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January 09, 2004
My grandmother (on my mom's
My grandmother (on my mom's side) went into the ER yesterday morning. They were pretty worried about her since her heart stopped TWICE that morning. So, we decided to go down to Chiayi yesterday instead of Saturday. My aunt was freaking out when we got there (after a four hour drive), and it was really really depressing. ICUs make me slightly queasy. I'm not sure if it's the smell or the way the people look in there, but I always get really depressed when I am there. Reminds me when my other grandmother was there...
On the other hand, we found out today that she is going to be ok (well, at least she is stable now, thank goodness). So since my dad had work function back up in Taipei, we drove back up today. Lots of driving for us. I think I am getting office butt already...
Other annoying/interesting/gross things:
1) I got a mosquito bite inside my ear. You kno how they say when your ear itches someone is saying something bad about you? Well, it's like someone is perpetually talking shit about me. Huh.
2) I bought a shitpile of junk food. Some for my advisor, some for me. I'm so nice to my advisor. :) But, basically, my dad had said we could stay in a hotel in Tainan when we were there last night, but we ended up staying at a relative's place. So I guilt tripped my mom and dad into letting me splurge at Mitsukoshi how much it would have been to stay at the hotel that I found (about 3000 NT, not that I spent that much, but it's the principle)
3) I inadvertently borrowed (and read) a gay comic book series. So, the author of this series wrote this other series that I really liked (Full House). So, I figured since she had started a new series, I would check it out. I didn't bother to look at the cover since it showed TWO GUYS, and since my Chinese isn't good enough to really be able to tell the gender in names (while reading the synopsis in the back), I decided not to let the fact that the front looked like two guys (as sometimes guys and girls sort of look alike in comics) and started reading it. I dunno why, maybe I am not "open" enough to this kind of stuff, but when I expected it to be a love story between a guy and a girl, and it ends up being between a guy and a guy (as there is a girl who is in love with one of the guys, but JOKE ON ME, he's in love with another guy), it sort of weirded me out. I finished it, as I did pay money to borrow it. But still...it was sort of, a 'hmm' kind of experience...
4) I've lasted until today not washing my hair (as I wasn't supposed to wash it until Friday night, starting onTuesday). It is SO nasty. I usually wash my hair once, twice a day. But, for this hair straightening thing, I had to wait. Which precluded me from working out...which is why I have been feeling the office butt...
BUT...I get to work out today. So hah. :)
Posted by szujin at January 9, 2004 10:25 AM