It's time I posted something...

I keep meaning to. But then my laziness takes over. But I'm just sitting here in the kitchen right now and figured 'hey, what else am I doing right now...' I just had hot chocolate a little bit ago.

Alright, settin' some music on, as this post will need to cover a lot of information (and leave an even larger fraction out, I'm sure - there's way too much that has happened since my last post).

I think I will focus on the particularly fun and busy week I had last week. Because I still remember a lot of the details, and it was basically stuff happening every day. And then maybe I'll reflect back on other random things that have happened. I just realized I kinda wrote an abstract right there. So here we go.

Last Monday I went on a rather fabulous bike ride with some friends. We met at the shopping center with Chipotle and stuff and then went to the levee (by way of my house - I had decided to switch bikes). I've decided to use a different bike next year - not the really old green one from the last post. I figure - riding a bike on campus involves lots of weaving in and out of people and making tight turns and going off curbs and stuff - which really isn't what a thin wheeled, short handle-barred road bike is for. That thing was hard to turn quickly. So I'm using my brother's old bike now. It's a little messed up but it works. We went out on the levee past the bridge to an area where people go kite-surfing and stopped there for a little while, and then headed back because one of us had to go to work. After stopping at her house we headed back out again and went to this pretty cool place that's right around here, but where I still haven't been in years. There are huuuuuge concrete letters on the ground that spell out Foster City on the ground (look for it if you guys are flying into SFO and sitting on the left side of the plane). There's also a big area of bike jumps for bmx bikers and we chose a really big jump that nobody was using to sit on and enjoy the area. And then we went the other direction to a hotel with a cool gazebo thing. All in all I think we were out for about 4 hours.

That's the 'Y'!


On top of the big big jump.

Alright, on to Tuesday. As you can see this is going to be a pretty long post. We decided we wanted to visit some teachers at our high school. We also came up with the epic idea of going to Masu first, which is an all-you-can-eat sushi place. It's not one of the places with boats or conveyer belts where you pick plates and then pay by the plate-type - it's a flat fee, all you can eat. Which is great, because we ate a LOT. Oh man. We were so full. So then we went to visit teachers/coaches. And then a group of us went to see District 9. I managed to spill my icee before the movie even began. Likely going with a soda next time.

WEDNESDAY! I headed over to Berkeley on BART (which fortunately didn't go on strike after all). I met up with Adam first, and then we met up with Tyler for lunch. Tyler took me to the machine shop to show me what he's been doing for a lot of this summer. Then, while he had work to do and a meeting with a professor, and Adam had an audition, I wandered around campus for a little bit. Adam's audition finished up really quickly though so then he showed me around some parts of the campus that I would've had a hard time finding otherwise. Saw this sign.

These are plants. You must go AROUND.
(Can kinda hear Mitch Hedburg saying that)

We met back up with Tyler and went to see the underground stacks. I'd wanted to see them since a long time ago but couldn't get in. Then this year we found out that Stanford and Berkeley's libraries have some affiliation thing so I was able to get down there. We also checked out the Asian-American studies building (or something) which was pretty cool - the architecture and stuff are pretty neat to look at. Afterward we headed to see Tyler's new apartment. Much Rock Band ensued. Later I gave Adam his birthday present (it was his birthday) - that amazing Ghandi card that I found last year and the 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' book. We went to eat at CHEESEBOARD (which was a part of the reason I had wanted to come). It's a pizza place - no meat, only one type of pizza per day, and somehow basically always amazing. Our pizza had squash, cheese, pesto sauce... and it was AMAZING. Sounds like I might go with my parents to meet Tyler for lunch in the next few weeks and eat there again. Yayyy. That night my bed consisted of two lounge chairs, and office chair, and two towels ('pillow' towel and 'blanket' towel). Before leaving the next day I had about the largest burger I've ever had.

FRIDAY. What did I do........... I remember I did something. Hold on.
OH YEAH. Okay. I went to Stanford that night with a friend that plays the flute. We played some music and then went to the downtown Coupa Cafe.

Mmmmm.

Then a bit past 11 a couple other friends came to my house to watch 'Fracture' (which I told some of you about last year, yeah? We need to watch it this year). It was fun.

So, that was a good week.

I've also been watching T.V. with our family friends, practicing lots of music, and (still) sleeping a lot. And we had a cross country reunion a while back, which was funnn.

I found out about a path near here that I really want to try out - it looks like a REALLY nice place to run/bike/roller-blade. There's also a hiking trail that I wanna hike. I'm realizing there's a good bit I'd still like to do before going back to school. Also I think it sounds fun to just take a drive out toward half-moon bay, just for the fun of it.

I think this is long enough. =)