I'm going to try and use this blog more, perhaps for vegan issues and not day to day diary-writing, like i use my livejournal for.
I'm trying to figure out what to do for Valentine's day. I was thnking an expensive reservation-needed lunch or dinner at Shojin in little tokyo (and afterwards, some arcade and anime shop fun-times!), but for $24, frankly the menu doesn't even look that appetizing. Now I am thinking of taking my boyfriend to Pure Luck.
The first (and only time) I've been there was with my best friend, also a vegan, Laney, and it was AMAZING. But I didn't get a chance to try any of the draught vegan brews, which I want to do next time I go. Laney doesn't drink, but my boy likes beer, and i'm trying to educate him, as he was raised MORMON. Anyway afterwards Laney and I got some vegan cookies and cream across the street at Scoops, which I DEFINITELY want to be doing again. Oh god. I wish there was more stuff around Pure Luck/Scoops. But the area just looks sketchy and boring aside from those two establishments.
I'm also on the hunt for vegan candy hearts. Gelatinnnnnn *shakes fist at the heavens*
I miss those fuckers on V-day.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Friday, October 24, 2008
STole this from Kat who stole it from Jackie
Yes I should be working right now. Whatever.
*FOODOLOGY*
What is your salad dressing of choice?
Balsamic vinaigrette
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
I think a local Thai place called Thai Basil, or Veggie Grill in Irvine. If I could afford it, Real Food Daily XD
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Tofu stir fry
What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Mushrooms, onion, pineapple, artichoke hearts
What do you like to put on your toast?
(vegan) butter
*TECHNOLOGY*
What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A screencap of a news anchor with Obama signs/crowds behind him holding up a vector image of obama and then signs saying "never gonna give you up" "never gonna let you down". Yes, obama supporters rickrolling CNN.
How many televisions are in your house?
3, actually 4.
What color cell phone do you have?
Black htc/Google G1!
*BIOLOGY*
Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Rightie
Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Teeth, part of my slipped disk in my back...
What is the last heavy item you lifted?
Television last night while moving stuff into new bedroom.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
Not as far as I know
*BULLCRAPOLOGY*
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No
If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
I don't really want to change my name, I think Emily suits me, but I always wanted to change the spelling to Emilie.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000?
I'd ATTEMPT to
*DUMBOLOGY*
How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
At least 5... 8 if you count sandals, not just flip flops.
Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
Don't think I ever have...
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A paleontologist who goes around the world on fossil digs XD
Last person you talked to?
Tony my boss walked by and I said good morning
Last person you hugged?
Thomas this morning
FAVORITOLOGY*
Season?
FALL or maybe spring but probably fall*
Holiday?
Halloween
Day of the week?
Definitely Saturday
Month?
I don't think I have a favorite month.
Maybe November. Halloween just ended but there's still an air of that and decorations are still up for a day or two, and then there's thanksgiving, and the leaves are turning and it's getting cooler, and christmas decorations even start to pop up.
*CURRENTOLOGY*
Missing someone?
Kat!! I'm actually missing BOTH Kats I know...
Mood?
Sleepy, but sorta hyper cuz i'm drinking coffee here at work
Listening to?
Nothing. I'll turn on Pandora now
Watching?
Nothing
Worrying about?
Finding a roommate to move in in a WEEK!
*RANDOMOLOGY*
First place you went this morning?
The bathroom?
What can you not wait to do?
Go out to Thai food with Laney tonight, and then go see High School Musical 3 !!!! ahahahaha
What's the last movie you saw?
IRon Man with rifftracks
Do you smile often?
I think so, even though I hate my smile, smiling is infectious
*I LOVE FALL SO MUCH. Colorful trees, cool breezes (except here in socal where we're having the awful Santa Ana winds!! ugh), pumpkins, pies, I love fall! Also, APPLES! All the squash and apple varieties come back out. I love honeycrisp apples so much, and you can only find them in the fall!
Yes I should be working right now. Whatever.
*FOODOLOGY*
What is your salad dressing of choice?
Balsamic vinaigrette
What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
I think a local Thai place called Thai Basil, or Veggie Grill in Irvine. If I could afford it, Real Food Daily XD
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Tofu stir fry
What are your pizza toppings of choice?
Mushrooms, onion, pineapple, artichoke hearts
What do you like to put on your toast?
(vegan) butter
*TECHNOLOGY*
What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A screencap of a news anchor with Obama signs/crowds behind him holding up a vector image of obama and then signs saying "never gonna give you up" "never gonna let you down". Yes, obama supporters rickrolling CNN.
How many televisions are in your house?
3, actually 4.
What color cell phone do you have?
Black htc/Google G1!
*BIOLOGY*
Are you right-handed or left-handed?
Rightie
Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Teeth, part of my slipped disk in my back...
What is the last heavy item you lifted?
Television last night while moving stuff into new bedroom.
Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
Not as far as I know
*BULLCRAPOLOGY*
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
No
If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
I don't really want to change my name, I think Emily suits me, but I always wanted to change the spelling to Emilie.
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000?
I'd ATTEMPT to
*DUMBOLOGY*
How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
At least 5... 8 if you count sandals, not just flip flops.
Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
Don't think I ever have...
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A paleontologist who goes around the world on fossil digs XD
Last person you talked to?
Tony my boss walked by and I said good morning
Last person you hugged?
Thomas this morning
FAVORITOLOGY*
Season?
FALL or maybe spring but probably fall*
Holiday?
Halloween
Day of the week?
Definitely Saturday
Month?
I don't think I have a favorite month.
Maybe November. Halloween just ended but there's still an air of that and decorations are still up for a day or two, and then there's thanksgiving, and the leaves are turning and it's getting cooler, and christmas decorations even start to pop up.
*CURRENTOLOGY*
Missing someone?
Kat!! I'm actually missing BOTH Kats I know...
Mood?
Sleepy, but sorta hyper cuz i'm drinking coffee here at work
Listening to?
Nothing. I'll turn on Pandora now
Watching?
Nothing
Worrying about?
Finding a roommate to move in in a WEEK!
*RANDOMOLOGY*
First place you went this morning?
The bathroom?
What can you not wait to do?
Go out to Thai food with Laney tonight, and then go see High School Musical 3 !!!! ahahahaha
What's the last movie you saw?
IRon Man with rifftracks
Do you smile often?
I think so, even though I hate my smile, smiling is infectious
*I LOVE FALL SO MUCH. Colorful trees, cool breezes (except here in socal where we're having the awful Santa Ana winds!! ugh), pumpkins, pies, I love fall! Also, APPLES! All the squash and apple varieties come back out. I love honeycrisp apples so much, and you can only find them in the fall!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
I'm back home, in case it's not apparent
but i like to post random things here, like this:
Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer's
'Angel for Animals' PETA Ad
If you contribute to animal cruelty, Six will smash your head into a wall!
Millions of cats (and dogs) are killed in animal shelters every year because there simply aren't enough good homes for them. Please do your part to help end animal homelessness by refusing to buy animals from pet stores and breeders. And always spay and neuter your animal companions. If you haven't already done so, please sign PETA's pledge to end animal homelessness today!
Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer's
'Angel for Animals' PETA Ad
If you contribute to animal cruelty, Six will smash your head into a wall!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Last project
REally really quick post here.
Watching Phantom Menace, while writing our final report that's due at 6:00 pm today.
At 7:00, we're all being treated at a local diner called Sparky's Garage for dinner!!
We leave Montana tomorrow after turning in our keys to the dorm, any time from 8:00 to 9:00 am, whenever we can all get breakfasted and packed up and checked out of the dorms.
The schedule is to be home at 2pm on sunday!!!!!
The tornado alarm is going off. It's actually not for a tornado or anything, it goes off when they call the volunteer fire department to respond to accidents (Mary, the owner of Rookie's, the bar next door, told us all about it, when I was worried about a tornado the first time we heard it)
Watching Phantom Menace, while writing our final report that's due at 6:00 pm today.
At 7:00, we're all being treated at a local diner called Sparky's Garage for dinner!!
We leave Montana tomorrow after turning in our keys to the dorm, any time from 8:00 to 9:00 am, whenever we can all get breakfasted and packed up and checked out of the dorms.
The schedule is to be home at 2pm on sunday!!!!!
The tornado alarm is going off. It's actually not for a tornado or anything, it goes off when they call the volunteer fire department to respond to accidents (Mary, the owner of Rookie's, the bar next door, told us all about it, when I was worried about a tornado the first time we heard it)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Last day in the field.
My field partner and I hiked up the tallest point of our field area today, it was at least 700 feet of gain, in maybe 45 minutes? it was SO HOT OUT, but it was worth the great view from the flat on top of a basalt flow looking out on the rest of the area. Thanks definitely go to my field partner for egging me on up the hill.
Here's the location in google maps:
View Larger Map
hope that html worked...
It got harder on the way up cuz we worked up to above 7100 feet, where everything is harder, especially breathing and hiking, haha... Then we had lunch up there, with our professor, then with two other classmates that joined us for the rest of lunch and for garnet-hunting.
Our hope was to find huge (golf ball sized) garnets in the gneiss unit on the way down the hillside of Timber Hill but we spent hours, and it was SO HOT, and we found nothing... we apparently walked right past them. Oh well!
Tomorrow's our last day in the area, and it's a half day, then we visit the reservoir to maybe swim in it and to look for garnets during the second half.
We're not going to be having a field exam, because we're so awesome, so the reports are due on friday evening, and we're coming home on SATURDAY MORNING probably!!!! Two days early!! So I should be home in california on sunday evening or afternoon, give or take - Cross your fingers!
Here's the location in google maps:
View Larger Map
hope that html worked...
It got harder on the way up cuz we worked up to above 7100 feet, where everything is harder, especially breathing and hiking, haha... Then we had lunch up there, with our professor, then with two other classmates that joined us for the rest of lunch and for garnet-hunting.
Our hope was to find huge (golf ball sized) garnets in the gneiss unit on the way down the hillside of Timber Hill but we spent hours, and it was SO HOT, and we found nothing... we apparently walked right past them. Oh well!
Tomorrow's our last day in the area, and it's a half day, then we visit the reservoir to maybe swim in it and to look for garnets during the second half.
We're not going to be having a field exam, because we're so awesome, so the reports are due on friday evening, and we're coming home on SATURDAY MORNING probably!!!! Two days early!! So I should be home in california on sunday evening or afternoon, give or take - Cross your fingers!
Monday, June 23, 2008
ka-san
My mom is the best!
I got my final care package from her today, just a few essentials to get me through the rest of camp.
TONS of primal strips vegan jerky. Cactus jerky, which is revenge for the cactus poking me out in the field and making me bleed.
An aluminum water bottle, which is awesome because I hate my leaky camelbak, and I only have a 1-liter (32 oz) nalgene bottle that i've been using in the field, which runs out around 1-2pm because that's not enough water for the hot days out in the field. So yay for hydration!
AND two bags of my favorite brand of vegan cookies, Uncle Eddie's. Mmmm joy!
I found something really cool in the field today. I'll give you a hint, it blended in with the dead sagebrush branches. Guess! I'll post photos later.
I got my final care package from her today, just a few essentials to get me through the rest of camp.
TONS of primal strips vegan jerky. Cactus jerky, which is revenge for the cactus poking me out in the field and making me bleed.
An aluminum water bottle, which is awesome because I hate my leaky camelbak, and I only have a 1-liter (32 oz) nalgene bottle that i've been using in the field, which runs out around 1-2pm because that's not enough water for the hot days out in the field. So yay for hydration!
AND two bags of my favorite brand of vegan cookies, Uncle Eddie's. Mmmm joy!
I found something really cool in the field today. I'll give you a hint, it blended in with the dead sagebrush branches. Guess! I'll post photos later.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Here's photos of giant garnets, in an archean/proterozoic (1.8 to 3.5 BILLION years old!) gneiss.
Our work on mapping on our fifth and final field area started this morning. It is gorgeous, but there are huge hills and mountains in it and it's just over four square miles. It's located on the Anderson Ranch, private land which is owned by a really old historic Montana family.
On a complete off-note, Doctor Who is awesome. that last episode... man!
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