm falling for it. A lot of deception and games and I don't like either. If I'm lucky, he won't call me again and I won't get any deeper into whatever game he's playing. Maybe he's just psycho.

I hate not knowing what's up. WHAT's UP? Patience is a virtue. I don't have that virtue when it comes to: not knowing if a guy is interested, not knowing if I'm going to get the job. #1 source of stress in my life right now is that I do not have enough patience and the lack of knowledge and the need for instant gratification is overwhelming.

WTF??? Catholics for Bush
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: America the Beautiful
So here's how catholics think... for me to poop on!