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My own spot to rant about my day.
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wSunday, April 27, 2003 |
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Yesterday Dave and I went to my favorite event that UCLA puts on-- The Festival of Books. Hundreds of book sellers and publishing houses, authors, cooking demonstrations . . .and the thing just gets bigger every year. It really impresses me that there can be an event dedicated to books that brings in thousands of people over a weekend. Dave and I managed to be pretty good about our book buying. We bought two children's french books for me. They're probably still way above my head but Dave's trying. We also picked up a California Cuisine cookbook (slightly pretenious but some good ideas) and a book of the best food writing of 2002. In trade, we donated three bags of books to Reading by 9, whom were really appreciative and gave us stickers. I think having all kids reading by nine versus a younger age is kinda sd, especially since I was reading at four, but the idea is pretty noble. Better to be reading at nine than not at all.
Today, house cleaning!
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nea at 3:53 PM
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wSunday, April 20, 2003 |
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Yay, lent is over and we can eat deep fried food again! What's funny is that I thought I'd miss french fries, since I eat them probably once or twice a week, but I totally don't. What I actually miss is orange chicken and fried calamari. But not badly enough to have to run out and get it as soon as possible. Nor did we get anything at midnight last night. Dave picked up donuts this morning after hitting the farmer's market, which I thought was an appropriate easter breakfast.
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nea at 12:25 PM
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wTuesday, April 15, 2003 |
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Had an interesting last couple of days. Sunday Dave and I went down to OC to help Greg move out into his own place. It was such an easy move compared to our last couple of moved. Greg had almost no furniture to move, and had both a dolly and a wheeled cart for us to pile boxes on. Made things very easy.
Of course, every move has its issues. Greg got a parking ticket for parking in two handicapped spots. There was nowhere else in the lot to park, and we had hoped to unload before anyone came. We figured out later that he would have been better off parking in the red, double-parking, or blocking other cars. Oh well. Also, a lot of Greg's stuff had been sitting in storage for four years. A storage place shared with a nice family of mice, who made friends with Greg's boxspring (we left that in storage) and died on a chair (we left that in storage too after Dave scraped off the mouse). Yuck. It was funny, though, a bunch of the boxes had my handwriting on them from when Greg moved home in '99. I think I am the only person who would label a box "GSB random crap." I'm looking forward to seeing the place once he's all moved in. The complex is just awesome - 24 hour fitness center, two pools, tennis court, full size washer and dryer in all the apartments, big balconies. . . I'm impressed.
Also, we learned on Sunday that the mother of a family friend had died. We were sad to learn about it, but also realized that she had been sick for a long time and it was just her time to go. Dave and I went and sat shivah last night for her. I had never been part of a minion or sat shivah before, and had only Dave's words (you sit and don't talk much) to go off of. It turned out to be really nice. They had a bunch of food laid out, and afterwards we went into the living room for a service. There were pictures and photo albums of Fay, our host's mother, everywhere for people to look through. The occasion turned out to be more of a nice get together with friends and family sharing stories than a melancholy, somber event.
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nea at 6:25 PM
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wSaturday, April 12, 2003 |
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dirty dirty nea.
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nea at 11:21 PM
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wThursday, April 10, 2003 |
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How cool is this? Alpha Phi Omega won the points of light award. I wondered how President Bush's "1,000 Points of Light" was being spread. For one day, it was spread to us.
http://www.pointsoflight.org/awards/AwardWinnerShow.cfm?AwardNum=2397
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nea at 8:25 PM
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