I found a new place to live -- at 19th and Valencia, in the fucking Mission. Ideal in every way. My new roommate... well, it remains to be seen what she's actually like to LIVE with. But she's a quirky 30-year-old British Indian via Paris who thinks she's an alien sent down to earth to record the human experience in downtempo spoken word trip hop. ( Read more... )

Here I am at work ( Read more... )

Today has been quite a day in Eva's World of Job Seeking. I got offered a job at Morrison & Foerster, which would pay $40,000 plus end-of-year bonus, and has all kinds of benefits. And I had a phone interview this morning with Out & Equal, which is a diversity training/corporate consulting non-profit; basically what they do is send LGBT diversity ( Read more... )

This is ridiculous--dog meat being banned in the official Olympic restaurants in Beijing. Why the hell should China have to change its culture and customs (including such things as lining up in an orderly fashion instead of chaotically, and anti-spitting measures, and any other measures that are supposed to somehow make the Chinese seem more " ( Read more... )

I just realized that this is the first year of my life since I was about a year old (when I started nursery school) that September doesn't mean anything different than October or August. Meaning, it won't be the beginning of some cycle of schooling. Assuming I start working sometime this summer, like this month or early next month, September will ( Read more... )

I've been taking care of things ( Read more... )

Things are happening around here ( Read more... )

The thing is, I think Hillary Clinton would have won if she hadn't been a woman. And I'm both glad that she lost and dismayed simultaneously ( Read more... )

I'm back in Saratoga until June 12th. It's nice to just sort of... BE. I'm reading a bunch of different things right now, things I WANT to read, and I'm watching movies with my dad, and I'm preparing for the move to Berkeley. My books are all boxed up and ready to ship, and the next stage is stuff like my printer and computer speakers ( Read more... )

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Yay Governor Paterson! It's a first step! Probably the only step for now, until the Senate is no longer led by effing Joe Bruno...