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Racing Sushi
this website is so cool, it makes me want to cry at how crappy mine is in comparison.... check out the menu in the upper left hand corner..! (need flash enabled): http://www.tokidoki.it/pages/main.html Now listening to: "Paul Van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing (CD2)" Here, stuck at work, I am most definitely not dancing... 8:18 pm...
Yeah! Wedding time...!
Yes, I realize there's a Swedish flag on the table. I'm slow, OKAY..!? So nobody told me that the groom was actually from *Sweden*, a fact whih became extremely relevant about midway through my conversation with the groom's parents, as, despite my best efforts at making conversation: Panda: "oh, you must be so proud of your son...! He's such a wonderful young man! So where are you guys staying? So what kind of work...
Fun at Pottery Barn
I never knew that Madison had a Pottery Barn. Perhaps that's because I don't usually spend inordinate amounts of time searching for armoires done in the "early colonial style". (Usually...) As we have established beforehand, I am more of an IKEA-type of panda, preferring the smooth curves of brushed aluminum and the made-in-south-east-asia-for-pennies-on-the-euro faux-wood laminate surfaces of $5 tables. This picture covers aproxmiately 25% of the store's square footage. But, having been invited to...
Home of the 15 dollar glass of scotch...
I apologize for the lack of updates recently, I've been very lazy, and moreover, it has been extremely hot. Dear god. I sweat just rolling over from my stomach to my back! (imagine me pretty much sprawled out on my floor tarepanda style, with 4 fans blowing straight at me). Wisconsin is pretty mean that way - up until last week, it still got so cold you occasionally needed a sweater to step outside....
Can't think of anything to write...
i'm trying to get up the energy to write a long winded post on social injustice and all that mess. so far, without much luck. went out yesterday with the lovely kimiko *waves hand at kimiko as she's reading this*. I nearly embarrassed myself by commenting in japanese how drunk this one blonde haired blue-eyed white lady was , only to have her turn around and protest that she was not, in fact, drunk -...
This is freaking cool.
as an aside, this comes from http://www.hiddenhighschool.com/, which is an excellent resource if you need to sneak out from behind a firewall/net filter. 10:47 am...
In honor of pornholio
i give you....confessions of a porn store clerk. also, because i thought it was cool: http://www.humanbeatbox.com - - - as an epilogue to the pornhollio story, he is now banned from the lab. I had to talk to a scary looking police officer for about 20 minutes. *sigh* so that be that. sent in my visa application today, along with my proof of graduation - it felt so weird to be holding that piece...
Busting out the visa card..
after a hard weekend at work, I decided it was time to treat myself to a nice relaxing evening out of the town. So with dining guide in hand (as a curious aside, did anyone know that at least as of 3 years ago, madison wisconsin had (has?) the highest ratio of restaurants relative to population of any city in the united states?) I enjoined my friend Cathy to head out with me in...
I don't wanna work! I just wanna bang on the drums all day!
I work in a computer lab. On most days, this is a good thing. It means I get to sit behind a desk for 8~10 hours at a time and browse the internet, read some books, catch up on my studies, chat with my co-workers, etc. I have a comfortable chair, a decent computer, air conditioning, and a relaxed work environment where I don't have to put on wing-tip oxfords or any sort of...
not dead yet...
Not dead- yet! aaaaahhhh!! i know many of you fear i've died... but i'm still alive. going to update either tonight or tommorrow, I promise!! I apologize for slacking off - this last week has been hell: trying to get my visa application in order for japan, dealing with the administrative mess of trying to find a slip of paper neccessary for my graduation lost somewhere in the dark depths of the dean's office, picking...
Nanimo...
... [EDIT: Much love to Takunishi for the comment - for some reason the original post got munched up by Xanga and I was too lazy to retype it... But now it seems so much more clever! (^_^)] 10:58 pm...
mountain biking...
an update one of these days, i promise.... ~laa laaa laaaahhh!! going to go mountain biking tommorrow on an old glacier trail in a nearby state park. never did realize how beautiful wisconsin was until it began to sink in that i'm leaving soon for nothing but the concrete jungle of crowded urban japan... Now listening to: "Bug Mafia - Poveste fara sfarsit" (Everyone should have at least one Romanian rap song in their...
Killing space...
for those of you interested, Indians are rated as the world's most nationalistic people, far, far ahead of americas, whom I assumed would take the cake ;). On a completely different note, I am now sick of listening to ATB. Time to download some new music...!? Finally, someone sent me this picture of Christina Aguilera. I don't know what's more shocking - the fact that she appears to have pulled a reverse Michael Jackson,...
It aint easy being greasy...
It ain't easy bein' greasy / In a world of cleanliness and you know, all that other madness... some man was looking at porn tonight in the computer lab for 6 hours straight...!! I finally had to put the smack down when someone complained (a dude, of all things!). Decidedly creepy and left an icky feeling in my mouth afterwards. He hung around after I spoke with him (has he no shame...!? If that...
Moving Melodies
I made the mistake of heading out of town without checking to see if I had a full complement of CDs in the car. When I was about 10 miles out of town, I reached in the back seat, and to my horror, found only empty upholstery - instantly, my mind flashed back to the hurried rush to get out the door and on the road, and a quick passing glance, in which my...
They cant all be good days...
Four hot Japanese women. A killer, swanky, upscale martini lounge. Great music. Fantastic drinks. What could go wrong...? The day started out fantastically - hung out with some other cute girls I knew from school, did the whole "let's try new and fantastic ethnic food" affair in an effort to prove ourselves as cultured beyond that permitted by the Wisconsin boundaries, Afghani plates swarming with rich brown sauce, heavy lentils, succulent lambs and chickens...
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