d'accord.
IS TODAY REALLY FRIDAY?
happy happy joy joy. and i have only 15 minutes to go :)
...sevenish like last time? (call me on my cell)

i was looking back at some of the first posts (i figured out the archiving thing!) --
Interaction really is the heat that makes the insanity boil over.. I don't think i'd ever want a one-person webpage all by my lonesome, pour seul moi (even if i had the skillz). So -- No worries, fro, i'm here wi'cha. :)

some more piggy wisdom.
1. ;O)... going around growling all day
...2. ;O)... will make you ...3. ;O)... dog tired at night.

!!!
can't decide between:
1. "wha..? huh???"
2. "haha, very funny ro it's a joke right?"
3. "SAD, SAD!!!"

Well, i guess i'm only shocked by the all-or-nothing of it.
seeing inkspotted up made me wonder how many posts you'd do on rofrodowhodo..

maybe now we should just be called de-fro.
as in: 'What'd you do to de-fro? looks a lot smaller..'
or, 'Who de-fro'd ro-fro-do-whodo? ?'
:(

i can't serve both rofrodowhodo and inkspotted. i don't want to jip you guys, so i'm going to make a clean break. i'll still visit and sign your guestbook. bye girls, it's been so real :)

// what's with the reinvention of ro as veronica? you know we're still going to call you ro

// i caught a glimpse of our house's unwanted pet last night. where do all these mice come from?? i was watching er w/ my roomies when I noticed him. dark brown and cartoon-like, he had his front paws on his head and was laughing at me from the kitchen.
i wonder if we could sic our other pet Ling on him (J.C.'s snake), that'd be perfect...
(le petit prince)

// i hope we get a snowstorm this year. Just one BIG one, after the holidays.
i remember like 10 years ago being trapped in my house for a week, a 3-ft blanket of snow everywhere, no school, no cars driving anywhere...it was the best..

{ooh. Fro..!}
Have you heard of SKIBOARDING? :D (was that supercheesy or what!)
It's an official XtremeSport now.

here's a list of skiboarding sites - there don't seem to be too many good ones, most of them are homemade and cheesy..
actually most of them are duds, sorry. must've been an old site & not maintained. i wonder if it's become less popular since 1999 or so, it sounded from some of the sites like a bunch of people were crazy about it and it was supposed to be the next big thing.
oh well. (check out the height on the last pic here.)

;D how about in like 10-15 minutes? I'll swing by your place (11:55) ? hehe, you're so cute..

hey, i got a sudden urge to go to wholefoods - fro are you busy? wanna go?
I have to be back by 1 at the latest.

good morning indeed! my coworker asked me, "are you ok? you look tired." i replied, rather confused, "i'm ok, actually, i'm not tired." if i looked it though, it was because...i hadn't any eyeliner on. AHHHHH :( boohoo. now i do, and so i must look "wide awake." :)

Good morning.

// hey, check out the giveaway on the zefrank link, a Kodak MC3. we should borrow someone's camera and enter..

// almost stepped on a dead rat crossing the street to work this morning. woke me up real good. Ack.

ooo, headache. that's the first sign of sleep-deprivation for me. oh no it's not. first it's the dark circles under my eyes.

frodowhodo, what are your thanksgiving plans? i plan to give thanks at home, in nj, from the 22-29th of november. i hope to visit remnant, see old friends, do some damage shopping, eat turkey till i pass out (like last thanksgiving. i remember lying down on the ground, just for a minute i thought. next thing i know, i'm waking up and the table has been cleared. ahem), and hang out lots with the family.

// you know what i'm fighting these days? (besides my stubborn cough that won't go away..)
cynicism. i don't know what it is.. i had always thought it strange that people got so annoyed about little things or had that attitude about work politics or The System or whatever, you know what i mean. but i guess lately with all kinds of things flying at me at work and feeling under the weather it's been easier for me to identify with that cynicism. I don't know, i don't much feel like really getting into it here (is this already too much for a blog site?), but i will say
I MUST FIGHT IT.

do we share the same mind or WHAT? i was just thinking of skiing the other day.

yesterday i bought christmas cards -- hooray!
i slept at 2 in the morning -- boo, boo, hiss

fro, so you've made that gummy worms recipe? girls, if you haven't gone to my inkspotted, please do so now. there's an assignment for you there.

note: the brothers forum is scary. i refuse to cave in and join. i'll stop here before i get any more negative. GIRLS RULE AND BOYS DROOL.

fro, girl, you know it. WINTER is ALL ABOUT THE WINTER SPORTS!! (makes the frijjin weather, dry skin, staticy hair and sparse daylight all worth it)
And seriously, the less fit you are the more dangerous they are. I'll get myself in shape too.

i seriously crack myself up. blogging and having my own homepage has opened a whole 'nother can of gummy worms (oo, that would be a cool invention. frodo, can i get the stats on that? and now, who knows what "stats" really means? e.g., "i want the stats on smith." that's from a conversation with a coworker) ANYWAY. see? i crack myself up.

anytime you link someone to your site, you WILL peruse through that person's "friends" links. it's like you have to become acquainted with your friend's friends. so i have quietly said "hello" to dozens of people within the last few days. as in, "hello, i know ___. you know them too? maybe we should become friends?"

i also wonder: a) if i get most of my hits through this page b) if there are people who hit this page and don't know about inkspotted *gasp* c) which one people prefer. this or inkspotted? d) if i should just go blogger e) how in the world areeek found my site! :D which leads to the next question f) do we know half the people that read rofrodowhodo? youdotoo?

please feel free to answer the above. OH, i almost forgot. i would like to mention, very briefly and in passing, that JANE IS SCARING ME. these newly married women friends are out of control. "i highly recommend marriage" -- okeee, but there are a few steps before that. and why do our conversations have to center around the same topic? marriage and/or trying to find me someone. what happened to, "how are you doing?" is that too hackneyed/irrelevant? (fro, noah's ark complex) so i told her, "jane, why don't you stop harassing young singles and concentrate on producing an heir." without batting an eyelash, she jumped right into the next logical topic: babies.

dori, this after-work-hours entry was for you :)

de, you know i love you :D
fro, is it link day?

oh man. don't get me started. that's all i'm going to say right now.
(and YEAH, ro you know it, so get ready!!!)

going back to the topic of utter and complete nerdiness: de, why must you be renaissance whodo? why can't you be satisfied with your water pipes? (ok, i can feel the beatdown, but i must continue) i guess it's strange for me that an engineer would "crave" such things. i do not profess to crave anything of your world. is this academic racism?

frodo, you must stay strong for us. if you go down, then london bridge goes down too. on recent headlines: i've concluded that brits and americans are funny, no doubt because our customs, language, history, etc. overlap. funny as in so frivolous, the way our newspapers holler about a certain actress's shoplifting activity and the way their papers can't stop covering royal scandals. MAN, i get so upset at today's journalists!?! they're making a mockery of the newspaper and what news is supposed to be. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. so frustrating, but it never deters me from wanting to be one. charles krauthammer, now he's the man. opinionated, but elegant, and he's got the facts straight.

roger, i just read your blogs. i completely agree. i thought about putting a disclaimer on my homepage, warning people that if they want to know the real me...well, it's just not going to happen through the internet. let's be honest, you can be whoever you want to be on the web. pretty? intelligent? witty? humane? polite! and i think most people know that, but it's very very easy to get sucked into an online journal and get deceived into thinking that you really know this person. on the other hand, at least on this page, we are the real thing :D haha, does that just nullify what i've said? rofrodowhodo truly speak their minds.

on iraq: "[L]et's be clear," Rice added. "This is a totalitarian regime. They know where everything is." i love condi!

frojo. thank you again for that lovely late-night chicken soup feast. it was crazy good. ;p
i took nyquil last night before going to bed and didn't even mind the melted rubber taste this time, it helped me sleep the whole night through (i've been waking up every half hour in a coughing fit these past couple nights).
But YOU're NOT ALLOWED to be sick!! oK?

nono, it doesn't taste good fro, but i managed to swallow it.

all is wet wet wet this morning. how are we all doing? i see de's started some nerd talk already. i'll contribute a bit later, when i start thinking.

actually, Fart Proudly sounds like a book i'd like to own.
it's so true, nothing beats a nice edition of a good book, for any kind of gift (hint, hint;). and it could be on anything and be interesting, if it's well written. (as for space to keep all those books, i'd have to figure that one out some other time.)

I don't know, after college, i think my brain's been going through withdrawal or something: i feel like it just exploded. this might be nerdy of me, but i've honestly been craving to learn about EVERYTHING, from politics (on which i am so so ignorant, as i've admitted) to astronomy, to world history (again, ignoramus me) to music theory and the fine arts. ...Color theory and composition in painting.
........The OT and the ancient world.
i guess all those interests were always there, it's just that now i don't have a million other things i have to learn first, for a grade.
[do you feel the same way? what do you honestly crave to learn about?]

yeh, i've seen head cheese. looks gross. i've tasted it too. not bad...are you thinking of going for it? :) it's really not cheese if i recall; just a mixture of sketchy meats.

just came back from hagerstown. phew! it was a productive day. i hope we'll all be chipper tomorrow for work, eh? love you girls.

randomrandom

*my new fave sandwich: brie cheese melts
*i start christmas shopping today. wish me luck
*can't stop thinking about thanksgiving
*wonder if people still check my real website
*why is everyone so sad today? is it the rain?

OMG i am roasting to death,
wrapped in my thick red turtleneck
in an unmarked cubicle on the ninth floor
Suffocating.
don't remember the last time i was this uncomfortable.
i want my mommy.. :(

sorry peeps, will write a happier post next time... and no more complainin out of me.

we had chinese last night, and i kept my fortune: "people are naturally attracted to you." i don't know about my lucky numbers, though. are they for lottery use?

this morning was scary. i woke up to pounding rain and cindy told me that there was a tornado warning in our area. the wind kept howling and tearing at our screens...i didn't want cindy to go to work. i kept thinking, "scary, scary," but it was 5 am and i did the only thing i could. i went back to sleep.

i redecorated my homepage yet again. de, feel better ok?

:( i feel gross. maybe i should see a doctor..
and it being like 95 degrees in my office, and humid doesn't help... :*(

good morning. i thought i would get an early start since the office will be closed for veterans day :) i wanted to complete this assignment in the best way...so i went through my college files, researched on google, and plowed through my memory!

writers who influenced me

from the early years: (when my appetite for reading was insatiable) e.b. white's charlotte's web. george orwell's 1984 and animal farm. louisa may alcott's little women, which i borrowed over and over from the public library. i'm still looking for that hardcover, illustrated version that i loved so much. frances hodgson burnett's the secret garden and a little princess. laura ingalls wilder's little house series. harper lee's to kill a mockingbird. roald dahl's james and the giant peach.

from high-school: oscar wilde's the importance of being earnest. john donne's a valediction: forbidding mourning. greek mythology. willa cather's my antonia and death comes for the archbishop. shakespeare, chaucer, the old old guys. f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby. j.d. salinger's catcher in the rye. chang-rae lee's native speaker. pearl s. buck's the good earth. and honestly, every history and english lit textbook that i read.

from college: (fiction) herman melville's bartleby the scrivener. mark twain's puddinhead wilson. raymond carver's where i'm calling from. charles brockden brown's wieland. charles dickens's a christmas carol. washington irving's rip van winkle. (and this is where my love for literary nonfiction began) junichiro tanizaki's in praise of shadows. frank mccourt's angela's ashes. ted conover's coyotes. william finnegan's cold new world. vaclav havel's living in truth. our founding fathers.

and of all these authors, the four whose work i hold in the highest regard and have been the most influenced by are: george orwell (homage to catalonia, down and out in paris and london, his essays on childhood), henry james (washington square), martin luther king, jr (letter from birmingham jail) and tracy kidder (september). i am in awe whenever i read their books or essays. and i think, writing must be one of God's most beautiful gifts. just look at the bible (and from there, jeremiah and hebrews are my favorites).