[disconnected] probably won't get to blog much in the next couple of weeks, because the new place won't be connected yet. di is living in the city! di in the city. hmm. kinda like the sound of that.... :D

[di just needs to write] though summer is a great opportunity to relax, soak in the sun, and spend time with yourself, there is only so much relaxation, sun-soaking, and spending time with oneself a person can do. remember when you were in middle or high school and summer let out? were you not semi-devestated that you couldn't see your friends for... potentially 3 months? i know i was.. i mean as a 12-yr old, that's a big deal my friend! i guess it's still kind of the same in college... for me right now, my younger friends are at home, and my older friends are getting on with their yuppie working lives.. so, what is a girl to do? =) [get sucked into sex and the city's season 4 dvd, that's what]

on that note, i've been really caught up in things lately.. so much so that i think i'm starting to lose a sense of *me*. of who i am. the people around me help define me, and i haven't been able to get a healthy dose of that. and i haven't had a chance to really write (until now!) to assess my inner-di. as natalie says -- moving is the single most stressful thing a person could do. Time says it's the #1 most stressful thing too. go figure that i'm running around in circles, feeling unstable, and all shooken up. i know change is a good thing and always comes with a dash of pepper, but i've never had to deal with the kind of instability that i've been feeling. relationships come into question. self comes into question. the world comes into question. i just gotta roll with the punches i guess... but i nonetheless ask again: what is a girl to do? =)

i'm really excited about moving into my new place. this weekend -- it's all happening, yup yup yup. i gots me a couch. i gots me a dining table. and i gots me 20 odd boxes to fill it all up with. weeee-haaaaaaa! =) come visit me okie? me will bake you cookies..... =D

so i guess what i'm really trying to say is that i'm attempting to define this place i'm in. i know my life is going in a certain direction, but it sure is taking a real long time for me to move through it right now..

till then.

oh di's head hurts =(

[on a sports note] thank GOODNESS the giants finally beat those darn dodgers. woo giants!

[naked man scares shark to death] yes, you read correctly. i definitely had to take a double-take when i read that headline. it totally cracked me up this morning! :D
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/06/13/offbeat.scared.shark.reut/index.html

[friendster? enemy-ster?] okay i admit i got that one from rishi, but what is going on with this friendster craze? is it one huge pot of singles trying to meet their soulmate? is it a popularity contest? is it an invasion of personal space? true, it is pretty interesting to see that everyone seems to know the SAME people (aiyoh) around here, but at the same time, it does also bring about the uglier side of me. are you not compelled sometimes to click on someone who just quite isn't your bud, someone you'd jump in front of a zebra for? on another front, are you secretly surfing for that hunky guy even though you're "in a relationship"? what about those testimonials? what are they supposed to do? (and no, i'm not bitter because i only have one. *waaaahh*) anyhoo, i guess i finally succumbed to the emails that were flooding my inbox out of curiosity and interest, but....friendster, though a social phenomenon, is evil i tell you -- it's evil.

[consumer heaven or hell?] if i learned anything from my four years of economics in high school, it's that consumer sovereignty is a PLUS. that's one of the great things about being in a free market system, and it's one of the traits that all economies should aspire to right? ehhhhhhhhhhh. last night, i spent (wasted?) a good two hours of my evening surfing through internet and cable companies.. now for convenience, all i really wanted was a cable company that could provide me with DSL as well so that i wouldn't hafta pay a gazillion million bills. my other criteria was that it be affordable and that it had the option to purchase the nba league pass, for b of course =) and helloooo there are just too many options! but none of them fall precisely into the box that i have made =( so there's comcast.. there's castle cable.. there's at&t.. there's direct tv.. and for internet there's yahoo!sbc, there's at&t, there's also comcast.. and what else? good grief, someone save me.

[hachoo] di has the sniffles. stay away from her!

[empty house, empty mind] so the last of my roommates moved out today, and now the house is empty. actually i lie. one of the new girls has moved in, and it's just so weird to be living with someone i don't know. yes, she is undoubtedly a very cool girl, but she is 2 years younger than me, and i imagine we don't have much in common. di can't wait to move to her very own place =)

[ridiculous] that i have a midterm next week. hahahaha. oh sigh.

[lost momentum] either my mind is failing me or i have lost all momentum to write. i remember thinking all these quirky things that i saw this past weekend that i would share with my limited audience, but i can't remember jack! but here is what i learnt about other people: there are some people who just hate the sound of silence. they will talk about anything and everything, even maybe make up stories, just to fill up the silence. there is nothing wrong with silence, and *not* filling it up is overrated sometimes... perhaps one of the greatest signs of how progressive your relationship is with someone is the fact that you can sit in silence with them without the discomfort. dontcha think? another thing i learnt about people is that when faced freebies, kids say thank you and adults don't. haha =) just something small i picked up from a few street fairs this weekend..

[very excited] about the diana krall concert at yoshi's this week. it should be kick ass. hope everything is having a great summer!