7 December 2007 · Comment
Got back from Berkeley yesterday and it was kind of depressing so now I shall whine and whine about it!
Yay, whining! See the thing was, it was really nice to see so many of my friends (Unrelated David even drove down from Sacramento!), but at the same time it was really depressing because there wasn’t a place for me there anymore. Like, all their lives have been going on for the past six months without me and it’s only going to get worse and worse and I do not like to think about it. Is it really too much to ask for people to put their lives on hold while I’m not there? I would certainly say no.
But yeah, apart from the being sad it was a great trip. Hit a bunch of amazing restaurants, which was the main reason for going (ha ha, I know, I’m precious) and got in lots of quality time with people. Gorged on “The Office” with Jason and got all caught up on this season, celebrated Chanookah with Nathan and Unrelated David, watched “Superbad” with some delightful band kids (including Jordan, who got mad at me for not posting a stalker picture of him so I should do that in a minute), and visited Sarah and Junyi at Pixar and then a bunch of great people showed up and it was so happy!
I didn’t take many pictures because I was kind of down and it’s hard to see a place where you’ve lived for four years in an original way, but I’m sure I’ll go picture crazy when I go back and visit in the spring and it’ll be amazing! Plus Suzanne will be there! That was another reason why I was sad, and then I called her thinking it would cheer me up but then it just depressed me more knowing that she wasn’t there and then I was a big downer on the phone and it was bad news bears.
Okay, enough with the talky talky, let’s look at pictures! Starting with Jordan’s stalker information because he made such a big freaking deal about not getting one earlier, gosh.
This is Jordan! He’s yellow from painting the Big C with his body for band. We met through Suzanne when I was a freshman in college and he was but a senior in high school, and then we got to be friends when he came to Berkeley the next year and he slept on our couch like every night. And now he has the couch! Which is awesome because otherwise we were going to have to throw it away and that would have been so, so wrong.
A hamster! From when my family came to visit months ago, but I hadn’t been able to put it online because it got corrupted when I transferred it through a Linux computer and it was sad because this was the only cute picture I managed to take of the hamsters. This was at the same street vendor that sold pigeons and it was sad because all the pets get locked in a little stall at night, but like any good American, I was able to ignore the mistreatment of others and only focus on the cute things! Aww, I made myself sad.
This is the lawn in front of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, which is where the Prime Meridian was established! Duncan and I went there after he read a book about how hard it was to solve for ships’ longitudes and then we learned all about longitude and it was neat!
A dark alleyway in Venice! Venice was a nice change of pace because there isn’t a huge list of things you have to see before you leave, so you can just wander around and explore such things as creepy dark alleyways.
Piazza San Marco! See, the thing about Piazza San Marco is that it’s gross because there are all these pigeons everywhere and tourists buy food to give them and then the tourists get coated with pigeons and it just seems like the perfect way to restart the bubonic plague. Plus there’s a bunch of dead pigeons all over the place and it’s sad and gross. We think there are so many because when the tourists get swamped they accidentally step on some. Ick.
Duncan’s little toe! Which I am obsessed with and he thinks it’s bizarre (rightfully so). But just look at how wee it is!
A decoration from the side of a church! Yup.
Some reflections on the water! Yep, they’re orange and yellow and red.
Okay, I better pack it in for the night. I’ve got a big day of trying to make something of my filth hole of a room whilst simultaneously trying to avoid going into conniptions over housing prices in New York ahead of me. We’ll see how that goes, but I’m none too optimistic. Later!
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