3/30/13

1. Seeing the train come by while I was still walking up the hill and just making it after sprinting.
2. KR being cool about me having totally overslept and late to a 1pm meeting.
3. My mentor SM coming by to help me install Linux on a virtual machine and enthusiastically teaching me more command line tricks.
4. Video chatting with Dan for the first time in a couple days.
5. Meeting a bunch of co-workers' significant others at RC's housewarming party and getting to talk to them 1:1.
6. T-Rex piñata hilarity.

A year ago today.

3/29/13

1. Skipping out on having to tell a joke due to being late.
2. Classmates in fun dresses for Formal Friday.
3. Setting up a workstation with laptop hooked up to a monitor.
4. Ordering the parts for my project!!
5. Video chatting with EM over lunch to catch up with her.
6. Getting to talking to EL and finding out that we have a lot in common.

A year ago today.

3/28/13

1. Being productive in the morning and putting together slides for a short tech talk after waking up unexpectedly early.
2. Realizing I hadn't actually turned the rice cooker on to cook while I worked.
3. My talk on Managing Your Energy going over pretty well.
4. Getting an influx of tips on how to finally develop a regular flossing habit--floss in the shower!
5. BBQ dinner with JW and IS.
6. Getting to the stop just in time to take the N-Judah home.

A year ago today.

3/27/13

1. Talking to Dan on the phone in the morning.
2. Organizing various class documents and events onto Google Drive and Calendar.
3. Getting RC to print out a paper that CF suggested I read.
4. Meeting up with my mentor AB and having a good talk with her that generated various project ideas.
5. Realizing I was at my stop to get off right before the doors closed.
6. Reading the paper and getting excited about gesture-based authentication.

A year ago today.

3/26/13

1. Feeling much better after sleeping a bit more.
2. More banh mi sandwiches for lunch (chicken meatball and avocado) and dinner (BBQ pork).
3. Getting a picture with Sheryl Sandberg!
4. SB pointing out that the free copies of Lean In that they were giving out were already signed.
5. Getting a ride back to SF and back in the apartment by 9:30.
6. Making another batch of red duck curry, this time with two cans of coconut milk to make it thicker and richer.

A year ago today.

3/25/13

1. Making a grocery run in the morning to get the produce for making red duck curry again.
2. Getting tons of compliments on the simple cowl-neck black dress + gold bug belt outfit today. It's much more fun to dress up for girls!
3. Successfully piecing together a few different parts of our task app projects, including user login sessions.
4. Calling Dan for a few minutes while on the afternoon break.
5. Discussing project ideas with LH and CF and getting positive feedback on how I've been doing thus far.
6. Remembering I still had some yogurt in the fridge for a non-cooking dinner.

A year ago today.

3/24/13

1. Waking up well-rested and lounging around re-reading Sunshine for a bit.
2. Meeting up with SP for brunch!
3. Driving by the beach to see the view.
4. Stopping by a random open house on the way back.
5. Efficient washing and drying machines at the laundromat.
6. Making turkey meatballs for the week.

A year ago today.

3/23/13

1. Beautiful day for our hiking trip out to Point Reyes.
2. Getting to know GM/MW/KR better across the trip.
3. Fresh raw oysters and fish tacos at The Marshall Store with a great view of the water.
4. MW driving me to a Safeway to a quick groceries run and dropping me off in Sunset.
5. Seeing AQ's adorable house and hanging out in the backyard, sipping wine.
6. Carnitas tacos with guacamole and coleslaw for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/22/13

1. Making a Trader Joe's run in the morning to pick up fixings for sangria.
2. Getting an amazingly delicious pork combo banh mi for lunch--warm and crusty bread, moist and flavorful meat, mixture of crunchy textures and sweet/sour tastes...so good!!!
3. Figuring out how to tie different SQL query functions together in our Python/Flask web app, very cool!
4. Watching Warriors of the Net with the class while drinking sangria.
5. KK agreeing with me to listen to the extra talk on geolocation since it was less brain power than going back to coding.
6. Catching up with Dan over video gChat after only talking to him on the phone the last few days.

A year ago today.

3/21/13

1. Finding my bento box safely in my cubby still.
2. Leftover pad thai in the fridge for a free lunch.
3. Remembering to go pick up more cough drops.
4. Guacamole at the team dinner.
5. Hilarious stories about BM's random weird hobbies.
6. Getting a taxi ride back courtesy of BM.

A year ago today.

3/20/13

1. Making a Trader Joe's grocery run at lunch.
2. Helping AC with the Exercise 7 dictionary problem.
3. Meeting a bunch of Hackbright alumna in person for the first time, including the super helpful Michelle Glauser!
4. Yummy Thai food at the mentor mixer night.
5. Eventually finding both of my assigned mentors and getting to know them.
6. Remembering to grab my bags of groceries to bring home.

A year ago today.

3/19/13

1. Remembering to pack gym clothes in the morning.
2. Calling Dan on the way to the gym.
3. Intake guy being cool about me wanting to focus on performance goals instead of weight loss.
4. Intake guy at the gym mostly approving of my squat form.
5. Not getting too soaked in the drizzle in the evening.
6. Having crackers and clementines to stave off my hunger a bit.

A year ago today.

3/18/13

1. Learning about the different operating systems and finally understanding what Ubuntu is in relation to Linux and Unix.
2. Demo of what a Raspberry Pi actually does + Arduino board...gotta think about project ideas now.
3. Succeeding at converting our Markov text generator to be a Twitter bot!
4. Helping a few people when they got stuck on their Markov text generators.
5. Broiling my second grilled cheese sandwich to be perfectly toasted brown on both sides (I burned the first one).
6. Finding out from RC that we don't have to fill out the whole new tool for this round of performance review so I could mostly just use what I had already written up before my leave.

A year ago today.

3/17/13

1. Pinging with EM in the morning.
2. Making the bus just in time.
3. Picking up a few more lovely vintage dresses.
4. Getting a fish taco and nachos from the place near the convention center, which is also where I had authentic tacos for the first time 3 years ago when I went to the SF Vintage Expo as my first vintage show.
5. Getting a few storage items from Ichiban-Kan.
6. Catching up with DC over the phone.

A year ago today.

3/16/13

1. Sleeping in until 11 (only woke up once last night).
2. Omelette with goat cheese, basil, scallion, red peppers, and avocado for breakfast.
3. SF Vintage Fashion Expo delightfulness, found several dresses with interesting colors and prints.
4. Getting back in time to help RC put down the faux fur rug under the coffee table.
5. Beef noodle soup for dinner.
6. Catching up on logging my notes from the last week of Hackbright.

A year ago today.

3/15/13

1. Making the morning shuttle in plenty of time.
2. Delicious hot breakfast: sweet potato hash, pork belly, scrambled eggs, and eggs Florentine.
3. Lunch with AQ! The caramelized onion with blue cheese pizza was particularly good.
4. AQ helping me find a medicine cabinet stocked with cough drops.
5. Going over to see JM.
6. Napping a bit on the shuttle back but didn't miss my stop.

A year ago today.

3/14/13

1. Swiss chard and omelette lunch just as good on the second day.
2. Finishing the Markov text generator project.
3. Chatting with DG during downtime.
4. Crawling into bed early.
5. Gargling salt water helping with my sore throat.
6. Having enough cough drops to get me through the night.

A year ago today.

3/13/13

1. Waking up really early at 7 to be able to cook up the Swiss chard and tomatoes in the fridge that might otherwise have gone bad, as well as some rice and an omelette.
2. Talking to Dan in the morning and evening.
3. Stranger calling after me when I left my scarf on the Muni.
4. Video chatting with AJ over lunch.
5. Finishing up our Harry Potter game and fixing bugs on certain edge cases from yesterday to demo it to the class.
6. RC bringing me a miniature pie back from work, made by JM.

A year ago today.

3/12/13

1. Pairing up with KR on building a game for learning object-oriented programming.
2. Remaining red duck curry with rice keeping me quite full.
3. Dan being really understanding about me not calling for the day.
4. Getting a 1:1 talk from CF on Lisp and programming language development.
5. Remember the extra sunbutter/banana English muffin from breakfast in my purse to stave off my hunger before I got home.
6. Beef noodle soup with baby bok choy for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/11/13

1. Making it to the 9:05 streetcar.
2. MW saying she liked my tweets from over the weekend.
3. My very first bento box packed with red duck curry not leaking and also being delicious.
4. Getting to talk to LH about extra projects to work on.
5. Dan still being up when I got back to be able to video chat for awhile.
6. Starting on making beef noodle soup.

A year ago today.

3/10/13

1. Daylight Savings Time = won't be dark when leaving the office!
2. Getting some sun while walking to/from the De Young museum through Golden Gate Park.
3. Taking two free tours at the De Young museum, one on three different pieces and one on highlights in the museum. Very knowledgeable docents.
4. Cleaning up my various social network accounts a bit.
5. Starting the tomato honey cowl project while watching Once Upon a Time.
6. Finally watching the Sheryl Sandberg and Elizabeth Gilbert TED talks.

A year ago today.

3/9/13

1. Talking to my grandma in the morning about the socks I knit for her and mailed over.
2. Spending a very enjoyable hour going through Ichiban Kan (Japanese dollar store where most things are $2 USD) and picking up all sorts of fun yet cheap things. Got a bento box to start using for packing lunch!
3. Roast duck store pulling out a couple of freshly roasted ducks (still warm) just as I was worrying that they were going to run out with only 2 left in the window display.
4. Finding lime leaves at the 22nd & Irving supermarket and making it back there just before they closed at 6:30.
5. Making roast duck curry for dinner.
6. Managing to hang RC's Jeremy Lin jersey using the side of some strange metal roller tool as a hammer.

A year ago today.

3/8/13

1. Getting on the earlier streetcar so didn't have to rush up to get to class on time.
2. Grabbing a seat by the window for the day to get some sunlight.
3. Feeling loads better throughout the day after chugging a glass of EmergenC in the morning.
4. Seeing RC's text/email about an extra ticket for the Warriors-Rockets basketball game to be able to respond in time.
5. Getting to the stadium in plenty of time despite leaving class a bit later than I had wanted to.
6. PH giving us a ride back to SF.

A year ago today.

3/7/13

1. Didn't make the earlier train but wasn't noticeably late.
2. Soba noodles in miso soup for lunch.
3. Being in one of two pairs that had finished the exercise by the end of the day.
4. EO being really cool about me bowing out of swing dancing since I was starting to feel sick.
5. Getting a large bowl of pho for dinner.
6. Climbing into bed at 8 and reading Code Named Verity.

A year ago today.

3/6/13

1. Only being a few minutes late to Hackbright today after missing the 9:15 streetcar.
2. CF telling me I'm now exempt from the joke-telling penalty for being later after I unleashed my infamous and favoritest joke ("Two mushrooms walk into a bar...").
3. Several people noting my on-theme Gryffindor shirt today.
4. Only overshooting my stop by one, and then anyway stopping in Walgreens and finding that they carry Tropicana OJ at not totally unreasonable prices.
5. Figuring out Project X (really hard project that had stumped previous classes early on at Hackbright) with my pair partner of the day, EO. Thrilling to solve something!
6. Making authentic dashi and miso soup for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/5/13

1. Blueberries, homemade granola, honey, and Greek yogurt for breakfast.
2. Calling Dan during his lunch.
3. Pulling together a decent packed lunch in the morning (hardboiled eggs, clementines, blueberries).
4. Video chatting with Dan while cooking/eating dinner.
5. Making a double serving of soba noodles with scrambled eggs and tomatoes and lots of sesame oil for dinner to assuage my hunger.
6. Being amused by Storage Wars and various other videos RC showed me (Taylor Swift + goats/towel dispenser videos).

A year ago today.

3/4/13

1. Nice quiet morning as I woke up at 7:30 naturally (yay east->west jet lag), warmed up some egg custards in the microwave for breakfast.
2. Successfully killing time by stopping in at a Trader Joe's for stuff I couldn't get at the Asian supermarkets nearby.
3. Getting to know the other Hackbrighters in a fairly natural, low-key way.
4. Figuring out pair programming with L and being the first to solve exercise 9 of the Blockly Maze.
5. Finding my way to a Japantown to pick up ingredients for learning Japanese cooking and getting everything on the list.
6. Power on my phone holding out long enough to be able to successfully navigate two buses back home.

A year ago today.

3/3/13

1. Re-arranging the furniture to be able to use the windowsill as a nightstand area.
2. Getting most of the basics on my shopping list.
3. Roast duck, egg custards, and you tiao for breakfast/lunch.
4. Wrapping up the last bits of a work project and turning off my corpmail sync.
5. Going out to dinner with RC's family to celebrate his birthday.
6. Catching Once Upon a Time after getting back.

A year ago today.

3/2/13

1. Managing to extract 7lbs of stuff out of the checked bag to bring it to 50lbs.
2. Making it onto the plane in time with Jamba Juice oatmeal and orange juice and not spilling anything.
3. Shorter flight than expected thanks to lack of headwind.
4. RC picking me up from the Daly City BART station.
5. Getting an animal-style double double burger at In-N-Out. Shake Shack is still better though, juicier.
6. Going out for Shabu Shabu with RC(m) and RC(f) and her friends.

A year ago today.

3/1/13

1. Getting in in time for breakfast.
2. Meeting with ML to go over things he needs to keep an eye on while I'm out.
3. Lunch with EM.
4. Fixing a few escalations quickly with various tricks.
5. Fitting the various work electronics I want to bring to SF into my backpack.
6. Spending the evening watching Jeopardy with Dan.

A year ago today.

2/28/13

1. Yummy beef tongue taco at lunch along with sauted kale.
2. Several people stopping by for the UAT working session.
3. Massage with AS.
4. Mailing tax and Zappos returns.
5. EM cracking various jokes about my morning predicament.
6. Despite CO alarm going off, firemen being very patient and painstakingly explaining to us how they concluded that the alarm is just malfunctioning.

A year ago today.