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May 30, 2005
Bert
I miss my cats!!! Poop.
Onto other things, this weekend Bert visited from L.A. He had a couple of other friends here too who lived in SF too, so we all met up. Too bad SF is friggin HUGE and that meant a shit ton of driving. I ended up using a whole tank of gas in two days *sigh*. It makes me realize that, regardless of the pleasantness of driving, I HATE DRIVING. But it was good to see Bert. We went out clubbing on Friday, which I ended up being DD (see the whole driving motif?). Then on Saturday, Larry threw a BBQ, and so I had to drive there. Got lazy and didn't go clubbing on Saturday night. And today, I met up with Bert and his friend, Eugene and we hung out in SF. I bought a pair of Paul Frank flip flops. SO CUTE.
Otherwise, life is ok. I got my hair cut. It's pretty good. I think I want to dye my hair again (despite my hair stylist's assertion that my hair is FRIED beyond belief and "look how much nicer your hair is where it is not dyed!"), but blah blah blah, and I prolly will do it sometime soon. I have yet to do my practice talk and I'm slightly starting to scare myself. So, yeah, guess I should do that now...
Sorry for the boring entry. Oh well...
Posted by szujin at 12:34 AM | Comments (0)
May 24, 2005
Lesson learned for the day:
Lesson learned for the day:
Hot cocoa with sugar = 110 calories/packet
Hot cocoa with no sugar = 50 carlories/packet
(HC + sugar).flavor/yumminess = 2 * (HC + no sugar).flavor
Half the calories, half the yumminess.
WHY DIDN'T THEY REFILL THE HOT COCOA PACKETS *sob*?
Posted by szujin at 11:36 AM | Comments (0)
May 22, 2005
CMU
Today, I hung out with an intern from HP that happens to also be from CMU. I already thought it was crazy that there was someone else from CMU working in Palo Alto. Imagine my surprise when he then introduced me to FIVE other CMU students (all from his year) that were also in Mountain View/San Jose area. It was kinda freaky. It's like they all migrated from Pittsburgh to Mountain View. Heh. When I was in college (way back then), I only knew like one person who went out to California. Craziness.
Anyway, went to In-n-Out (which, btw, has an extraordinarily limited menu), and watched Star Wars (which btw, is very good). We went to Castro street where we had bubble tea. It was pretty good, although I felt like an old fart as all of them were JUNIORS in college. I felt like the old lady on the block. But what was the most disturbing was while we were leaving to go home, Jack (the other intern) ended up hitting a parked car and leaving a dent in it. So, that put a huge damper for the end of the night. I feel really bad b/c he hit the car while I was talking, so I feel kind of responsible. So I dunno. Blah.
Which leads me to think...I've been in A LOT of fender benders. I've been driving two of those times (which were not my fault), and passenger in six of them (which four were the drivers' faults). I wonder if I have bad fender bender karma and when people have me in the car, it's a bad idea. Hmm...
Posted by szujin at 03:47 AM | Comments (0)
May 18, 2005
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got pen marks in my MJ bag.
HATE HATE HATE.
WHY did I stupidly put a ball point pen in there. I was just *asking* for it.
And I got it.
Boo. I'm sad. :(
Posted by szujin at 10:41 AM | Comments (0)
May 16, 2005
SanFran
Tomorrow I start work. I have a lot of nervous energy right now, plus I cannot find my stupid tweezers and it is PISSING ME OFF. I'm getting more tired now, and hoping I can get to bed soon b/c I have to be UP tomorrow early.
This week has gone by in a blur. Monday and Tuesday were pretty miserable for me, as I spent the entire time packing and freaking out. Wednesday was a little better as we settled down into our new place. It's friggin *nice*. Makes me once again, wonder why the **** am I in grad school when I could just get married and have all of this.
On Thursday, Jim, Scott, Runting, Bryan and I went on to Mount Talamapias. It was pretty beautiful. The boys went crazy with their cameras while Runting and I just kind of sat there like "blah." (She left hers at home and I stupidly forgot to charge mine). We hiked like 10 miles. It was pretty nice. No half dome, but *ehh* still a beach and still some pretty views. On Friday, Jim, Scott and I went out to some other park (can't think of the name) where they had free roaming cows. We actually got to go into the area where the cows were. (Imagine my excitement!) Except, as we were desperately finding the path in the cow pasture, guess what I stepped into? A BIG PILE OF COW POOP. That kind of put a damper on my cow excitement. I almost touched a cow, but then I jumped, he jumped, and it was all over. So I didn't even get to touch the cow...
Saturday and Sunday were filled with food and downtown San Fran. I've eaten so much I feel like I am going to explode. Tomorrow I get my car. Tomorrow, I plan to hit the gym.
Posted by szujin at 02:04 AM | Comments (1)
May 09, 2005
DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't actually ask me
DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't actually ask me if I think it's good.
But, DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I have to pack. Gah!
Posted by szujin at 02:09 AM | Comments (1)
May 08, 2005
Paper not writing
Tomorrow is do or die for the paper. PA and I are going to decide if I have pulled enough crap out of my butt to make a decent analysis (my guess? no...). Seemed so far away when I thought that my analysis was complete. Too bad it was completely WRONG. So the last two days have been me desperately trying to rework my analysis while my PA tears apart the rest of my paper. Two days ago I was ok with him telling me I had verbal diahrrea. Yesterday, he told me my related works section was "irrelevant." The more stressed out he gets, the more blunt he gets, I tell you. He's gone to the "let me rewrite it for you" stage, and now all I feel is incredible debt and embarrassment. How much must the paper (ie, I) suck such that the advisor (and he's not even my advisor! *that* person is off on vacation already, dropping me like a bomb on my PA) feels the need to rewrite it? Especially when he a super duper busy person (in general). I can't help feeling like he must feel like he needs to "take care of me" and in a way that my advisor is *actually* supposed to do, and so now I just feel like i am this huge burden which he has to deal with. He has no obligation towards me, yet here is he is working his ass off for me. I just feel...embarrassed. The worst part of it all is that I guess I thought I had my paper mostly under control, but apparently I didn't.
Posted by szujin at 03:49 AM | Comments (0)
May 05, 2005
My pseudo-advisor just told me
My pseudo-advisor just told me that I (not in these *exact* words, but the jist) verbally diarrhea-ed all over my paper.
But on the bright side, I have good writing mechanics. Oh. And he enjoys working with me.
Because you know, what other nice thing can he say when he just told me I write like I am having a conversation and he is bored SHITLESS while reading my paper? "Impatient reader" as he calls it.
I know there is an analogy when you have good basic something of a rathers but the addition of all of them is just not useful. Something like "too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the soup" but not.
Oh-well. At least now he'll write the Intro. Hahahah. Isn't that great (really, I *am* happy about this)? I'm not really as bitter as I sound, I promise. I'm just "hahahaha"-ing all the way to my cube and silently crying by myself. :D
Posted by szujin at 05:09 PM | Comments (0)
May 03, 2005
I hate paper writing. I
I hate paper writing.
I just want to go HHHHHHOOOOMMMMMEEEEE.
Goddamnit.
Posted by szujin at 06:36 PM | Comments (0)