Damnit, California.

I have to say, I love Michelle Obama just a little bit more tonight. I was watching the streaming feed on CNN.com, listening to the end of Barack's speech and when "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" started playing, I thought "How could anyone not sing along? It's so catchy!" and that very moment they showed Michelle singing along, even swaying a little ( Read more... )

So.... done with college now. That was fun.

I just realized, of my best friends from Blue Lake's ICE in 1999, one is possible divorced, one is recently married, one just got back from serving a tour in Iraq and is engaged and the other is now a high school music teacher.

People should really stop growing up.

I just realized I walk past LiveJournal headquarters every day on the way from the train station to my job. I get off the train with people who run this thing that I've been using since I stopped paying attention in Campion's class when we went to the computer lab ( Read more... )

Just wanted to take a minute to say how grateful I am for life. This has been just about the best quarter ever at Stanford. I woke up at 5:15am for a surprise that went so amazingly well, and I'm pleased as punch. Talked to my madre and grandparents for a while, will now settle down and start studying for my Arabic midterm, after which I'll work on ( Read more... )

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police who investigate crimes, and ME ( Read more... )

Just wanted to drop a note - we're all packing up and chowing on Christmas brunch leftovers and getting ready for the cab to get us at 4am tomorrow morning to take us away to someplace warm and shiny. It's been great fun being home, spending so much time with la familia, but I'm really not going to miss the wind chill factor ( Read more... )

Finals are over! Yeep. It's Lau's birthday! Double and triple yeeps. I choose to take this moment to profess my undying love for that girl - best friends from sixth grade aren't that easy to come by these days, and even if they were, she'd still be the best ( Read more... )

So. Lots of crappy things have been happening around the dorm, and there's a lot of business with staff stuff that's taking the place of finals this quarter. But regardless, you can still have the best 1-2am ever if you have a good guy friend who's willing to belt out the Elephant Love Song medley with you (vocal roles reversed, of course) as you' ( Read more... )