Archives for June, 2009

Note to Self (and Blog): Things to do in Los Angeles

I’m going back to Los Ange­les in August for a few days, and I’m already look­ing for­ward to it. I miss my fam­ily and being myself.

Things I need to do, aside from my usual Los Ange­les run (San­touka Ramen, All-You-Can-Eat Korean BBQ, Bro­dard, Jin Patis­serie):

1. Kogi Taco Truck
2. Nom Nom Truck
3. Mul­hol­land Drive
4. Bazaar
5. Grif­fith Observatory
6. See a movie in the cemetery

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Something Cellulosis

While I was sleep­ing, a nice crust sealed my left eye shut and pry­ing it open resulted in red­ness and swelling. I showed my eye doc­tor and asked him if he could fix me. Then I cringed when he said he wanted me to see a spe­cial­ist because that basi­cally means that my con­di­tion is abnor­mal or uncom­mon enough that a nor­mal doc­tor can’t cure it.

When­ever I’m prompted to see a spe­cial­ist, three ques­tions usu­ally fol­low: Will I need surgery? Is it can­cer? Am I going to die (or, in this case, am I going to go blind)? I didn’t think it was any­thing to worry about until he said he wanted me to see the spe­cial­ist today or first thing tomor­row morn­ing, but not any time later than that. I am keep­ing my fin­gers crossed that it’s just a run-of-the-mill pink eye and not any­thing worse.

In the mean­time, I’ve come up with three ways to con­ceal my bloody eye:

a. Wear an eye patch (the easy way out)
b. Be in a per­pet­ual state of wink­ing
c. Be in a per­pet­ual state of drunk­e­ness, so both my eyes and face will be red

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Notes for the Future

When I have kids, I’m tempted to give them bizarre names so they can have twitter.com/firstname or firstname@gmail.com if they so please.

I am mostly just upset that some­one beat me to facebook.com/mindy.

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New Design!

Recently I pur­chased a new Mac­book Pro, which I named Her­mes after the Futu­rama char­ac­ter, and I love it (my iPhone is named Leelu after the nar­whal, so I thought I should stick with the theme). I have din­ner with Her­mes, I look for­ward to com­ing home from work just to be with Her­mes, and I enjoy mak­ing pub­lic appear­ances in cafes with Her­mes. I often read over and try to mem­o­rize his specs, just as I would do with any Face­book crush’s profile.

I thought we should work on a project together, so I sat down a month ago and designed this site. I would count this as a re-design, but that would imply that my pre­vi­ous lay­out was an actual attempt at design, when it was really me past­ing a bunch of Textpat­tern tags in a textarea.

I’m still iron­ing out the kinks! And I’m sorry PC peo­ple– this site has only been tested on a Mac. I spend far too much time in Par­al­lels at work so I’m rather tired of it by the time I get home.

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