I experience sleeping like as though I leave this reality and travel to another plane of existence. When I can't stay most of the night in a different place, where time has no meaning and anything goes, it isn't a good night's sleep. Aaron has to give me a double wake-up call: the first is more like a 5 minute warning where I can hear him, but ( Read more... )

Yup, we're going to Turkey! This is the long-awaited honeymoon which may have never come, what with all the moving/travelling coming up in the next year. But we're saying "neeners" to caution, to the bad economy, the inflation, and taking the trip. I'm pretty happy with my ticket shopping: I got tickets for less than it cost me to go to Cairo 7 ( Read more... )

My previous visit to South Carolina was comprised of the cheapest of everything: cheapest flight (which is why I chose to fly to an airport an hour-and-a-half away), cheapest car, and cheapest lodgings. This trip was not quite the opposite, but pretty close. My school is reimbursing me for the majority of the flight and paid my hotel bill. We ( Read more... )

This is the first in a mini-series of mini-adventures from the past weekend.

We had decided to book our flight from San Diego to Columbia with a stop-over at Cincinnati because we wanted to check off "Ohio" from our states-not-yet-visited list. Unfortunately, the Cincinnati airport is actually in Kentucky. Whoops. We have three reasons to visit ( Read more... )

I went to a Berkeley Haas Business School recruiting thing last night. Boring. My butt hurt so bad. There was really good food at this one, but I'd already eaten. (I can't find dosas anywhere in SD (Indian crepe thing) except at this place in a Sorrento food court.) It was at Qualcomm at the location and its fancy technology was more ( Read more... )

I'm going to South Carolina this week! Weeee! Now you may ask yourself why anybody would be super-excited to go to South Carolina, but it's a trip! Since I've been dating Aaron (2001), I haven't been outside of the following zone ( Read more... )