welcome to your new home...

we've decided to call our hamster, yoshi.

we're also thinking about getting a dog. a basset hound. i love basset hounds. i love their sad little faces and their short little legs.

apparently they do well in apartments and don't need to much attention. i'm totally loving the idea. but then i don't know if it's such a good idea since deidra and i are going back to school.

here's what the american kennel club says about basset hounds.

the basset hound is laid back, sociable, and affectionate. it is a great dog for children and adults of all ages.

when there is nothing better to do, bassets sleep, and are not destructive when left alone. they turn on to food, but not necessarily to exercise.

it's like the perfect dog.

let's keep it short

i'm busy at work so i'm going to keep this short.

went to petsmart last night to get a new hamster. OCT was being a totally bitch and so we returned him (which i found out was actually a her, oh well). the new hamster (we haven't come up with a good name for her yet) is a cute little short hair hamster. very friendly. climbed around my arms last night. we also finished building tunnels from one side of the cage to the other. she likes the little round track connector. she's going to be a keeper.

she did bite my finger yesterday. deidra said that she thought my hand was the water bottle cuz it was wet. she drew blood... it hurt. but since she's cute, it's okay.

i got a jury duty summons months ago. i called in twice when my time was up and was told they didn't need me. i forgot to call in the next day... and the day after for that matter. now i got a failure to report letter saying i have to go back on 7/16. i don't think i'm going to be in the country and the automated phone service won't patch me through to a person. this is going to be really bad. *sigh*

i called CSULB to tell them that i'm not going to be attending their university. i left a message. hopefully someone will call me back and tell me it's okay. i feel so bad, but USC is closer and they gave me money for school. yeah, i'm going to be a trojan. the very idea kinda disgust me a little. but since those bastards at UCLA didn't want me, i guess i'll just have to go study with the enemy. even though i can say we have the number one football team in the country, i still love UCLA football/basketball. i hope i don't have time for sports.

deidra and i went to see, dodgeball, yesterday. it was hilarious. i couldn't stop laughing. i mean how can you go wrong with a movie containing the line, "if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball." i enjoyed it thoroughly. ben stiller is brilliant. we watched zoolander on tbs on saturday and that was some funny shit. blue steel. hahaha.

deidra got us a membership to costco for the gas. it is also a lot closer to sam's club. it's beef jerkey time.

the kitties love me! they are so cute. especially milty. he keeps looking at me with those big round eyes, wanting me to play catch with him. i like how they rub themselves against my legs. so much love.

did i mention how much i like the band, keane? they are really freaking good. watch them here.

three lions

so euro 2004 started several days ago. just wanted to say...

GOOOOO ENGLAND!!!!

of course, they lost to france 1-2 earlier.

OCT, where the fuck are you?

i got to bed a little bit after 2am this morning cuz i was trying to catch the new episode of coupling on bbc america. i finally got the series 3 dvd over the weekend, and although the acting and story were great, there were only seven episodes. a little disappointing in that respect.

at 6:45am, deidra started yelling for me to get up. the hamster was gone. it's a bit disconcerting when you're in the middle of sleep and your girlfriend is yelling at you because the hamster is not in his cage.

so we walked around the house looking for him. she suggested that maybe one of the kitties wounded him and took him somewhere to finish him off. and i was like, great, the house's going to smell funky for awhile.

after 10 minutes of looking around for OCT, i noticed that milton was missing as well. i started looking around for him and i suddently realized that if i find him, i'll find OCT as well. and i knew exactly where to look.

so i pulled aside a set of drawers from under the computer room bed, and saw milton crawling out (cuz he's a little bit afraid of me) and there between a suitcase and several tin boxes of stuff, i saw OCT's little head popping out of the space.

deidra had put the idea in my head that OCT could be hurt because the kitties could have used him as a scratching post. so i was a bit hesitant in trying to grab him. so instead, i had deidra grab me some hamster food and a plate and the little ball he rolls around in, hoping that he'd crawl inside and i can inspect him.

after several minutes of poking his head and body out and then crawling back into the slot between the suitcase and tin boxes, i finally got him to crawl into the roller ball. he seemed to be alright. all of his extremities were there and there weren't any signs of blood anywhere on him. so after putting him in his case, i twisty-tied the door. i don't want to have to look for him again.

you wonder why i'm telling you this story, right? well, i just want to rant about how i'd only slept 4.5 hours and i'm not too pleased about it. that's all.

i did, however, clean up the porch area that deidra's been bugging me for the last month and half yesterday. it beats having to watch the nba finals. how ugly can these games get? and i can't believe the lakers are fouling THAT much. the second quarter was rubbish. penalty with 8:30 minutes to go? fucking rubbish.

presenting... OCT, the amazing hamster

deidra and i got a hamster yesterday. we were only going to petsmart to get some kitty litter and kitty food. but then we ended up getting a hamster.

his/her name is OCT. (short for octavius)

for the sake of my sanity, let's just call oct a he. (though he could definitely a she).

we got oct a funky new cage with a rotating spinning wheel. it's incredibly exciting. oct doesn't really like to be touched. he runs away a lot. but he really likes the fucking wheel. he actually transported some of his food from the food cup to the wheel. last night, i found durgha sitting on top of the table looking at oct spinning around in his wheel. it's precious.

we also got him this ball that he can roll around in. it's quite interesting. durgha and milton are nearly mesmerized by it and loves running along side it.

at this very moment, oct is either, 1. sleeping in his wheel, 2. eating in his wheel, or 3. spinning in his wheel in the darkness of the closet. we're afraid the kitties will decide to eat him, or at least bat his fragile little body around until it dies. (if they do it within 14 days, i can return it back to petsmart for another one. good deal, eh?)

one thing: hamsters sure poo a lot.

i've been listening to this norwegian singer, sondre lerche. i love the song, two way monologue (especially in the beginning of the video with the guy saying, "...at the ready, steady, GO! club") you can watch it here.

fuck, i've been at work for a while now and haven't even gotten any work done. you're a bad habit.

did i mention that i saw chandler bing two days ago?

i'll be there for you

i saw chandler bing today.

okay, not chandler bing, but matt perry.

corner of wilshire and bundy. he was driving his black bmw 760li whilst smoking a fag.

i was in a uhaul truck with chris, on wilshire, making a left onto bundy. while waiting at the light, i was looking around and saw him in the lane to the right of us.

yeah, i did a double take. and yeah, i got a little excited. not cream in my pants excited. but like, seeing-FUCKING-chandler-bing-in-real-life kinda excited.

so i turned to chris and said, "shit, it's chandler bing! it's fucking matt perry." seconds later, after straining his neck to check the side mirrors, chris confirmed it.

i can't believe it. chandler-FUCKING-bing.

so i turned to look at him again. this time he was fixing his hair. oh, it wasn't the fat matt, it was the healthy-looking and tan matt. the i'd-just-earned-20+ million-dollars-this-past-year, what-the-fuck-did-you-do? looking matt.

i turned back to chris and we couldn't believe it. if i only had a camera phone. if i'd only brought my digital camera. if i'd only, if i'd only, if i'd only... fucking bitch.

so i turned to look at him again, and this time our eyes met. yeah, that was pretty gay, but they did. and he gave me the head nod and smile. sure, he's probably done that many times previous, but this one was for me.

let me reiterate. take a deep breath. MATT PERRY--the guy who plays chandler bing on friends, the show that i watched almost religiously since its beginning--GAVE ME A FREAKING HEAD NOD AND SMILE.

and what did i do?

i gave him the head nod and smile right back.

this definitely beats seeing sipowicz at hop li's.