5.24.2006

Why is David Blaine such an idiot?

It's something that's been nagging at me since his ridiculous stunt of living in that stupid glass box, without food, for 44 days. I believe it was actually titled, "Above the Below", which suggests he's an artist as well. Gah.

I don't understand him. He's not magical, he's not even fearless and cool like the Crocodile Hunter was before he sold out. He's just some guy who puts unnecessary stress on his body for shock value and fame.

If the man were smart he'd take some tips from Paris Hilton and release a few good sex tapes on the Internet to increase his celebrity. I hear he used to date Fiona Apple so I'm pretty sure people would be interested. And, if he found a really cool girl maybe he could inspire her to have sex in some weird places, like a glass box above the River Thames. That's worth a lot more than just sitting there solo, fasting like Ghandi, without a noble cause.

5.18.2006

Is it strange that I just touched up my make-up to participate in a conference call with people hundreds of miles away?

Perhaps.

Weirder still that doing so makes me feel more empowered and confident, which are both good qualities since I am leading this group in their last class ever as graduate students.

I should probably be more concerned with whether or not I'm a good leader, and I suppose I am a little concerned about that since I haven't even proofread the submission we are discussing tonight. I'm a little worried it is fragmented and disjointed, but I think that's to be expected in any rough draft and we have until Sunday night at midnight to fix it.

My group members are decent, when they contribute. One of them is fantastically smart and although he rarely says anything his input has been valuable and solid every time. One of them kind of gets on my nerves because he doesn't seem able to proofread anything and the other one never says anything except to turn in finished work.

Every day I find another reason to enjoy being a woman.

Do not interpret that to mean that I love being pregnant. I don't mind it, I suppose, most of the time, and generally it is just intrinsic knowledge that has yet to really impact my life in a tangible way, however there are times I find the inequity of the entire situation so unfair it nearly brings me to tears.

But then I remember something I recently heard by Candace Bushnell: I can have children, and I can have a great career. Not at the same time, but over the course of my life.

And I'm pretty sure I will be one of those fortunate women who gets everthing I want in life plus some.

Must lead now.

5.16.2006

Baby's Heartbeat!

Today Nick and I met with a midwife and it was really cool. I was initially worried that she wouldn't give me any drugs if I decided I wanted them, but she assured me, that just like any doctor she could order an epidural at any point, but her job was to also remind me there were techniques I could use to get to a certain point without any medication.

Then, she greased me up and pressed on my lower belly until she found the heartbeat. It was wild! So fast and little. I was so excited that I started laughing and she lost the spot she was on and had to find it again.

Very cool.

5.12.2006

I think I need to put myself in time out ...

This week has been ridiculously difficult. Every day at work I am assaulted with a similar set of questions that I cannot answer definitively. What they say is true about recall, especially when you are pregnant. I cannot remember where I just put my keys, much less detailed information about something that happened three days ago.

It's complicated, which is about all I can say at the moment.

Secondly, school is really hard right now - coordinating, writing, thinking, brainstorming, etc. I am constantly thinking about my business plan and how to make it better. And we're only two weeks in so far.

Every weekend through May is completely booked with travel plans which I know will be fun, but seriously, all that gas and driving is just overwhelming right now.

I'm jealous that I'm pregnant and Nick isn't.

Welcome to the highly-irrational world of pregnant people.

I probably just need a nap.

5.04.2006

How Josh scored *Free* food from underage girls without coming off like a pedophile:

I swear, if my search results suggest that even one person found this site because of the words "underage girls" I'm going to vomit in my mouth a little bit.

No doubt it will happen.

Picture this:

A's game last night, weather is slightly overcast and windy. Cool. Cold even. A man, in his early-thirties is sitting on the end of a row of chairs, unshaven and wearing a white and green sweatshirt with black lycra gloves on his hands. Next to him looms a giant man, with glasses and a suede brown coat that seems too nice to make an appearance in the bleacher section of an A's game. Two girls sit under a blanket, cuddling and sharing stories, appearing only mildly interested in the baseball function, but acutely aware of their nachos. The group is in and out of their seats for the duration of the game, always coming back with more food.

The crowd is despondent as the A's are getting their asses kicked in such a way it physically hurts one to look at any of the three scoreboards.

One row in front of our heros is an obnoxious fat man who yells obscenities and generally provokes everyone in his section. He refuses to do the wave because he "has one beer in each hand". He's the kind of man you know smells terrible, like stale nacho cheese.

In the box office above, several young girls sit benefitting from the success of their fathers, laughing and tossing their hair.

The section directly to the left of the scruffy dark-haired man is begging the coliseum to participate in the wave. Nobody gives a shit. After many rounds of prodding, and name-calling, the wave moves around the coliseum and fans seem to be having fun.

The box office of young girls promptly hands out two large cheese pizzas to the fans who refused to give up on making the wave happen.

Wait, what?!

Our hero, Josh H., looks around wildly as though he didn't get enough to eat what with the super nachos (too spicy), the hotdogs, and the dessert ice cream cookie. The girls start making offerings of ice cream and he snaps to attention!

"Ice Cream?" he says in his best Scooby-Doo voice.

They toss him down a Ben and Jerry's frozen treat and although he offers to his friends, they are very sadly too full to put more food in their bodies.

As the foursome bails on the miserable performance of the A's*, the girls above make some mention to free peanuts. (I know, could it be more suitable for innuendo?) Again, Josh H. is on it, followed closely by man-in-glasses-with-nice-coat. Two bags of free peanuts later, the group scuttles out of the stadium.

I couldn't tell you what the ending score of the game was, only that we were losing by ten runs or more. Sad, sad day for the A's.

*Nick Swisher and Bobby Crosby both had decent performances last night, but that's about it.

I rebooted my computer

and for a brief moment, I surfed the web, checking in on my favorite websites. Boredom set in quickly, approximately 12 minutes later, and I wondered what I should do.

Then it hit me that I wasn't signed in to Instant Messenger! Jeezo. No wonder I was bored.

Jennifer and I often talk about how we would pass the time if it wasn't for chatting at work, those little bits of text that distract and entertain us daily.

I've found out what I would do, I would surf the Internet instead, get bored, and find some other way to waste my time.

Two years ago I wasted my most productive time on a Yahoo game called Rainbow Lines, but as soon as I became so addicted I couldn't hide it from Stinky anymore, Yahoo saved me by charging money and the addiction was abandoned without hesitation.

Thank God nobody charges for chatting.

5.03.2006

A Stinky Update

You know, Stinky? My co-worker? Yeah.

I told her I was pregnant today, on the advice of one of the business owners here, and without making eye contact, which was a feat in and of itself, the woman merely shrugged, "Oh. Ok."

As though I tell people I'm pregnant every day! Damn, lady. I could have just told her my apartment burned down and took my big toe with it and she'd have reacted in exactly the same way.

Crazy fucking bitch.

Let the cravings commence!

This whole pregnancy thing is somewhat tricky. I feel, like for the first time ever, I'm totally run by emotion as opposed to logic, and I can tell you, I do not like this part one iota. It's driving me crazy and I'm constantly annoyed with myself for being so sensitive to other people's remarks.

For instance, yesterday I told a co-worker who manages her ever-fluctuating weight with prescription diet pills. We are not talking obesity here, but rather vanity weight. She continually eats Jack in the Box, or Burger King and then takes these pills when she gains a few pounds. The obvious abuse to her body drives me insane.

So yesterday, I approach co-worker and tell her I'm preggers, to which she replies, "No wonder you were getting chunky!" To mitigate the searing pain of her comment, I immediately shoved a decadent chocolate chip cookie down my throat. Yet her remark stayed with me, moving in like an unwanted relative who smells of moth-balls and feet. It is constantly nagging me, "you're fat, you're fat, you're fat." And I know I'm just gonna keep on packing it on for the duration. Augh.

The crazy part is that I am not fat at all. I have gained maybe 1.5 pounds in nearly 10 weeks, people! And yeah, it's true some things that used to fit really well, just don't anymore. But if I wasn't blogging this, you'd never know it based on my current wardrobe. So I'm not fat, but I _feel_ like I am. Jesus Christ. Is this what regular women have to deal with all the time?

My self-image is completely distorted because I can't excercise the way I want to now that I have the time to do it. I want to be pushing myself to my limits and I'm just not supposed to do that right now. So I feel out of shape, and I still have lingering pimples!

Anyway, this post was about cravings. Mostly, I haven't experienced any at all, and definitely nothing strange -- except I NEED junkfood. In that way where I'm starving for it all the time and must force myself to choke down something healthy instead. I hate vegetables suddenly but would kill for a BigMac -- I've been thinking about eating one for three days solid. Take me to the grocery store and I'll beg you for doughnuts, or corndogs.

Things are very strange for me right now.