My parents want to invite Dr. Yan to a dinner party thing, but we can't find his home number, so I've been e-stalking him, and I found his home address, and it's literally less than half a mile from our house, and we're going to swing by and stalk his house later. Yay! My parents like to creepily stalk my future professors! (Haha not really. They' ( Read more... )

I still haven't gotten into "school mode" yet, which is probably why I'm so behind on all of my readings. (Well, that, and the fact that I hate all of my classes this semester.) Yay! I'm also getting sick of embedded systems (after only 2 weeks, yay!) and want to change my tech area now. The only thing I would consider switching to, though, is ( Read more... )

In this week's installment of Conversations with My Mother (2 posts = a series with installments), my mom learns about the true nature of monkeys. She was calling relatives and found out that one of my cousins is an avid gamer ( Read more... )

A lot of my parents’ friends and co-workers have kids who are around 11~13 years old, and a lot of them enroll their kids in these extracurricular math classes, the purpose of which is to teach ahead of the curriculum, i.e. go at a much faster pace than regular schools, teach algebra to 5th graders, etc. The specific class I’m referring to meets ( Read more... )

sallysquirrel's guide to raising cynical, unpatriotic children ( Read more... )

It's a British mini-series post!

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What not to do in life:
1. Lock your car keys inside your car.
2. Lock your car keys inside your car when you need to pick up your mother from the hospital.
3. Lock your car keys inside your car when you need to pick up your mother from the hospital while working the first day at your new job.
4. Eat glue.

1. (not-)H!H!G popped out again and emailed me. Wtf? Should I respond or ignore?

2. Schedule. It's the same as last time, but in ~*color ( Read more... )

Yay I finished defensive driving today. I'm so glad it's only 5~6 hours, because I used to think it was closer to 40 hours for some reason (probably because my dad took a month to complete it). They have way too many videos that look like they're from the 70s. There were also Bill Nye video clips, which is...random. And I prefer having Bill Nye ( Read more... )

First of all, because I'm a whore, some old news: Larry Page (Google guy) dates/is possibly engaged to Bush's former roommate's son's wife's sister. Lol that sounds like a messed-up premise for some sitcom. Also, Silicon Valley gossip rag? Is hot ( Read more... )