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January 26, 2006
I'M A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY
Last Saturday Babs organized a Dine About Town lunch at Butterfly on Pier 33. The food was good, and the atmosphere of the place was cool. I had duck spring rolls to start (good, but not very ducky), smoked salmon scramble for my entree (sounds gross but tasted good), and creme brulee (pretty much always awesome) for dessert. I would say "pictures forthcoming", but even I don't believe me anymore.
Other than that, I had a good time in Oakland and Berkeley, where I checked out, among other things, the famed Elephant Pharmacy (where you can buy Pee-Pee TeePees for the Sprinkling Wee-Wee) and the Berkeley Fire Trail. The trail afforded wonderful views of the Berkeley campus, which I promptly flipped off. You can take the girl out of Stanford...
Work should probably be stressing me out right now, but it's not. The calm before the storm and all that.
There are a number of things I'm excited about/looking forward to in the next several months including:
- A trip to Australia
- Going to Yosemite and hiking Half Dome
- Doing actual gameplay engineering at work
- A possible Vegas trip with Domi, where table dancing has been promised
- AJYM
- Camping
- Outdoor rockclimbing
- If I get off my lazy ass, getting my SCUBA certification
Sweet!
Finally, I want to wish Buddy, Marc, Erik, and Blair a safe and awesome trip to Tanzania, where they are fulfilling one of my Things I Would Like To Do Before I Die of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro! Send me a postcard!
[05:30 PM]
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You have asthma, too, right? In high school, I was told I couldn't do SCUBA training because of mine, but I have always wondered since if that was a lie.
Also, I had no idea until now that there was a Stanford-Berkeley rivalry. Fascinating!
Yeah, I have asthma, I also recently heard that asthmatics aren't supposed to dive. I just did a quick internet search (so it must be true!) and apparently they're starting to be less strict about it. I suppose I'll have to talk to the dive center.
That's lame -- if I can run a marathon, can't I dive?
Oh, and yes, there is quite a large Cal/Stanford rivalry. I generally don't take it too seriously, but I was there, and the campus was there... :)
My little brother got into Berkeley and, since I have no idea who their big rival is, I decided to let Google figure it out for me. How funny that someone I know (well, someone Gwen knows, but who I've heard about many times) was on the first page of results.
And, yes, next time I see him, I'll flip him off for you.
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