There were a few times this week where I thought that I should just go back to the Valley. And stay there. For a while ( Read more... )

Walking to math section today I bumped into Vitaly and Ariane. woah. I couldn't imagine a better surprise right now. They were sitting at Strada - naturally.

And Kundera's The Curtain came today. Yay, intellectualism ( Read more... )

maybe i should just drop-out of berkeley and become a lizard breeder.

i'm back in the valley until friday...do what you will with this information. i have no idea who's around ( Read more... )

yeah...me not buying mars volta tickets was a bad move.

Friday night was weird ( Read more... )

I just won Berkeley's Crothers Prize in Literary Composition! The prize is $300! Woo.

Seeing 300 on IMAX and coming out of the cinema to hear two guys on the street playing "Paranoid Android" are only two reasons why Saturday night was so awesome. There's something about hearing familiar things in somewhat foreign places that gives me a greater sense of connection. I went with the usual, testosterone-driven guys, along with one of ( Read more... )

On Thursday Miro surprised me with free tickets to the Snow Patrol/OK Go/Silversun Pickups show. I wish I got perks like that at work. I know someone will probably use this against me one day, but I actually ended up really liking Snow Patrol. I remember how Nima, Caro and I listened to their first album the entire way down to San Diego that one ( Read more... )

I was at a party last night with many people I only sort-of recognized and most were drunk by the time we got there and singing "midnight train to georgia" which only those in marya's apartment are allowed to sing. I always feel funny when people have the same reaction to songs that remind me of important things that I thought were only part of my ( Read more... )