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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Finding Motivation

I remember my senior year of high school. After AP exams were over - Senioritis set in. A terrible lack of motivation. Of course, for me, taking a break could only be temporary, since I was still having to prepare for graduation, nationals in debate, and a strolling strings tour of Europe. And after all of that, I was working fulltime in a lab at WashU before Stanford started.

I guess for me, I really haven't had a time to be on a break. But now, it's senior year of college and I've found a job. GREs and applying to graduate school can wait now that I've decided to work at Google for the time being. Yesterday, I received word that my petition to stay on campus as an RA and finish my thesis Spring quarter has been approved, meaning I don't have to take any classes. It's going to be Camp Stanford for me.

So with anticipation of partying, enjoying my last quarter without classes, and spending quality time with friends, I've lost a whole lot of motivation to finish up the last two classes I need to take. I made a conscious choice tonight to skip class, something I rarely do, since I'm so sick of superficial discussions and classmates who say the most asinine things. Am I wrong to be so unmotivated? How do I get motivated, especially when more exciting and pressing things, like my senior thesis, Stanford basketball, Jenny, and photography are available?

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blades of Glory

Is Will Ferrell crazy or a genius? Perhaps, both.

Watch the preview for his new movie, Blades of Glory.

The Wonders of Eyebrow Pluckers

So good, use everyday!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Tahoe, January 19-21, 2007

It's an annual tradition for dorms at Stanford to head up to Tahoe during the first few weeks of Winter Quarter. I've been on one each of my four years at Stanford, and each was plagued, in my opinion, by numerous problems or complaints. For example, Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior year snow-trips had numerous complaints - 1) Too many people crammed in a house, 2) Having to sleep on a hardwood floor due to #1, 3) No food because the dining hall messed up our order, 4) No time to ski since rentals took so long to get, and 5) Headaches from the high altitude/falling/sun/dehydration. So, as an RA, I finally was responsible for helping plan one of these events, and for what it's worth, I give credit for anyone who takes the time and effort to plan such a trip. It's quite and undertaking and something you wouldn't realize until you did it yourself. We had originally delegated responsibility to a snow-trip committee, which did do a great job ordering food, a bus, a house to stay in, and group lift tickets and rentals. Unfortunately, in the final few days before the trip began, I suddenly became responsible for making sure everyone signed waivers, paid money for lift tickets and rentals, and was where they needed to be every hour of the day. And that took a long time, but in the end, we had a gorgeous house to stay in that was carpeted with plenty of sleeping space, the weather was beautiful, we had plenty of good food, and no hiccups with the bus, lift tickets, or rentals.

Logistics aside, skiing was great. I hadn't gone since last year and I try to make the most of my day, skiing from 9AM-4PM. I hit up plenty of advanced slopes and had plenty of fun flying down the mountainside at breakneck speed. The weather was beautiful - in the upper 40s and clear skies, but there wasn't a lot of snow on the ground, meaning some areas were a bit icy while other black diamond runs were closed all together. Also, I decided to take my camera up on the slopes of Heavenly. Unfortunately, my camera battery was already on its last breath, so I only took a few pictures. Although pictures are supposed to capture the essence of a place, the view of Lake Tahoe from Heavenly and being 10,000 feet above sea level is an experience that cannot be captured on film. The crisp, cold air, the smell of evergreen trees, the panoramic view of Tahoe. Here's a shot of the sunrise from our house:

A view of Lake Tahoe from the slopes:


A wider shot from the same location:

Tahoe

Hi :D

First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Jenny, and you can find my hands and face in the backdrop to some of the food pics of NY that Reid recently posted.

Reid is off in Tahoe right now, being a snow manbunny. I'm sure he'll be posting his many many pictures and a lol rather lengthy writeup on how fun it was tomorrow night in between his class reading.

Ppl really do have a much more productive time when they're off campus.

Ian McEwan said that the best thing about his Masters in English was the amount of time that it gave him to write. I wish I didn't hear about this right before this weekend, because of course then I go and compare how I'm spending my time in college and now we all feel bad about ourselves.

My weekend consisted of watching Prince of Tennis, many many movies, and a couple of MTV shows. Click on the link to Prince of Tennis and please get addicted and watch episode 176 so we can argue or shake our fists together about the ending. Back to what I was saying, I only regret watching those MTV shows. The others (The Queen, Akeelah and the Bees, Freaky Friday) were quite good if not thank god I saw them types of movies. The only time when Ian McEwan didn't bug me was when I reread Dandelion Wine. Later I decided that if all those hours of slouching was a domino effect that led me to read the book Dandelion Wine again, then those hours were not wasted, and that makes me feel much better. I think if I ever had a kindred spirit as Anne (oGG) always harps about, the requirement would be that we feel the same way about Dandelion Wine.

Anyhoo that's it for now. It's nice that Reid has these automatically saved passwords. And I do feel right at home using it for my own happy thoughts. This seems to be absolutely begging for an [Evil smile] right here. But really, going out *for like forever* has basically erased all qualms whatsoever of dabbling in the other person's blog, food, COUGH car COUGH COUGH COUGH.

Although I've always felt that Reid has always taken my Aim profile too liberally to write about what he thinks I think about him. I'll end this blog with a grr now that I think about about that again.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Finding Motivation

I remember my senior year of high school. After AP exams were over - Senioritis set in. A terrible lack of motivation. Of course, for me, taking a break could only be temporary, since I was still having to prepare for graduation, nationals in debate, and a strolling strings tour of Europe. And after all of that, I was working fulltime in a lab at WashU before Stanford started.

I guess for me, I really haven't had a time to be on a break. But now, it's senior year of college and I've found a job. GREs and applying to graduate school can wait now that I've decided to work at Google for the time being. Yesterday, I received word that my petition to stay on campus as an RA and finish my thesis Spring quarter has been approved, meaning I don't have to take any classes. It's going to be Camp Stanford for me.

So with anticipation of partying, enjoying my last quarter without classes, and spending quality time with friends, I've lost a whole lot of motivation to finish up the last two classes I need to take. I made a conscious choice tonight to skip class, something I rarely do, since I'm so sick of superficial discussions and classmates who say the most asinine things. Am I wrong to be so unmotivated? How do I get motivated, especially when more exciting and pressing things, like my senior thesis, Stanford basketball, Jenny, and photography are available?

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blades of Glory

Is Will Ferrell crazy or a genius? Perhaps, both.

Watch the preview for his new movie, Blades of Glory.

The Wonders of Eyebrow Pluckers

So good, use everyday!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Tahoe, January 19-21, 2007

It's an annual tradition for dorms at Stanford to head up to Tahoe during the first few weeks of Winter Quarter. I've been on one each of my four years at Stanford, and each was plagued, in my opinion, by numerous problems or complaints. For example, Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior year snow-trips had numerous complaints - 1) Too many people crammed in a house, 2) Having to sleep on a hardwood floor due to #1, 3) No food because the dining hall messed up our order, 4) No time to ski since rentals took so long to get, and 5) Headaches from the high altitude/falling/sun/dehydration. So, as an RA, I finally was responsible for helping plan one of these events, and for what it's worth, I give credit for anyone who takes the time and effort to plan such a trip. It's quite and undertaking and something you wouldn't realize until you did it yourself. We had originally delegated responsibility to a snow-trip committee, which did do a great job ordering food, a bus, a house to stay in, and group lift tickets and rentals. Unfortunately, in the final few days before the trip began, I suddenly became responsible for making sure everyone signed waivers, paid money for lift tickets and rentals, and was where they needed to be every hour of the day. And that took a long time, but in the end, we had a gorgeous house to stay in that was carpeted with plenty of sleeping space, the weather was beautiful, we had plenty of good food, and no hiccups with the bus, lift tickets, or rentals.

Logistics aside, skiing was great. I hadn't gone since last year and I try to make the most of my day, skiing from 9AM-4PM. I hit up plenty of advanced slopes and had plenty of fun flying down the mountainside at breakneck speed. The weather was beautiful - in the upper 40s and clear skies, but there wasn't a lot of snow on the ground, meaning some areas were a bit icy while other black diamond runs were closed all together. Also, I decided to take my camera up on the slopes of Heavenly. Unfortunately, my camera battery was already on its last breath, so I only took a few pictures. Although pictures are supposed to capture the essence of a place, the view of Lake Tahoe from Heavenly and being 10,000 feet above sea level is an experience that cannot be captured on film. The crisp, cold air, the smell of evergreen trees, the panoramic view of Tahoe. Here's a shot of the sunrise from our house:

A view of Lake Tahoe from the slopes:


A wider shot from the same location:

Tahoe

Hi :D

First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Jenny, and you can find my hands and face in the backdrop to some of the food pics of NY that Reid recently posted.

Reid is off in Tahoe right now, being a snow manbunny. I'm sure he'll be posting his many many pictures and a lol rather lengthy writeup on how fun it was tomorrow night in between his class reading.

Ppl really do have a much more productive time when they're off campus.

Ian McEwan said that the best thing about his Masters in English was the amount of time that it gave him to write. I wish I didn't hear about this right before this weekend, because of course then I go and compare how I'm spending my time in college and now we all feel bad about ourselves.

My weekend consisted of watching Prince of Tennis, many many movies, and a couple of MTV shows. Click on the link to Prince of Tennis and please get addicted and watch episode 176 so we can argue or shake our fists together about the ending. Back to what I was saying, I only regret watching those MTV shows. The others (The Queen, Akeelah and the Bees, Freaky Friday) were quite good if not thank god I saw them types of movies. The only time when Ian McEwan didn't bug me was when I reread Dandelion Wine. Later I decided that if all those hours of slouching was a domino effect that led me to read the book Dandelion Wine again, then those hours were not wasted, and that makes me feel much better. I think if I ever had a kindred spirit as Anne (oGG) always harps about, the requirement would be that we feel the same way about Dandelion Wine.

Anyhoo that's it for now. It's nice that Reid has these automatically saved passwords. And I do feel right at home using it for my own happy thoughts. This seems to be absolutely begging for an [Evil smile] right here. But really, going out *for like forever* has basically erased all qualms whatsoever of dabbling in the other person's blog, food, COUGH car COUGH COUGH COUGH.

Although I've always felt that Reid has always taken my Aim profile too liberally to write about what he thinks I think about him. I'll end this blog with a grr now that I think about about that again.