Happy New Year, everyone! May 2015 be one of good health and abundant flourishing.

Lots of tl;dr below on books I've read this year and just looking back at life in 2014 in general. Come for as brief or as long a visit you'd like, and maybe pick up one or more of my book recs as you head into the new year!

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I feel like my default life speed nowadays runs on fast forward. Many new things happening and the old things are getting busier and busier. Here are some bullet points:

• Just finished a five-week class called "How to Understand and Analyze Non-Profit Financial Statements" at the NYU School of Continuing Education. Four hours of class on Saturday ( Read more... )

1. House ThingsThings at the new apartment are beginning to settle, and it's finally feeling less like a hotel that I can decorate and more like a place I'm going to start getting used to and maybe even dream about soon (dreaming = the benchmark that something has been incorporated into my routine, like the day I remember dreaming about my current ( Read more... )

President Obama.

That guy can inspire hope like no one else. Just scanning through my flist alone is making me feel all squeeful and emotional, seeing all of you post such inspirational entries about your thoughts and excitements and hopes and apprehensions for the next four years to come. Today is a day to celebrate. Tomorrow, it'll be the first ( Read more... )

Moon cakes are arriving our office in droves! Dark lotus, white lotus, no yolk, two egg yolks, sweet, salty with ham... you name it, we got 'em. Just last week alone, the office had already consumed three boxes of moon cakes and given away more than 10 as "prizes" to last Friday's small business owners karaoke lunch (don't ask...). I also got a box ( Read more... )

Oh, grants.gov, how I'd love to hate you!

Due to a variety of technical difficulties (one of them being our office's network security protection/access being too good), I ended up spending hours trying to get the online government grant submission site to work. With two proposals being initially rejected due to -- get this -- "broken pipe" (their ( Read more... )

Haha, I'm dense. Boss Lady & co-workers gathered the entire office to go have dim sum for lunch today and halfway through the meal I asked the person who organized this, "What's the occasion ( Read more... )

We had a Board meeting at work today. Board members are, by definition, Very Important People. Also rather nice, since no one can get too mean in front of container after container of Chinese food (yes, food is the highlight of the Board meeting). But Chinese food aside, Boss Lady usually shifts into super-alert mode whenever there's a Board ( Read more... )

Today was my last day working at Starbucks (T___T). The last thing I did was to have a review with my manager -- I got top scores, w00t! It was a series of saying goodbye to co-workers and customers the past few days. I think I'm going to curl up in my bed and mope now ( Read more... )

The two ev0l proposals of d00m are done!!!

*collapses*

I know, I owe everyone and their pet zombie (would you believe how many of those I saw yesterday?!? Ick) replies to comments, emails, etc. I'll get to them as soon as I un-collapse.