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November 5, 2006 at 8:36 pm · Filed under life updates
I missed my shower water pressure. Of all things, I missed that the most, and I didn’t even realize it until I took a shower this morning. Oh yeah, and I missed toilet seats. A lot. First thing I though when I found a bathroom in the Boston airport was “thank god I’m back in the US-f*ckin-A, land where I can sit down to pee.”
Some observations during the 24-hours of traveling:
- Boston is COLD. The US-of-A is COLD. It’s sweater weather even in South Carolina, yet I was in short sleeves the entire time I was in China.
- Who the hell asks for 2 rums and coke while sitting in Economy class during a 2-hour flight from Chicago to Boston? The guy who sat next to me, that’s who. I can maybe see buying one, but 2?? He later brought out a Harvard Business School casebook and started reading. HBS, figures.
- Being an air traffic controller could be a really cool job. I listened in on the flight deck live feed during the landing process in Boston, and that stuff was pretty freakin’ sweet.
October 18, 2006 at 10:53 pm · Filed under life updates
So people, I’m off to China until November 5th. I’m leaving for the airport in 8 hours, but I’ve not yet started packing. Hmm ….
Don’t kill Boston while I’m away.
April 27, 2006 at 8:42 am · Filed under life updates
These past two weeks have been absolutely ridiculously amazing. Despite all the work, despite all the stress, despite the rest of the world, I have been floating around on my own personal cloud high up above everything and just enjoying the unbearable lightness of being happy. It has been such a long while since I last felt this way. It really has.
April 2, 2006 at 1:32 am · Filed under life updates
My cousin just had a baby! Which makes me an aunt! Well, not a bona fide aunt, but in the one-child-policy generation in which we all grew up, first cousins become aunts and uncles since there are no brothers/sisters to speak of.
January 6, 2005 at 1:47 am · Filed under life updates
I’ve been back for a couple of days now, and I have to say that it’s pretty rockin’. It is a little strange to be back and not have classes, and not have classes for an entire month, but hey, I got used to it back at Governor’s School :) There’s not even a big Colloquium at the end of the month to have to prepare for, so sweet!
So I’m going to be a health nut this month and hopefully get myself to a good start for a good year of staying in shape. I have yoga class (yeah, can you believe it?) twice a week on Monday & Wednesday evenings, and for Tuesday and Thursday evenings, I plan to go to the pool and swim. The original plan is to swim on Saturday, too, but I may not get that motivated.
Research wise, I’m just going to be going into the lab/office everyday and try to get somewhere productive this month before having to drop it all until summer time.
Not official New Year’s resolutions, but I guess the idea is there.
July 24, 2004 at 9:56 pm · Filed under life updates
Europe - wow. Before I left, I thought, oh cool! I can blog from anywhere with an internet connection while in Europe! How neat! But alas, that was not to be. I did not write a single entry for the entire 5 weeks I spent in Europe.
Of course Europe was an amazing adventure. Backpacking, hosteling, and especially (or not so especially) hanging out with great friend 24/7 was a spectacular experience. We walked around the filthy city of Pamplona dodging rain, alcohol, and various body fluids through the night in order to watch 10 billion people attempt to trample 5 leisurely jogging bulls. We drank so much beer in a Munich beer garden it started tasting like Sprite (the standard serving of beer is in 1-liter mugs). We met up, split up, and met up again (in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam respectively). We rode on “cruza” bikes through the Nudist Meadow with Mike’s Bike Tours … too many memories to recount!
Been home for a few days now, and I miss Ryan already. I’m going up to Richmond next weekend to see Weaver get married, which gives me another chance to see Ryan if I drive two more hours to Northern Virgina from Richmond (which I WILL!). The weekend after that is another friend’s wedding, in town thankfully (what’s up with all these people getting married??) The summer’s sadly winding down though. Ryan’s moving to Boston the weekend of the 14th, and I will move two weeks after that. Hard to imagine that all of this is less than a month away! *sigh*
June 5, 2004 at 11:01 am · Filed under life updates
Toronto’s beautiful, but for whatever reason, whenever we go out, I never remember to bring my camera. so no pictures to post, unfortunately … but I do have one more day here … so maybe on my way to the airport, I’ll snap some pictures.
The conference is fun, educational, very educational. And I never realized that all these scientists not only come to conferences to exchange research, but they also come to have fun … we go out every night, wine and dine and then hit the bars. It’s pretty insane.
The hotel’s a really nice hotel, super expensive, but a bit more affordable since three of us students are sharing the cost … and the total will eventually be reimbursed back to us. There’s a full health spa, so i booked a manicure! That’s at 5 this afternoon. i can’t wait; i haven’t had long nails in a long time (stress causes me to break them when I’m studying or something), so I’m excited to have long nails and going for a manicure.
ryan should be back in the States today, I think he said his flight was getting in this morning? I’m planning on calling him! yay!! and i get to see him in a week, sweet!
June 2, 2004 at 10:42 am · Filed under life updates
In toronto, for the international vascular biology meeting. Don’t know what I think yet … but the people are definitely a lot more dressed up than I had planned on being. But seeing as how I didn’t bring any other clothes, I’ll just try to disappear in the crowds.
Brian, my research advisor at UVA, is here somewhere, but haven’t run into him yet. Maybe lunchtime?
May 29, 2004 at 11:46 pm · Filed under life updates
Wuhoo! An entry finally. The school year came and went, and now I’m sitting at home relaxing for the summer. Ryan went to Taiwan with his mom and cousins, so I haven’t talked to him since mid-May, so I’ve been missing him a lot. Ali and Amanda came to visit in Charleston, too, and we did some shopping together. I want to buy some skirts to wear in Europe, so I don’t look too out of place with shorts and the like.
Ryan, myself, Paul Bui, and Breaki are going to Europe for about a month of so starting mid-June. That will be a fun trip, no doubt. We’ll be going some key places, sure, but I really want to do this day trip into Morocco. Ryan really wants to see the running of the bulls July 7. We’re also gonna go to Athens, where I’ve never been before! Too bad the British stole all the artifacts and put them in the British Museum, but I guess the original structures are still there.
After getting back from Europe, I’m going to go to Weaver’s wedding in Richmond. Hard to believe that he’s getting married … second out of our class, I think. Bobbie was the given first, being Mormon and all :)
A funny thing, a lot of Governor’s School kids are going to graduate school, more so than the national average. Of course, I’m headed up to MIT next year. It looks good on paper, but I’m really pretty apprehensive. I don’t think I’ll like it that much. But i guess i’ll keep an open mind, since I really didn’t want to go to UVA … but ended up loving it so much. Ryan will be at BU Law next year, so we’ll literally be right across the river from each other. How that worked out, I don’t know. Luck, and a little bit of planning :)
January 2, 2004 at 11:17 pm · Filed under life updates
It’s a new year, but I’m back in Charlottesville the day after. Break at home was great; I wish I could have stayed longer, or at least had more time at home when I could have just lounged around. I memorized about 600 words the first week and a half I was at home, in preparation for taking the GREs. *sigh* It’s my own fault for not having done it this summer and doing badly on the verbal part (according to my parents) back when I took it in September. Now they’re happy (though not too happy; an 800 would make them happiest). But the test was Wednesday, leaving me with really only yesterday to lounge around since I had to fly back to school today.
Talked to Ryan tonight. I’m going up to northern Virginia tomorrow to see him. I hope that he won’t have to work (he’s on call) so that I can get there early afternoon. If he does work, I won’t be able to see him until 7ish. I’m staying with his family tomorrow night; very generous of them! :) But I’m nervous about meeting his parents. Yeah, making good first impressions was never one of my strengths. He recommended that I bring them something, so I’m going to go shopping for a plant tomorrow. Hehe.
Tubla’s having a party at his house Sunday for resstaff exec. I’m really looking forward to that. I miss the staff bonding I experienced in First Year Area last year, and I feel like those SRs get love from their staff and from each other. I don’t have a staff, and I only have 4 other HRs and Laura for love. And I don’t even see them because none of us live close together, unlike those First Year folks. *sigh* I guess that’s one of the prices that I paid.
One of my scholarship benefactors wrote me back! I got their card when I walked into my room today. They want to me call them when I have a free hour for lunch or dinner. That’s so nice of them :) There are 6 families that contributed to my scholarship. I met one First Year at a dinner event at Alumni Hall, but not any of the other 5. I think it would be a really neat experience! I’ll call them next week perhaps. I wonder what they do around town. They are the only family (of the 6) who live in Charlottesville.
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