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I woke up with a sore throat Thursday. It was awful. I have had recurrent sore throats throughout my life, mostly during the winter time and it’s usually pretty mild. But this time, it hurt bad, really bad. Bad enough to the point where I started losing my voice and my boss saying to me, “You don’t look so good.” So I went home an hour early that day and it was St. Patrick’s Day, so I had to go out. I met up with Nate and Lisa at the Cat & Fiddle in Hollywood. It was packed and full of young blood. I didn’t stay for too long, but M and Tina stopped by and hung out for a while, so that was cool. The next morning, I woke up and still wasn’t feeling too well, so I called in sick. It was nice to sleep in and lounge around and relax. My throat is healing just fine now. I finally watched Gangs of New York. I love Daniel Day Lewis, he’s awesome.

I had dinner with Wen at Furaibo, a Japanese restaurant that was new to me. It was excellent food (especially the chicken wings) and great service. Wen and I realized the fact that we have never had dinner by ourselves before and we’ve known each other for about 5 years. I am glad that he sees me as a friend, rather than just “Josh’s girlfriend.” We joined up with a few others to watch Steamboy, the new long-awaited film by Katsuhiro Otomo. I was tired and it was an epic film (= very long). I did like it though, but they could’ve done without some scenes. I was debating even going at all because I knew that I had to wake up for the film shoot the next day.

I worked on another film shoot this weekend. The call time for yesterday and today was 6:30am at LMU. Yay! It was rough getting up earlier than I usually do for work. But the shoot went smoothly and we ended at reasonable times both days, so I am glad. I met a lot of new, cool people. They are a fun bunch to work with and I think that I will be working on their future films next year as well. At least I know that there will be opportunities to look forward to. Apparently, they all think that I look like Jamie, but I just attributed it to the fact that she is the only Asian girl in their program (even though I don’t think that it is true). Jamie and I do not look alike at all, and after shooting outside all day, I am a lot tanner than before. After two days of manual labor, light reading, knitting, waiting, accidental tanning and tons of snacks, I am just plain tired. The downtime on the shoot allowed me to catch up with friends from out of state. I chatted up people on the east coast, mid-west, NorCal, and Colorado. It was nice to talk with them, especially since I’ve been behind in keeping in touch recently.

I went to Costco after the film shoot and walked around like a zombie while looking for guacamole and other random things. We’ve been getting a lot more vegetarian items, since Josh has jumped to that side. The food isn’t bad and I actually enjoy the soy milk, so it shouldn’t be too hard for me to adjust my eating habits. I think it would be harder for Josh because he will be watching me eat meat in front of him. I don’t want to be rude, but I can’t give up meat cold turkey (hehe) like that.

Josh and I went with Wen to Ramenya, a place that I always see and always want to go to, but never get a chance. I am glad that we went. The ramen was excellent, though I am used to the Chinese-styled beef ramen noodle soups. It was tasty and so was the fried rice. It’s nice to see Wen every so often. He lives really far away, but works near here, so he’s around quite a bit now and crashes at our place sometimes.

We watched the new Arrested Development tonight and I was laughing out loud. They seriously need to keep it on the air. It’s the best show on TV right now! I love it and I am slowly getting my friends into watching it too by loaning them the first season DVDs. I am hoping that soon enough, everyone will be watching it. Yay!

Oh, and yet another reason why I have to go back to New York soon: Spamalot. Enough said!

SATC quote of the day:
Charlotte: Aaah! It's gay porn!!
Miranda: What was your first clue?
Charlotte: You said we were watching an independent film! I brought biscotti! (Season 4 – All That Glitters)