So it's been another busy weekend, Friday night we hit up happy hour and then went to a house party, which was really fun. The police showed up about 10:30pm for no reason but after that it was smooth sailing or drinking as the case may be. A fun time was had by all. Needless to say I slept in on Saturday then had to get it together for a concert Saturday night. I went to Berkeley to see Keane, it was a great concert, the sound was awesome and the lead singer's voice was in top form. Then we hit up Jupiter's a brewery/bar in downtown Berkeley which has a great outdoor patio area, unfortunately we didn't get to stick around long b/c we had to get the last train but definitely have to keep that place in mind for a hot day. Then yesterday Joey and I headed out to see Pan's Labyrinth, it was such a good movie, and I usually don't like fantasy-type movies but this one was done really well, totally worth a look. It's gonna be a busy week, and I head out to Houston on Friday to see my girls, can't wait!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Australia Day
Happy Australia Day to all my Aussie friends, wish I was still in oz havin' a VB or 12 and a barbie with you this arvo in the hot sun!
The Death of the all-nighter
Reading this story from The Onion took me back to the days of the all-nighter:
The all-nighter was worse for me in grad school than it was in undergrad, I think it was because I had more massive, long papers to write instead of exams and also I think I've gotten worse about procrastinating. I mean the procrastination reached epic levels. My best buddy Claire and I seemed to make each other worse when it came to that, we'd purposely plan to not sleep for like 2 days before a paper was due because we knew neither one of us would be done. It's not as if I didn't work on the paper before then, I did, I'd come to the computer lab every night for 2 weeks, and there we'd sit, surfing the net, taking hour long vending machine/smoke breaks, leaving to go have a beer, socializing with everyone in the graduate school lab, the distractions never ended. During our last semester it got WAY worse. Claire and Nico had a group project to finish and realized wait a minute it just has to be turned in by the end of class, so really now there was 3 hours of class time available to procrastinate. Nico took it to a new level when he told a professor his laptop had crapped out on him and he needed a 24-hour extension and then when I asked him about it he's like yeah I hadn't even started it yet. So there was now another day to waste. Actually extensions just made it worse b/c then the torture was extended another day, whereas if you were forced to stay up for 2 days and just turn it in then it was over. So here's to no more all nighters for the purpose of turning in a business analysis that is composed of total b.s. written over 48 hours with only short naps in between!!
The all-nighter was worse for me in grad school than it was in undergrad, I think it was because I had more massive, long papers to write instead of exams and also I think I've gotten worse about procrastinating. I mean the procrastination reached epic levels. My best buddy Claire and I seemed to make each other worse when it came to that, we'd purposely plan to not sleep for like 2 days before a paper was due because we knew neither one of us would be done. It's not as if I didn't work on the paper before then, I did, I'd come to the computer lab every night for 2 weeks, and there we'd sit, surfing the net, taking hour long vending machine/smoke breaks, leaving to go have a beer, socializing with everyone in the graduate school lab, the distractions never ended. During our last semester it got WAY worse. Claire and Nico had a group project to finish and realized wait a minute it just has to be turned in by the end of class, so really now there was 3 hours of class time available to procrastinate. Nico took it to a new level when he told a professor his laptop had crapped out on him and he needed a 24-hour extension and then when I asked him about it he's like yeah I hadn't even started it yet. So there was now another day to waste. Actually extensions just made it worse b/c then the torture was extended another day, whereas if you were forced to stay up for 2 days and just turn it in then it was over. So here's to no more all nighters for the purpose of turning in a business analysis that is composed of total b.s. written over 48 hours with only short naps in between!!
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
It's Official
I finally got my diploma! My graduation was October 3, 2006 but somehow my diploma managed to get lost and it was finally tracked down by my university last week and yesterday it finally arrived in the mail!!! Anyways so now I guess it really is real, I do in fact have my master degree, yeah!
In other news I've been messing with adding little elements to my blog like headlines from the news and what not, I haven't figured out how to do it up super fancy yet but I'm working on, so the blog is currently a bit of a work in progress.
In other news I've been messing with adding little elements to my blog like headlines from the news and what not, I haven't figured out how to do it up super fancy yet but I'm working on, so the blog is currently a bit of a work in progress.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Loooong weekend
When I say it was a long weekend I don't mean just that it was 3 days, I mean that I was busy. Saturday we went to the races at Golden Gate Fields for dollar days. That meant dollar beers which was nothing but trouble. Mostly because it was daytime drinking which always goes awry. I had a good time though and managed to not be hungover on Sunday, which could only mean one thing, going out for some more beers on Sunday afternoon. First we went to see Notes on a Scandal with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, it was really good, Cate was a shady lady and Judi was pretty evil, but it was very entertaining. Anyhow after Joseph Anthony and I left the theater we stopped for a slice of pizza, which incidentally ended up being the only thing I ate all day. Then we headed over to have a beer at Badlands, $1.50 long necks were on special until 8pm, incidentally we got there around 3:30pm maybe and were there until well after the special ended..no more Sunday beer sessions allowed!!! We should have known to leave when the music videos starting repeating. Then yesterday I pretty much stayed at home all day, except for a trip to the grocery store. I finally finished reading a book I got for Christmas, Acts of Faith it's a good book about the Sudan war, and the best intentions of some foreigners to help and make some money at the same time, it's a long book but worth the read. Also I watched a couple of episodes of Big Love, the HBO show about a man with three wives, it's really good, I'm about halfway through the first season and the tension is building. Watching the show is exhausting at times, it's too much stress they dynamic between all the women, not to mention other household problems, but it's my new favorite show at the moment. Well it's almost lunch time, halfway through the day, I can't wait to get home and get some sleep!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
That don't mean...
Being back at UCSF, there’s always lots of gossip going around about this person or that person or who’s left their job and who’s new. So earlier today Shirley went to another department and was talking to everyone that worked over there and there is this one lady that works over there that never says hi to her , and that’s one of her pet peeves—people that don’t speak. Anyways so I told her well I heard that lady was Swedish (and I was gonna say so maybe she doesn’t realize she’s being unfriendly) but before I finished I was cut off by the comment…well that doesn’t mean she has to be an ass. Then Shirley says just because people are going through changes or socially retarded doesn’t’ mean they have to be an ass..I totally agree!
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