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tien and i spent the afternoon yesterday at taste of santa monica with ruth and philip who happened to be in town yesterday. for $40, you're supposed to get a taste of 40 different santa monica restaurants over 4 hours. we spent a couple hours there (... cuz who can really eat for 4 hours) and were able to get in for $20 as "students" for half the normal admission price. hehe. good thing all asians look alike and i was able to get in on ruth's old ucla id. side note: never thought i'd say this when i graduated couple years ago, but i kinda wish i was a real student again, heh, we'll see where that takes me when i finally buckle down to figure out what that means...

anyway, there was so much good food, but so little stomach! my personal favs: lobster, ahi tuna, spicy tuna on dorita chip (which was surprisingly good), and gelato. they also served oysters, mussels, foie gras, but i'll be honest, my palate's j/not sophisticated enough for that. i'd definitely recommend bringing a water bottle if you go next year, but keep in mind, you'll be filling space in your stomach that should really be reserved for all the good food. haha. i normally hate all-you-can-eat restaurants, but this is a pretty fun event... and kept me full for the next 24 hours, which is about now... so, time for lunch :D yes. i enjoy food.

         

pet peeve: news links titled "top..." (e.g. top beer fests, top nightlife cities, top whatever) that take you to a page of prose. what?! who has time to read these days. so deceiving.

writers: bullet points make it easier for you and your readers. you don't have to make up lame transitions between sentences. we don't have to put up with your self-loving people-pleasing attempts to be creative. let's not dance around the main event, alright? i understand you writers work for maybe an hour a day and without the random filler, would probably only spend twenty minutes of your day being productive, but it's not about how hard you work, it's about how good a job you do, so please let me help you help me:

any article you write that starts with "top..." MUST USE BULLET POINTS!

i do believe it's possible to have too much of a good thing.

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before i begin: this is not an endorsement for or against the republican party, but...

never in a million years would i put those two things in the same sentence, but this i just too cool for school.

i think if i had that much money i might fly to tokyo and learn how to drift too. couple summers ago, i went for a consulting team event to f1 go kart racing in boston. i had just seen initial d a couple weeks earlier, so naturally, stepping onto a racetrack, i decided i would try it out because... well, why not? haha. anyway, i read something online about having to steer hard into turns, switch between the gas and brakes, and then steering hard out of them, or something like that - don't remember much and didn't really even understand at the time, haha - so i decided to give it a shot. too bad, i think the safety guys on the track figured out what i was trying to do and DQ-ed me.

random brain connection #1

so, being DQ-ed reminds me of another consulting team event we had in boston going paintballing. i think i've always had a knack for getting in trouble when it doesn't matter. anyway, this time, i got DQ-ed for forgetting twice that i couldn't take off my face mask before leaving the playing field. boo. oh wells, i got enough playing time to shoot my director smack in the middle of the eyes on his face mask, that was pretty exhilarating - and to think i always rejected the idea of going paintballing with my friends in college, haha. what crazy team events we had. sometimes i wondered why we never went to the spa as a team outing, but then i remember that boys will be boys.

random brain connection #2

on boys in consulting, i was once the only female in a 20-person meeting with all these old tech company managers. never felt like such an intruder before. i felt like everyone was watching what they said because i was there. the client on that case was a brit who had a knack for cursing, except whenever i was in the room, he'd always disparage himself for cursing in front of a lady. it was a nice gesture, but kinda awkward, i think.

anyway, to bring it back full circle. i think cindy mccain is one cool cat. haha. too bad when i get disrupted in speech, i can't just look back to the transcript of what i was saying to remember my original point.

i guess, in hollywood, there's no such thing as going out on top when $ is involved