Current location:	greenlake
Current mood:	blah
Current music:	Nobody's Hippy - Kimya Dawson (She lives in Seattle - I heard her mention I-5 in a song!)

I'm nobody's hippy
Some guy on the bus said he remembered me at Uwajimaya - "You know you're a hippy when you have flowers in your hair!". Then I was asked at a vegan gathering if I was a hula-hooper. I said I haven't picked up a hula-hoop in years. Apparently this is some Burning Man thing.

I'm not a hippy or a hula-hooper. I'm just me >_<

What non-confidencial activities have I been up to of late...I'm afraid these blog posts are becoming more and more cryptic to the outside reader.

I started another inside joke in my office. My coworker A was very tired one morning and walked in and sort of did a "zombie wave" good morning to another co-worker, M. I asked A over IM if she had flashed a gang symbol to M because I didn't really see what she did. She then confirmed to M that she hadn't, but she invented her own gang symbol and gang name (with something so obscurely geeky I can't even figure it out). Now there is talk of gang wars in the office, and J (head dev) will be our "drug" supplier because he has the "noxious weed". True story.

Weather in Seattle has finally gotten nice!! But I am working and going to school al day. Thankfully, I live right across the street from a mothafuckin' LAKE, bitches.

I'm starting my Linguistic Typology class tomorrow - I'm really excited because I do like typology quite a bit. Going to read my papers in just a moment here :)

I got my tax refund so I went on a mini shopping spree on Etsy. I am so addicted. There are days when I tell people about Etsy and I find that inadvertently everything I am wearing is from etsy. For example: Nose jewelery, bag, yarn in hair, silk screened shirt, wrap pants. Not to mention my magic lip gloss and stuff in my bag.

Oh, this will come as a shock to some people. I have learned to embrace lemon juice in things IF I like the taste. Yes, I *knowingly* bought Eggplant hummus at Trader Joes and ate it. Gasp! On the other hand, I only just realized that some baguettes I bought have rye flour in them. I never noticed that before but it really bothers me - that food is psychologically conditioned to make me feel sick as I was forced to eat it in Baja.

I so love my Nokia N810. Let me do some Maths for you. This is what it can stand in for (assume PDA or phone can also do internet browsing):

• PDA
• Phone
• GPS device
• Music Player
• E-Book Reader

That comes out to about 45$ per function. All in one device! I also didn't mention that you could ssh into stuff. Wells Fargo gave me an Amazon gift card so I got a 16gb card so I can have all mai tunez with me at all times. *jams out to mario rap*

Now that I have a chunk-o-cash, I'm seriously thinking of getting a desktop box that I can run a mini server/SVN/Robot/webcam whatever on. Still thinking about it though. Should be able to get a cheap box somewhere...

My Japanese co-worker has this robot that tells him when to water his plant. It starts whining and whimpering and stuff if you don't give the plant water, but it's broken, so it whines all the time.

Somehow I haven't bought toilet paper or cat food in months and months. I live a frugal lifestyle :)

We got a new co-worker, S, who is Indian. She reminded me that I have a lot of bindis, so we decided to wear them more often. And of course, I looked on etsy..Oh my. I'm going to have to get some - there are really really awesome ones there, but it would be quite sad if I lost one.

Daiso is amazing. EVERY time I go in there they play a song that I know. And I don't know a lot of Japanese songs! They played almost all the Katamari ones and then last time they played Banzai - what a lovely interlude. I was even kind of singing along to it.

Sonja just went to sit in my lap. She smells a little bit like cat litter.

Time for reading!