being josh chang

occasionally my gmail address receives misdirected mail to other josh/joshua chang's from around the world. it's such a blessing and a curse having this name. josh@gmail.com probably has a lot of fun with his account.

here are some of the highlights over the past few years:
- i've been invited as a guest speaker to a professional conference.
- i've been asked to confirm which hotel room i wanted to board at in hawaii (which I of course responded with the most expensive one).
- i've been attached to a massive email chain of study abroad kids who wanted to keep in touch (this other josh chang is missing out on so much reunion planning with his friends).
- i've been sent movie scripts which another brilliant josh chang co wrote.
- a lawyer got in touch with me asking to continue a trial. some subordinates at work under this josh chang got in trouble.

i need to call customer service more often

so i've been moving my life from california to oregon within the last few months. new car registration, licenses, bank accounts, everything. i figure i should learn how to transfer everything in case i ever become an nba player and have to move from team to team.

i'm currently moving my bank of america credit card account to a new login and the girl on the phone has the exact same birthday as me.. date and year. this never happens. we start talking more and she seems really sweet.

i'm on hold now and trying to gauge if she's hot. she's definitely spunky and has a fun personality. she's from upstate new york. the problem is that she knows everything about me: how much money i have, what i spend my money on, my address, ssn.. she even knows my mother's maiden name.

i don't know if i'm off to a good start. she could ruin my life if i say the wrong thing.

she just got back on the phone with me and is fighting to figure this out: apparently california won't let me change logins. she says cali's wrong and that she's seen this completed before. persistent and accommodating - i like this. i'm put back on hold.

if only i remembered her name when she picked up.. i could have facebooked/linkedin her by now and totally stalked her. i hear girls love that. but i'd only do this because she already knows too much about me. i'm trying to gain an upperhand.

and what's a 22 year old doing on a saturday afternoon at the office?

she just got back to me and i just told her that she was wonderful and she giggled. i wish i chose a cooler login name.. like parttimesupermodel. thank god i don't have bloodynose84.

i'm back on hold again and thinking that she's trying to facebook me. or she's probably going through my bank statements and figuring out if i have a girlfriend. i'm reading too much into this.

well now she's back on the phone with me and she's succcessfully transferred everything from california to oregon. i tell her that this has made my day and validated how difficult this must have been working with multiple parties across the country.

the call has to end. i know she's going to ask if there's anything else she can do for me and i want to say something witty.
like:
a) can i have your number? since you already have mine?
b) how much will you deduct from my account if i ask you out?
c) can you do a customer satisfaction survey after we're done with this call?

but i say "that's all" and she wishes me a happy birthday. I say happy birthday back to her and thank her again. and i ask "what's your name again?" and she says, "darlene."

i need to get out. michigan is killing ND.

i didn't get my cheesecake

I went to Manzanas last night and had a banana creme chocolate chip pie on a cookie crust with home made caramel drizzled on top. I watched the 2nd MNF game by myself and figured that this is what it would be like if i was 35 and single.

Let's hope this doesn't keep up for the next 13 years.

NYC

exhausting amounts of fun. it was full of bright lights and people amazed that we could speak english.

update to come.