So I'm watching one my graduate school lectures (I graduate this spring! Yay!) and the instructor was mentioning how ideally, you want a battery to operate over a large temperature range. "Sadly, that's not usually the case. But you'd like to have it if you were making a list of things you'd like to have. Much like the list you made in high school ( Read more... )

Hi. Have I told you that I'm going crazy? There are a lot of things that are stressing me out and I've pretty much stopped sleeping. But what's really frustrating is that one of these stressors is STILL HIM. Most of the time it's a soft white noise but occasionally, like today, it becomes a full-on clamor that makes me want to smash my head into a ( Read more... )

So it's official: I need a new CD rack ( Read more... )

So I went to another Hollywood party last night. Two observations: 1) except for the actors/models, there's a lot of these people that look a little odd; 2) almost everyone is short. I was one of the taller girls at the whole party! I'll have to go to more of these :P

Hey, MLK weekend photos are finally up!

It's been a long time since an earthquake actually inspired me to get up from what I was doing. So last night we got quite a jolt and I actually got up off the couch to get away from the big window.

Turns out the epicenter was in Venice. Who's ever heard of that? Not me. Earthquakes are supposed to be in the Valley or San Bernardino. Kinda crazy.

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So I'm watching Jackass: The Movie right now and totally laughing hysterically. Alone in my apartment. Does that make lame? Or totally awesome?

Seriously though, Jackass will always be one of the most hilarious things ever. I bet roobensandwich  is the only one that agrees with me.

Ugh. I'm going back to work tomorrow and not really looking forward to it. I expect the fallout to be pretty painful.

However, during the break I did manage to have good times with the nephews, celebrate New Years Eve at Beechwood in Venice, visit the (Occasionally) Happiest Place on Earth, and ride my brand new bike along the beach on a beautiful ( Read more... )

So Monday was pretty stressful. I was desperately trying to fix mistakes in some analysis done the week before, the tickets and DVD hadn't been delivered yet, I had a boat-load of cookies to make, and I wasn't sure if I still had a job on MSL - seeing as how more than half of my team had already been kicked off, I was not optimistic.

But by Tuesday ( Read more... )

So Thanksgiving turned out to be a bust - my parents were supposed to meet at my place in Venice (my dad coming from Camarillo and my mom coming from City of Industry) but they were both sick so dinner was postponed. Right around the time I was starting to feel sorry for myself, I decided to get off my ass and take a walk. It was a beautiful day so ( Read more... )

I decided to take advantage of the nice day and got off my ass and went hiking at Sycamore Canyon off the PCH. I hadn't gone hiking in the LA-area at all this year. Shame on me!

For the most part, I had an enjoyable time. There was the very large patch of thistles that I had to fight my way through that I really could have done without. I did it to ( Read more... )