RJK 5000

today was the most boring day of fasting.  i just chilled at home and watched television.  and i wanted to eat fried chicken and chocolate chip cookies with a glass of whole milk.  i don’t even remember the last time i ate fried chicken, cookies, or whole milk.  but they sure sound good.  this is crazy.

i just watched masterpiece classic, part two of emma.  it was excellent.  romola garai is super talented.

i think i will get to bed early tonight so i can wake up and eat an apple.  i am pretty tired.

i feel so… weak.  just kidding.  fasting is going fine.  but i did tire out quick in old town and returned home soon after crate and barreling.  remind me to never drive down delicious-smelling streets like green street (by gyu-kaku and buca di beppo) during a fast.  i felt hungry today and was craving things i saw on television like carrots and hot wings.  i can’t wait to break the fast with an apple.

i just watched masterpiece classic, jane austen’s emma.  part one.  it was excellent.  i can’t wait to see parts two and three.

anyway, i need to lie in bed.  i have a headache that is screaming for some caffeine.  and something else.

happy saturday.  clocked in 11 hours of sleep.  feeling pretty good.  i’m on my second day of fasting too.  i drank a nice hot cup of water to hydrate.  normally fasting makes me cold and fatigued, but today i feel as though i could shop around old town and maybe browse the local thrift stores.  usually when i shop in old town i like to stop in for a beer or two, but today i will have to deny myself that pleasure.  i have heard people lose weight while fasting, but that has never been the case for me, except maybe a few insignificant ounces.

i looked on the library card catalog for masterpiece theatre and all of the interesting titles are unavailable for at least 11 days.  and the two titles that were in stock are on vhs, and well, my new policy is that i can only watch vhs if it’s a taebo video.  but masterpiece classic will be on tonight.

i’m going to old town now.

i went to hollywood during my lunch break today.  melrose.  i thought it would be a fun way to spend the lunch hours, but it just made me tired.  i drove back to work and napped in the parking lot.  i’ll give it another try when i’m hungry though.

after work i went to blockbuster with a short list of movies that i wanted to get.  none of the movies on my list was on the shelves.  so i went home empty-handed.  it was not that big of a deal because i thought i could just watch masterpiece classic tonight, but it turns out the program i want to view isn’t airing until tomorrow night.  sometimes my desires have bad timing.  great.

it’s only 10pm on a friday night.  and i want to go to bed early and wake up late.  is that bad timing.  i know my life should be more exciting than this but my body needs a break. and i’m lazy.

i went downtown to meet my old buddy for a drink.  just as i was cruising up the street to look for a parking spot, all the film crew trucks pulled away from the curb, freeing up an entire blockworth of parking spaces.  sometimes my timing is just right.  i had a beer with abijah which seems weird, but was actually very cool.  and then another old friend, marlon strolled into the bar.  we mostly talked about being young and skateboarding.  it was a fine time (back then, and at the bar).  abijah says we should skate, at least “roll around,” which sounds fun.  i still need to 360 flip.

i’m bored and it’s only midnight.  i guess i will just go into my bed and read.  finally friday tomorrow!  we deserve a good stretch.

a very mellow day.  i enjoyed dinner with my family.  they made me laugh.

i caught up with luna on the latest developments of her dating life.  very exciting!

i read some excellent short stories while i waited for my laundry to dry.  lamb to the slaughter.

i took a shower at midnight.  like a bachelor.

i look forward to my head hitting the pillow.  hard.

i was supposed to do some work for work at home tonight, but i didn’t.  just didn’t feel like it.  pumped some iron and talked on the phone.  then looked on youtube for some 80s television things that i haven’t seen in a very long time.  like galaxy high, which i used to love.  oh, you mean futurama.  after school my brother used to make me watch spectreman and tranzor z.  i can’t even believe they used to put spectreman on tv.  it was so absurd, i would lie under the living room table facing the television set and doze off.  then he’d throw an ice cream sandwich at me and i’d wake up and eat it.  we were always latchkey kids, which i think was a good thing.

i went to the tire store today because my 2010 gut feeling told me that one of my tires was going to explode on the freeway.  so i decided to replace the two front tires before they replaced me.  while my new tires were being installed, my best friend luna met me for lunch so i could catch up on her crazy dating life.  she is funny.  the problem is most guys just don’t know what’s up.  and they’re gross.  back at the tire store, while waiting for my keys, i saw the news air a story about lori gottlieb’s book, “marry him: the case for settling for mr. good enough,” something about reaching a certain age and then settling for a guy who doesn’t quite fulfill the list of must-haves.  haha.  poor mr. good enough, his wife will make his life so miserable.  she’ll always resent him for being divorced twice, not knowing the difference between “their” and “there,” and running with limp wrists.  but at least he loves kids!

mr. right loves sushi and knows how to spell (backwards too!).  he insists i use the good knife.  mr. good enough will only eat california rolls (or “nothing raw”) and type things like “rice crispy treats.”  he thinks all the knives in the joint are the same.  not acceptable, but maybe i don’t know what’s good enough.

i’m going to bed early so i can wake up early and be productive in the office.  i love my job.

tomorrow i get to see my family.  i love my mom and brother.  it seems like i know what’s good?

i woke up feeling a little bit hungover from last night’s beers.  i wanted to eat the mexican pizza and flamin’ hot cheetos, but i drank v8 and ate an apple instead.  it should have been an orange, but i ran out of those.  i need to make the smart choice more often.  and in the first place.

i felt homesick today.  i wanted to go back.

i woke up late again even though i set my alarm for 11am.  i am drinking coffee now and texting jola the chola, a dear old friend of mine who will smash your face in if she thinks you deserve it.  this has been a lovely “morning.”  i ate eggs instead of a banana with my coffee, and i garnished them pretty just to get this day started with a sense of beauty.  i still don’t see what is so crass and horrific about eating bananas for breakfast, but i humored the lady.

my back still hurts, but not enough for me to take a pain reliever.

I texted my brother to see whether he would like to grab an office burger and a beer later.  no respondo.  i guess i had better get to taking care of my business for the day.  he’ll text “okay, let’s go” right in the middle of all of it and it will be fine since i will have planned for that to happen.

enjoying a most lovely sunday us all.

i injured my lower back while doing pilates.  i could not really move all day.

i ate popcorn and watched masterpiece classic on pbs.  it was good.

i’m going to put on my gravity boots and rest now.