Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving break. What an interesting concept. During Thanksgiving, it's a time to "give thanks" for the people around us such as friends and family. But what we do instead is just take the day off to go play. What i did this break was eat, then go gambling. what a putz i am. gambling, interestingly, is one of my strong 'suits.' i love playing poker, especially seven-card games. everytime i go, i either win a few hundred dollars or lose at MOST 80 dollars. so this time, i lost 220 dollars - kissing everyone's christmas presents goodbye. i deserved that lesson - i abused the meaning of thanksgiving. serves me right even more because jason and i got back at 7 am the next morning and i caught the flu that day. stupid stupid andy.

so it looks like work is going to take off pretty well for me soon. i am going to get benefits starting in december, which means i can now officially get hurt. ironically, i am going to play in my first tennis tournament in 5 years this weekend (12/1/01).

so peter choi (http://cafe.berkeley.edu/~pchoi) has been having some strange dreams lately. i was going to share what my dreams were this week also. monday nite i had a dream that some of my friends and coworkers were throwing a huge party in a huge house. some of them included aileen and roy and some coworkers and some AAF people as far as i can remember. so yeah, we're all in this huge living room in front of the fireplace and then all of a sudden - they turn out to be CANNIBALS! very weird. one of them tried to bite my foot, but i had to run away. some how, me and two coworkers ended up tying them all together and we through them in this huge oven. we locked the oven door, turned the heat on, and my friends were baked to death (or so we thought). i looked in the window, and i saw my friends looking back at me - grinning this evil grin. i turned away and started to run away from the house. i got in my car, and it turns out that my car was rigged. it wouldn't start. outside the car walking slowly towards me were two AAF members, also cannibals. i knew i was going to be dead. i woke up at like 4 am and wanted to call aileen because i was so scared. but you know when you just wake up, you don't know what's real? well, i ended up not calling her because i was scared she might be a cannibal. that was monday nite.

tuesday nite. i dreamt i was in the future. in a battling arena with robots and mechanized vehicles. i drove this really cool looking car - a single seater, that opened through the top and had laser cannons on each side. it was red. we fought in this circular arena. i blasted some cannons at the enemy, but to no avail. my team was getting wasted and everyone was blowing up left and right. i had to retreat back in the garage because i ran out of ammo. then i wake up and say to myself, "woah... that was cool."

guys and girls. what a mess. especially when the guy acts like a girl. i hate that.

how do you think people become sensitive? and why is it considered such a good thing when it just pisses people off?
maybe it's just insecurity that makes people sensitive... so are insecure people just overly-sensitive people? and if they become more secure in themselves, will they become less sensitive?