yoonamania

Three dogs and their pooper scooper

Welcome to yoonamania where I put down the nonsense that pops up in my head from time to time. Please do not expect to make any sense out of my blatherings. It's called nonsense for a reason. Nor should you expect to enjoy any good writing. My English sucks moose ass. But I don't really care since I'm sure your Korean isn't any better. Please try to keep your expectations low and just chill like potatoes... or beets... or parsnips. Oh and yeah, don't take it seriously unless you think I think you must.

Yours truly, etc. yoonamaniac

Thirteen Books I Read Recently (TT#1)

November 20, 2008>

Thursday Thirteen

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This is my first Thursday Thirteen, and I’m doing an easy list to ease into it. So here is the list of 13 books I read recently, starting from the most recent:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Howards End by E. M. Forster
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

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Still Miss Him

November 19, 2008>

Beasts, Pix, Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday

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Five Things

November 15, 2008>

Mania

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I’m a living, breathing, warm-blooded (there are people who disagree on this point), thinking person. Nevertheless, Miss Attitude called me an “it” and tagged me, so I have to do the Five Things post. I’m not that interesting and I lead a quite boring life, not to mention that I’m trying not to include the ones I did on plurk some time ago. So I had to think long and hard just to come up with the five. But here they are.

Step #1 – Link to the person who tagged you. See above.

Step #2 – Write Five Fun/Interesting Facts about yourself. This gives fellow bloggers (and your readership) a chance to actually get to know you better.

I’m a misanthrope. I generally do not like people and I do not like partying. I’d rather be left alone. It doesn’t mean I hate everybody. I keep a small number of intimate friends to whom I’m fiercely loyal. But as it is, I have also been disappointed by a few former friends who took my friendship for granted who have been cut off from my life.
I had LASIK surgery done 7 years ago. Before the surgery, both my eyes were -4.5 or something ridiculous like that. I had worn glasses since I was 8 (give or take a year) and wore contacts for years which made my eyes dry beyond measure – the surgeon did a test, and my tear ducts were not producing any moisture for the duration of the test.
I have misshapen ears. They do not look like ears of most people and therefore, I cannot find any bluetooth devices or earphones that fit my ears. Everything I’ve tried just fall off or wiggle their way out of my ear in a few seconds and I’ve tried many.
I once fainted and fell onto the Long Island Railroad track in 1988 (or 1989). Not only my body managed not to touch the third rail, but also the express train that was supposed to zip past the station was delayed as well, and I was helped back to the platform by strangers. On account of me, the express train stopped at the station to the delight of all who were waiting for the train.
I don’t know how to make an omelette. I’ve tried many times, but the eggs always end up getting scrambled.

Step #3 – Tag 6 other bloggers to do the same.

I hope you guys haven’t done this yet.

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My Excuses

November 14, 2008>

Beasts, Brandy, Brooklyn, Foster, Georgia, Mania

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This week has been absolutely exhausting, and this is my excuse for not updating the blog and not keeping up with reading others’ blogs these days.

I got Foster back on Sunday and since I do not trust my dogs to behave and not get into fights when I cannot supervise directly (as opposed to when I’m not at home) at this point, I’m all over the place once I get home. I keep Georgia and Foster together when I’m in the same room or take them outside. Foster has never showed any aggression or irritation towards Georgia, but I’m still too shaken by my experience from last month, I don’t leave them together if I can’t be there with them. I do not trust Brandy and Brooklyn at all with Foster or Georgia, and so I’m pretty busy trying to spend time with everyone of them, and take them outside separately.

This Monday, I started commuting to the new location to which IT division moved. I’m still working 10am – 6pm instead of noon – 8pm as I blogged before because my boss told me to come in at 10am and see how it goes. The first day, there were several empty spots as I predicted because consultants were too scared to take their cars, and therefore, a lot of them opted to take the shuttle bus. The second day, there were 3 spots left. The third day, I took the very last spot, the furthest corner of the parking lot from the building – I knew then that I would have trouble the next day. The word is getting out that there are still parking spots at 10am! So come yesterday, 20 minutes BEFORE 10am, I couldn’t find a consultant spot. I called my coworker to relay the situation, and I was going to just idle engine and sit there, reading the book I have been carrying with me for just that. But while I was on the phone, the security guard hired by the company to enforce the atrocious parking rules walked over and told me to park in one of those numerous empty employee spots. I guess he didn’t get the memo, but hey, I have his blessing to park in the employee spot if there is no empty consultant spot left from now on. So life goes on until the word gets out to more consultants causing the employees to start complaining about lack of parking spots.

All in all, I have been sleeping even worse than before because I’ve been worried about the fucking parking spot every single day. Hopefully I get some more rest next week.

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