ziasudra

First it was my grandma, now even Boss Lady is wishing me to "find a boyfriend soon" in her New Year's greeting to me. Um, am I that obviously walking around with a I'm Single sign flashing above my head?

I guess ziasudra was a good choice...

From BBC: Letter lottery defines spam load -- How much spam you get may depend on the first letter in your e-mail address, a study reveals

In other news, I'm done with this summer's constant traveling, I think. Took a quick trip to NJ over the Labor Day weekend, and it seems like I'll actually be in NYC this coming weekend! No plans yet except to veg around and maybe to look at an apartment or two.

And now, a quiz!

( I might be working in the right industry after all )

1.
I had this huge craving for steak, raw fish, and deep-fried food today. Steaks are expensive, so I compromised and had a burger with calamari for lunch, then later walked to the local Japanese convenience store to pick up brown rice sushi and bubble tea. *checks calendar* Yup, it's that time of the month again.

2.
Yesterday I was walking around the markets in Union Square, and randomly ran into my roommate M from college and her now-husband A! I think the last time I saw them was at my other college roommate's wedding a year ago. I followed them to dinner and met up with new friends and some other people I also knew from college. Nostalgia, that.

3.
Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I believe this is available for free online viewing until midnight today, so go watch it if you haven't yet! And it's Joss Whedon! :D

4.
The Dark Knight. Saw it, loved it, would see it again on DVD though probably not in a theater unless it's IMAX. Christian Bale is a very, very good Bruce Wayne (and Batman too, but I like his Bruce Wayne persona better). All the hype about Heath Ledger's performance is true -- his Joker was one-of-a-kind. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart are love. And Gary Oldman for the win! He totally brought the comicverse version of Commissioner Gordon to life; I can't imagine another actor playing the role as well as he.

5.
My computer's been sick since last, last Thursday. At one point I couldn't even do a simple Google search in IE or Firefox. Thank goodness I still have an ancient version of Netscape installed on my computer. But even with that, I've had trouble getting online most days since last week. :(

6.
Next week and the week after are New York City's Restaurant Week. I've already made a dinner booking with the l00bs at a fancy Japanese restaurant. Lots of good places to check out, especially those otherwise unaffordable places that normally have $90 prix fixe menus or averages over $75 per meal per person.

7.
I'm finally getting my own business cards, yay. For the past year and a half, I've been taking Boss Lady's cards and writing my own name and email in the white space. So the client got two lovely contacts for the price of one! Now I'll have my own stack of placeholders bookmarks cards that I'll never use up, not if Boss Lady who's worked at the organization for sixteen years still has hundreds of hers.

8.
I've been trying to leave birthday greetings in people's LJs but have been slacking recently. So happy belated and early birthdays to all you second-half-of-July babies: thescarletwoman, lampblack, tanechigai, sra_black, and dove95!!!


ETA: #9: "If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal."