Sunday, June 25th
my love
so i got bored and googled san francisco and found this article in the nytimes.
things like that make me so proud of being a native san franciscan. honestly, christopher was right: this is the best place to live in the world. as dr. nogara once told me, it's the natural beauty of this city that distinguishes it from other urban areas. rome may have the historical art, but even its seven hills are nothing compared to ours. i'm so blessed.
jessica on 06.25.06 @ 02:07 AM GMT [link]
Friday, June 23rd
cars
music: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
mood: broken
cars was a good family movie. another success from pixar, another night of cute laughter, and the best part was i got to watch it with pamela. i love my sister.
i woke up at 7:30am, the usual i suppose on a weekday, regardless of how many hours of sleep i actually get. i hate the construction outside my window. the fog doesnt help my mood either. i think i need to go downtown today just to absorb some sunshine. chinatown might not be such a bad idea either.
i dont know why i'm giving up. i feel absolutely lost again. talking to christine yesterday reminded me of how much i miss my bowdoin buddies. without them, i wouldve never survived there. yet here at home, everytime evan drives me, i look around outside and fall in love with the city night lights, the ocean, the views. san francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. new york may have the nightlife, boston may have the river, but san francisco has ocean, hills with topnotch views, and a perfect mixture of the fast-paced urban lifestyle with the quieter suburban neighborhoods. where i live, i'm in one of the biggest, boring residential neighborhoods, but i'm within walking distance (3-7 blocks) of some of the city's best restaurants and cafes. while some people drive to my neighborhood for dinner, i have the pleasure of walking there whenever i want. it's so perfect. this is what makes things difficult, when i realize how much i love this city, but at the same time, i feel the need to get away. that's what makes this so difficult. but without him, i wouldve never survived this past year either. i just wish our futures were clear so that i'd have nothing to worry about.
jessica on 06.23.06 @ 08:17 AM GMT [link]
Thursday, June 22nd
summer solstice
passed beautifully. yesterday was a lovely day, filled with gorgeous sunshine and the most amazing summer weather imaginable. had lunch with christopher (yes, i prefer to just call you that instead of just "chris" because "christopher" has more umph, or maybe i should just call you "topher" to be different) at tofu house, dining on delicious kimchi and ribeye. after grabbing some tapioca and sago, we took a nice walk through the botanical gardens to the deYoung where we checked out the view from the tower. went to work, and was the only server for a few hours, but at least i had good tips. i love it when there are big parties that arent too hard to deal with, because the tips are fabulous. i feel like i should've split that one with the other server since i had to leave before i could bus the table, but then again, i did transfer another fairly expensive table to him before i left. i hope that balanced out. tips rock, but i still feel dissatisfied with this summer. i guess ultimately, i wanted to do something different this summer. i didnt expect to come back home, but i did it because i missed my city so much. jobhunting, or rather jobhopping, wasn't so great because i'm just not cut out for canvassing. i guess i'm more of the behind-the-scenes type of gal, laying the foundation, putting things into production, but never in the spotlight. i keep telling myself that i want to be a leader, fight the good fights in the world, but in actuality, i think i'm more of a karl rove type, planning and setting my visions into work. okey, that was a TERRIBLE analogy because i fucking hate that man, but you get my point. ;P anyhow, i hope i'll do more with my next summer. i guess i really should concentrate more on my chinese and greek stuff this summer too, seeing as how i made sure i had extra time for that, and because i really havent gotten that far in chinese and i havent started in greek. O_O and i suppose i'm not being completely useless this summer since i am working a paid job. and okey, fine, i'm lucky that my cousin's business partners liked my work so now i'm basically hired to do something i like, graphic design and art, but i dont know. i have an interview for another internship next tuesday, but i dont know if i want to do it anymore, seeing as how i'm so busy already. but that internship would be a nice addition to this flavorless summer.
i should be more grateful. after all, evan takes good care of me, and i love hanging out with my friends. i can't wait for this weekend because whitney is back! stuart is already back, which made me very happy. and dinner with herman was fab. i just need to shut up now and get my ass ready for work. i still have my coffeedate with pooja in the afternoon before she flies off to england.
jessica on 06.22.06 @ 10:09 AM GMT [link]
Sunday, June 18th
1-1?!
music: Lil Flip - Sunshine (bosko remix)
mood: better
omg, south korea and france....wtf was that? rather, i didnt care who won, but i was watching parts of the game and got frustrated.
ideally, the showdown should come down between england and brazil. but who knows?! all i know is that i dont want to face an angry crowd of brazilians at work.
jessica on 06.18.06 @ 06:28 PM GMT [link]
frazzled
music: Damien Rice - Cannonball
mood: tired
here it is, my new layout. i actually made this last month, but i just didnt bother to do the coding. not like it was hard at all, but i was ambitious and trying to write this php script which didnt work out so i think i'm gonna use this layout strictly as a blog first and then i'll figure out the switch to wordpress, etc. i'm just really hooked on greymatter because it was the first program i used and i love how easy it is. but it's important to update my coding skills, so i hope to get php down and maybe i'll attempt another dhtml script. maybe. for now, i'm just gonna seek inspiration for a new layout.
this weekend has been crazy with a lot of work for the restaurant. we were sponsoring the robogames convention at fort mason, so i was there working 6-7 hours each day, selling pizza and drinks. easy job, decent tips, but i missed out on the beautiful weather! so i'm hoping to enjoy what's left of it today.
i'm happy brasil won! 2-0 baby! woot! take that you aussies who stole that last game from japan! ;P
now a glimpse of what i got to enjoy yesterday after work on the bus:
jessica on 06.18.06 @ 01:37 PM GMT [link]
Wednesday, June 7th
untitled
music: nothing
mood: sleepy 
1. this layout is out of date and bores me.
2. new layout will be up by the end of the week. i hope.
this past week has been fabulous. except my summer job didn't work out. on memorial monday, i went to work, learned the ropes of field canvassing and started working with the human rights campaign. as ideal as it was for me to work for the HRC, the hours with the PIRG that i was working with just didnt suit me at all. so after my first official day in the field on tuesday, i quit. they had offered to promote me to field manager and although i did fundraise a good $120 in a rather conservative neighborhood on my first night, i just couldnt see myself doing that job for the rest of my summer. so on wednesday, i began my jobhunting again, and now i'm working with Clean Water Action, another nonprofit organization where i do phone canvassing instead of field canvassing, earn a stable hourly wage with opportunities for bonuses, have an extremely flexible work schedule, and continue gaining experience working on grassroots campaigns. now all i have to do is meet my pledge quota these next three days or i'm jobless again. heh.
sunday night, may 28th was fantastic because i got to hang out with my girls! well, most of them. moe, patti, lulie, josie, and i met up for coffee and then we went to Creations on Geary for some asian desserts. we sat in their awkward communist red ikea-style seats, watched karaoke music videos playing on the flatscreen, and had our usual girly talk. afterwards, after miscommunicating with evan, moe and i were picked up by him. i ended up at wolf's house with the guys as usual. but it was a wonderful night because damn, i've missed you girls!
thursday, june 1st was a day spent with josie and michelle after lunch with josie at toasties! it was an intense day of action....xmen3 followed by mission impossible3. 5 full hours of action movies...my eyes were blinded. after some yummy sago from sweetie cafe, i went home for dinner, met up with the boys again and played boardgames. we've played risk, aggravation, taboo, pictionary, and for many nights, settlers of catan. i suck at pictionary because i can't guess. wolf and i tend to become engrossed in our game of risk. we all get overly excited by aggravation, a game for 6 year olds, mind you, and taboo...is just taboo. ;D it's been uberly fun just hanging out in wolf's chill pad, playing boardgames. too bad wolf is going off to the uk for the next 2 weeks. poo. ;(
on saturday, evan, wolf, and i made a trip across the bay bridge to see jenny in oakland! we went there to pick up my viola, abduct jenny for lunch at zachary's, and a visit to ikea. unfortunately we missed the exit to emeryville and ended up going to home earlier than we had planned. oh well. i went downtown anyway to do some shopping and omg, urban outfitters had one of their humongous sales...half off of on sale items!!! i bought a pair of fabulous grey jeans for $10, down from $64! sweet deal! saturday night was awesome as well because i got to see nicole, thomas, joyce, lisa, jun yi, alyssa, judy, julia, and rialyn!! we celebrated nicole's birthday, and although i couldnt make it to teriyaki house for dinner, i joined them for a night of karaoke at do re mi in jtown. omg, nicole and i almost made it through bohemian rhapsody! what an absolutely fantastic day ;D
sunday was a chill day at home, then pictionary at wolf's. these past couple of days have been filled with jobhunting and relaxing at home and yummy lunches with evan. summer feels like it's flying by fast....i simply can't stand it! i can't believe it's already wednesday...halfway through my third week of summer! ;O
jessica on 06.07.06 @ 01:26 AM GMT [link]
