Tomorrow begins our family's 10-day journey to the west. For the first half, we'll be visiting my grandparents on my dad's side in Anacortes, WA. Then we fly down to Oregon and visit my mom's parents in Nehalem, OR. We'll be back on June 22. No updates until then, most likely.

Sometimes I feel that all I learned at college was that I'm never going to know as much as I should. I have a whole list of things that I'd like to learn this summer that is far too long to actually accomplish. Some of the major milestones I'd like to hit before going to Japan on August 1st ( Read more... )

This might be the latest I've stayed up since graduation. I'm still up, and feeling quite awake, because I'm excited about the JET program again! The past several weeks have involved a lot of worrying about logistics-- where do I stay? how much does it snow? wait, I need a car? how much will that cost?-- that I kind of lost track of the big picture ( Read more... )

It's about time that I got back to blogging. After 4 months without a single update, it seems a bit sudden, but there are a couple reasons for this ( Read more... )

1. Started the day off right with a 4-mile run to Wellesley and back at 7am. Ate breakfast, showered, then panicked when I saw that Eric needed a ride back from the airport and his flight had already gotten in an hour earlier. He took the T to Eliot and got a cab back, though, so it all worked out ( Read more... )

1. Successfully hooked up Nik's Sega Genesis and played some Shining Force 2. This continues our streak of playing fantastic RPGs from the early 90s, along with Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 5 and 6. Probably my first time playing a Genesis in about 10 years ( Read more... )

Someone asked me what I was up to last semester, and I realized that aside from classes, I didn't really remember. So as an effort to be more aware of what's going on in my life, the next few days will be an experiment to document the variety of things going on in everyday life. Every day, or at least every other day, I'm going to try to write 3 ( Read more... )

Current status: watching Superman, trying out Evernote. I've been using a lot of new software today: Foxmarks, URLBarExt, Evernote... I feel tech-savvy ( Read more... )

Final SCOPE report: due tomorrow
Final Sustainable paper: due tomorrow, but mostly done
Final OSS report: due Saturday night
Presentation for job interview at ESI: due Saturday night
Job interview: Sunday (flying out) - Tuesday (flying back)
Expo: Wednesday and Thursday
Then I'm free!

6 more days of class ( Read more... )