I haven't posted in a while. Stress from the note led into spring break, where I've been basking in the good life.

Since I last posted, I finished my note. Can't say I'm particularly proud of it, but it's also done and I now have one less thing to worry about. Now I just need to concern myself with a job hunt and the start of outlining. Oh outlining. How I've missed you. On the upside, nothing's going to be quite as intense as the epic IP outline of last semester.

Anyway, Spring Break's been incredibly relaxing. The exact break that I needed after what has so far shaped up to be a very hectic semester. Back to the grind tomorrow. Should be fun. Busy week coming up.

The week was terrible from a dieting perspective. I may have undone everything I worked for so far this semester. I did eat a lot of great food along the way.

Don't know where to start catching up with everything.

Went to one Noise Pop show. Saw Foreign Born. In order to get myself out to the show, I also had to go through some mental negotiations. Basically meant that I would work on my note until 9:30 in the library. I got a lot done in that time, but also missed the first band and half of the second. Second band (Free Energy, I think?) was very catchy. As was the third (Fresh & Onlys - they were kind of like surfer rock with a bit of a modern twist). And I really enjoyed Foreign Born. Great presence. I had to leave a little early because I parked in the Civic Center lot and it closes at midnight on weekdays. When I left the Rickshaw Stop, there was a Kara's Cupcake truck sitting outside. This obviously meant that I had to buy a cupcake. I guess it was good I did. As I was waiting outside the Rickshaw Stop and eating my cupcake, I heard Foreign Born playing Winter Games inside. That was like my favorite song from their last album. Good timing, I suppose. I was also supposed to go with Dinah to see Citay the day after that. Those plans fell through. I would have been sad but I don't know if I could have handled two shows in a row with all the school and internship stuff going on.

Finally saw the King Tut exhibit with the family. We actually went up to SF last Saturday. It sold out for the day by the time we got there. It actually took us forever to get to SF. We left SJ around 8, but stopped in Redwood to watch two depressing Serie A games (Fiorentina lost to Juve and Milan tied Roma). We then ate away our sorrows at the Mexican restaurant near Chabba's. Didn't get to the de Young until almost four. We bought tickets for the next day instead. It was for an early time, but it also meant that there was no line. It was still hella crowded, so I can only imagine what it is like later in the day. I really enjoyed the exhibit. It's absolutely insane that so much of that stuff is mostly intact. In a way, I found the exhibit to be depressing. Besides the fact that people's burial grounds were raided to get those items, it made me wonder what our modern society would leave behind 3000 years from now. It's especially depressing if you consider all of the disposal plastic items that we throw out every day that are still going to be around at the time.

I spent most of break hanging around San Jose. Tried to catch up on some of the reading I didn't do to write my note. Worked at day care. Did a lot of car swaps because all of the cars have decided to require maintenance at the same time. On Thursday night Chris and I drove down South. We'd been planning this for a while. Had to use the second half of our 2fer Pass. We were supposed to bring Laura too but that didn't pan out.

Anyway, as fate would have it, I managed to score a SoCal interview for Friday. I suppose we had some good timing with our trip. Spent Thursday night in Arcadia. Had dinner with Chris's parents after the interview and then drove down to Irvine. Met up with Ching-Yun at Guppy House. Shaved ice. Good stuff. I'm still upset that whole Diamond Jamboree Plaza appeared after I left Irvine.

As things would have it, we actually changed our plans on Friday night. Didn't end up going to CA Adventure because we had to swap cars with Gianni in San Diego and had planned a dinner with everyone else in the early evening. We could have fit in a short trip to Anaheim in there, but it would have made things super hectic. Carne asada fries with Gianni. Went to dinner with the gang at this Cuban/Spanish restaurant in Orange. It was so good. My favorite part was probably the Tres Leches Cake. It was also really nice seeing everyone again. It's always sad how infrequently I get to see everyone because of this whole norcal/socal thing.

Dinner last night kind of inspired me to want to create a food blog. Either that or actually start Yelping. With all of the recent problems with Yelp, I'm not as sure about that. I also like blogging more. More freedom. Less politics. No headaches for me. It makes sense. Almost all of my blogs tend to go off on food and all of my outings with Jeanne are turning me into quite a foodie. Going to start planning it out soon. It's too bad I didn't have my camera with me last night.

Drive back up to San Jose wasn't bad. Mia's flying up on Wed after her finals, so we had to take Brucey with us. He's sleeping next to me on the couch as I type. He's always great in cars, so it's unnecessary to say he was good on the car ride. Bruce may be a year and a half old by now, but he's still disgustingly cute.

I wrote a lot more than I thought I would. I guess I had a lot of things to write about. Wonder how much reading I could have accomplished in this time. Don't want to think about that right now.

Going to bed soon. Also, loving the new album by the Morning Benders. This has truly been a great year for music so far.