my coworkers are dropping like flies.
3 "Down with the flu, WFH today" notes went out this morning.
I'm totally not going into the office for a while.
YEAHHHH!
January 31st deadline complete. Time to breathe.
bbl going to buy a 6-pack.
February is almost here. YES.
Sigh. There is plenty of work still left to be done... but omg all I can think about is how much I want to play Rock Band.
Working from home is such torture.
Yes I've said the above a million times.
But once again it saddens me that so much has happened since I was an active blogger... so many accomplishments, disappointments, weirdnesses... unrecorded feelings.
at this very moment i feel...
accomplished. knowing that the product i worked on from concept is now getting beat on in the field.
lonely. i miss dinesh. even after the recent addition of two roommates, i'm all alone in my bed.
unsure. so-very-unsure. what the hell am i going to do now? i want to move to SF.... or Seattle... but even after that decision, even if i find some great job, i won't know wtf to do with my dear house.
happy. my hellish january is almost over. this means a tour of my two favorite places. 2 weeks in SF, followed by a short weekend in Seattle. :) (oh, this also means i'll have time again to level my alt. don't judge me.)
Well damn. Plane tickets are already getting pricey for going home for Christmas.
That means I have to quickly decide the following:
New Years Eve... Seattle or San Francisco?
omg
I'm so sad that I'm missing the release of Halo 3! :( :(
freaking facebook.
i refused to join another social network after joining orkut 3 years or so ago... somehow, last weekend, kuang convinced me to join facebook. for the past 3 days i've been spending entirely too much time on it (as expected). it's annoying to feel the need to keep the fb browser window open, refreshing it as frequently as i check my non-work email. because of facebook i have also had a petty middle school style mini-fight about the accuracy of how long the bf and i have been dating (along with refusing to change my "single" status before he changed his). THANKS KUANG.
Whenever I go out of town, I forget how much I've grown to love the weather in Tucson. I'm not quite sure when this came about, but I can't recall the last time I didn't smile and go ahhhhhhhhh after getting hit with the first wave of dry heat right after a return flight. It's like a great big bear hug.
Weather aside, I love SF.
friends, food, bars, Dinesh.
During this 1.5 week trip, we didn't get any of the productive things done that we had planned. Our furniture shopping day got replaced with kayaking and Ryowa. Our other shopping day was shortened by taking too long to recover in the morning. Well, we did manage to buy D a new belt. Check one off the list!
I've been back in Tucson for one day. I'm already itching for Sept 12th (my next trip).
yay! I <3 SF
it rocks here.
Thanks to Danielle, I tried cold brewing coffee last night.
- Throw a bunch of ground coffee into a bowl/jar/whatever with water. (4:1, H2O:coffee)
- Cover and let it sit on the counter over night.
- Strain. (I strained once with a metal filter and then again with a coffee filter. You can go straight to the coffee filter, but I used much coffee that the grounds just wouldn't be able to fit in the coffee filter.)
- Throw grounds-free coffee into a container and then into the fridge.
Done.
The result is a coffee concentrate. I tried it this morning, diluted roughly with equal parts of coffee and cold water. I haven't decided if I'm a fan. The most noticeable thing is that the coffee is super smooth and almost creamy. It's not bad tasting but there's something about its flavor that just isn't quite there. I haven't been able to put my finger on what that is exactly.
That said, I'm still going to do it. It's super easy since you can make huge batches at a time AND it's smooth enough to drink relatively quickly before working out. (Yes, depending on how tired I am in the morning I will drink coffee beforehand to motivate my ass to workout.)
