I defended my thesis this past Monday, February 28th. The Ph.D. orals, or defense, or whatever you call it, consists of a 45-minute public presentation followed by audience questions, then a 1 hour closed session with your committee ( Read more... )

So I FINALLY got around to replacing my front bumper after my accident in February 09. The scratches and cracks were replaced with a front bumper that has fewer scratches and cracks. I also replaced the headlights, which were horribly oxidized and had broken tabs, with new ones (and broke a tab in the installation process, yay ( Read more... )

I've generally been content and busy. Life is good, for the most part ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I posted. For a while, life was going fine: I had some results at work, I had a decent social life around Stanford, and my roommate wasn't an asshole ( Read more... )

I'm really stressed lately. My temper is going into overdrive also.

Times like this, you learn who your best friends are.


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Wow, it's been a while since I had a real update. I've been busy ( Read more... )

The other day, I saw my mom for the first time in a few weeks. Literally the first words out of her mouth ( Read more... )

On Memorial Day weekend, we celebrated Jagmeet's birthday (happy 26th, babe!). Dinner was at Metro Kathmandu in the city. Seemed like a decent place, and everyone had a good time ( Read more... )

It pays to have a good buddy that WORKS in the car industry. Case in point: Kevin. Since he spends his days trying to break cars at NUMMI, I recruited him to help me breathe new life back into my car. (Or some other appropriately cheesy metaphor ( Read more... )

Jagmeet and I celebrated our 7th anniversary on Friday. We relived several of the important constants of our relationship so far ( Read more... )