Today, I found my bicycle upside-down, with the wheels taken off... but still there, chained to the bike rack ( Read more... )

I'm currently in Tennessee, after a last-minute trip to Boston. In case you hadn't read it on my mom's health blog, she died on Tuesday night shortly after we'd all arrived. We didn't really see it coming--she'd been in the hospital with a fever before, she'd had infections before, but this time the combination of cancer and pneumonia overwhelmed ( Read more... )

In 7th grade, I asked a girl out. I said, "Will you go out with me ( Read more... )

God freaking dammit. I have had a series of hassles in getting a GSI (a.k.a. teaching assistant) position. First, they mistook my preference for TAing the undergrad AI class as a demand, so they weren't going to give me any work. Just yesterday, though, they found a graphics class for me to TA. However, today, they sent me the forms for it and I ( Read more... )

We (a bunch of mostly grad students mostly in the 4th year) went on a hike to a waterfall on Sunday. It was on the North peninsula near Stinson Beach. (I'm familiar with Stinson Beach since that's the landing zone for hang gliders launching from Mt. Tamalpais ( Read more... )

I've scheduled a trip to visit Kate in Prague in a week (!), for a week. But the problem is that although I tried to book tickets via a low-end travel website/travel agent called Travel Enterprises (for hundreds of dollars less than anyone else could do), Lufthansa is saying that I'm only standby on one of my flights. I've contacted the Travel ( Read more... )