5/30/13

1. Waking up naturally at 6am for whatever reason, plenty of time to get in the office by 8.
2. Breakfast with BG, got scrambled eggs and an avocado bagel.
3. Not-terrifying and actually rather nice 1:1 with MP to talk about Hackbright.
4. Massage with AS.
5. Running into BL at dinner and getting his advice on planning group trips with friends.
6. Getting in to the Fuerza Bruta show without any hassle despite being 15 minutes late.

A year ago today.

5/29/13

1. Getting to the airport in plenty of time.
2. Sleeping for most of the flight home.
3. Not waiting for the trains to get to Newark for very long.
4. Dan going out for groceries.
5. Dan making meatballs with sauce for dinner.
6. CP and RC coming over to hang out.

A year ago today.

5/28/13

1. Getting Thai food for lunch.
2. Talking BR into getting the charcuterie plate.
3. Dealing with email on the hotel's business computer.
4. Having leftover charcuterie later to snack on.
5. Watching the first half of Robin Hood Men in Tights for free at the hotel.
6. Falling asleep pretty early.

A year ago today.

5/27/13

1. Getting out of the shower just in time for Dan's warning call that he'd gotten back with a car.
2. Going to the International Rose Test Garden and going through the self-guided tour despite the rain.
3. Getting Nong's Khao Man Gai, OMG SO GOOD, best Thai food I've had outside of Thailand that wasn't made by my mom.
4. Driving to Multnomah Falls and admiring it still despite the rain.
5. Going back to get a couple bottles of Nong's sauce and a Thai iced bubble tea.
6. Dan getting Skyfall out on Redbox.

A year ago today.

5/26/13

1. Sleeping in a bit to catch up on sleep.
2. Finding the Noodle House Cart to be open and getting a big container of hand-pulled noodles stir-fried with fresh seafood.
3. Walking over to the world's smallest park, Mill Ends Park.
4. Browsing books at Powell's.
5. Playing pinball and other arcade games at Ground Kontrol. I was pretty good at Ms. Pac-Man, actually.
6. Getting some vegetables for dinner in a kofta salad. 

A year ago today.

5/25/13

1. Falling back asleep in the morning for a couple extra hours.
2. Getting a load laundry done for clean socks and cleaning the apartment.
3. Going for a run of sprinting down blocks and walking for passing crosswalks.
4. Picking up the framed Missed Connections subway poster and finding out that there wasn't any balance remaining.
5. Indulging in chicken nuggets for dinner.
6. Getting in a good amount of programming question practice in on the flight.

A year ago today.

5/24/13

1. Lunch with AJ.
2. Watching Helvetica on Netflix while at the dentist.
3. Clearing out the queue and my inbox before leaving the office.
4. Getting dinner from the Taco Truck in Hoboken.
5. JT proactively reaching out and offering to introduce me to some of her friends.
6. Getting positive feedback from RJ!

A year ago today.

5/23/13

1. Sleeping in after staying up last night to finish slides for a presentation.
2. Lunch with YW and finding that we have many opinions in common.
3. Presentation to the team on Hackbright and my project going over pretty well.
4. Getting to the doctor's office just in time for afternoon appointment.
5. Meeting up with KR and using the buy 1 get 1 free Google Offer for Pommes Frites.
6. Stopping by The Strand and picking up a used copy of The Homemade Pantry.

A year ago today.

5/22/13

1. Grabbing breakfast in the morning.
2. Catching up with SF in the morning and hearing exciting news from her!
3. Sorting out my doctors' appointments.
4. Getting a call from Zocdoc to give feedback on why an appointment I'd made that morning had been canceled by the practice and getting a $10 Amazon gift card in return, very nice proactive service.
5. Working through interesting variations on a coding challenge.
6. Going to see Matilda on Broadway with Dan.

A year ago today.

5/21/13

1. AS rescheduling our morning meeting for later in the afternoon after I overslept a bit.
2. Getting lunch with AT and catching up on his new projects since I'd been out.
3. Hosting a HTHS student and several of his siblings at the office, which they were really impressed by.
4. Getting dinner at the office so didn't have to think about getting groceries or cooking.
5. Watching Jeopardy with Dan.
6. Finally finishing writing up some notes I'd promised the other Hackbright girls.

A year ago today.

5/20/13

1. Walking to the PATH station with Dan in the morning.
2. Doing some programming practice on my own in the morning before getting started with email.
3. Lunch with AJ.
4. Catching up JE.
5. Meeting up with SS for tea.
6. Going out for a run after a few days of laziness.

A year ago today.

5/19/13

1. Sleeping in until 11 but not too late considering jet lag + lack of sleep from red-eye.
2. Dan going grocery shopping and bringing back rice pudding from Trader Joe's.
3. Getting up off the couch eventually to unpack.
4. Dan's pasta and sauce with sausage and meatballs from yesterday reheating up quite well.
5. Watching Star Trek and then Mad Men.
6. Falling asleep without too much difficulty.

A year ago today.

5/18/13

1. Dan dressing up in a suit and making a sign to pick me up at the airport.
2. Coming home.
3. Napping for a couple hours in the afternoon.
4. Dan making Sunday sauce in the slow cooker.
5. Getting proper OJ to drink.
6. Catching up on the entire Doctor Who season.

A year ago today.

5/17/13

1. Getting enough sleep for the first time this whole week.
2. RC bringing my luggage to the office for me (he wasn't even in the apartment last night, went back specifically to uphold his commitment to helping me with it...what a standup guy).
3. Lunch with NM after MW's introduction, really fantastic career development advice.
4. Catching up with SB while getting the stuff I'd left at her desk last week.
5. Getting my suitcase down to less than 50lbs. and packing the rest of my stuff into free boxes to ship back to the NY office.
6. Fancy grilled cheese flatbread and tomato soup from Cowgirl Creamery for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/16/13

1. Getting to the office in time to drop off my stuff before meeting CM for a morning training session.
2. Finishing up the workout in time for breakfast.
3. Getting helpful advice from VF.
4. SM coming in for lunch and doing some whiteboarding practice.
5. Reasoning through how to improve the efficiency of my initial solution to a new-to-me coding question with SS' help.
6. Hanging out Hackbright and getting to say proper goodbyes to a good number of people.

A year ago today.

5/15/13

1. Getting hot breakfast while re-reading The Hunger Games. 
2. Grabbing lunch with RC/EF/MA/PS.
3. Working my way through a coding challenge. Didn't do well, but didn't totally flub it either at least.
4. Meeting up with LF.
5. Dinner with SD.
6. Just making it in time for the 9:01 Caltrain back to the city.

A year ago today.

5/14/13

1. Getting in in time to grab and sit down for breakfast before an 8:30 meeting.
2. Meeting MW for lunch and sharing where we're at right now post-Hackbright.
3. Running into SH at the cafe so caught up with her briefly.
4. Going for a run in the afternoon.
5. Mediterranean food for dinner (including excellent lamacun) with SH and JM.
6. Talking to DS on the shuttle back to the Sunset.

A year ago today.

5/13/13

1. Grabbing hot breakfast even though I got off at the wrong stop.
2. Lunch with SL, nice to catch up after so long.
3. EF and AZ stopping by and letting me demo my project for them.
4. Catching the shuttle to not to be too late to meet up with DW.
5. Really enjoying the conversation with DW, they're working on really cool stuff!
6. Catching an N-Judah back without too much of a wait.

A year ago today.

5/12/13

1. Good workout session with CM in the park.
2. Going to Off the Grid again with JW and IS.
3. Getting the fried chicken and Nopalito that I didn't get to try last week.
4. Buying strawberries and raspberries from the farmer's market.
5. Going for a 3 mile run down to the beach and back at a pretty good average pace (with loads of breaks though).
6. Getting a couple last loads of laundry done.

A year ago today.

5/11/13

1. Getting a breakfast bagel from Sugar Cafe with EL.
2. Cleaning up the office not taking too much time with everyone pitching in.
3. Going home for a shower.
4. Making it to the BBQ at CD's place in Berkeley without too much delay.
5. Delicious grilled salmon thanks to JL.
6. Getting mint chip ice cream from Smitten.

A year ago today.

5/10/13

1. Doing our graduation ceremony with the gifts we'd been planning for the instructors and getting our graduation plaques in return.
2. Last lunch with DN and getting some good career development perspective from him.
3. Successfully cleaning up my email by the end of the day.
4. RD ordering Thai food for all of us for dinner.
5. Sharing random YouTube videos with the group, with an interlude for 90s music videos of course. Wouldn't be a good sleepover without that.
6. Watching Pitch Perfect and actually enjoying it more the second time around.

A year ago today.

5/9/13

1. Easier training session in the morning after I didn't get much sleep the night before.
2. Really positive Skype meeting with BR.
3. CF doing one last techy talk for the class, at my request, on the CAP theorem.
4. MW forcing me to practice my talk for the Girl Geek Dinner.
5. Squeezing into the Lyft car with LC and JT to get over to the office for the dinner.
6. My talk at the Girl Geek Dinner going well and talking to lots of interesting people afterwards.

A year ago today.

5/8/13

1. Sleeping in in the morning.
2. Going for a run to get that in before heading over to Hackbright.
3. Doing a debrief with CF and getting a pep talk from him with career advice.
4. CF's friend D coming over all the way from MTV to help us with interview practice.
5. Sharing feelings with JT and LC and LH and not feeling alone.
6. Getting a ride home from LH.

A year ago today.

5/7/13

1. Realizing I could catch the NX express bus and save 10-15 minutes off the commute time that way.
2. Demo day not being as loud or as exhausting as I thought it would be.
3. Getting to talk to DS and BR a bit more over lunch, their philosophies seem really cool.
4. Hanging out with all the Hackbright girls through the rest of the afternoon and evening.
5. Getting dinner from Onigilly.
6. Finding a coupon code for ordering Indian food off Seamless.

A year ago today.

5/6/13

1. Going for a run in the morning and listening to David Tennant on the Nerdist podcast, yum.
2. Getting in to Hackbright just as LG's tech talk was starting for the day.
3. Incorporating the feedback I got on my resume to fix it up further and put it up on my LinkedIn profile.
4. Rest of teriyaki salmon from last night for lunch holding up quite well.
5. Practicing my demo day pitch with MW and KR both.
6. Wikipedia-surfing to kill time before going to sleep.

A year ago today.

5/5/13

1. Good training session with CM in the morning at the park.
2. Talking to my mom on the phone.
3. Getting over to Off the Grid's Picnic at the Presidio with food trucks and a farmer's market.
4. Stopping by JL's seafood CSA stand and getting recommendations on what to get from the food trucks (oxtail with grits, spot on) as well as buying a piece of salmon fillet from her.
5. Not getting more food after the oxtail (plus zeppoles and lavender lemonade from the same vendor) and therefore not getting uncomfortably full.
6. Watching various romcoms (Runaway Bride, The Wedding Date, and Fever Pitch) instead of working.

A year ago today.

5/4/13

1. Going for a 4 mile run while it was still sunny out.
2. Stumbling upon an organ recital at the Legion of Honor museum.
3. Rodin sculptures at the Legion of Honor.
4. Hot chocolate and views of the ocean and Sutro Baths at Land's End.
5. Dinner with 7th uncle and family.
6. Videochatting with Dan before bed.

A year ago today.

5/3/13

1. Getting in to Hackbright office just in time to get set up for HTHS Career Day.
2. AB and AB (and MR!) stopping by my room to say hi before the day started.
3. Talking to the kids for Career Day (lots of questions about Google Glass...)
4. Talking to their new computer science teacher about strategies for teaching them Python and getting them to really learn programming.
5. Really nice run in the evening, finishing right before it got totally dark.
6. Dinner of farmer's market sausage, parmesan, kale, and angel hair pasta.

A year ago today.

5/2/13

1. Leisurely breakfast and morning after I decided to swap it with Friday's off day for running.
2. Not nearly as sore as the day before.
3. Getting to know BP on the way over to have lunch at the office with her girlfriend.
4. Succeeding at compressing the vector data in the project!
5. Bringing back a sandwich and cheeses for dinner.
6. Pulling together my slides for the HTHS career day and practicing them with Dan.

A year ago today.

5/1/13

1. Making the right train after hurriedly packing most of my lunch cold.
2. Q&A to find out more about our demo day.
3. Working on my resume in the morning and getting a draft together.
4. Getting time with CF to learn about the last thing to do for my project, involving bitshifting and byte packing.
5. Interview practice with JT.
6. Getting a pedicure with LC.

A year ago today.

4/30/13

1. Waking up despite the Nexus 7 dying and having no alarm whatsoever after forgetting my phone.
2. Tough workout with CM.
3. CM having time to stay a bit extra after I was late.
4. GM putting my phone in a safe spot.
5. Showing my app to a bunch of people and inspiring lots of gasps! :)
6. Talking to Dan in the evening on the phone.

A year ago today.