Working provides me with lots of bored time.  So I cook and bake.  Tonight stayed up until 2am cooking.  Spanikopita, baked mac n cheese, curry beef puffs (like the ones in the hk bakery), saute brussel sprouts, prepped chicken for katsu frying as well as skewering tomorrow.  All for a group of >18 people.  My mad dash to bring myself some sort of ( Read more... )

I am in my cubicle.
Waffles in front of me.
My nose is stuffed up so much my head feels like cotton fluff.
Need coffee and tea so badly I feel.
I fly out to in 2 short days. 
These are a few my most recent things. 

I fixed my old cell phone!  The one that was being held together with a hairband.  I love making small acomplishments.  Makes me feel in control again, if only for a little bit.

My job is as hard as I want to make it.  Being around my PhD friends doesn't help motivate me to work harder.  But I think I could make more out of my position if I did work a lot harder.  So now the question I find myself asking myself is, should I work harder?  In school this was simple, work harder than everyone else because grades are ( Read more... )

I have purchased a Roomba whom I've named Poomba ( Read more... )

I am not old.  I thought I was old last month when campus became flooded with little wealthy children attending nike sports camps.  Or when school begins and the freshman overrun the campus with optimism.  Even the 1st year grad students are lit with hope in September.  But I'm not old yet, but I do feel more experienced which I believe helps me ( Read more... )

wait wait wait
waiting for my quals results
Either I have a false sense of hope from professors trying to console me OR I passed. Either way for the most part the questions were interesting puzzles.

Dec 20 to Dec 27

Plan: hide in blanket, study for quals, maybe run on the tredmill a bit, eat parent's cooking.
Basically doing the hamster thing.

I can't wait until Friday. We get an entire week off for Thanksgiving. I mean I still have tons of work (quals, report, presentations) to work on. And insane amount of studying. BUT I don't have homework due that week! (i mean theres the midterm the Weds back from break and a hell of reports due) But I get to spend the weekend showing the ( Read more... )

I'll be home for Thanksgiving and I want to show my friend the area. I want to make sure I a list of places to run through, especially if we get too tired to drive to Vancouver (Must avoid giving tour of Kent). Plus I want to show him something in Seattle that would beat hanging out in SF. I've got a list going so far but its starting to look ( Read more... )