...in on Sunday, and when we eventually woke up, wandered down to the Spice of Life festival and spent a delightful afternoon there, dodging the political booths (and accidentally snubbing the Mayor of Berkeley, who we actually kinda like, oops) and making our way to the ones with food (Roast corn! Colorful candy! Hog Island oysters!) and entertainment (Country Joe McDonald!). I cooked dinner and we...

I've been told that I live in a fairytale world, where plans go according to planned, a world where love is simple and pure, a world where people always have good intentions and good hearts. Sometimes...often vomit it feels like i'm dying but only, i'm not. i'm never dying. i just wish i were. and then afterwards, i pick myself up again, plaster on a not-so-new smile and grin and bear it.

...don't have caffeine after midday these days. Tomorrow I need to go to bed early. Last night I was up until 3:00 AM watching Weeds and Alias. Oh yeah, I was on BART because I took my sister back to Berkeley. She visited this weekend, which was awesome, so we drove to BART today and parted ways at the Berkeley station. I wish I had had more time to go see some friends, but I wanted to get home at...

So I went down to the Tang Center yesterday to get myself checked out at Alpha's behest (kinda ran a super high fever the night prior); got there around 3:30 PM, was sent to the Urgent Care department...tonight. sick, drained, lovelorn, angst-ridden, and just overall bad. i wish i didn't have to go to class monday. i guess i could skip, but iclicker points! they add up :[ someone bring me soooup.

18 October 2008; 5:16 AM.

As far as socialist realism goes, this is not very impressive: Is the city of Berkeley finally broke? What, they couldn't commission statues over 2-3 times size of an average adult? Vera Mukhina's Worker and Collective Farm Girl grew up to be 24 meters : In my native Kharkov monument to Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko the "Kobzar" alone is 5.5 meters tall . Taras is the top figure...

I went to Mike's Bikes in Berkeley for a race tonight. Originally I had gone there to buy a lock, but then I saw the sign, which compelled me. It compelled me . I went alone, with no expectations other than to race and see how I did.  There was this huge crowd I wasn't expecting, with people from all over the Bay Area. I didn't see anyone I knew, but I decided to stay and see what happened. There...

It was still midterms. Unfortunately, going to a high school homecoming, finding out the guy you were still hung up on had a date with someone else, and having most of your friends temporarily losing their...didn't count as grounds to miss exams. Which was really just another reason for her to miss Fandom, really. Ignore the drool on the textbook. She was conjugating Latin via osmosis. [ooc: For one!]

I don't go to class. I watch the webcast. Right now I'm on the ecology section. My lecturer just said "orgasm" instead of "organism." Today is a great day for science.

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Sather Gate , one of the two most iconic images of the UC Berkeley campus. Now, it appears that it's going onto the operating table before it falls down: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/13/BA0J13GBMG.DTL Says the article: The bronze work was beginning to split and bulge at the seams, and the interior steel frame was disintegrating...