This post is inspired by Stephenie.
My parents, brother and sister in law came over for dinner on Saturday. Not only did they bring food, after a walk down to the water they came back and started weeding our garden, which incidently looks the best I've seen since Siska bought it. In the last year we've cut down the evergreen trees, weeded, made a wider path and created an brick patio. We also laid out sod. Hopefully that won't die.
During dinner my parents were trying to catch up on what my friends were up to. I was telling them how some people are looking to buy property and other people are dating seriously still. We talked about others are going back to school and are moving away for a few years. Part of the conversation went like this.
Me: And then Steph Sun is going to LA for grad school.
Mom: Who is Steph?
Me: You've met her before, down in Portland.
Quan: Do I know her?
Brother: Yeah, she lives in the girls' house with Kristie.
Quan: What? How old is she?
Me: I dunno. 23ish.
Mom: Wait? How old is son? I didn't know she had a son.
Quan: Yeah? How does that work?
*pause*
*pregnant pause*
*get it?*
Me: Oh!!! Not Steph's Son.... Steph Sun. Aiya
Your parents don't have to be fobby to have hours of entertainment.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Thursday, May 26, 2005
waiting
I hate waiting. I hate not knowing. I have my plans for the next three months, nay! the next three years riding on one little letter that should be delivered in the month of June. (I used 'nay' in a sentence. +10 to me!)
Youth retreats, camping trips, a European vacation, a volleyball league. I can't fully commit to any of them because I may or may not be around Seattle.
It's interesting, when I first kicked around the idea of law school, I was pretty much set that I would apply to UW and if I didn't get in I'd just stay in the career I was in and perhaps switch companies. Just FYI, the admission statistics for UW are here. Having an undergrad GPA of around 3.4, I thought that UW would be my only real option. I know that there are other law programs in the area, but seeing that I already had a career (eep.. a career), I didn't want to go to a lower ranked school than UW.
Then I took my LSATS. The interesting thing about this little sub-chapter in my life was that my decision to go to law school was so last minute that there was only one date left to take the test and that was only three weeks away. It was so late in the game that there weren't any open test spots in Western Washington. Siska and I had to drive to Portland to take the test. blah blah blah, took the test, did better than I expected.
Suddenly, UW was more of my backup school instead of what I was aiming for. Then the decision was if it was worth it to move away and pay a higher tuition for a more prestigious school. We reasoned that it would take a top 10 school in a place we wanted to live to make us move. I applied to Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and UW. In hindsight I should've applied to NYU as well. My acceptance to UW came almost immediately but then I had to wait a few months to get rejected by the California schools. Having never received a rejection letter before I think I took it quite well :)
But then the letter from Columbia arrived and I was informed I was waitlisted and would have to wait until June for a final decision. Argh!! the agony. It would be have been better to be flat out rejected than to told you were almost good enough.
meh... i hate waiting.
Youth retreats, camping trips, a European vacation, a volleyball league. I can't fully commit to any of them because I may or may not be around Seattle.
It's interesting, when I first kicked around the idea of law school, I was pretty much set that I would apply to UW and if I didn't get in I'd just stay in the career I was in and perhaps switch companies. Just FYI, the admission statistics for UW are here. Having an undergrad GPA of around 3.4, I thought that UW would be my only real option. I know that there are other law programs in the area, but seeing that I already had a career (eep.. a career), I didn't want to go to a lower ranked school than UW.
Then I took my LSATS. The interesting thing about this little sub-chapter in my life was that my decision to go to law school was so last minute that there was only one date left to take the test and that was only three weeks away. It was so late in the game that there weren't any open test spots in Western Washington. Siska and I had to drive to Portland to take the test. blah blah blah, took the test, did better than I expected.
Suddenly, UW was more of my backup school instead of what I was aiming for. Then the decision was if it was worth it to move away and pay a higher tuition for a more prestigious school. We reasoned that it would take a top 10 school in a place we wanted to live to make us move. I applied to Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and UW. In hindsight I should've applied to NYU as well. My acceptance to UW came almost immediately but then I had to wait a few months to get rejected by the California schools. Having never received a rejection letter before I think I took it quite well :)
But then the letter from Columbia arrived and I was informed I was waitlisted and would have to wait until June for a final decision. Argh!! the agony. It would be have been better to be flat out rejected than to told you were almost good enough.
meh... i hate waiting.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Mind games
Volleyball is such a mind game sometimes. The scores for today's games were
21-25
13-25
25-22
25-12
Our team is at .500, we're aiming for mediocrity.
21-25
13-25
25-22
25-12
Our team is at .500, we're aiming for mediocrity.
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
wendys
This past week has not been a culinary delight. Columbus Ohio has a lot of chain restaurants and all of them have people names. Bob Evans, Tim Hortons, Wendys, Max and Ermas. Wendys is everywhere! Columbus is like the motherland of Wendys, we ate at the original restaurant, but every four blocks is another Wendys. It's like starbucks there. Tim Hortons is a breakfast place that has donuts and coffee 24 hrs a day. Bob and Ermas is like TGIFridays without the stupid buttons on the waiters. Bob Evans is like... I'm not sure. Imagine if someone decided that we all needed cafeteria food. And built a chain of cafeterias disguised as restaurants all over ohio. That's my impression of Bob Evans.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
ohio!
during our whirlwind ohio tour i've decided that when in Rome, do as the Romans... In this case I tried buffalo at Ted (Turner)'s Montana Grill.
run buffalo, run!
on a side note, i felt almost guilty eating my steak because there was a stuffed buffalo head hanging on the wall near me. i could feel his glass eyes staring down upon me accusingly.
run buffalo, run!
on a side note, i felt almost guilty eating my steak because there was a stuffed buffalo head hanging on the wall near me. i could feel his glass eyes staring down upon me accusingly.
Monday, April 25, 2005
volleyball thoughts
I'm playing in the bellevue volleyball league. The team I'm on is in the middle division which I think is a good spot for us.
Some thoughts I have:
After not playing for a few months, I always play really well my first time out. I hit well and pass ok. I think I'm sometimes over-aggresive, netting on occasion or bumping into fellow players. Then, the second time I play, I hold back and have bad passes, dropped balls and eventually stop swinging and start tapping it over easy because I've lost confidence. What a mind job. At least I blocked well.
I play with a guy who is also a pastor. I'm having difficulty because I don't know whether to call him Wayne or Pastor Wayne. I want to drop the honorifics but I always revert back to Pastor Wayne and feel like such a dork.
We play in a co-ed league that has no co-ed enforced rules. You don't need females on your team and there isn't any girl-touch rule. Our team has at least two females on the court at all time and we aren't the tallest team. I don't think we have anyone topping the 6 foot mark. That being said, we played against an all-male team with three players taller than 6-feet yesterday. That seems a little odd, especially in the middle division. I'm happy to say that we went 2-2 against them. In all honesty, I'd be embarrassed to be a 6'4" guy going up to block a 5'3" Japanese girl.
Some thoughts I have:
After not playing for a few months, I always play really well my first time out. I hit well and pass ok. I think I'm sometimes over-aggresive, netting on occasion or bumping into fellow players. Then, the second time I play, I hold back and have bad passes, dropped balls and eventually stop swinging and start tapping it over easy because I've lost confidence. What a mind job. At least I blocked well.
I play with a guy who is also a pastor. I'm having difficulty because I don't know whether to call him Wayne or Pastor Wayne. I want to drop the honorifics but I always revert back to Pastor Wayne and feel like such a dork.
We play in a co-ed league that has no co-ed enforced rules. You don't need females on your team and there isn't any girl-touch rule. Our team has at least two females on the court at all time and we aren't the tallest team. I don't think we have anyone topping the 6 foot mark. That being said, we played against an all-male team with three players taller than 6-feet yesterday. That seems a little odd, especially in the middle division. I'm happy to say that we went 2-2 against them. In all honesty, I'd be embarrassed to be a 6'4" guy going up to block a 5'3" Japanese girl.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
oddly enough
here is our group photo from this weekend's retreat.
everyone looks normal... except for these two clowns on the left.
Nice work!
everyone looks normal... except for these two clowns on the left.
Nice work!
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