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Friday, May 10, 2002 ( 4:23 PM ) Scarf Girl Happy Friday! Doh, cleaning the bathroom is sucky work. SG, signing off. # Thursday, May 09, 2002 ( 7:09 PM ) Scarf Girl So I saw these questions on amabelle's site, who took them from gg's site, so I thought I'd answer them too. Yeah, I'm a copycat. Think of it as 50 things you probably didn't know about me. 1. What's on your desktop: A picture of Stewie from Family guy 2. What book are you reading right now: The Cather in the Rye (read it in High School, but bought it last year for $3 on Amazon, so I thought I'd read it again) 3. What's on your mouse pad: I have one of those Wacom Tablets, so I don't actually have one 4. Favorite board game: Hmm...my favorite when I was young was "Life" but nowadays, I can always enjoy a good game of "Taboo" 5. Favorite magazine: In Style 6. Favorite smells: cookies baking in an oven, roses 7. Least favorite smells: portable potties, cigarette smoke, puke 8. Worst feeling in the world: having to deceive someone 9. Favorite sounds: rain pouring down 10. First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning: "Is it morning already?" 11. How many rings before you answer the phone: 2 or 3 12. Favorite color: Blue 13. Do you like your name: It's okay... too many words that rhyme with it 14. Who were you named after: Nobody in particular. My parents got it from a book. 15. Favorite food: chow mein, sushi, ribs 16. Do you drive fast: Depends on what you consider fast. I'm actually trying really hard not to speed, because I don't want to get tickets, however, I'm finding myself wanting to drive faster and faster. 17. Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate anything except ice cream or milk. Strangely though, I love hot chocolate... 18. Worst disaster you fear: Losing family members in a plane crash or natural disaster 19. Storms, cool or scary: Kinda cool, but only if I'm indoors 20. What was your first car: Subaru Impreza WRX (just got it last year!) 21. If you could meet someone dead or alive, who would it be: Edison, because what would we do without lights? 22. What is your zodiac sign: Capricorn 23. Favorite drink: Strawberry milkshake, but they're so bad for you! 24. Favorite vegetable: Spinach, because it makes you strong like Popeye! 25. If you could have any job, what would it be: The person on the Food Network who gets to travel around and eat food, and I guess to balance the eating, some sort of exercising guru. 26. Hair, long or short: Long, but we all have different definitions of long. 27. How many times have you been in love: Hmm.... *ponder* what is love? 28. Is the glass half-empty or half-full: Half the time it's one, half the time it's the other... but mostly it's half-empty 29. Do you type with your fingers over the right keys: Yep. 30. Favorite movie: Don't really have one in particular, but I like "Sliding Doors"... sorta makes me think about fate and stuff. 31. What's under your bed: Some shoes, and some dust. 32. Favorite number: 4 (yeah, I know it's bad luck in Chinese, but I like it because I'm the 4th kid in my family) 33. Favorite sport to watch: Diving 34. PC or Mac: PC 35. What's on your nightstand: A lamp that's not very bright, a candle, and a box of tissues 36. How many pillows on your bed: 1 37. In case of fire, what will you remember to take with you: Wallet and car keys (in a way, it's good that my car is parked on the street) 38. What/who do you admire: Kind, thoughtful, confident, honest, and successful people (not just one, but all of these qualities) 39. What do you think is the best thing ever invented: Artificial lighting... ever notice how helpless we are in a blackout that happens at night? 40. Most influential person: Ourselves. 41. Favorite places: San Francisco...my hometown. 42. Do you say your prayers: Every so often 43. Minutes you spend in the shower: 5 to 10 minutes 44. Most prized possession: My car... because I worked hard for it... well, sorta hard. 45. What's your best asset: My strong will 46. Jewelry you wear: Watch and 2 rings. Sometimes a necklace and/or earings 47. Coke or Pepsi: Coke 48. What did you have for breakfast: Waffles 49. Favorite time of the year: Fall 50. If you were a cartoon character, who would you be: Jean Grey (from X-Men), because she's got all those cool powers. SG, signing off. # ( 12:13 PM ) Scarf Girl Dardy asked in his journal yesterday a short series of questions: if we know what the future will bring us, is that beneficial knowledge? would you do something about it? is it that better to just pick a different outcome if the original one is bad? I suppose this can be one of those "fate" discussions. For instance, do you believe that one act can affect the rest of your life? All of the little things that you do each day affect tomorrow, which afftects the day after that, and so forth. Sometimes I think back on my life and wonder what would've happened if I had gone this school, or played that sport? What if I had decided to really tackle playing an instrument? Where would I be today? Would I be doing this exact thing at this point in time? Who are the people that would be in my life? I guess life is more mysterious that way. I don't think we can figure these things out. Who knows, maybe my life would totally be different a month from now if I had stopped to buy some candy at the store today instead of just heading to the office. I think if I look back, I can trace the path that brought me to where I am today: laid-off dot com-er interning at an online magazine / assistant volleyball coach. This makes me think about those "choose your own adventure" books. I think my brothers had some and so I read one or two of them. What the book did was bring you up to a point where you had to choose path A or B. Then you'd flip to a certain page and keep repeating that process. In the end, you've saved the world or were eaten by aliens. Anyways, I used to cheat. If I was eaten by monsters, I'd flip back a step and take the other option. Hehheh. Yeah, I was a cheater, but I wanted to save the world! Too bad in life we can't undo mistakes nearly so easily. Too bad we can't just turn back the clock at set things "right" so that we could avoid the pain and sadness. Then again, all of those experiences shape us, and we wouldn't appreciate our life nearly as much without the cuts and scratches from our hike through the forest of the unknown. Scarf Girl, signing off. # Wednesday, May 08, 2002 ( 10:44 PM ) Scarf Girl Well, there was some celebration today at practice. Right when I got there, a few of the girls were sitting around and when I walk up to them, one of them said to me, "We got a bid!!" A bid as in an invitation to play in nationals (Junior Olympics). YIPPIE!! It was really excited to hear the news about it, but since it was coming from them, I had to confirm it by asking a couple of questions. I didn't want them to jump to any false conclusions... About 5 minutes later, the coach comes in and asks me if I knew we received a bid. So it turns out that it was all true. Hooray! Utah, here we come baby!! After practice, we celebrated by eating some Krispy Kreme donuts, as one of the players' parents had brought in 3 dozen of them. I hope that this keeps the girls focused for the rest of the season. They're finally starting to play the way we want them to. SG, signing off. # ( 5:22 PM ) Scarf Girl Oh what a bright and lovely day it is today... SG, signing off. # Tuesday, May 07, 2002 ( 11:59 PM ) Scarf Girl Recently, my friend R sent me an article to read: Quit Dating, Author Advises. It's kinda interesting. SG, signing off. # ( 12:59 PM ) Scarf Girl Woah, my heart skipped a beat this morning when I was browsing some articles from the newswire. I saw Plane crashes in China with 112 on board. Then I read the article and saw that it was flying from Beijing to Dalian. I was like... Beijing... hmm... You see, my parents are vacationing in China right now. Originally, their plan was to go to Shanghai, chill there for a few weeks while travelling around to neighboring cities. Then about 5 days before their trip was over, they'd head over to Beijing for a couple of days and then fly home. Then they decided to change their itinerary and fly to Beijing first, then go to Shanghai later. So the timing would be right, if I sorta mentally combined both itineraries... it's about a week before they come back from China... they'd be on a plane having something to do with Beijing... Well this would've taken place yesterday morning, so I think we would've heard something by now. Anyways, just had a scare...'tis all. Scarf Girl, making a sigh of relief. # ( 10:18 AM ) Scarf Girl You know what feels really great? It's when you teach somebody something, and then they start to get it. So on Sunday, I was teaching one of the girls to adopt a different technique for hitting (spiking). We were having a break, and she was kinda sitting around so I thought it would be a great chance to work on her swing. I had been working on her before, but I thought I'd take it to the next level. So after about 10 to 15 minutes, and several analogies later, it was almost time to start a new match. Nothing happened much with her hitting, but her serving was pretty awesome. Since we had been working on things, she took all of my advice/instruction to heart and started serving tougher. I think she even got an ace or two. Yay! Then there was practice yesterday where we focused mostly on hitting. They were hitting for probably half of the practice. Yeah... they missed way too many hits. I suppose that's because we had focused so much on defense that we kinda neglected the offense. Heh. But isn't that saying supposed to hold true? The best offense is a good defense. Anyways, so when she'd go up to hit a couple, she'd smack them down better than I had seen her do the entire season. She still has to get used to it, but I'm so happy that my advice is working. *grin* Scarf Girl, signing off. # Monday, May 06, 2002 ( 5:25 PM ) Scarf Girl Whew, I'm pretty tired right now. I just spent my afternoon trying to detail my car the way I did with my brother's car. The thing is, it's just me this time and it's taking me forever! Given that my car is pretty small, and it's not in terrible condition, it has parts that are more difficult to clean. So far, I washed, dried, and clay barred my car. *whew*. I also finally took my snowboard rack down. Guess I'll have to wash that too since a whole lot of flies went splat on it. Eeew.. gross.. Anyways, I too bad I have to leave for practice soon. I guess I can wax-on / wax-off later since it's parked in the garage. Scarf Girl, signing off. # Sunday, May 05, 2002 ( 11:13 PM ) Scarf Girl I don't know if it was just me, but I knew a fair amount of people who wanted to backpack in Europe right after graduating from college. I don't know what it is about travelling that seems to appeal to fresh college grads. Perhaps it's seeing parts of the world that they had only read about in books. Perhaps it is merely getting away from all that is familiar to us, and has been familiar to us for all these years. Well, turns out that as graduating was approaching, I had no real desire to go take an adventure. I simply wanted to find a job and start paying off my school loan. Not that I didn't want to see the world, but it turns out that my junior year was spent studying abroad (aka. travelling for 9 months continuously). I suppose I had gotten it out of my system, so to speak. I think lately, I've wanted to capture that adventure again. I think I want to start travelling if I get the chance. I suppose I'll still be busy until this coaching thing is over, but after that, I would love to have a new experience. I don't know when, where, or what, but I know I want to do something really great. So on Friday, I ate at Panda Express. Ah... gotta love that really "authentic" Chinese food. And of course when you eat "real" Chinese food, you HAVE you have a FORTUNE COOKIE. Personally, I love to eat fortune cookies. They're plain, but yummy. Heh, especially warm and straight out of the factory. Side note: When I was in elementary school, my class took a field trip to Chinatown and we visited the fortune cookie factory where we got to see the machine that pumps out the little baked circles which are eventually hand folded with fortunes inserted into them. It's pretty neato. As I was saying, I ate at Panda. So I got this fortune which I totally laughed at when I read it because it was saying something really cool. You will step on the soil of many countries. Guess we'll see, eh? Scarf Girl, signing off. # |
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