2011, a friday

Woke up feeling a bit better. Took my astronomy test, got back my calculus test (got an A! And the highest grade in both of my prof’s classes!!), went to the math tutoring room and some office hours. Got my hair cut (FINALLY) and a cute place up on Pearl Street. I was going to see ‘Drive’ but I forgot to bring a snack and was pretty hungry, so instead I got Indian from Tiffin’s and watched ‘Breaking Bad’ and drank hot tea all night.

2010, a thursday

MY KINDLE CAME!! but wait, let’s back up. class (test, went well I think), home, put out feelers for hiking. checked amazon for transit updates and saw that my kindle was out for delivery! and it wasn’t supposed to be delivered until tomorrow! immediately nixed hiking and worked out at home instead. kindle was delivered during the last circuit. showered. ate lunch. THEN unboxed the kindle. guys. it is so. small. and the screen is so. crisp. I am in love. fiddled with it all afternoon since I didn’t have any math homework. chemistry, then loaded the kindle with long awesome magazine articles and read until way too late.

2009, a wednesday

overslept again. i don’t know what the deal is! got my hair cut (need to get it fixed because once i got home and re-blowed it out i could see he did not do what i asked), then bought ‘scribblenauts’, a new ds game that is so fun and cute. took dinner over to jula’s and then alex and terry came over and we went to echo park hospitality night. went to barrigan’s and had tamale’s and $2.50 margaritas and fried ice cream. mmm!

2011, a thursday

Yoga, went to campus to meet with a planetary prof about a research job. I met with him and a postdoc, and I got the job! Huzzah! I am a paid research assistant! Intended to watch ‘Sneakers’ to decompress, then read the Mars book I was given, but ended up taking a three hour nap. Spent hours trying to figure out the solution to Jason Shiga’s ‘Knock Knock’. Kept going over and over it until I literally fell asleep on the book.

2010, a wednesday

breakfast at camp, then drove to redwood national park. picked up some maps and guidebooks at the visitors’ center, then hiked a few hours through old-growth redwood forests. saw HUGE trees. tried to get a view from a coastal overlook, but there was too much fog.

did a trail through the woods behind another campground – saw tree stumps way bigger than any live trees we’d seen, dried river beds, and a big snake. went back to patrick’s point and hiked down this long, steep coastal trail/staircase to the shore and explored the tide pools. saw lots of purple-colored black turban snails, ribbed limpets, closed-up aggregated anemones, a few brooding anemone, lots of algae and kelp, sea sacks and sea lettuce, and tiny fish and crabs. saw some dinosaur-foot-looking goose barnacles and a couple bright purple and orange ochre stars too! explored the shore for awhile longer, then went back to camp to make dinner (fajitas!) and s’mores and rest our legs.