christmas greetings

I am in a church during Christmas mass. It's held in spanish, so I don't know what the priest is saying (which may be for the best). But the singing is beautiful, and just now the audience turned to each other and shook hands. Two old men in expensive trenchcoats shook my hand.

I hope you are well during this holiday season. Merry Christmas! And bah humbug. May the spirit of the season blend with your sarcasm to form a perfect storm!

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Why is this my gmail inbox ad?

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I know how we do the algorithm to determine the ad, and I cannot figure out how this happened!

hmm

Nanowrimo is causing me to not go out at all. I sit in front of my computer all day and night. So I've IM'ed with something like 30 people in the past three days, but I've talked to no one outside of work.

It's weird!

some of my friends are apparently much freakier than I am

"We did some crazy stuff last night."

"Like what?"

"Freaky stuff."

"Were you cutting each other?"

"No! [looks away in thought] That's interesting though."

"Okay, then what kind of stuff?"

"For example, I actually threw up at one point during it."

"What?? [shocked pause] How did he react when that happened?"

"I don't think he noticed."

"What???? What on earth were you doing?"

"I'm telling you, crazy stuff."

hehe

IM with my guy friend "Randy".

niniane: a lot of guys start going to the gym more when they start dating a girl
randy: they do???
randy: i've been pretty good about going to the gym...but that's cause i consider myself single
randy: but once i meet a girl, this gym nonsense can stop

tip to headhunters

If you are trying to headhunt two people who work at the same company and went to the same 900-student university together, perhaps you should send slight variations of the email! They might talk to each other, and laugh at how tacky it is to send out the exact same email to every person.

A worse example happened at Caltech though, when my friend John received an email from the Oracle recruiter which was addressed "Dear Niniane".

sophisticated humor

Exiting my car with my brother, outside his apartment.

Me: [picking up package of instant noodles from my backseat] "Do you want this yakisoba?

Tom: "It's been in your car for five months, but sure. It's time to give the yakisoba a home."

Me: "By home, do you mean your apartment, or your stomach?"

Tom: "First one, and then the other."

Me: [laughing very hard] "And then the one again."