I am a spine in an unnatural resting position...

Evelyn Ng - She's pretty cute. But if you see her in other pictures, sometimes she looks kinda weird. I think she has a 5-head. And it's definitely the sunglasses thing on the head...I like that a lot for some reason. Maybe it makes foreheads less prominent? Anyway, I saw her last night at hooters. I woudl've taken a picture w/ her if so many people hadn't been buggin her already, he he he.

If there was anyone in the world I'd be close to hating, it would be customer service reps, specifically from the "NEW AT&T, formerly Cingular" wirless company. I have been going back and forth for the last two months about the problems with my phone. The first time, they did some update thing, the second, they had me take it into a store and get the simcard replaced, and now, I'm trying to get the phone replaced. I know I originally said that I would just buy a new one altogether, but dude, it's like 300-400 bucks for the phone. Plus, I spent like another 30 bucks for the in-car charger...so I'd have to get another one of those for the new phone...unless it's the same brand and I don't know so much about LG anymore. I had lunch w/ Dana the other day and she had issues w/ her phone too and got it replaced and hasn't had any problems since, at least that's what she said. So anyway, I call Cingular, I mean, AT&T and I tell them the whole thing again, and she's trying to find out exactly what's goin on, and I keep telling her the same thing..I know it has to do w/ the hardware and not the coverage or the simcard, I've done both already and I just want the number to warranty. So Shashandra is trying to tell me that she doesn't have records of my dropped calls and asks for a specific date of when I had such problems, and I tell her it's happening EVERY DAY, at least two or three times...EVERY DAY (I repeated EVERY DAY again at the end for added emphasis). So 18 grueling minutes later, she says, she's gonna give me the number to the warranty dept...WTF. That's what I asked for 15 MINUTES AGO! Thanks for wasting my time. I wish I was the type of person that yelled at people sometimes, but then again, I AM at work...but why yell, it doesn't get anywhere...at least I was firm. I spent more time on hold than anything, that was the most annoying part. So I finally get the number and call the warranty dept, after the lady goes through a bunch of checks and balances for physical and water damage, my replacement is on it's way, in 5 business days. I hope this works....it only took 2 phone calls totalling 30 minutes...whew...okay, done venting on that.

Throwback to the late 90's
I hung out w/ my old friends from Loyola last night. The first actual hangout in ELEVEN years. Hard to believe it's been over a decade since we all spent time together. Granted, I've seen Darrel on a few occasions for wedding stuff and he came out to my b-day, but the other guys...we only ran into each other at one of the guys in our class' funeral a few years back. It was really great to just catch up on the past 11 years, we soon came to see that some things don't change. More or less we all look the same, all of us have gained some weight, he he he. But the way we talked, the jokes, the laughter and even the camraderie. It felt like we weren't that far out from high school graduation...we reminisced about how stupid and idiotic we were and just how fun it was to be just that way back in the day. We're gonna try to meet up more often...once a month, or maybe even every other month would be often enough. I wish I took a pic...i need to be more assertive about gettin pics on occasions like that.

So I'm registered for the Nike Run Hit again...and I went running yesterday; before i met up w/ the guys. 2 warm-up laps around the track and then some stretching. I tried to run the whole time, but i just couldn't, I ended up run/walking a mile and then taking a short water break, and then another 1/2 a mile. Damn, I'm in bad shape for this run...5 miler. I need to run more often. Hopefully I can run again on Friday. 2 or 3 times a week coupled w/ basketball oughtta do it..hopefully. And of course this two mile run makes me feel completely out of it today. I was talking to with boss and had no idea what he was saying or even what I was saying for that matter, I was so tired...

It's hump day...and I could sure go for a drink...