So after a weekend in San Francisco I find myself in yet another clichè Seattle scenario - sitting in the atrium of the computer science building on campus sipping a latte and looking at some artwork for my photography class while it drizzles outside.

It's home.

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I can say without hesitation that this is the nicest Seattle January I have ever experienced. Monday we walked to, around and back from greenlake (about 4 miles total), and today the sun was so bright that my professor was having trouble writing on the board without drawing the shades.

For those of you not from around here, the sun generally doesn't ( Read more... )

I took my last Chinese final at UW today. I don't know exactly how well I did, but considering I'm taking the class pass/fail and the final is only 15% of my grade, I can say pretty confidently that I will pass the class. This means I'm done with final exams, but I have two long (15+) papers due next week. Next quarter will be easy, Syntax II, ( Read more... )

....what? How did this happen?

Okay so yesterday I went to class at 9:30 and took a quiz in 3rd year Chinese. I went to a lab discussion group at 12 with Penny Eckert, who is a bigshot sociolinguist from stanford and discussed social networks and communities of practice. Then I went to go hear her speak again at the colloquium at 3:30, where she spoke, among other things, of the ( Read more... )

It's kind of strange that I check LJ almost every day and hardly ever update. Especially considering my life hasn't been that boring lately.

Well, it kinda has. I'm working full time in the lab, I enjoy it most of the time, in fact it's the kind of work I would do for free or at least less than I'm getting paid, so I shouldn't complain. However, it' ( Read more... )

For those of you who I don't talk to on a regular basis, I'm coming back to RI for a few days, (tomorrow - Monday), so if you want to see me, give me a call.

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