Back from LA and I'm exhausted. I tried to post on Friday while in Lala land, but Blogger Pro does not support pocket explorer. Fortunately, they have a fix. Siince I can get into my regular email, I can post using email. I have to set it up first though. Blogging via email might actually be faster and more efficient than logging into the site, especially on my baby laptop.
So funny. While driving home over the Bay Bridge from the Oakland Airport, LA Woman by The Doors comes on the radio. I think I could easily live in LA. I used to hate LA because I always thought it was too big, too dirty and the traffic and the freeway sucked big time. Now San Francisco is just as worse with the congested freeways 24/7. The air isn't as bad as LA's because of the fog, but there are days when it gets close. SF will never be a big as LA simply because LA is just a bigger area, but if you count the whole bay area which is 9 counties, SF is just a tad smaller.
But if I live in LA, I would definitely have to totally lose weight. Everyone there seems small framed and rake thin. Fashion wise I didn't do too bad. LA people seem to dress up a little more than people here in SF. They're not as dressy as east coast/NYC people, but definitely slobness does not reign in LA like it does here. With my clam diggers and silk and rayon hawaiian shirts, I looked okay.
I wonder if I totally looked like a tourist though. Everyone in LA was so friendly, especially the people in the musuems. The audio guy at the MOCA said my brand spanking new coach messenger bag was very fashionable and all the guards at the Geffen Contemporary kept asking me if I had any questions and the guard at the door asked me if I enjoyed the exhibit. I've never known LA people to be so friendly.
The girls in back of me in the long line at the MOCA on Saturday said Kathy Bates of Misery fame was in the line in front of us. The line was so long that she marched her butt up to the front, presumably to get star treatment. She never came back so maybe they let her get in ahead because she's a movie star. That's the thing about LA. There could a stars where ever you go, but if you don't notice, you totally miss them. I thought for sure there was a Don Henley lookalike in front of me in the MOCA line. And I swear to god some woman who looked like Melanie Griffith was there waiting to get her car from valet parking. But who knows?
I saw Robin Williams once here in SF at a movie theatre a long time ago with his wife and kids and the only reason I noticed him was because some people stopped him and asked if he was Robin Williams and he said he was. I totally wouldn't have recognized him unless he was pointed out to me. Robin and the family were going to see the Spice Girls movie.
More about LA later. I'm just glad to be home.
Saturday, August 10, 2002
Thursday, August 08, 2002
I've been thinking about food and being in a relationship. I have seriously strange eating habits.
1. If I do eat, I don't eat very much and I like to eat simply. I rarely ever eat a salad, a main dish, bread and a desert in the same meal. I like to have one small main dish and eat it.
2. I binge eat. Right now I'm in a sushi mode, so I eat sushi two to three times a week, sometimes every day. Then I'll get tired of whatever I'm binging on and not eat it for a long time.
3. I've been an off and on vegeterian since I was 18 and tend to eat this way out of habit.
4. Since I've been a vegeterian for a long time, I'm not very good at cooking meat. In fact, I remember that just smelling raw meat used to make me so nauseous. I'll cook chicken and small pieces of meat, but never huge chunks of it like steak or london broil. And if I do meat, it has to be thorougly cooked. The bloody stuff freaks me out. I do eat fish however all the time.
5. I eat a steak maybe every 5 years or so.
6. I really prefer to eat on the weekdays, but I'll cook on the weekends and Friday. If I do cook during the week, dinner won't be ready till 8 pm.
7. I don't really like drinking wine at dinner and if I do, it's just one glass and definitely not every day. Same thing goes for all alcoholic drinks. I'll drink wine when I go out to eat and drink more than one glass but only for special occassions and at parties or get togethers.
8. Sometimes I just eat salads for days on end.
9. I think I'm lactose intolerant, so I only drink soy milk and I try to stay away from cheese.
10. There are foods I hardly ever eat or don't ever eat like eggs, lamb, etc.
11. I have an obsession with eggplant and binge eat it all the time.
12. I usually just eat fruit for breakfast.
13. I'm trying to eat kosher so I have list of food exclusions and foods that I can't eat together like meat and cheese.
14. I rarely drink soda and only drink german or italian mineral water (they're cheaper at$0.89 a bottle) with a slice of lemon.
15. I only drink filtered water.
16. When I'm on vacation, I tend to throw out all my food rules out the window so I can enjoy the native cuisine. Since I'm on vacation, I'll also drink like a fish.
17. I'll also throw out all my food and drinking rules when I go to parties or get together with friends for restauarant dinnder especially if it's a once in a while thing, like twice a month, but definitely not once a week or two days in a row. I'll eat bad foods and drink like a fish.
18. After events or vacation days where I don't follow my eating and drinking rules, I will need to cleanse and will follow various cleansning routines from a day to a week, depending the amount of partying I did.
19. I'm into fasting, so I fast at least once a month for health reasons. My fasting lasts three days and consists of 1 day of no food, just water and tea, two days of just fruits or fruits and veggies, raw and juiced only. And I do cheat sometimes.
20. I'm trying to get rid of my caffiene addiction slowly, so I mix caf and decaf beans togther in equal proportions.
I'm sure I have more weird stuff about food but hey, 20 items is pretty good for a first time list, isn't it?
1. If I do eat, I don't eat very much and I like to eat simply. I rarely ever eat a salad, a main dish, bread and a desert in the same meal. I like to have one small main dish and eat it.
2. I binge eat. Right now I'm in a sushi mode, so I eat sushi two to three times a week, sometimes every day. Then I'll get tired of whatever I'm binging on and not eat it for a long time.
3. I've been an off and on vegeterian since I was 18 and tend to eat this way out of habit.
4. Since I've been a vegeterian for a long time, I'm not very good at cooking meat. In fact, I remember that just smelling raw meat used to make me so nauseous. I'll cook chicken and small pieces of meat, but never huge chunks of it like steak or london broil. And if I do meat, it has to be thorougly cooked. The bloody stuff freaks me out. I do eat fish however all the time.
5. I eat a steak maybe every 5 years or so.
6. I really prefer to eat on the weekdays, but I'll cook on the weekends and Friday. If I do cook during the week, dinner won't be ready till 8 pm.
7. I don't really like drinking wine at dinner and if I do, it's just one glass and definitely not every day. Same thing goes for all alcoholic drinks. I'll drink wine when I go out to eat and drink more than one glass but only for special occassions and at parties or get togethers.
8. Sometimes I just eat salads for days on end.
9. I think I'm lactose intolerant, so I only drink soy milk and I try to stay away from cheese.
10. There are foods I hardly ever eat or don't ever eat like eggs, lamb, etc.
11. I have an obsession with eggplant and binge eat it all the time.
12. I usually just eat fruit for breakfast.
13. I'm trying to eat kosher so I have list of food exclusions and foods that I can't eat together like meat and cheese.
14. I rarely drink soda and only drink german or italian mineral water (they're cheaper at$0.89 a bottle) with a slice of lemon.
15. I only drink filtered water.
16. When I'm on vacation, I tend to throw out all my food rules out the window so I can enjoy the native cuisine. Since I'm on vacation, I'll also drink like a fish.
17. I'll also throw out all my food and drinking rules when I go to parties or get together with friends for restauarant dinnder especially if it's a once in a while thing, like twice a month, but definitely not once a week or two days in a row. I'll eat bad foods and drink like a fish.
18. After events or vacation days where I don't follow my eating and drinking rules, I will need to cleanse and will follow various cleansning routines from a day to a week, depending the amount of partying I did.
19. I'm into fasting, so I fast at least once a month for health reasons. My fasting lasts three days and consists of 1 day of no food, just water and tea, two days of just fruits or fruits and veggies, raw and juiced only. And I do cheat sometimes.
20. I'm trying to get rid of my caffiene addiction slowly, so I mix caf and decaf beans togther in equal proportions.
I'm sure I have more weird stuff about food but hey, 20 items is pretty good for a first time list, isn't it?
I'm getting excited! I fly to LA tomorrow to see the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I've been wanting to take a trip to LA to see art since last summer when I wanted to see the David Hockney photography exhibit, but the timing never worked out. This summer I decided to make it work and I did it. I fly to LA and then fly back to SF tomorrow night.
It's a quick in and out trip, but I'll have enough time to go to the Andy Warhol exhibit, check out the art at the rest of the MOCA and then take a shuttle to see The David Geffen museum, the MOCA's sister museum.
I found a hotel that's a couple blocks away from the MOCA, wasn't too expensive and has a gym and restaurant facilities. There's even a pool on the roof if I wanted to swim. I even get 500 points of frequent flyer mileage on my United Airlines credit card.
I've already have my ticket to get into Warhol exhibit and since I'm planning to be there on a Friday afternoon, I'm hoping it won't be too crowded.
God, I have not taken a trip by myself in a long time. It's at been least four years. I am so looking forward to it. It's fun travelling with friends or boyfriends, but when you travel by yourself you are absolutely free do anything you want. You don't have to deal with someone else's eating habits and their schedule. And I always meet people when I travel by myself so I never feel like I'm lonely.
This is a kind of test for me to see how easy or dificult it is to fly in to a city and see an art exhibit. The cost of insuring a travelling art exhibit is so exhorbitant that museums hardly do it. The art exhibit usually travels to only 2 to 4 cities and SF is very rarely on the list. If I can fly to LA easily to see art, then I'll think about flying to NYC, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago to see other art exhibits. I will only fly for the large exhibits though, like retrospectives of an artist's works and it needs to be artist I really like or art I am absolutely dying to see.
I was lucky to see the Cezanne exhibit in London a few years ago. I was planning a trip to London that year and at the same time the exhibit was going to be at the Tate. I think the only other place the exhibit was travelling to was Philadelphia. I love Cezanne!
I wonder what the security at LAX will be like. I'm allowing for two hours on Saturday night to get through airport security. If it takes a shorter time, it's not a big deal. I can always use the time to read or write. I'm use to reading and writing in crowded places anyway and can get a lot of work done.
It's a quick in and out trip, but I'll have enough time to go to the Andy Warhol exhibit, check out the art at the rest of the MOCA and then take a shuttle to see The David Geffen museum, the MOCA's sister museum.
I found a hotel that's a couple blocks away from the MOCA, wasn't too expensive and has a gym and restaurant facilities. There's even a pool on the roof if I wanted to swim. I even get 500 points of frequent flyer mileage on my United Airlines credit card.
I've already have my ticket to get into Warhol exhibit and since I'm planning to be there on a Friday afternoon, I'm hoping it won't be too crowded.
God, I have not taken a trip by myself in a long time. It's at been least four years. I am so looking forward to it. It's fun travelling with friends or boyfriends, but when you travel by yourself you are absolutely free do anything you want. You don't have to deal with someone else's eating habits and their schedule. And I always meet people when I travel by myself so I never feel like I'm lonely.
This is a kind of test for me to see how easy or dificult it is to fly in to a city and see an art exhibit. The cost of insuring a travelling art exhibit is so exhorbitant that museums hardly do it. The art exhibit usually travels to only 2 to 4 cities and SF is very rarely on the list. If I can fly to LA easily to see art, then I'll think about flying to NYC, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago to see other art exhibits. I will only fly for the large exhibits though, like retrospectives of an artist's works and it needs to be artist I really like or art I am absolutely dying to see.
I was lucky to see the Cezanne exhibit in London a few years ago. I was planning a trip to London that year and at the same time the exhibit was going to be at the Tate. I think the only other place the exhibit was travelling to was Philadelphia. I love Cezanne!
I wonder what the security at LAX will be like. I'm allowing for two hours on Saturday night to get through airport security. If it takes a shorter time, it's not a big deal. I can always use the time to read or write. I'm use to reading and writing in crowded places anyway and can get a lot of work done.
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
I wonder if publishing my stories or selling a screenplay will feel or making any kind of money from my writing will feel as good as my corporate sucesses, four of which are listed below. And all of this achieved in a short 8 years of full time employment. I can't imagine what other successes I would have had if only I had started working fulltime earlier in my life.
1. 1992 - 1996 - my job at the insurance company where I got a 15% plus raise every year and a promotion, not to mention year end bonuses, stock options, cash awards, etc. Not bad for my second full time job.
2. 1997 - interviewed at a startup in a company located in Silicon Valley North and was offered a signing bonus in cash to join the company. God, I felt like a professional athlete when this happened. How cool is that when a company offers you cash on top of your salary to sign up with them.
3. Dec 1998 - interviewed at a transportation company in SF and at the end of the interview, my future boss says "name my price for my salary". Shocking! It's the kind of thing you dream of and when it happened I freaked and then low self esteem and integrity kicked and I lowballed myself. Next time I'll know better. Still, it was worth it just to hear that statement. Plus I had a corner cube with a view of downtown SF, Pac Bell Park and my own conference table with chairs.
4. fall 2000 - at my current job, I finally have every corporate drone's dream, my own office with a view of a stream and trees. There is nothing like having your own office and being able to shut the door so you can have private phone calls, play your tunes and listen to the radio.
1. 1992 - 1996 - my job at the insurance company where I got a 15% plus raise every year and a promotion, not to mention year end bonuses, stock options, cash awards, etc. Not bad for my second full time job.
2. 1997 - interviewed at a startup in a company located in Silicon Valley North and was offered a signing bonus in cash to join the company. God, I felt like a professional athlete when this happened. How cool is that when a company offers you cash on top of your salary to sign up with them.
3. Dec 1998 - interviewed at a transportation company in SF and at the end of the interview, my future boss says "name my price for my salary". Shocking! It's the kind of thing you dream of and when it happened I freaked and then low self esteem and integrity kicked and I lowballed myself. Next time I'll know better. Still, it was worth it just to hear that statement. Plus I had a corner cube with a view of downtown SF, Pac Bell Park and my own conference table with chairs.
4. fall 2000 - at my current job, I finally have every corporate drone's dream, my own office with a view of a stream and trees. There is nothing like having your own office and being able to shut the door so you can have private phone calls, play your tunes and listen to the radio.
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