Here's another random update :)

Hello friends! Life has been hectic as usual. Spring break was well intentioned but fell short of my expectations of getting ahead in my schoolwork. It might be the fact that I ended up sleeping and lazing around for three days straight...hmmm. The fact that I can't remember what happened the rest of the week means it was prolly just as unproductive. lol. Actually, I lie. I do remember Thursday well. Only because I ended up spending about 5 hours or so counting teeny tiny landsnail shells at Bishop. Random fact: Oahu has more than 300 types of landsnails which is more landsnail diversity than all of mainland America. Titillating, I know. Look forward to more random snail facts cos apparently I'm on loan to the malacology dept indefinitely. And while I wasn't there, the anthro dept decided to put my face on a recruiting flyer.....because I looked so happy counting stone flakes. lol. Check it out.

Don't I look super happy to be counting rocks? lol. And can you believe I've graduated to counting snails? It's surprisingly soothing, even if it's tedious.

|

V

 Yeah, totally spent a couple of hours doing that. Worked out a sophisticated way of counting too. The anal retentive side of me totally enjoyed filling up all those squares. Don't deny it, you would have done it too.

I think there might have been a picnic/bbq or two ...or three...thrown in there somewhere. However I wasted Spring break, it is obvious that I didn't get much done. Not homework or cleaning or decorating. I did however, go on a bit of a shopping spree. Ohh, yeah, I also spent about 4 hours in a baking frenzy where I made sour cream coffee cake (and experimented with making coffee cake cookies. Lemme tell ya, the cookies rocked!), banana bread, whole wheat crackers, artisan bread, coconut macaroons, and strawberry jam. My housemates either think I'm crazy or I'm evil for contributing to the American conspiracy of making them fat. I won't lie about the conspiracy but I'm pretty sure my baked goods have not been that large a contributing factor. That pretty much sums up my spring break.....which is pretty sad actually....oh well.

As useless as spring break was, I think I might have hit my grad student stride (if that actually exists) this week because I've suddenly kinda lost interest in surfing the internet aimlessly in favor of catching up on work. I'm not sure what happened. Or if its related to me feeling exhausted at like 10pm and going to bed like the little old cat lady I am at heart. I'll never know but for now, with all my deadlines, I'll take it.

In other news, summer plans are looking up and hopefully, I'll head to KL and Siem Reap for free :) Yay!

Oh, and pole is awesome. The girls are great and we had an event where we demo'd some moves and pretty much just played on the pole for hours to get people interested :) (and I just realized how bad that sounds in a "that's what she said" kinda way. lol. but whatev) I'm moving up the levels and can't wait to get to the advanced stuff. Here's where I'm at now.....I guess it's intermediate? I dunno. But it's fun!

 Laterz!!

Read more...

and the crazies have left the building...

Fanime is over! yay! The rest of the con was not as mellow as Friday night and that sucked but overall, it was a pretty mellow con compared to last year. Not sure if I'll be back next year but if Charl is graduating, I might make it.

The bbq at Henri's was great too. I'm glad we got to see them and Mei-Hsia's fam too. The littlest Lin is sooooooooooo cute! ~ mellow and very wriggly :) And Anya is a spunky, energetic handful, as usual. I really can't believe she's already 5 and the baby is now 7 months. Time really does fly. Man, I feel old-ish.

Read more...

sleep deprived but loving it :)

wow. longest commute ever. took me 2 and a half hours to get back to San Jose from Berkeley O.o I need to remember that the bus route is longer on the weekends. Gah. Anyhow, lunch with Van and Vaish was good - great day, awesome patio spot and delicious food; La Note always delivers :) I'm glad I made it even with the horrible commute both ways. I hope everything goes well for Vaish in LA but I'm not envious at all....I have never wanted nor will I ever want to live there...the smog in the valley just kills me :(

It's back to the con in a bit. Last night was pretty damn mellow for a Friday night at con. Like really mellow. No one playing with fire, no drunken hockey team and no dumb ass underaged girls tempting perverts by going up deserted stairwells in short skirts at 3 am in the morning. I do have to say tho, we've got a lot of newbies and while it means good things like shorter hours and what not, it sort of annoyed me. We had too much traffic on the radio, there was a surprising lack of common sense some times and our newly acquired lounge was a pig sty. So gross. I totally left passive aggressive notes about cleanliness. LOL. I also think I may have gotten hit on by a closeted gay (maybe bi?) guy who insists that he is comfortable with his sexuality or a really, really, really awkward straight anime nerd. Whatever it was, it was 3am and I could not be bothered to figure it out (and I totally zoned out on him about 5 mins in). Surprisingly, there were a couple of hot guys....except they came attached to some very fierce and vampy asian girls...sigh, go figure.

Hopefully the rest of the con will be as mellow as it was last night :)

p.s: Once again, the neighbours are asses. The fight last night brought 4 cop cars to our front door and it started up again at 8am!! Was tempted to ask one of the cops to drop me off downtown....because seriously, their lame ass domestic disturbance did not need 4 cop cars. However, the walk through dodgy downtown san jose last night was wonderful...in a dodgy sort of way - 25 badly lit blocks and I never got harassed once. Awesome :)

Read more...

and the nerd fest begins....

lol. Fanime is back! which means I'm a gonna go staff there now. Yes, it's an anime conference; yes, I'm a nerd. But really, I mostly go to see my friends......and because the dumb asses that we have to run after are hilarious in their own way. Con security would be a lot easier to handle if people used what little common sense that have. Staffing at con is pretty miserable in it's own way but it helps that I'm established enough that I can just walk in on my own schedule. Sometimes, starting with the people who are now in charge brings perks - they deal with all the political crap and I'm allowed to just hang out with friends and do whatever :D

So now, I'm gonna walk like 20 blocks though dodgy downtown San Jose (and leave the stupid neighbours who are slamming doors and breaking crockery) to go stop up-skirt perverts and drunk otakus from creating havoc at an anime convention for the next four days. I might as well try to stop world hunger and the wars while I'm at it, I'd probably have a better chance....why did i sign up again?? wish me luck!

Read more...