stairwells and hallways

very busy day at work today, blew off the gym for some q.t. at home with a huge order of take out thai food.

another day working on the new issue... later in the evening though headed to michael's beautiful house for a small dinner party. after landing back home i almost feel ashamed of my small but comfortable space, the evening was so incredibly civilized...

after my day of shopping i headed out with the guys for a slightly more butch event in san jose. in short it was incredible, the shamrock vs cung le fight was legendary, i've never seen anything like it and afterwards i definitely needed a cocktail so we all headed back to the tenderloin for some drinks. one turned into two and two turned into three in the morning at a friend's restaurant. a good night was had by all if i do say so myself, all except frank shamrock's radial bone in his forearm that is... ouch.

really big day today. started out with a bit of personal shopping, really tried to go treat myself to something nice but my normal fashion frugalities kicked in and i wound up at h&m and my other secret discount shopping location. seriously, you're talking to the guy who formerly had a macy's card and was not afraid to use it but now a sweater beyond the price of about $40 seems like lunacy. after making my way through all of the usuals, g-star, french connection, urban outfitters and even dsw shoe warehouse nothing seemed worth the cost and i wound up in h&m with an arm load of button downs and plain white t-shirts.

as i waited in the long saturday afternoon line i realized that there is a great metaphor for this kind of shopping... h&m is the safeway brand pasta of the clothes shopping world and the slightly lower priced, less quality cousin, that i frequent is the equivilent of top ramen. you can dress both of them up to a different degree, the pasta is a great base with the right garnishes you can make a whole lot that resembles something gourmet, with the top ramen you may be able to disguise it here and there but the sheer inexpenisive nature of it makes it too easy to take advantage of and on occasion you can make this packet of noodles look like high end asian cuisine...

that being said i took my two packets of noodles and three bags of pasta home and dressed them up for the evening and for the coming week of work.

another day at the office, needed to get in some more good time at the gym but between leaving the office late and plans for dinner cancelled that idea. then dinner got got cancelled and i wound up in line at walgreen's again buying my dinner again. i would've started to feel bad about myself until the woman with the white castle microwave cheeseburgers and a pack of cigarettes was in front of me.

cielo came by the 'hood later and we popped in to cav for a glass of wine and some conversation. it was actually my first time there which is crazy considering it's about two blocks from my apartment... good atmosphere and service might head back there this weekend.

finally won a frickin' ebay auction for some good bike raw materials. seller said it should be here in five days so we'll see what i can do with it after it gets here. uneventful day but did the first really great run in a while, 40 minutes, 5 miles, 8 minute mile... definitely sweated out a decent amount of the weeks stress so far. slept like a rock.

nothing good about this monday, couldn't even rally to get into the gym... felt kind of cranky so i watched some yakuza films and then went to sleep... very seth cohen of me.

'christ rose from the dead and you decided to come over and work on a sunday, two easter miracles.' – mlv

went to work on the magazine most of the day, greta and mike made me a nice easter basket and after wrapping up some layouts for the magazine we had a nice dinner and watched the warriors/lakers game. al harrington has been rocking these crazy shoes lately that i would kill for. the closest pic i could find of them is here from someone's flickr that's the link to the hi res image so give it a minute to load, while you're waiting you can probably also see the close up of the disinterested look on mikael pietrus' face... might as well have a trade me sign around his neck. come to think of it i recognize that look, it's the one that women who are dating lame guys get on their faces that says 'break up with me already.'...

rallied from a semi-hangover to go work on the magazine for a bit, completed several layouts and listened to a lot of this american life. afterwards we all went into the city for dinner. original joe's was shut down for some reason so we decided to head out to the pig and whistle.

i have a slight confession at this point, for some reason over the last few years i have developed a very low tolerance to riding in cars, especially when it comes to city driving and i get carsick about as fast as a 10 year old trying to ready a comic book in the back seat of a station wagon...

needless to say i wasn't having much of my dinner and wound up walking home in hopes of some fresh air doing me some good. it did and by the time i hit the door to my building i was starving and inhaled the rest of my cold veggie burger and fries. i should see a doctor and get that sorted out because it is not fun and it makes me feel like a kid.

trained again after work, all kick boxing this time but as we finished up steve invited me to his jujitsu class but not really being in the physical or mental state to roll for another hour i passed on it. maybe next week. after chilling out i met up with jenni and some peeps at a show over at the knockout, ironically enough jeremy from red planet's new band was playing, they were called 'the parties'. after getting caught up with him and saying good night to the rest of the party i met back up with steve and we kept drinking until about 3am, i'm getting too old for this...

long day at the office, very tired, skipped the gym and had a bad junk food dinner purchased at walgreeens. not pretty. i've sworn that i will not be one of those people that starts working in a new position at their office, gives up on the gym and winds up with the ulcer and middle age belly, so tomorrow i've got to make up for it. big time.

usual day, headed to the gym for a really good long run and a nice work out, feel much better now.

spent the rest of the night glued to my television... and i will deny it if you ask me in person, but for some sick reason i can't stop watching real housewives of orange county.

monday's at the office aren't so bad when you've prepped most of sunday for them but unfortunately that means you have to be in the office on a sunday. skipped the gym and hid out at home doing laundry.

i know it sounds sad to be sitting in your office on a sunday but it was actually nice for a change, feel like i'm getting ahead for once. left and headed over to town hall to visit cielo at work. had an amazing meal, started with the shrimp, then moved to the asparagus risotto and finished off with the butterscotch and chocolate mousse dessert. i was going to originally take the train home but i was so incredibly full i decided to walk it off. proceeded to pass out once home.