snooze x15

I started to train my body to sleep hella early and wake up hella early so I can hit the gym before going to work. The target time for bed: 9pm, and target for waking up: 5am.

I wound up hitting the sack at 9:30pm, haha, even Filipino time got me there. The bizarre thing was that I hit the snooze button from the moment it went off until sometime around 7:30am. My body just said, "Umm, I'm used to the regular time, so I'll make you feel like a log for now, you ain't gett'n up fool."

Perhaps I was recovering from something, like the heat, the dehydration, the ek-ek, or that the time difference of waking up at 7:30 regularly to 5am was too drastic a change. Guess I'll take it one night at a time, one night at a time, one night at a time, Laaaaa la la laa, One night at a tiiiiiime, yeeeaahhheeeahhh.

bezu fache

I made good use of my free time before working this summer.

Roomie gave me a copy of "The Davinci Code" in late May. I didn't start reading it until the semester ended, and even then I could only afford to read a chapter a night, even though the chapters are really short.

Anyhoo, I finished the book during the Ohio trip, but I wanted to finish sooner because Dan Brown really wrote a good story, quite a riveting read! I wanted to see the movie after reading the book, combine that with genuine interest of the good story, and I devoted some time on getting through the 490 pages. I'm usually a slow reader, but I jammed through this book.

Saw the movie when I returned from Ohio, it was ok.

I picked up Dan Brown's prequel to Davinci Code, "Angels and Demons," at the Atlanta airport during a stop-over. But I felt this one lagged for about first 3/4 of the story. The longer chapters were dedicated to some real boring stuff, like how Robert Landgon is fighting to get out of some tight spots so he won't die, ek-ek like that. I prefer Davinci. Although I did finish this one up in about a week and a half. That's a major thing for me. The good thing is that the airport shop in Atlanta where I bought Angels, is that they have a program called "Read and Return." I can get a 50% refund on the book if I return it to another airport bookshop owned by the same company within six months, sweet!

Now, I'm about to start another Dan Brown novel, "Digital Fortress," which Roomie let me borrow.

umm, hairballs????

This morning, as I opened the door to Angel, I was greeted with some disgusting stuff. I highly suspected that it was cat vomit, or coughed-up "hairballs," although there were definitely other things on there besides hair, but I didn't dare investigate too much.

My apartment building has a resident homeless cat that hangs out in the car port. I've seen some of the "stuff" on my neighbor's (they give the cat food sometimes and the cat really likes these people; I've seen them interact like it's their cat, but alas, it's not) car a while back, so I was the cat deposited on Angel. This cat gives me dirty looks every time we see each other, which is practically every day. I say hi most of the time, or I just give him/her a nod of hello the other times.

I showed my coworker who owns a cat if he's ever seen a "hairball" like this one, but he was shocked at what he saw. I felt a little sad when he commented (perhaps jokingly?) that the cat might die soon because of what it puts in its stomach. I mean, there's some weird wild stuff there.

summer internship

I'm working for a graphic design firm over in the East Bay until school starts in late August. I started on the Wednesday in the last week of June; worked for two days, then started up again July 5. The only time that I wasn't late, my schedule is 9am to 6pm, was the first day. For some reason, getting to work on time is a ridiculous issue for me. I was late while working for Wells Fargo, then for Knowledge Networks, then SFSU, and now. I manage to get my ass over to the office at around 9:20am, no matter how early or late I leave my place. Like today, I left at 8:30 but the Thursday traffic spoiled my plans for arriving on time. Whatever. Geez, even when I "interviewed" with the owner back in April, I was almost an hour late, although at that time, an accident on the freeway caused a massive delay.

The firm moved from their office that they shared with another company in Emeryville, right across from the Pixar studios to a loft about three blocks away from Jack London Square in Oakland. I only noticed the Pixar gate when I started working, for some reason, I failed to see it during the time I interviewed. That old place was a little cramped and covered with dog hair because my coworker brought his two dogs in the days when he worked, and another lady working for the other company brought her dog in every day.

The new office is right across from the Port of Oakland, where they load and unload those huge things that trucks tow onto freight ships. It's a very industrial area; that's an understatement. Right next to our building are three train tracks that get heavy train traffic all freakin day. The office is in the back of the building so we hear the horns and whistles and screeching metal. To top this off, the radio station we listen to all day, K101, plays some songs that I really like, but when a song is in heavy rotation, you absolutely start hating it. The station really likes their Kelly Clarkson, James Blunt, K.T. Tunstall (yuck!), Nick Lachey, plus all the other top 40 ek-ek. As I told Bancy earlier, my ears are practically bleeding by the end of the day.