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"I really don't have a large vocabulary and I have a horrible memory, but sometimes these words pop into my head and I'm must use them." James
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"Ok. I didn't intend for this to be so long. Will end it now." End of one of James' e-mails.
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"I got you a little small giftie this weekend." Me "Wow -that is niceyou did not have to buy me anything. Your friendship is all I need!" Loeby "Hahaha. But presents are fun too. Bonus for bein my friend: you get BOTH." Me
"That's better than the lottery." Loeby
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"Speaking of buns, you'd make a pretty neat bun. You're neater than pancakes." Onray, on McGriddles.
"Wha??? I've never been called a bun before." My response
"Well now you have." Silly On
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"Will most likely join afterwards. Doing laundry early this week, so I
should be free." Stopher, on meeting up with Yed for his birthday.
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"I had to take him to the airport yesterday then had to call him this morning because I missed him so much. I'll have to wait until Wednesday, but I always stop bitching when I think about you." Kimberly, on her boyfriend.
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"Spicy underwear is good karma. The more I wear it, the sexier vibes I will
send out. And I have to be wearing cute undies when the man of my dreams
walks into Gordon Biersch this Saturday night." Mers
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"We can do dinner, shopping, gossiping. All favorites of mine!" Mers, on our girl date.
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"I just got a work call - let me take this and I will come back. Sorry it's my boss so I have to listen to her." Loeby
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"If more people put an offer in for 100k more then that will be the end of iteveryone can take a shower." Mom |
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"I had no idea it was gonna be this horrendous. This is the hardest thing I've done in my life." Mom on selling the house.
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"Who cares what you do. You can just sit and talk and call it the 24 hour talk a thon." Me and my 24 hour date with James in a few weeks.
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"Everyone will like Mike. He's a likeable person. I don't know why anyone wouldn't like him." Smitten Mom
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"I'm at the airport. Going to Vegas. Haha. Just change my flight today." Ro's text to me on the day she was supposed to fly home from Oakland. |
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"Things happen when they are ready to happen, not when you're ready for them to happen." Mom
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"Write that down. That was profound. What did I say? I think that must be written down somewhere. I don't think I could have been that original to think that up." Mom, on her prior statement.
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"Will I be waking up from this nightmare soon?" Mom
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"If you leave a message on my voicemail again I'll spring clean you." Threatening Daniel
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"I'm old!! But wiser I hope!" Mers, on her birthday.
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"How was your weekend?" Nicki "Not so great. Saw my cuz and Dice's babiesthe highlights. Rest of the time I was either annoyed or really sad. Barrel of fun I was. Not sure if you wanted the real answer or the fluffy one." Part of my long response.
"Nono. Always want a real answer. No fluff needed here." Good friend Nicki
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"I finally got my health coverage from this company. I can afford to get hurt again." On
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"It's like the reason I go to Walmart. I like being able to walk in and know I can afford every single item in that place and yet walk out empty handed." Onray
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"You really gonna get engaged???????" Me
"Yeah I figure I better take myself off the market before I'm expired." Silly On
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"Can't wait to read them. See what girl rants I get caught on this month." Doodle, on my quotes
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"Never question where your heart is sweetie. Know it's on track luv!" Super cute Nicki |
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"I am cool with getting dinner and just grabbing a beer or ten." Yed, on his birthday.
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"Well it's poker night!vPlus, you updated your quotes page! Those two things always cheer me up!" Daniel, on how he's doing today. |
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"Hey I've been missing you." Me
"I've been missing you too." Payless Eric
"You making fun of me?" Me "No, why does everyone think that everything I say has gotta have a punch line?" Eric |
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"I really want to get laid off. But I don't think that's gonna happen." Disappointed Leslie |
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"You can quote anything. Unless it's negative or crazy." Quotable Melty |
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"I could put a dummy in my chair." Leslie R., about work. |
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"BIG news - Adoption." Shannon's e-mail subject
"Well, before you heard it through the grapevine, I figured I'd send my long
distance friends a personal update. Been doing a lot of thinking.
Turning 30 this year and I decided to adopt a girl. She's five years old and
her name's Virginia. Papers went through last week and I brought her home
on Saturday." Shannon's e-mail about her new CAR. Doh!
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"We should do that more often." Leslie, on friend lunch.
"We will! I'm open June 18th or 19th?" Mark being obnoxious because he knows that's when my dance recital is.
"Um not quite sure I can commit to that ;)" Non committal Melty replying to her counterpart in the crime. |
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"I played basketball and ate strawberries and then Taco Bell." Payless, on his lunch that day.
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"I'd take it as a come on if I didn't know you were so happy with Mr. Georgia." Shannon, on one of my flirty comments to her.
"It's Mr. South Carolina to you!" My response
"See I forgot I'd gone into SC that weekend. But perhaps I should have called him Mr Eve and saved the hastle of remembering his state." Silly Shan
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"You are one of my favorite girls too!! People even, not just girls!!" Complimentary Mers.
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"I'll be drunk in LA pickin' up on girls with a bunch of dorks though." Payless Eric on this upcoming weekend.
"Oh dear. What for?" Me
"Bachelor party. Wanna earn some money?" Eric
"Does it involve jumping out of a cake?" Me
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"I'm in the process of writing you a bizarre e-mail, so look for that." James' voice message.
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"Thanks for the bat signal." James, on me texting him and him calling me back.
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"Don't know why my phone freaked like that and sent weird text message. So bizarre. It's like an episode of Roswell!" Mers |
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"Had bunches of fun on our date yesterday! Love hanging out with you and
being girlie!" Mers
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"The less time on, the more effective the outfit!" Mers, on lingerie.
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"Yay! More fun quotes! More fun quotes!" Laurie
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"Just so you know, I actually do read other people's quotes on your
webpage, but then I especially enjoy seeing what words of mine you
happened to include." James
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"I think, maybe, it feels good to be quoted because it makes me and my words
seem important; that you for some reason found value in them, and they
weren't said in vain." Analytical James
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"It's a conversation that we'll have to include in our 24 hour talk-a-thon, I think." James, going into a deep issue via e-mail.
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"In searching for the lyrics, I saw two CDs on their website and I just ordered them both. It's so easy to shop on the internet. I need more restraint." James |
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"Hawaii rocks. And food is so yummy. I miss all the sashimi and yummy
pineapples." Mers
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"Great 2c u on sunday. Big eye and little eye want 2 c u again soon!" Dice's text to me about his newly Eve nicknamed sons. |
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"You should change your IM to 'Dr. Kosol is in.'" Anjali, on us talking our life situations.
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"I liked our trendy date a lot." Me
"Me too! It was awesome. Great cocktails and giddy time." Anjali |
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"Have a good day at work. Have a good everything." James
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"Taylor loves orange chicken. He calls it crack." Laurie, on her husband's feelings for a Panda Express dish.
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"This weekend was one of my busiest in history." Stephers
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"I did not even have a sip of alcohol this weekend. Very out of
character for me at a wedding :-)" Steph
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"We didn't get to have 'our' singles time together. Two young, fun hapa girls out on the town, picking up guys left and right ;) Now I'll have to pick up guys for the both of us! Such pressure you're putting on me!" Silly Mers
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"You live in a cool area with good school and families are all into that sort of thing. Although I did have a dream that I found an alligator at Grandma's
house. That isn't a good family neighborhood sort of thing. But I don't think
there are any alligators are your house." Mers
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"So I had coffee this morning and I've been pumped up and perky all day. I think I'm going to have to jump back on the caffeine train!" Mers
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"She has quite a few threats coming today." Mom, on the lady still living in the new house we own.
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"David is the first person in over 2 years to make me feel like I actually have a full head of hair." James, on a stylist in Hong Kong.
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"Maybe I'm asking a bigger question, like 'After you take all the material things away, what is left? What is the essence of a person?' Please add this topic to our 24 hour talk-a-thon agenda." James
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"Yeah, I'm on my way off into the deep end... please throw me a life preserver." James, on spending.
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"A guy with this seemingly never ending string of profound life
experiences." James' e-mail closing.
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"She loves it. It's like crack to her." Lisa, on young Vanessa and bowling.
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"I liked the movie a lot. It was funny, weird, quirkyjust the way I like them." Nicki, on Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
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"No, not scary at all... It's like a wine cellar to you Californians. Of course, if I have to choose between you and a case of Zinfandel, you'll always win!" Daniel, on the tornado shelter they just put in for their house in Oklahoma. |
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"He's gay, I love him. We've coined ourselves as husband and wife... or just SD's Will & Grace. He has way juicier stories than any of us girls." Stacy, on her roommate. |
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"Thinking of going darker or brighter... no clue actually. I'm glad you asked, maybe I'll figure it out before Friday afternoon." SD Stacy, on her upcoming hair appointment.
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"How far's Camellia's from here?" Mike, after a few beers at Gorden Bierch in San Francisco.
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"Cool. What do you kill him with? Matchstick? Lead pipe? Wrench? Candle stick? In the conservatory?" Doodle, on my Chicago "He Had it Coming" dance. |
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"Nancy took Saylor to his check-up yesterday, while I guarded all of our belongings during the shelter installation." Daniel
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"Why feel kinda weird about boy stuff? Besides the fact that boys are weird and
silly and sometimes just need to be slapped upside their heads?" Mers
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"And then when you are living together and you have an argument you can yell 'I wish you were back across the country!' and then you guys will laugh and drink wine and say how much that sucked being across the country and then you will be all happy again." Part of Mers' cheer up spiel for me.
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"You sound like you're wearing cute shoes." Mike to me while I was walking around while on the phone with him.
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"I haven't been this drunk in a long time." Clayton, after one vodka martini.
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"They're like porn star novelty big." Clayton, on his dance teacher's breasts.
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"I haven't seen so much skin in a long time. And everyone has breasts. No one in Hong Kong has breasts." Some of James' initial reactions to being back in the country.
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"Everyone is large and speaks English. I feel like I'm on a different planet." James, on his return to the US.
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"Eve, don't make me any happier than I already am." James, after a few minutes after we reunited. |
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"Sleeping's for lame people." James' response to if he wanted to take a nap after his long flight from Hong Kong.
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"I brushed my teeth in the Rite Aide parking lot. I wonder if I'll ever grow out of this phase." Nutty James
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"You guys eat like you're high but you're not." Ro, to me and James.
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"Is that the largest size you have, large?" Ro, asking about fries.
"We have 44 ounces." Del Taco drive through lady.
"Is that a lot?" Ro "That's like a big gulp!" James
"I ordered fries." Ro, on Del Taco lady handing her a soda.
"You said Diet Coke." Del Taco lady. So much for the super large fries!
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"Anywhere else we can go?" Ro, after our stops on the way home at the liquor store, Tommy's, Del Taco, and 7/11. |
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"It's like food is our drug." Ro |
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"I think he's an attractive guy." James
"That's cause you think he looks like you!" Suga, about Mike.
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"I totally know but I don't know." Ro, about placing an actor in a movie.
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"You can't understand what I'm saying cause you're not following what I'm saying." Intoxicated Mike
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"You don't understand cause you're not all intoxicated like me." Interesting drunk logic Mike.
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"I'm going to sleep and that's where I'm gonna be when I wake up." Mike
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"Good nite cousin. What time you getting up tomorrow?" Ro texting me from her room when I was staying with her in her house.
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"Had fun hanging n pigin out." Ro's text
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"She's fun but she's a bit nuts fun." James, on his girlfriend.
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"Sorry about traumatized unable to talk weird super drunk telephone call last night." Mike
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"Coco's not very photogenic." Ro, about her dog.
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"I so miss this country." James
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"I'd like to meet James cause I know he's one of your special people." Mike |
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"This is so quintessentia America." James, on Harbor House. |
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"Enjoy the rest of your California eating tour!" Mike, to James and I.
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"Why don't you go without me? I'll just take a nap." James, after we got to the hotel in San Diego. "We can if you want." Me "No. I also want a drink." James |
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"Vox and James and you?? I wish I was there too!" Loeby's text.
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"That's why we have to take a cabcause you'll have to carry me out." James, after three drinks. |
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"I've had a few drinks so I'm ready to talk to people. Well I could before but it's easier now." James
"Everything's easier after a few drinks." Me
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"Antonio, you were wrong? Whare are you doing giving me misinformation??? No you don't have to repent. You can repent to God. You can just apologize to me." James, on the phone with a guy at the cell phone company. |
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"I apologize. I have a confession to make. I've been drinking with my friend and you're on the job and you can't have drinks." More James to the cell phone customer service guy. |
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"I love it here and I love looking around and seeing people who aren't Chinese." Visiting from Hong Kong James. |
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"I'm just a messy guy." James, to the waiter who was cleaning up our table. "No, it's aggressive eating." The bus boy's response. |
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"It's just a credit card. It's not real money." James on paying for dinner.
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"I'm postponing reality." James on living abroad.
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"Sorry to hear that." Rose
"What, that I'm dating a crazy girl?" James "At least she's not a sadist, which I've dated several times." Rose |
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"I don't know what character but I'm building something." James
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"I'm fasting for two days." James, after our eat-a-thon.
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"Is this Apple?" Dad, on Apple signs in Cupertino.
"No it's orange." My mom teasing him.
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"Playing drinking scrabble with the cousins ky is soooo green." Laurie, in Kentucky. |
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"Can you feel the warmth and comfort of your mother?" David, to Dave, on the warm chocolate cookie he was eating.
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"I'm at the airport now just saw the horses and hats. Miss you too bacon people." Laurie's text from Kentucky on a work day. |
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"You are an emotional roller coaster (trust me - I am too so I know how you feel!) but you have a very level head and logical way of thinking." Mers |
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"The day will come when our house can be a mess again." Mom, longingly. |
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"I'm so tired. I blame you." James, Monday night after I saw him that weekend. |
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"She wore these short skirts. She pulled the basic instinct move all the time!" James, on an ex-coworker. |
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"Tried to mack on two girls from New York. They shut me down like a bankrupt business. I'm not moving to NY." James, out in San Diego. |
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"You need a big hug, and possibly a smack." Doodle's response to what's on my mind. |
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"I'll put them on the kitchen table–it might help sell the house." Mom, on my flowers.
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"I always forget to tell you but I think of you when I drive into work cause there's a line of Coke trucks on the way in!" Cute Nicki |
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"Boy drunk Mike is funny. Read some of his quotes he's got the right kind of lost path drunk talking that I love to follow to the light! Carolann!!" Nick
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"Past lunch time here so I guess I should run out and get some oh so healthy fast food before it gets too late." Southern Mike |
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"Wanted to let you all know I spent my first night in my new big girl bed -
LOVED it!! At one point, I woke up and I was sleeping diagonally across the bed! Sooooo nice." Mers
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"Glad you liked! :) I try to be helpful where I can. It helps make the
world go around." Mers' on her helpful e-mail to me when I was feeling funky one day.
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"Yeah I hate working with myself. I'm too scatter brained." Nicki
"I talk to myself cause there is no one to talk to." My random reply
"I talk to myself because I enjoy the answers." Nicki's reply
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"The ticket says May 18th @ 12:01am." Mark, thinking Star Wars was Tuesday night.
"Well it's still tomorrow night." Me "How can they write on the ticket that it's at 12:01 Wednesday May 18 2005 and expect people to show up on Thursday???? The 19th. That's cause for a law suit. They should pay damages. Are you sure?" Over the top Mark
"Yes sweetie. I'm super sure." Me
"I want my money back!" Bers
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"Lemme check calendar cause I have so much planned on my midnights." Doodle, on if he wanted our extra ticket to Star Wars.
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"I am excited for a fun time in Oklahoma! Who ever thought I would type
that sentence???" Loeby, on visiting Daniel.
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"He is just a weird guy. And he's got this deep, raspy voice that always sounds like he just woke up." Krissy, on an interested dater.
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"So excited for you to come though!!! I miss you tons Vick twin. Oh,
that's what we can be for Halloween...Vick twins. hehe. We've already got our
costumes!" Krissy, on an October visit.
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"I'm having a corona in my swimsuit right now." Anjali IMing Thursday while I was at work.
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"You a Web Wonder Woman!" Daniel
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"Oops I just took a shot." Vacationing Anjali.
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"K I'm going back to the sand to read my people mag." Anjali IMing me while in Newport Beach.
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"I didn't want a tall glass. I like my vodka to outweigh my club soda." Loeby
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"What are you looking for?" Me
"Smaller glasses." Loeby
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"It's crazy sad when you're in a dive bar and long for the way it used to be." Loeby
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"Why don't you come here? Come home where normal people live." Loeby, to James.
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"For me it's like one quarter of a shoe, like I broke my heel." Loeby, on $100.
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"Give me one more drink and I'll say what I really think. My therapist would be so proud." Loeby
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"There's not much beer in a bottle anymore." Payless Eric
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"What's wrong with Korean girl?" Gordon
"The moms all know each other." Korean Eric
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"It's for her protection too. She's great and I'm the screw up." Gordon, on living with his girlfriend before they get married. |
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"Doesn't this look great? I should order one to eat and one to look at." Eric C. on his buffalo chicken salad.
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"I don't f around when I clean. It's rubber gloves and Q tips." Stopher
"It is rubber gloves and Q tips." Soon to be Mrs. Stopher
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"I only know the Rambaldi code." Dad, asking about the DaVinci Code.
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"I'm really done now." Cindy, after taking Old Navy Maternity by storm. |
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"My boob isn't growing as fast as my stupid stomach." Prego Cindy |
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"You should get it for Joseph." Jo, on a I love Daddy hat for their upcoming little girl.
"He's gotta earn it. No freebies." Tough mom Cindy
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"I have to wear a size 6 and 8 now!" Pregnant Cindy. Everything's relative I guess.
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"I feel like eating nachos and onion rings now. You've opened the flood gates." Cindy, to Jo after she got fries.
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"Mark said he'd shave his head if Eric shaves his head." Instigator Yed
"My head is shaving itself naturally." Eric
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"Oh I miss drinking." Cindy, during talk about flasks.
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"If you lived by me you could come and sleep in my big bed with me." Mers |
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"Well hello miss. Do you come with the house? Bonus!" Dad, pretending to come in as a potential buyer while I was there.
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"It's funny how we're each other's normal gauge." James
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"Are you in Napa?" Payless Eric
"No." Me
"I am." Eric
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"I think we travel the same amount. I just stay local." San Jose Eric
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"I'm aching." Dad at dinner
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"The actual move now seems like a piece of cake compared to the ordeal we've been through." Mom
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"Thanks for being our Evite Queen!" Mers
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"So my weekend was focused on food looks like. So I was like you." Nicki
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"If it meant more to you that I go then you'd tell me I didn't have a choice." Yed, on my recital.
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"All I want for my birthday is a good offer to come in so we can sell this house." Mom
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"Don't start your car." Stalker Eric's IM to my phone while I'm leaving work.
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"Just went incognito." Payless Eric goin IM invisible.
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"I was trying to be the first one but I got slow on the draw I guess... I like being firstlike a virgin." Nicki on evite replying. |
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"Will the list come before or after lunch?" Me, on work stuff
"Well if I stop chatting with you, before. Hee." Laurie
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"The longer you wait to have kids the less time you have to spend with them." Chinese food lunch Eric
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"That picture of you licking Lisa is famous." Daniel's voice mail at work one day.
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"Just went to in n out in Gilroy. It was heavenly." Been out of the country too long James.
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"That sounds super fun. I wanna be licked and in a magazine." Nicki, on my magazine pic.
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"Your office is so ergonomic. Gosh I need to move back to the US." James
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"Outlook in Englishhow exciting." James, visiting me at work. |
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"You are so thoughtful. You should open up a thoughtfulness school next to my conversation school." James
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"Every time I eat it just makes me not want to leave the country." James
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"In the grand scheme of things two years isn't anything. Life is long." James, trying to positively spin him being away.
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"Mess up the house; we can live again." Mom, after we got a buyer. |
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"Just something we all have to accept and you know that's it's temporary. You won't have to tell everyone you are from sj for too long." Yed being supportive |
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"I'd take you out to lunch but I already have plans." Yed |
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"BOOO for boys. Yipppeeee for girls. Hip Hip Hooray for Eve-ers." Loeby
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"Stick with me Eve-ers - I will support you and keep you in cute shoes
;)." Supportive Loeby
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"You are not going to a good zip code anymore." Heidi
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"Everything in life is going to fuck with you every chance it gets." Daniel
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"This is the best thing I'm going to tell you. Not the wisest thing but the best: control is an illusion." Daniel
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"Heeeey, I feel kind of offended by all the SJ bashing going on here!" Laurie
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"Have fun Mr. Bachelor! Report back with your drink record on Monday." Me
"Ok. Thanks. You will be able to count on one hand." Stopher
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"Thanks for iming with me yesterday after my note. That was nice." Me
"Yeah no worries. Don't expect it again." Classic Yedders
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"You want me to get drunk with a room full of all guys? They will draw all over me and prolly pull my underwear over my head." Stopher, on his bachelor party.
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