My experiences of California are such that most of the people of color I run into are either Asian or Hispanic. There is a very clear class divide. The places I go to around here tend to be upper-middle class, which is almost exclusively Asian and white in the very gentrified Silicon Valley (excluding Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose proper, etc.). Many ( Read more... )

So, I've been procrastinating so much on this post that I've actually done some book blogging, wow ( Read more... )

(pictures behind the cuts!)

I spent all of Monday with my sister, since it was her birthday. We started out with ( pedicures. )

Today, I slept in and dragged my sister to meet chi_zu and coffeeandink for lunch at Cafe Lalo (apparently where You've Got Mail was filmed, but Mely said she found it before the movie came out, so she is allowed to keep going there). I was quite impressed that I did not have subway troubles, even though I abandoned my sister in the shower to try and get there on ( Read more... )

I am in New York! Yay! I took the red-eye in and managed to sleep the entire way through, despite being in the row in front of two extremely unhappy babies. It was also funny because I sat between two people who were just starting at the college I graduated from, and when I took public transport in to the city, it was the same old landscape from ( Read more... )