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...from MP via Google Reader

This made me smile. Happy Friday!

So if life gives you lemons, you look at those lemons, shake your head no and throw those lemons back in life’s face and say: I wanted limes mothafucka! LIMES!!!  - John Mayer

 

I miss this.

The start..., originally uploaded by ccchristineeee.

Next year, definitely will be running something next year.

<3

Erwin proposed to Amanda a couple weeks ago (hooraaaaay).  Congratulations you two!!!

Her name is Angel ;)

An email from my Dad

Side note: I did NOT ask that they get me anything. Hahaha...

 

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:36 AM wrote:

Hi Chris -

We are on our way back to the ship from Puerto Vallarta.
Your mom is asking what tequilla you want Reposado or Patron or Don Julio?

Ok bye.

Dad & Mom

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

1234am

Back from LA & I can't sleep.

Leo the Lion

1101pm

Lovespace

Currently I'm jammin to Roza & Shred One's newest mixtape... LOVESPACE: love and space and all that fills it.  I know all you Cal heads know Roza too, so go support her & geeeett it.  Like it's even a question, it's free!

Digressing: while I should be doing some group work for my community development class, I've instead been packing for a much needed mini-trip to LA, of course, to see some of my bestests... HI AMANDA & CHRISTIE... shout outs!  Initially the weekend was gonna be laid back & chill, but then we started throwing out ideas (and by we I mean Xtie... lol) and now it's jam packed with things.  The main highlights will include the Maxwell show at the Hollywood Bowl and the CAL/UCLA game.  Add in mandatory tailgating, a night (or two) out, eating (each that are events in and of themselves), Sunday at the Do-Over and I'd call it a weekend.  

Looking forward, definitely.

Let LOVE be your only motive.

I forgot where I heard/read/came across this, but it happened some time in college.  Out of nowhere, really, I remembered it today.  If I had a single life leading mantra, this just might be it. 

Week 8

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Been in the middle of two group projects and while I should've enjoyed this Columbus/Indigenous People's Day off (thank you City & County of SF), I did not.  Instead, I've been knee deep in reading, group work, and Google SketchUp-ing (see photo) for a mock development project.  So begins Week 8 of the semester...  All I'm looking forward to is getting Friday off & flying down to LA :)  Oh, Maxwell your voice is like butta.

In case you were wondering.. the model depicts use types and not actual buildings [by color (red for retail, blue for office, yellow for residential, brown for existing historic buildings, green for parks, grey for parking)] and height requirements in the context of an existing city (buildings shown in white).  By no means would an actual development be so blocky ;)  

On to the next one

I got a million ways to get it
Choose one / Bring it back
Now double your money and make it stack   - JHova

 

Been thinking (more often than I'd like) about the choices made to get me where I'm at right now... there are the ones I will always remember, the ones I try so hard to forget, and many in between.  No doubt, I feel blessed with the opportunities that have resulted from the greatest of choices, but with the world we live in today, it's much too easy to compare lives and trace down those choices/alternatives made that make each of us completely different.  Finding myself in this funkiness got me thinking about an essay that appeared last month in the NYTimes.  It's well written and highly recommended... The Referendum (T. Kreider).

At the crux of it all... and for the lazies ;)...

• "The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife, whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their peers’ differing choices with reactions ranging from envy to contempt. The Referendum can subtly poison formerly close and uncomplicated relationships, creating tensions between the married and the single, the childless and parents, careerists and the stay-at-home. It’s exacerbated by the far greater diversity of options available to us now than a few decades ago, when everyone had to follow the same drill. We’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated — that we are, in some sense, winning."
• "One of the hardest things to look at in this life is the lives we didn’t lead, the path not taken, potential left unfulfilled. In stories, those who look back — Lot’s wife, Orpheus and Eurydice — are lost. Looking to the side instead, to gauge how our companions are faring, is a way of glancing at a safer reflection of what we cannot directly bear, like Perseus seeing the Gorgon safely mirrored in his shield."

A case of the...

Good job today, self.  Made it to work by 7a & left by 430p with an Ocean Beach/GG Park bike ride at 530.  Now, time for homework!  Currently reading: Coulson & Leichenko (2004), a study about historical designation and its association with demographic change in neighborhoods.  Does preservation of historic or architecturally significant properties really lead to neighborhood gentrification?  After this article, me thinks not. 

Meet my new bike.  I haven't named her yet, but ain't she a beauty ;)  Picked up a hybrid for SF riding... Hopefully one day I'll acquire a nice lil' road bike too.

Bike