Supershuttle!

I'm heading to Hawaii for Stacey's wedding!! Yay!!!!!

I drove into work today to park and then grab CalTrain/bus/cab to the airport. Whatever would be the easiest. I looked up some routes before I left, but all of the options would change depending on when I arrived at the garage, so I thought I'd just wait until I got there and ask the parking guys what they would recommend. They said the Supershuttle!

I figured I needed a reservation, but I called and was picked up within about 15 minutes. It was just about the scariest ride i've ever had to the airport (scarier than the taxis in Beijing), but it was only $17! Woohoo!

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UFC

I took Josh out to a bar for the fight tonight to celebrate his birthday - which was earlier this month. We invited some of his friends and headed to the 2nd best sports bar in the country (voted by sports illustrated in 2004) in San Leandro.

UFC is a strangely compelling sport. Not something I ever would've thought I could enjoy - but something I find myself enjoying somehow. I don't know that I would still seek it out if I didn't have a boyfriend who was an enthusiast, but who knows? It's always interesting to watch people fight. Why is that? When a fight used to break out at school, everyone would stop what they were doing and watch.

In UFC, it's a little different from a schoolyard brawl because it's organized fighting done (usually. ...er, sometimes) with a lot of respect for the sport - not just the desire to beat the hell out of someone. But, yeah... It's like watching genres battle it out, (you'd probably have to watch it to really understand what I mean) and that's strangely interesting in itself.


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Sunday

My camera phone is going haywire - but the effect is kind of cool. :)

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Edwardian faire

Steam punk.

:)

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Sculpture garden

When I was 11, I decided that when I graduated high school I would move to California and attend UCLA to study theater.

This is the sculpture garden outside of the UCLA theater department.

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Shahrukh Khan

In the black to the right of the umbrella.

They're filming a movie on the campus of UCLA.

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I love NYC

There's way too much to tell... I was there for work, but did my best to soak in everything I could when I was free. I barely slept. At one point, I actually felt like I was hallucinating from lack of sleep.

I love New York!!

The highlights include:

The soon to be famous Holly Chou.
My brilliant and talented friend John Mok and some great live music.
Hanging out with Pattycake, my favorite baker's man.
Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater.
The Ninja Restaurant.
The Roommate Grace Hotel.
August: Osage County the play.

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Hello NY!

Just landed and am in a taxi heading to the city. I was surprised to find all of the *ahem* foreign looking service people in the airport speaking clear English. Hehe, it's just not something you usually find in SF.
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Colorado Springs

They keeping changing the roads in this city. Add my terrible sense of direction to moving roads and I'm perpetually lost. The strip malls on repeat don't help. If it wasn't for the mountains giving me a point of reference, I think I would lose my mind trying to get from one place to another.

It's nice to see my family and old friends, the stars, and open space between cities. I love the forest and the way people smile at you from passing cars, and the customer service can't be beat.

The dry air is making my face breakout, although my hair looks amazing. I can't seem to sleep at this altitude, so i'm always tired and always attempting to nap.

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ILM

oh no! Darth vader has our heads!!

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Dedicated to the artist...

As I walk out the door, I say to Allison "goodbye - I'm never coming back!". She smiles, I wave...and I find myself with a strange sense of freedom - like maybe I won't go back. What would happen if at this moment I just took what I had with me and left... ?

As my step lightens, I'm all of a sudden hit with this thought of impending doom - that maybe I'll get shot or I'll accidentally walk into traffic (as I'm typing this very moment while I'm walking) and I won't actually go back. Like, I nonchalantly, unintentionally predicted my own death and, when word gets back to the office, after the initial shock wears off, at some point Allison will realize that just before I left I actually said I was never coming back. Now it all seems so significant...

And then someone will discover this - my blog. "Did you know that Kristen was writing about this exact moment (meaning the one right now where you're reading this) just before she died? I feel so uncomfortable and inspired at the same time (this is me channeling you in the first person from my life before death - clever, eh? heh heh - yeah, okay, not really... clever, I mean)".

....

I continue to walk. Nothing's happening to me. No guns. No fire from the sky. Cars are dodging me left and right. I'm strangely invincible... There is a strong smell of tar in the air. I breathe it in deeply.

Making my way back to the office, I start to think, maybe it's good thing that I haven't had scaffolding fall on me. Maybe it's okay to return to the office with a sense of relief that I have survived ...

I say hello to Allison. She acts like she didn't even notice that I said I was never coming back...


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Breaktime for Billy

From earlier today...

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Phantom

We rushed to get here, find parking, grab a quick bite... and it turns out I had the time wrong! Show starts at 8pm not 7 (Berkeley Rep has me thinking all Wednesday night theater starts at 7).

... So we sit in Starbucks and wait while Hallelujah plays over the PA...

We saw a bunch of people getting arrested on our way over. A girl in a shiny jumpsuit stood on the side of the road in handcuffs surrounded by her baggy clothed friends, cops, flashing lights, passersby... Something about it made me really sad.

Josh is reading Odd News and eating nuts. "Bull storms mall, scares shoppers"

We've moved on to smooth jazz and Christmas songs ... Some guys made room for us at the window bar ... I have a terrible feeling that i'm not really drinking decaf ... A really old guy in a red beanie just rolled by on a razor scooter ... We still have 45 minutes to go ...

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Fish taco day!

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