Friends & Family ARCHIVES
15 February 2008
The past seven days have comprised one of my favorite weeks ever. I wouldn't say work and life were balanced, per se. But yes, if we'd placed the joys derived from each one in opposite baskets of a sturdy scale,...
23 December 2007
Hawaii is noisy. Noisy, noisy, noisy. Winds sweep the palm fronds just outside this house until. Just before dawn, a veritable din of birdsong swells such that it's impossible to distinguish any one call. "I wake up when the...
05 February 2007
I was gone for a while, but I'm actually all warmed up for this blogging thing. Check out The Miseducation of Mosh, an experiment in narcissism-by-consent created by Frank (meet Frank Harris) and well-commented-upon by my friends. Here's an excerpt:Raise...
05 February 2007
A few weeks ago, I skimmed a thread on a cycling email list about a women's bike skills class hosted by a local bike coalition. Then I watched it slip benignly and steadily into doom. It began with a few...
23 January 2007
There have been a number of recent comments, disparaging and not, online and offline, about my lack of TiVo. What can I say? Hey, at least there's a television in my living room! (Which is a good thing, because you're...
19 March 2006
"The sky is ThisBig right now," declared my neighbor John as he spread his arms wide. Three of us were lying on the asphalt of my street Sunday morning, pure and simple sunshine bolstering a pretty tenuous acquaintance. (Don't worry,...
30 October 2005
Event the first: I drove two friends to the airport a couple of weeks ago. In exchange they offered me their weekly supply of co-op groceries. I knew about my impending vegetables, but didn't know that the delivery also came...
04 July 2005
Home is nice, though I get terrifically antsy after only a couple of days. As a result, massive personal and/or home projects get deployed: (1) My mom and I overhauled her home office. Its evolution-not-revolution over the past 5 years...
25 June 2005
I'm back from all the celebrating and gallivanting, at least temporarily. Here, it hit 95 degrees today and only got down to 81 by midnight—and I think those must also be the numbers for the humidity, though the omnipresence of...
06 June 2005
A blustery day and night; the clock's just struck twelve. My housemate Zafeiria, a Fulbright scholar in organ from Athens, gave her solo concert at noon today in MemChu. The main piece was a Vierne (:Poulenc :: Field:Chopin, approximately) symphony...
01 June 2005
Last July, the day before I was slated to begin work a 20-minute commute away, my burgundy 1989 Camry squealed to a metal-on-metal end. Apparently everything in my power steering setup needed replacement, to the Bay Area tune of nine...
02 May 2005
I need to get out of the funk and into the groove. I mean, Saturday night it was all about the funk and the blues and the swing already, so I should have filled my quota and move on. For...
02 May 2005
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24 April 2005
Classes have been fairly uninspiring for the past week except Language and Prehistory, but I'm in a bit of a tizzy regarding post-graduation options. I thought I had things mostly figured out, but something new came up at the end...
15 March 2005
On Mar 15, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Janet wrote: Do you not have comments cuz of spam? On Mar 15, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Roger wrote: you totally need to have comments. psych study: people watching a funny video were...
11 March 2005
Hey, look! Apple wins a court ruling today affirming their right to subpoena names and sources for recent leaks of company information. Although the ruling doesn't explicitly name bloggers, one assumes that it's a broad blow for them as the...
21 August 2003
I've been a little absent lately, mostly because for most of the summer I spent most of the working day staring dumbly at the computer screen and in my free time wanted to practice my distance vision as much as...
29 May 2003
Molly's lab partner, who hails from outside of Philadelphia, was here doing working on their—what else?—lab when we started discussing marching bands and high school sizes. Molly was totally shocked to hear me say that J.P. Stevens had over 2,000...
30 April 2003
Yummy pizza focaccia with thin slives of tomato and cheese and oregano was the bread of the morning, and I just finished eating a big hunk of it. Lately I've been going to bed at some remarkably consistent time between...
03 January 2003
I brag about how much better I have it than everyone else. I tell it loud and clear that my home friends are, quite literally, the best thing on earth for me. I even thought they could do no wrong:...
30 December 2002
On my penchant for holding on to apple cores long after most of the flesh is gone so that I can take tiny, tiny nibbles until some task absolutely demands the use of both of my hands: Roger: "You might...
20 December 2002
Roger: "How much time [left for this clue in Charades]?" Karla: "A dollar twenty-six." The weirdest part was that we understood what she meant. It's warm and wet tonight, with droplets not falling like rain, but suspended in the air...
08 December 2002
Yesterday, two of four people in a room where sitting at their desks, compulsively checking AIM profiles and away messages and idle statuses. Our conversation was about reading, or trying to read, far too much from AIM profiles and away...
20 November 2002
Just before midnight on Monday, two carsful of friends headed up to the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, about 8 windy miles westward on Page Mill Road, with the intention of Leonids-viewing. The nearly-full moon was so bright that we...
10 November 2002
It's been a while since I've written anything of consequence, but all I can remember is rain and food and friends. There's been a spectacular storm system accompanying everything during the past few days—literally the first I've seen in six...
29 July 2002
I got a package in the mail today! Well, in the sender's words, it was a "thick envelope," and, boy, did he send a cool envelope. It was plastic, in a shade of blue even more brilliant than the middle...
06 July 2002
When was the last time we played Scrabble or gathered 'round a piano to sing Bel Canto songs? Currently listening to the Kingsingers rendition of "Skye Boat Song"....
31 March 2002
Rats. I just realized how cool it would have been to rack up an update in Central time, and I've missed my chance. But time shouldn't matter too much anyway, since I'm not planning to upload this immediately after I'm...
06 March 2002
My programs are so close to being done, I can't believe it. It's been so long since I've been able to hand in [what seems to me, at least] a completely bugless program that doing so this time would really...
25 February 2002
In the vein of Floovie and Karla's profiles, some notes and improvements for next quarter. Because I am anticipating its sweet relaxation that much already. Work somewhere other than my room, without the ethernet cable plugged in. I'm sure you...
14 January 2002
Hiten commented a couple of days ago that I don't get bored very easily, and I guess it must be true. Today, I amused myself, to my friends' great embarassment, by trying to figure out why the Caltrain seat backs...
11 January 2002
Random randomness: Ima, who lives across the hall, sings in Counterpoint, whose concert I went to tonight. (Way too many clauses in that for me to sort out!) They were hosting two all-male groups, Bowdoin Meddiebempsters and the Tufts Beelzebubs....
07 January 2002
Today I got a card in the mail that hoped I was never sorry for any of my decisions, and therewith resolved not to be. But if I could regret something, it might be that I didn't spend enough time...
04 January 2002
At school, I identify Edison to others—non-Indian others, at least— in relation to New York City: twenty-five miles southwest of it as the seagull flies, forty minutes by train, forty minutes by car, and an hour and a half counting...
06 December 2001
Deepal and Mihir have "come to the realization that [they] have all of these intelligent friends who are doing different things. So then, it seems that if we all moved to an island, we could start our own nation... be...
04 December 2001
I just took an unusually early shower. Normally, I reserve showers for that low point between 3 and 4am, when I really need the freezing breeze through the permanently open window to snap me out of a tired stupor. Today,...
27 November 2001
Ditto to the concerns about jeopardizing memories. Thus far, I've always had those fears in the wakes of wonderful experiences (SCA, Habitat) as I ponder how to perpetuate them without mindless replication (SCA, Habitat: rounds two). I think January 2001...
17 November 2001
Tonight, I definitely pulled another "announce that I'm staying in to do work but end up playing Mario Kart and doing other timewasteful things." What I did do was look into some more details for backpacking in Assateague/Chincoteague during winter...
16 November 2001
Guess I'd make a rather shabby prophet. I actually wasted a full additional hour before rushing over to medieval women lecture. Fortunately, it was a guest lecture, which means decreased demand for student involvement. I really liked Nicholas Watson's emphasis...
02 October 2001
Wow, a date in binary. I'm getting geekier by the minute. It's okay. I'm still a whole person. At the very least, I don't leak tidbits of secrets and then refuse to tell them fully like some people I know....
01 October 2001
My Mondays are a little odd, but I got a kick out of my afternoon. I have a 10am IHUM lecture, a big fat span of nothingness, and then a 2pm CS lecture. CS is pretty straightforward for now; being...
21 September 2001
I think I'm going to make it a policy to always carry stationery with me. And when I'm bored or waiting onlines, to write. Be excited, potential recipients!...
14 September 2001
"All that I'm sure of, that I can do, is try to be a good person. To be kind, fair, thoughtful. It's all I'm in control of."...
13 September 2001
I went to Sabrina's house this evening, planning to drop off her yearbook, chat for a bit, and come home. Instead, we had a good conversation. Stress the "good" in a way they emphasizes it better than any cumbersome adjectives...