September 2010

That one time I almost missed the GRE

September 27, 2010 at 14:44 pm · 0 comments

Well, on Saturday I took the GRE! As you may have noticed on Twitter, the day did not start out very smoothly. In fact, it started out with me stuck in traffic for far too long on the way up to San Jose to take the test. A truck full of red peppers had tipped [...]

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Fresh Meat!! :D

September 20, 2010 at 22:21 pm · 5 comments

This past Saturday was bootcamp/tryouts for the Monterey Bay Derby Dames. I am happy to say that Jill and I are both Fresh Meat now, which means we enter a 12-week training period before taking a written test and a skills test in order to become bout-eligible. I participated in my first practice tonight and [...]

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Day Zero project update: the 1-year mark

September 2, 2010 at 11:07 am · 4 comments

One year ago yesterday I started my Day Zero project. I can’t believe it’s been 365 days! Only 636 days left. So far I have accomplished 19/101 goals: Teach a class/workshop [4/30/2010] Attend SXSW [3/12–3/16/2010] Bookmark 500 interesting sites (500/500) [7/7/2010] Take a vacation to a place I’ve never been [1/16–1/18/2010] Visit Las Vegas [4/19–4/23/2010] [...]

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