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soygirl
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Birthday: 7/29/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: channel surfing, staying up late, downloading music, concerts, bargain shopping, finding good eats, mindless chatter, fixing things I break, used bookstores, collecting books and then not reading them, spinning around in my chair, wheeee!
Expertise: thinking, worrying, hoping, daydreaming, arguing, pretending, talking, interrogation, frustration, criticism, sarcasm, annoyance, avoidance
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AIM:  soygirl729
Member Since:
4/18/2003
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| At work, there is a box of free cds in the kitchen. We used to have a music store, so record labels still sent new and upcoming music to our office. There was one music department employee left who would vet these cds and add them to the box in the kitchen. However, she was finally let go a few months ago. Now the cd box in the kitchen is just full of the same junk that has been there forever, and it's sad. I discovered a lot of great artists before they became big through the cds I picked out of the kitchen box. I was listening to Duffy, Adele, and Estelle before they ever hit the airwaves.
Tonight, I was organizng my cd collection, and I actually have my own little box of free music that I hoarded from the kitchen. So I still have a lot of new music to try out, like this Yoav guy. He's pretty good!
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| i don't want to keep talking about work to my friends and family since they probably already think that's all i talk about, and sadly it is all i have to talk about...but really, it's the only thing in my life that is going well even though it is the biggest source of stress. as far as having that professional career, i have it. i work in a cubicle, but i'm in no ways a drone. and i like my coworkers, and i think they like me. i have a good reputation as the go-to person.
maybe it's why i love the new show "Trust Me" on TNT. it's about an ad agency in chicago and it revolves almost entirely on the workplace, and the main female character is a sad, work-obsessed, neurotic person like me.
anyway, as a continuation of the drunken post, while drunk, my manager revealed a lot of information that i did not previously know. it felt a little like we were conspiring along with my other coworker on how to get rid of the recently hired new guy...who was hired without notification or consultation by our now ex-boss. my manager has a couple ideas on how to either get the new guy to quit on his own, or just plain fire him. the biggest relief, though, is to know that my manager hates this new guy as much as i do. i was afraid that i was just being ornery over being passed over for the position that the new guy took over, but really, the new guy is that annoying. so whew, it isn't just me. 
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| in lieu of having no one to call up at 2:30 in the morning, i type this post. I'm kinda drunk, as in i'm kinda dizzy and not writing very well, but kinda not as in i'm like really awake and overthinking as usual.
1st. omg, my coworker who sits next to me like totally sees through me. he's a family man, about a decade older, and he totally knows that i am "pristine" as he calls it. I call it pathetic goody-goody. Anyway, he totally read me tonight. It was like, ugh, i'm that obvious?
2nd. the reason for all the drinking, my manager. it was his birthday, he is 37. man, i feel so bad for him. he shouldn't be celebrating his bday at a bar with the friends he could gather, and then get so stinking drunk and make out with the nearest female...our other coworker. it's like, ugh, you're 37! i know that it's not his ideal scenario. he'd rather be married w/ kids, but like, man, i so hope i will never be alone and getting drunk when i turn 37.
3rd. if my manager, who's this nice, attractive funny guy w/ awesome social skills can't get hitched, who can? seriously! he's a great person, i think he'd make a great husband and dad. and yet he's all alone...and getting drunk w/ 20-somethings and crashing strange parties where he's a decade and a half older than most of the girls there....so so wrong!
4th. i kinda crashed a party tonight. and then weirdest of all, i ended up dispensing educational advice to a girl considering grad school at my alma mater...so not what i crashed a party for...i wanted to meet some hot guy and have something wicked to talk about later....but haha, nope, i ended up in nerd zone even when drunk! wtf!
5th. i am so my father's daughter....i can drink. i am semi-drunk, but not drunk at all. i don't turn red, no asian glow for me. i am coherent. i can drive home safely, i.e. obeying all traffic laws and fully aware at all times....
6th. tonight was like an immature attempt at something that totally failed. anyway, nothing bad happened. i learned stuff about my mananger and his high regard for me, so it was all good. but it's way weird to be so candid with your coworkers and see them drunk. i saw the president's secretary so totally wasted, and she's like a wife and mom, so extra disturbing....
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| So I finally had the "Ah hah" moment with my Sony Ericsson phone tonight. I finally figured out why I paid so much for it besides it being my favorite color and unlocked. I can treat it like an iPod and still use it as my phone! Duh! Why did it take me a whole year to actually use it to its full potential? I am so upset at myself. Why did I ooh and ahh over the video play on iPod Nano when my phone IS an iPod Nano plus a Sony Cybershot camera. That's why I paid so much for it! It's freaking awesome, and it took me a year to realize just how much.
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| It's very sad when you find your competitor's product completely awesome. An executive presented us with the competition today, and I fell in love with it. I wish I could buy my own and expense it. And that depressed me. My backup job plans are also doomed. My boss is in talks with the company that I wanted to apply to. Now I definitely can't send my resume that way, for fear they might rat me out.
My aunt is getting married this year. Her wedding has been a long time coming as she's in her mid-30s now. She's getting married in Jamaica, far far away. She's pretty much doing it deliberately because she doesn't like our relatives. She wants me to go, but I feel like it's so anti-tradition and blatantly anti-family. We're not a religious family, but I feel like our traditions are very important. I think everyone, especially a favored sister, cousin and aunt like her, should get married in a traditional way where all family can attend. Also, although I've never met her husband-to-be, I have not been impressed by a single thing I've learned about him. It's very disappointing that she waited this long to get married, and the guy she's marrying doesn't seem worth it. Basically, she had to school him on how to be a responsible grown-up. My teenage cousins, who have met him, don't have anything positive to say. They're either neutral or negative.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to have their wedding however they want. But I'm cheap and I don't really want to buy a ticket all the way to Jamaica and take a vacation there when I've never been into islands or beaches or any of that. I'm a city person through and through, and all my vacation ideas involve going to large, metropolitan cities like Paris, New York, and Hong Kong. Other than the tropical fruit and fresh seafood, Jamaica holds no appeal to me. And I also resent that she wants my mom to go when my mom doesn't have that kind of spare cash and my mom hates flying.
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