I need to stop eating my vitamins far before eating breakfast so I don't make myself sick. I've done this at least five times now X_X

Cue the stereotypes, please.

New Jersey is a much-maligned place, the armpit of America, the trash pit of New York City, home of mobsters, unbearably trashy Jersey girls, beaches (nice, but unglamorous compared to places like Miami, CA), millions of highways, and endless suburbia. Even when it is 40 miles away from my parents' house (it's not my ( Read more... )

I am back from a weekend in Boston with Diana. Though my train was a bit late getting into Boston, we made it to a barbecue thrown by one of the people in her lab and played with the cat named "Baby Cat" (seriously). I think that Baby Cat could probably have some LOLcat pictures with it in them. Saturday, we went to Haymarket (huge farmer's market ( Read more... )

I am tired of the number of hoops you have to just through to do simple things in regards to showing things that count as identification. In NJ, you have to accrue 6 points of identification to get a new driver's license. A passport is worth 4 points and my old driver's license is worth one, so the easiest thing to do was to show up with my ( Read more... )

I has an apartment now with most of my things in it. My room is pretty full with all the furniture in it except the bookcase and the file cabinet which went elsewhere. There are tons of boxes that I broke down and put in the basement along with some office-y things I am not using and duplicates of baking things that we do not have room for upstairs ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the day of epic moving of things. It's interesting to think about the amount of stuff that I'm moving now, since it's different than college. Two dressers, a nightstand, a table, a desk, all my clothes, pots/pans, plates, random utensils, bakeware, a mixer, a torch, a crepe maker, my entire book collection, shoes, two computers, ( Read more... )

My paternal grandmother, the Chinese one, is eternally amusing. Having lived in China more than 50 years ago when things were not great and then having been a city person ever since then in Brooklyn, she thinks differently. At my aunt's house there are these guinea hens that run around the neighborhood (about six of them). They are apparently ( Read more... )

It's pretty much been confirmed that I'm moving on Tuesday and likely getting the delivery in NJ the same day. I've been cleaning out my bookcase and desk and closet, finding things to donate and throwing many things away. However, there were a few nice things to find like a couple of pictures from elementary/middle school and a cute dress I wore ( Read more... )

And now I need an excuse to make a giant cake. Serious layer cake ( Read more... )

I got keys to my apartment in Highland Park today. It's so pretty and now I have a plan of how I'm going to put in the furniture. Pics are here.

Mattress shopping was vaguely successful. I didn't buy anything, but I got an idea of what I like and that Sleepy's is a total rip-off. The salesman tried to convince me that whatever diagnostic that they ( Read more... )