Last night Jeff brought home a pear ginger from Mission Pie and it looked awesome. He even snuck some cream to whip for it. Unfortunately, the guests he and I thought we were having did not materialize. Audrey went straight home after our run and Saman was too ill to come by. So, I persuaded him to 'save' the pie for tonight's guests--Joe and ( Read more... )

Wedding planning seems to be coming along. It's about 4 months away and a lot seems to be in order. Let's see, I have the following ( Read more... )

This weekend I had the good fortune to find myself in LA eating Salvadoran cuisine along with thatgirljj and her hubbie. I realized two things in their company. 1. It's really nice to be in the company of adults who are in the same mental place as me. Most of my local friends are single or dating or dating and living together. I can think of only one good ( Read more... )

( I'm back in the United States. )

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( I have just discovered the wonder of a thing called tramping. )

I'm going to New Zealand for over 3 weeks. I'm not excited about it yet because I'm still nervous about my boss's reaction. Flights were so pricey, especially right around the official Stanford closure, I end up leaving 3 days early and returning 5 days late. I'll be gone from 12/14 through 1/9. Holy shit. I'm going down under AND I'm going to ( Read more... )

This morning I had an appointment with Kaiser Permanete Mountain View Travel Clinic. I decided instead of driving my own car, I'd try using the free hour car rental vouchers Stanford gives me for taking CalTrain to work everyday. I used the car for 2 hours, paid $3 to leave more gas than when I got into it, and it was a good time. The RN was a ( Read more... )

Last night Jeff and I sat on my sofa, reading, watching TV, acting like we didn't have a care in the world. At 9 PM, I realized we had precious little time to get all our shit done before leaving tonight and fixing up the place for a friend to crash for a week. DAMN! Of course, we were slow like molasses and 3 hours later all we managed to do ( Read more... )

Back from England, from Minneapolis, with no future vacation plans for the rest of the summer. I hate doing that--no fun trips or money or time off from work anytime soon. Well, burning man I hope.

Minneapolis with my sister and parents was great. ( In MN )