Here we Goooooooooo!

11-30-11

First application - complete. Check it out - it says "Under Review." Both scary and exciting! 

Happy Twain Day

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

--Mark Twain

Another Foggy Morning

11-29-11

Another foggy morning. It's like winter just hit, BAM, after Thanksgiving ended. I thought this spiderweb on my gate looked pretty cool with the fog everywhere.

"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one’s life."

The Picture of Dorian Gray

FOGGY!

11-28-11

Foggy morning! I decided not to ride my bike in it since I couldn't see even a block down the road.

I love fog, nonetheless.

Ummm...

11-26-11

Ok. Jonathan, Miriam, and I drove up Highway 1 to head back to the Bay (them to visit, me to go home) and stopped halfway at a hotel for the night. The place advertised fire places in most rooms. Among other issues with this place, THIS was the fire place. Yeah. Not only did it not emit any heat (although the mechanism seemed to be there - just didn't work), but it made weird clunking sounds and was just a weird glowing light behind plastic hollow pieces of wood. This is the most janky ghetto-ass "fireplace" I've ever seen.

11-25-11

Just some cool bikes I saw while in LA. Not sure where I was exactly...

Happy Thanksgiving!

11-24-11

Jonathan carves the turkey while Liron, Andreas, and Christiana all observe. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Orange County

 11-23-11

Jonathan had to work today so I went to a coffee shop to work. I found this really cool place. It's an old house they converted into a coffee shop, and all of the tables were made from old sewing machines. Very cool. 

The place was also, however, rather creepy with old hair salon equipment all over the place:

Creepy, no? It might have been less unsettling if there had been other people in the coffee shop, but I was the only one there. Fortunately no one murdered me. I was slightly worried...

Jonathan! Or should I say Ralphie?

11-22-11

Happy birthday, Jonathan! This year his birthday was a palindrome! How cool is that? Almost as cool as this leg lamp. 

Fall

11-16-11

Fall in the Bay = sporadic lonely red leaves.

YAY!

11-16-11

Look what I got in the mail from my awesome cousin! I love birthday presents that come late! It's so exciting - especially when they're of Weird Al ;)  

Yummm!

11-15-11

My friend Adriana had moved back to Indonesia, then Philly for a while, and now is finally back in the Bay! So we met for a wonderful lunch of Indonesian food today and caught up. omg it's so scrumptious. I shouldn't have had a bite of the breaded fish though...

I just don't feel like blogging or taking pictures lately :(

Of course...that's probably why I should.

Blah.

I Wanna Be Your Beef Burrito

11-9-11

Weird Al Concert with my fave cuz. Yeah. We were this close. omfg.

On Writing and Stalking

So I've been pretty MIA lately. This is mostly due to the fact that somehow I've become insanely busy added with the fact that I'm just exhausted all of the time. Literally. If I stop going I fall asleep. So I try not to stop going.

Anyway, right now it's all exacerbated by the fact that I have to get this personal statement for my PhD applications done. Now. Like yesterday. Well, not really. I just need a good enough draft to send to my potential recommenders. And THAT needs to be done now. Like yesterday.

I hate writing about myself in any serious manner. This blog isn't serious. I don't generally reveal anything that means that much to me. But in a personal statement you're basically revealing your deepest passion. Like, this is what you want to do. What you feel so strongly about that you are willing to dedicate your life to it. That's hard and scary to write about. I keep imagining readers rolling their eyes. Eep!

It's times like these when I become a facebook stalker. I do this when I'm feeling down as well, which is bad because it just makes me feel more depressed for wasting my time in such a worthless and neurotic way. It's sort of disturbing. I seriously stalk people I don't even know or care about. I will go on someone's page and look at their pictures, and then I'm like "huh who's that" and soon enough I'm 8 degrees of Kevin Bacon away and knee deep in some random person's profile and I have no idea why, nor do I really want to be. And then I have to go to my own profile and stalk myself. I sit there and wonder what my perception of myself would be if I didn't know me and I was looking at my profile. And then I realize how neurotic I am and I log off.

I seriously shouldn't be allowed on facebook when I'm a) feeling depressed or b) trying to write something that is difficult for me. Does anyone else do this? No? Just me? Ok...therapy time...Just kidding. Sorta!

Anyway, I don't know why I just felt the need to blog about that. Maybe so I shame myself out of doing it again?

Or maybe I'm just avoiding this damn paper. BAH!

Back to it.

I love the Bay

11-7-11

This evening's sunset. As seen through my office window.

A Long Long Time Ago...

11-6-11

Happy birthday to ME.

Weird

11-1-11

Apparently this tree was getting too friendly with the wire and got cut down...but they left the branches hanging? What?