Echo

6/29 Recap:

I had a busy, somewhat stressful day at work today. Plus, I was feeling a little bit low so I kept to myself. I stayed a little later than usual at the office IMing, then headed over to Starbuck’s to return a video next door and to see if Calvin was working. It was just the new girls tonight so I just dropped off the video and went home. I watched a new episode of Reno 911 that I was pleasantly surprised to find on my Tivo. I read in Entertainment Weekly that while the show was filming in a real police station, Thomas Lennon (Dangle, the cop in the daisy dukes) had a formal complaint filed against him by a female police officer, requesting that he not bend over so much.

Fucking. Awesome.

It was the one where they think Weigel’s boyfriend is a serial killer. I loved it when Weigal comes back into the room, pissed at them and says, “‘F’ you! ‘F’ you and…FUCK you.” She’s one of my favorite all-time television characters. I think you have to be insane to improvise a character like that.

I was at a birthday party at a bar on Saturday and I see a girl we’ll call “K.” K was once a friend but during college, someone really fucked me over and stabbed me in the back at the newspaper when I was home for a semester having knee surgery, and she went along with it, letting me take the fall. When the shit came down the wire, I emailed her and asked her to be straight with me about what was going on and she made it clear that she was not standing by me. The people on my staff made a lot of noise for me and uncovered some unethical, scandalous stuff, and it all worked out. The Michigan Daily is so fucking corrupt. But it didn’t matter. She came back after the shit hit the fan and said that it was all this one guy’s doing and nothing to do with her but I was so fucking disappointed with her that I could barely even look at her anymore, let alone be friends with her. But being the way I am, I was still cordial after that and never said anything about the disgust I felt over her role in everything that had happened.

On Saturday, I saw her but was wrapped up in too many conversations to say hi. I was at the other side of the bar playing darts when she came up to me and said that she had seen me and wanted to say hi. I said hi but was really short with my answers, not really making eye contact and immediately turning to talk to Jason, the guy I was playing darts with, right after answering each of her questions. I wasn’t trying to prove a point or be rude; I just couldn’t find it in me to talk to her and act like everything was great between us. Finally, she gets it and says, “Well, it was nice talking to you, Julia.” I smile, shake her hand warmly and say, “It was good seeing you, K.” I was very nice about it, but I couldn’t fake the fact that I just didn’t want to talk to her because I didn’t respect her.

So somewhere near the end of the night, Jason wanted to play a game of darts for a blowjob. So I won, and I transferred my blowjob to Max, since you know, I don’t have a penis.

As we were all leaving the bar, I saw Max and I said, “Jason’s gonna give you that blowjob at my place.” (which was me letting him know that we were all heading to my place to afterparty). But at that moment, K walked out of the bar and heard me. So she says, ” Bye Julia.” And I say, “Bye.”

She takes a few steps then turns around and yells, really nastily, “Good luck giving out those blowjobs.” So I say, “I’m not the one who’s giving it out.” And she says, “Right. Good luck giving out blowjobs.” And walks off.

So all the guys outside the bar are like, “That was AWESOME! That was so fucking bitchy!” And I’m like, “What the fuck?”

But I guess I found out later from friends that she had seen me and had asked around about where I was, specifically trying to find me, so I guess she had been excited to talk to me. And then when I was unresponsive, it must have not been what she was expecting and it hurt her feelings.

This would have to be the theory that would have to complement the theory that men are biologically programmed to spread his seed in an evolutionary urge and thus, this desire causes monogamy to be counter-intuitive to men.

No one hates nobody. Nearly all people have, at some point in their lives, flirted with the thought or fantasy of killing someone, whether or not they are willing to admit it. I theorize that for there to be such strong hate, the flipside must have also been present at some time, that of strong love, desire or need.

So here’s the survey:

During the time(s) that you have fantasized about killing someone, was this person someone that you either have/had a close personal relationship with or have/once had very positive feelings for? (ie relative, friend, lover, etc.)

1. Package Nick Van Exel and Jrich to get rid of Van Exel’s salary.
2. Sign Mehmet Okur. They could really use him.
3. Clear cap space so we can make a play for Yao next year. Yao wants to come to the bay area.
4. Trade their #11 Draft Pick in this year’s draft. It’s a weak draft. Better to go for a future lottery pick in a deeper draft while using this pick as bait for enabling the above.

Scenarios
NVE makes 12M with 2 years left. J-Rich makes 3.5M with 2 years left.

1. NVE/JR (+filler) to Memphis for Pau Gasol/Bonzi Wells. Bonzi’s 8M comes off the books after next season. Mike Dunleavy Jr. gets displaced but he can play 4 positions. GS will probably have to give up draft picks as well.
2. NVE/JR (+filler) to Dallas for Antoine Walker/Tony Delk. Antoine’s 14M comes off books next year, and Delk returns to the Warriors as a shoot first point guard.
3. NVE/JR to Portland for Theo Ratliff, Qyntel Woods, Dan Dickau + Future First Rounders. Theo’s 10M comes off books next year, Qyntel could develop, Dickau sits the bench.

These are all financial scenarios. The Warriors have GOT to get rid of Van Exel, even if it means giving up Richardson, to pave the way to signing Yao and/or Nash.

Jahidi White
Jason Kapono
Aleksander Pavlovic
Tamar Slay
Malik Rose
Marcus Fizer
Antoine Walker (I think they’ll take him off Cuban’s hands but they’ll want Jamison, a hometown boy, in exchange for whatever draft picks they receive from other trades.)
Primoz Brezec
Richie Frahm
Ervin Johnson
Jamal Sampson
Gerald Wallace
Desmond Ferguson
Juan Dixon

~ Dan Millman, 21st century philosopher
from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior

So I haven’t been in the Coffee Bean at my usual morning time for over a month because I’ve been going to the gym at the crack of dawn and going to work 1 1/2 hours early. Regardless, I’d already gotten pretty bored of the situation and plus, he’s kind of creepy and I don’t want to chance him actually wanting to connect with me.

So my coworker Avi and I went to pick up lunch for the office today. Driving back, we were on the residential street next to our building and I was telling Avi how eclectic houses on a single LA street can be. I pointed to a rundown house and said, “Like that one…,” pointed at a huge, white house with pillars, “…next to that one.” He said (re: the big house), “That’s a rehab house.” I said, “What?” and looked at it, just as Coffee Bean Guy walks out the front door.

I started cracking up because when Sarita and I were bored and theorizing about him over IM one day, she had suggested, “What if he’s in AA and the reason you always see him talking to people at Coffee Bean is because they’re meetings with his sponsers?” That was so random and out of the blue that we started cracking up. But when I saw him at the rehab house, I started laughing because I would have never guessed how close Sarita was to the truth. Major props to Sarita. She IS a genius.

Dear Michael,
I noticed that you plan to stay for 20 days with me. Since that is such a
long time, this trip will not count as a vacation for you. Therefore, here
are my terms:

1. You will get a job. I don’t care what kind of job. You have to find a job
while you’re here. And a real job, too. Not a job where I have to pay you.
Because you will be taking out my garbage for free.

2. I get 50 percent of your paycheck from this job which counts as your rent
and food charges. And anything else I have to pay for, I will create a bill
which you will have to pay within a week’s time of the purchase. This
includes clothes, movie tickets, keychains and airplanes.

3. You will clean my house and make my bed every day.

4. If I want a foot massage, you have to do it. I will pay you: 50 cents for
30 minutes. 75 cents for 1 hour. 1 dollar if you give me a massage and feed
me at the same time.

5. You will go to the gym with me 5 days a week. If you burn more than 400
calories on a cardio machine, I will buy you a jamba juice. If I burn more
calories than you, you will wash my car.

6. You will treat me to dinner once a week. And don’t tell me you don’t have
enough cash. I will take you to an ATM.

Okay?

Thank you,
Julia S.

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JULIA

Ben Wallace had another strong showing in the game last night and I would like to expound some more about why Big Ben is so impressive to watch.