not alot going on in the world, i see. today's a slow news day. instead of linking to fascinating factoids of national and international importance, i'll just tell you what's going on with me, which is, in it's own way, of international importance. stroke my ego and agree with me.

i didn't know that today is National If Your Job's Not Fun, Don't Go To Work Day until after i got to work. now i'm stuck here. i don't think anyone in the office realized what day it is, because we're all here. holidays such as this should be better marketed and publicized. Hallmark really dropped the ball on this. i'll bet their IYJNFDGTW Day card sales suck.

finally saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last night. no one told me it was a sad movie. i cried all the way home. not really. but it did make me wish i had a sworrd, and that i was a Chinese girl so i could bounce around the tree tops and run on the walls. Chinese people are cool, and you know they can *all* do stuff like that. they're just too modest to show it.

Jean and i finally exchanged Christmas gifts. she got me the The Hobbit pop-up book. it makes me so happy to have someone who always knows the perfect gift for me. i had to hop around when i saw it.

i think i hopped, anyway. i may have imagined that part. yesterday was an interesting experience in pharmacological side effects. i spent a good portion of the day hallucinating after taking that Flexeril. some of the more interesting things i saw include lines on a page transposing themselves, an orange tabby cat sitting in my cubicle, and my computer moniter blinking at me. so no more prescription drugs for me. i'll just stick to large amounts of liquor when i can't sleep.

and speaking of liquor... ok, i don't have any liquor tales to tell, but if i had, i also had a good segue to go along with it

and finally, my last experience of yesterday evening was going to a Chinese take out place after the movie, ordering some chicken item with the name of Chinese province. i take my order home, open it, and find broccoli beef. i've only ordered from that place once before, and the same thing happened then, too. i didn't realize that broccoli beef was also known by so many names containing the word "chicken".