A N N A J O H N ' S D I A R Y

june 30

hmmm.  what did i do today?

- i dealt with bullshit from THREE DIFFERENT MEN.
- i freaked out over the last student loan to be consolidated.
- i fretted over how money can ruin precious things.
- i met Deepa for dinner, to forget all that shit.
- we went to Amma Wegetarian Cuisine in Georgetown.
- we had rasam, dosa, lassis and gulab jamuns (her) plus paysam (me).
- we went to tryst until we were smoked out, so she could study.
- i made a giant ASS out of myself at trsyt.  literally.  i'm too tired to explain.
- we went to amsterdam for frites, to cheer me after the tryst humiliation.
- we ran in to LISA!  aka /afterthoughts26 aka...my COUSIN.
- we got interrogated by two queens who helped themselves to our frites.
- we watched the drama unfold on a blog we mutually sweat.
- i dropped her off at school, then came home.
- i wrote this post for SM, thanks to a comment left here.

oh yeah.  and one other teensy, wholly unexpected thing as of 11:45pm.

i found out i'm flying to CHICAGO tomorrow! 

for the first time since HOkana 2002, i'll be in the middle of america (joy).  i'm totally excited, though.  Jankhu's engagement, here i come!

fermez la bouche, annick

we had an AWESOME writing workshop on saturday-- so awesome, i don't remember it, thanks to "martin blanco" aka all the vanilla stoli, amaretto and kahlua in my espresso.  four of the pictures are now up on my flog; i'll post the rest tomorrow...and they'll meander over to flickr at some point soon, mais oui.

i like it "quick and dirty", thanks

i was surfing through my bloglines, when i saw the following link under "most blogged about"...supposedly, though informal and only meant for entertainment, the test is "surprisingly accurate".  well.  after taking it, i'm not sure about THAT...previous IQ tests have returned different results for me. 

Your IQ Is 130

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

what did YOU get?  you know this shit returns artificially high results, so don't be shy. ;)

Smurfity Mutineers!

Abhi as "Astro Smurf"

Vinod as "Brainy"

Ennis as "Grandpa"

Manish as "Handy"

 

Sajit as "Harmony"

Tigger and Gargamel are DEAD!

BBC: Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who was the voice of Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh films, has died aged 82.

He was a popular children's TV host in the US, and first voiced Tigger in 1968 in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which won an Academy Award.

Winchell also voiced Gargamel in The Smurfs and Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, as well as other Disney and Hanna-Barbera productions.

He was also an inventor, patenting an artificial  heart in 1963. His other patents included a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter and an invisible garter belt.  Winchell last performed as Tigger in 1999, in Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving.

i almost forgot to do this. thanks, D.

and my personal fave:

oh, you know i'm a sucker for anything MIT.

writing is GOOD for you. do some TOMORROW, why don't you?

tomorrow at this time, it will be all over.  if you have nothing important to do, you should come to the brown writing workshop i'm hosting in the morg.  it's always far more fun than you'd possibly think it could be, trust me.

here's the deets:

June 25, from 3-5pm

Tryst
2459 18th Street NW .
Washington, DC 20009
202-232-5500

Closest Metro: Red line, Woodley Park/Zoo

This

Download HuberSureThingv2.doc

is the story we'll be discussing.  see?  you don't even need to go hunting for it, i posted it right herre.  i'll draw the line at wiping your butt though, just so you know...

anna and abhi, together at last ;)

i totally ganked this from maisnon's flickr photostream, but i don't think she'll mind.  you see, she's got all the  pictures of me and i have all the photographs of her.  isn't that only logical?  ;)

if you thought this picture of me with abhi from her blog was cute, and this picture of us on her fotolog was amusing, you'll probably enjoy wasting time with six more pictures of my night with the madness. good thing i just uploaded them to le flog.  mais oui, the photos that didn't make the cut festoon my flickr. the system works.  dig.

well, ANDREA did it, so...

1. Does all bottled water taste the same to you?

No.  I prefer the taste of Evian and Voss, glaceau is a good third.  Evian tastes slightly sweet to me.  There's no water I can drink faster or in greater quantities. 

2. Do you wear shoes when you hang around the house or do you barefoot it?

It makes me twitch with discomfort to do so.  While I'm thrilled to collect them into the triple digits, I think shoes are filthy.  I can barely deal with slippers.  Socks are fine, b/c mine are never icky.  Clean, clean CLEAN people.  gah. 

I'm lucky I had Asian roomies back in CA...they grok this.  There are never shoes in the house, where I live.  Eeeeew.  When I was at home for easter, our kitchen was thoroughly renovated.  My mom felt genuine remorse for the way I'd cringe constantly at what the contractors were tracking in, on our pristine carpets.  They wrapped up work the day after I left; the day after that, I called her to ask for advice and heard shocking amounts of noise-- the carpets were being cleaned.  NO.  SHOES. 

3. If money was no object, where would you go out to eat tonight?

well, if money were no object my curious comrade, i'd take my gulfstream to delhi for some bukhara at the maurya.  then after napping off my post-prandial exhaustion from excessive ma ki dal-consumption, i'd tell maverick to stop off in nyc...for hand-dipped, chocolate-covered coffee-kulfi from tabla.  my, my...i'm all about the injun food, innit?

4. List all the things on your bathroom counter without looking...

Yankee candle, Oral-B charger, Basket filled with hair products from: aveda, aquage, bumble squared, unsweetened cranberry dental floss from whole foods, sensodyne toothpaste, Oral-B toothbrush, foaming bergamot hand soap, several hair elastics and bobby pins, two black jelly bracelets, short square crystal vase with gerbera daisies, urban decay edible body shimmer powder in blackberry, aveda paddle hairbrush, the perfume whose name i shall never divulge, the EDT of that same fragrance, a much-loved bottle of the body shop's white musk perfume, bath and bodyworks mango mandarin splash (which is actually a spray), q-tips, one NARS eyeshadow brush, a white "tackle box" from the container store with eighteen drawers for all of my costume jewelry, my giant sunglasses that won't be in after this summer, the "98" metrobus schedule, tweezers.

june 22

today i :

• couldn't wake up, no matter how hard i tried...so i didn't
• saw the first "ripple" in my legs from working out
  
• did some investigative reporting for SM
• talked to manish for 45"...no small feat, he hates phones
• walked from farragut west to adams morgan
• listened to live jazz at Tryst
• wrote a post for SM i liked
• talked to veena for 97 minutes
• walked from adams morgan BACK to downtown
• took the bus home at 1am for a whopping $1.35 b/c i was too cheap to spend $20 on a cab