4/29/13

1. Going for a run in the morning and getting some sun in.
2. Catching the right train to get in to Hackbright on time for the negotiations workshop.
3. Feeling on the same wavelength as LC/DG/JL.
4. GETTING MY APP TO WORK TO RECOGNIZE PEOPLE'S MOTION PASSWORDS OMG!
5. Getting a ride back from my mentor AB.
6. RC giving me his Nexus 7 to use as a temporary alarm clock.

A year ago today.

4/28/13

1. Getting up in time to make scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast.
2. Training session with CM in the park under sunny skies.
3. Going to the Inner Sunset Farmer's market and picking up fish, sausage, marmalade, strawberries, and vegetables.
4. Getting a slice of basil pesto pizza, blueberry scone, and olive-tomato foccacia from Arizmendi Bakery.
5. Getting an email from my sister-in-law CS that she wore her bridesmaid dress from my wedding to a bridal shower :)
6. Cooking up all the groceries and fish in my fridge for the week.

A year ago today.

4/27/13

1. Making a breakfast with bacon, scrambled eggs, and avocado.
2. Doing a Google+ hangout with EM.
3. Visiting the SF MOMA with SB.
4. Zuni Cafe roast chicken and bread salad being just as delicious as I'd remembered.
5. Finishing a load of laundry in less than an hour, commercial machines are so much more efficient.
6. Google+ hangout with Dan before going to bed.

A year ago today.

4/26/13

1. Not oversleeping my alarm despite forgetting to set it a bit earlier.
2. Catching the right buses to get to the Glen Park BART station in time for the ride down to Facebook's offices in Menlo Park.
3. Interesting discussion with my mentor DN on start-ups.
4. Re-tooling the structure of my app based on CF's feedback and getting it to work to output text to anywhere on the OS.
5. Doing a Google+ hangout with AL.
6. Going for a quick run despite it being dark and cold out.

A year ago today.

4/25/13

1. Good workout in the morning with CM.
2. Getting lunch at the SF office.
3. Chair massage turning out to be on a massage table instead.
4. Catching up with AJ.
5. Catching up CP.
6. Doing a preliminary demo of my project for some Hackbright alumna.

A year ago today.

4/24/13

1. Rice fortunately cooking in plenty of time to pack it for lunch after I snoozed many times.
2. Getting a waffle with strawberries for breakfast from the Waffle Mania truck.
3. Walking through the Civic Center farmer's market.
4. Testing the Skype connection with HTHS in preparation for Alumni Day, actually not too bad!
5. More Skyping with EN.
6. Author of Cracking the Coding Interview giving us a presentation on prepping for technical interviews and selling copies of her book for $20 (less than Amazon price).

A year ago today.

4/23/13

1. Remembering my pre-prepped yogurt parfait cup for breakfast.
2. Skyping with EN in the morning.
3. Lunch with RC, the fellow former AdWords person.
4. Practicing interview problems on linked lists and spirals.
5. Dinner with extended family in Fremont, including meeting my one cousin's husband for the first time.
6. Getting a ride back with my cousin.

A year ago today.

4/22/13

1. Pajama day at Hackbright!
2. Eating my banh mi lunch up on the roof with CF and EG.
3. Figuring out the issue with the translate function I'd been using for data visualization.
4. Helping RD with a SQL issue she'd been having.
5. Running errands in time before the stores closed.
6. Cooked up a storm of nimono, sunomono, and sesame-flavored beef.

A year ago today.

4/21/13

1. Making eggs in bacon baskets for breakfast.
2. Training session in the park with CM on a beautiful, warm day.
3. Creamed spinach and smashed egg on toast for lunch.
4. Calling my mom and catching up with her after her recent trip to China.
5. Printed photos at Walgreens turning out pretty well despite files being really low-res.
6. Realizing that I don't have to pack a lunch for tomorrow.

A year ago today.

4/20/13

1. Getting to the meetup point in the morning in plenty of time.
2. Really good career panel at the she++ conference of female tech entrepreneurs.
3. Fun puzzle-solving workshop led by a Stanford CS professor and student.
4. Meeting people at lunch who've already heard of Hackbright.
5. Meeting up with SD for a cup of tea.
6. Picking up a ton of groceries from the Safeway by the Caltrain.

A year ago today.

4/19/13

1. Sleeping in until just before 8.
2. Doing some of the exercises that CM showed me before going for a run in the park.
3. Lunch at Dropbox and tours/panels there, at Hearsay Social, and Github.
4. Giving MW and CD a demo of what I've got on my project so far.
5. Salmon, Swiss chard, and rice for dinner.
6. Videochatting with Dan at home.

A year ago today.

4/18/13

1. Productive training session with CM in the morning.
2. Woot customer support responding quickly enough with a refund so I could repurchase the sheet set on the right credit card.
3. Galbi lunch box from the Korean place across the street.
4. Getting the button start/stop through Python function working!
5. Making a proper dinner with rice, Swiss chard, and teriyaki salmon.
6. Being mindful about not overeating dinner just because it was yummy.

A year ago today.

4/17/13

1. Waking up at 6:50 again, must be how the light's coming in the window in the morning or something.
2. Feeling stronger on the morning run.
3. Stopping by to pick up groceries on the way back.
4. Just managing to make it onto the right train to ensure not being late.
5. Getting the Wii nunchuck data from the Arduino into Python!
6. Measured talk on data science from two guest speakers.

A year ago today.

4/16/13

1. Waking up naturally at 6:50 again, not sure what's going on there but good to feel well-rested!
2. Getting in to the Hackbright office just in time to dial in to a meeting.
3. Messing around and getting to actually understanding how the breadboard works.
4. Finally getting input off the Arduino after CF realized that the Wii nunchuck was plugged in upside-down.
5. Staying around for an extra talk by CF on workings behind several recent cool projects on Hacker News.
6. Skyping with my mentor SM and doing well on the coding interview question he posed me (implement the shoot function in a Battleship game).

A year ago today.

4/15/13

1. Waking up at 6:50 naturally.
2. Going for a run in the morning and finding it easier than it had been on Friday.
3. Meeting DN at his office and learning about his background. Really great to talk to someone of his experience and he saw through to the core of my questions really easily too.
4. Hearing from all of my Boston friends that they're ok. So grateful.
5. Playing around with Arduino and getting it working for both the Mac and Linux environments.
6. Making dinner of melted leeks with parmesan and sun-dried tomatoes to go with quinoa.

A year ago today.

4/14/13

1. Finding last week's episode of Mad Men on the regular AMC channel in the morning, which plays different content than AMC HD evidently.
2. Brunch at NZ's with KR/KK/EG/CF.
3. Helping LG work through some previous Hackbright exercises at Java Beach Cafe and getting to know her better.
4. Roasted Brussels sprouts for dinner.
5. Making dashi and chopping up red cabbage for coleslaw later in the week.
6. Remembering that I have a lunch date tomorrow so no need to pack a lunch.

A year ago today.

4/13/13

1. Waking up at 7:30 feeling like I'd slept really well.
2. Clearing out a bunch of email and starred Google Reader items.
3. Discovering the amazingness of soft-boiled eggs instead of poached eggs, to go with quinoa and goat cheese.
4. Re-vamping the kwugirl.blogspot.com blog to post ramblings.
5. Skyping and catching up with LW.
6. Finishing a couple of loads at the laundromat beyond when the sign on the door says they're closed.

A year ago today.

4/12/13

1. Waking up well-rested at 6:50, 10 minutes before my alarm was going to go off.
2. Going for a run in the park to practice what the trainer had told me about making sure my arms don't cross my body while running.
3. Plenty of time to pack a lunch with soba noodles, meatballs, and bok choy.
4. Catching up with SH and strategizing with her about my career development.
5. Succeeding at implementing the Wikipedia version of the dynamic time warping algorithm in Python!
6. Going to a fun food truck event with SP and others from work.

A year ago today.

4/11/13

1. Rolling out of bed at 9:01 and getting dressed in time to catch the 9:18 train to get in on time.
2. Banh mi for lunch.
3. Making a Trader Joe's run for groceries with KR during a gorgeously sunny afternoon.
4. Cutting up a clementines to put in my water succeeding as a tactic to increase my hydration.
5. Meeting RC at the Twilio Girl Geek Dinner, who was also former AdWords and knows MF!
6. Being told them I'm "really concise" so that others don't worry that I'll ramble on.

A year ago today.

4/10/13

1. Waking up at 6:30 feeling well-rested.
2. Talking to Dan on the commute in to the Hackbright office.
3. Scrambled eggs and tomatoes cooked up in the morning still warm at lunch.
4. gChatting with EM.
5. Hanging out at the Hackbright offices with KR, LH, and LH's friends.
6. Heating up the last slice of Sicilian pizza from Tony's for supplemental dinner food.

A year ago today.

4/9/13

1. Running into EO on the bus to RD's place.
2. Breakfast and lunch provided at the Facebook hackathon.
3. Succeeding in my goal of being able to pull user interests into our app.
4. Surviving our 3-minute pitch in front of the whole room despite technical difficulties.
5. RD dropping us all directly home.
6. Watching two episodes of The Americans before going to bed at 9:30.

A year ago today.

4/8/13

1. Managing to fit into his suitcase all of the vintage dresses I wanted to send home with Dan.
2. Catching the N-Judah after running the last bit up the hill.
3. Banh mi for lunch.
4. Finishing the machine learning portion of the movie ratings app in the afternoon.
5. Retreating to eat pizza and talk with Dan on the other, quieter side of the office during the halfway dinner celebration.
6. Playing a few games of Jeopardy (from j-archive) together before Dan needed to leave for the airport.

A year ago today.

4/7/13

1. Delicious brunch at Nopa with my cousin and her husband.
2. Walking over to Rare Device and Alamo Square to see the Painted Ladies.
3. Eating re-heated pizza for dinner.
4. Catching up on Once Upon a Time.
5. Watching the first two episodes of The Americans.
6. Trying on my Vintage Expo purchases for Dan to see in person.

A year ago today.

4/6/13

1. Using free tickets from RC to see the special Rembrandt + Girl with a Pearl Earring exhibit at the De Young. The headsets for the docent tours actually worked quite well.
2. Coming back to the apartment for an afternoon nap before heading out for dinner.
3. Taking the bus that swings through Presidio Park for a quick peek at the Golden Gate Bridge before heading on our way.
4. Finding a little place with live jazz to kill time while waiting for our table at Tony's.
5. Finally getting a table at Tony's at 9.
6. Getting an email inviting me to HTHS career day at last!!! Sadly it's before I'm back in NJ though :(

A year ago today.

4/5/13

1. Dumping in noodles I made in the morning into the Pyrex container of the remaining meat sauce to bring it all in for lunch.
2. Cinnamon chip scone for breakfast thanks to Salesforce.
3. Really diverse and interesting set of backgrounds for the participants on the panel at Salesforce.
4. Dan coming to visit!!!
5. Ridiculously delicious lavender-lemon-mint-vodka-ade mixed up by KB for the Friday afternoon happy hour.
6. Getting an email from a NJ bride deciding between Prallsville Mills and Mountain Lakes House based on my blog. Yay helping people through the internet!

A year ago today.

4/4/13

1. Getting in touch with my cousin to have somewhere to spend the night after I realized I lost my keys.
2. My cousin's husband finding an old Blackberry phone charger to charge my phone.
3. Getting a set of keys from RC's parents in Daly City.
4. Making it in for the 10am morning lecture.
5. Going home to have lunch, shower, and change.
6. Doing extra practice on writing recursive solutions to problems after hours.

A year ago today.

4/3/13

1. Talking to my mom in the morning before her flight.
2. Remembering to take a photo of my bento lunch for the week of za/ jian\ noodles after forgetting yesterday.
3. Interesting, useful, and engaging talks from folks from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a previous Hackbright grad.
4. JL coming over with her snack food reminding me that I had brought cherry tomatoes and goat cheese for a snack as well.
5. Talking to Dan over gChat at the office.
6. Catching up on logging notes from the last couple of weeks.

A year ago today.

4/2/13

1. Cooking up noodles and using their residual heat to heat up the meat sauce for packing my bento lunch.
2. Just catching the right train to get in on time.
3. Talking to Dan on the walk to/from the gym.
4. Running coaching session at Crunch being informative and manageable.
5. Getting back to the Hackbright office before my mentor AB.
6. Delicious Indian food for dinner.

A year ago today.

4/1/13

1. LG making these amazing felt beards for all of us.
2. Our April Fools' prank on the instructors going off without a hitch.
3. Finishing up last of red duck curry for lunch.
4. Discussion of healthy eating and fitness goals at lunch.
5. Getting home fairly early.
6. Noodles for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/31/13

1. Waking up refreshed and still in the morning.
2. Leftover dimsum for breakfast.
3. Doing dishes while listening to Taylor Swift at full blast since RC wasn't around.
4. Calling my mom.
5. Running down to the beach.
6. Trying out the new juicer with random fruit we had around.

A year ago today.