2014: 365 Challenge: October 2014

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10012014

Merp. Work at night while chatting with people. Steve and Vinny both messaged me and it was great catching up. Made me miss Cornell so much more and 305 Eddy. I should talk to Cornell people more, brings back good memories and it's just nice catching up with people I used to see on a daily basis. Work was work.. Had a Cornell recruiting call while driving back from Richmond to discuss the logistics of the Cornell recruiting event in 2 weeks. Pretty excited so go back!! Stopped by the Potomac Mill outlet to check out running shoes since mine are done from Tough Mudder. Next time I go to Richmond I'll get shoes using my AMEX Nike giftcards. Other than that... pretty merp night.

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10022014

Woke up this morning and my throat magically felt better! Still not feeling 100% but so much better than yesterday. So off to a good start! Work was good today, I finished a small project I just started yesterday and presented two things to my manager, which both went fairly well! Whew. Getting more and more used to this analysis-presentation thing. Oh, and I'm in the lead for our team weekly brain teaser challenge! Wooh! Must maintain this lead. The best part about Friday afternoons is doing these brain teasers haha. After work Lowell and Simeon came over and we cooked. Well, Susan and Lowell cooked because I was at the gym and they were done when I got back. And we made wine smoothie it was delicious. And Tough Mudder photos came out online and they're hilarious hahaha. Spent a good time looking through them. Then had some down time and TV for the rest of the night! 1 of 3 Yankee Candles burned out tonight. :(

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10032014

TGIF. No one from my team came in to the office today, but it was still nice hanging out with everyone who did! Fridays are always chatty and getting distracted. I left at 3:30 to get oil changed for my car, and while waiting I got so much work done actually haha. Then Margaret and Min came over and we played tennis! I haven't played since... early high school? Was so rusty at first, couldn't hit the ball in the sweet spot, but then I got more and more used to it. I should play more often before it gets cold. We played until it got really hard to see, even with the lights on, and called it a day. The rest of the night I just watched TV, literally. Felt pretty antisocial so it was a nice quiet Friday night.

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10042014

Slept through 7 alarms this morning.... lol. But woke up in time to meet up with Jay and Neal to go to Georgetown Waterfront! It wasn't as spectacular as I expected it to be - just a lot of restaurants and it's not even that long. And today was pretty chilly so it was quite the cold by the water. We got ramen at this quaint little Japanese place, haven't had ramen in sooo long. It was just alright though. Then we walked to Georgetown to get a tour of the school! Haven't been there since the college trip in high school, lol, but I miss being on a college campus so much. So many students and it feels like a community! Made me miss Cornell so much and everyone that I see so often on campus. After that we headed home where I just bummed and watched TV... Until Margaret asked what I was doing and we ended up having wine and playing pong at her place! Haven't played pong in so long, so rusty, but it was nice being social instead of just watching more TV at home.

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10052014

Sunday Funday with Margaret and Min! We went to Eastern Market in DC for the first time and got food there and peaches. There weren't actually that many food vendors, but there were really delicious peaches and fruits. The flea market area was like any other hipstery flea market so we didn't spend too much time there. There weren't all that much to do there anyway, so we left after an hour or so and went hiking! We went to Rock Creek National Park in NW DC and walked along the trails there. Pretty nice day today to be outdoors. Lol by the stream we spent like half an hour picking up rocks and throwing rocks. Like what little kids would do :P. Then we had dinner at Min's apartment, had sooo much food. He baked this fish he caught from his fishing trip last weekend and it was delicious. After dinner we were all so pooped and tired so we just left. Merp another work week, but at least going home on Thursday!

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10072014

So full from room service.. It wasn't even that good meh, no more room service next time. I did last 3 months without room service until I got lazy today haha. Slow Mondays as usual with lots going on at work. Got feedback from my manager today and turns out I'm not doing so badly! Or at least she's only telling me the good stuff.. I'll just keep it that way. Oh and at work we got these gifts for our recognitions last month and Margaret got me a photo filter! I shall test it out next time.. After work came home for a bit before coming down to Richmond. It's getting darker earlier now so for more than half the drive it was in the dark. Meep. Oh and then I got tea with honey and lemon... for $7. Room service charge so much for no reason.

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10072014
Work was the usual. I finished up this 7-slide deck and felt pretty good about it. That's basically all I did all day, but it's fine because I'm still waiting for other data anyway. I had major food coma after lunch and there was this 30-minute period where I just could not stay awake. Dozed here and there until I was finally awake enough to keep working haha. After work was the team happy hour at Bar Louie. Got a couple of drinks and munched on finger food since I wasn't hungry at all. The strawberry lemonade sangria was pretty delicious too. Spent the rest of the night at the hotel watching TV and talking to people. Sometimes it's good to just open up to people. :)

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10082014

Woke up late today because my phone didn't charge and ran out of battery, so my alarm didn't ring. Room cleaning came to knock on my door and I jumped out of bed lol. Did a lot of Cornell recruiting stuff at work and made a flyer for the event in 2 weeks! Kinda miss making these things so it was fun to do. Pretty excited about this event actually. Then presented two pieces of analyses to my manager and it went well! Woohoo! Feels good to do something spot on hehe. On the drive back I found gas for $2.94! Cheapest I've seen yet. Can't wait to go home tomorrow night!

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10092014
Home in NYC!! Room feel so much emptier and cleaner, doesn't even feel that cozy anymore :( But it's nice being home! Got back today at like 11 and chatted with my brother for like 2 hours catching up and such. Too bad Evelyn and Chloe are asleep, but I can't wait to see them tomorrow! Taking Evelyn to school at 7:30 hehe, I wonder if she knows I'm back... It'll be a good morning surprise :D Today at work I didn't do much because I didn't have the data to do any analysis. So pretty much played around with people in my team room. We played the cornholes using Starbursts and it was so loud, but good thing we're in a room with the door closed! I left at 4 to catch the bus up to NYC and the ride up wasn't so bad. I slept most of the way anyway. Now time to spend the long weekend at home. :)

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10102014

Got woken up this morning at 7am when Evelyn came strolling in to my room and jumped on top of me. She didn't know I was back so it was a surprise for her! Hehe. She was so awake at 7 and I was just like omg let me sleep some more. But I did take her to school and she has this huge Frozen Elsa Princess bookbag haha. So many little kids going to school hehe. Came back to sleep for another half hour before I started working from home lol. I still couldn't do any analysis, so I didn't do much today. Oh wells. Played with Chloe too and she's so fun now! She's so talkative and interacts with you, oh and her cheeks are still super chubby haha. This afternoon I pretty much stayed home and played with the kids and babysit them, and then took Evelyn to her ballet class. So many extracurriculars already. Then at night I drove in to the city to pick up Tiffany and ChuChu from Port Authority. Omg NYC traffic was so bad... Got this photo when right when I got off the 59th Street Bridge. But finally saw Tiffany in over a month! ^_^ We didn't do anything, just dropped her off at home haha.

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10112014

Rainy and cold all day today meep. Got woken up pretty early because Evelyn and Chloe were running around outside my room, so got up and ran around with them too haha. Today Tiffany and I explored Long Island and we went to the Vanderbilt Mansion/Museum! The place isn't as big as I had imagined, but it is pretty grand and fancy inside. We walked around the self-guided tours and then went on the guided tours to see all the rooms and the cool things upstairs. Kinda crazy to imagine people living the life back in the early 1900's and how their life must've been. The tour was pretty cool and learned a lot more than we would've by just doing the self-guided tour. Then we went back to Brooklyn Bridge Park area and walked around a bit to look for food, but nothing too appealing. Then we tried to watch Maze Runner at Sheepshead Bay, but the parking lot was too full and we couldn't find parking.. Never had this problem before... Then went to Panera but it was closed meep, so ended up getting Pho at 86th Street. The Asians are reliable and they open late.

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10122014
Took Evelyn to go ice skating this morning and skated around with her for a bit. She wanted to go home right after the class, but I already got skates so we just went around 3 times... Womp oh well. Had BBQ at home and Evelyn's friend came over too, so they were running around the house and apparently they were running away from me because I'd tickle them... hah. Also watched Toy Story 2 with Chloe in the afternoon hehe, now I wanna watch the third one too. Then in the evening I went out to Chinatown to meet up with ChuChu and Mui for dinner. Nice seeing them and catching up again. We got soup dumplings and omg took forever to get seated. Nancy was supposed to come too but she overslept... So afterwards, we got bubble tea and delivered it to Nancy and Jess at the Shake Shack by Stuy. Aah Stuy... We hung out there for a bit and walked along the water at Battery Park. Nancy asked if the Statue of Liberty was the real one... and that it looked like a floating walrus. Omg.. haha. Also had to explain what 'getting jumped' mean... She thought it's just someone coming and jumping on you. We eventually wandered to the PATH station by Winter Garden and it's fancy schmancy.

We often take things for granted and don't value what we have in front of us...

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10132014

Came back to DC today! Played with the two minions at home this morning before I went to NYC to see people. I got to 34th Street pretty early so I found a Starbucks and did some work there until Tiffany came. We spent a while at the T-Mobile store and on the phone trying to activate her phone, and finally got it done! Took so long and now she's finally not phoneless. Walked around 34th Street and found Waffles and Dinges, so got some as an afternoon snack and chilled by the small park there. Then I met up with Bryan real quick since he was on his way to work, but nice seeing him and catching up. Then I still had some time to kill so got a sandwich at Cosi while on my computer until the bus came at 5:30. Meep now gotta go back to work tomorrow.

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10142014

Womp forgot a photo today was too busy with work all day. Glad this week is a shorten week, because I am definitely not in work mode. The morning went by slow, and then I got a bunch of work to do around noon, but that's when all my back-to-back meetings were. So had to push back a bunch of stuff and stayed later in the office. On the way back I got the Amex giftcards for the recruiting event next week! CVS thought there was fraudulent activity on my card because the transaction amount was so high haha. At night I met up with Susan, Simeon and his roommate to discuss our sublet/housing situation, and I'm most likely moving in to the sunroom in Simeon's apartment. It's actually really nice! The annoying thing is moving everything though. Meh.

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10152014

Literally work all day. Went in work early to get a head start and worked straight all day till 5:30. Got a lot more done than I was hoping, so now the workload should be much less tomorrow and Friday. These data issues... killing me. The weather was rainy and muggy all day today too so it was just like a blur all day. After work I had some free time to go to the gym before finishing up the project at night. And then watched TV with my trail mix! Such a boring day..

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10162014

It was a loooong day. Had training at work which was pretty useful - teaching us how to structure our ideas and present them in a deck. I need to improve on that. After work sorted out the apartment situation with Simeon's roommate, and since Chick fil A was right next to their apartment I got it for dinner! First time having it! It was good, but still just another fast food... Not as hyped up as people make it seem. Then I tried to sleep at 9 because I planned on driving to Ithaca at 2am, but nope can't sleep on command so I didn't really sleep much but still drove...

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10172014

I guess this would count as the next day, but the drive was not bad at all. No traffic at all and it was all trucks on the highway lol. It actually only took me 5.5 hours even with 3 breaks! Faster than last time when I only took one break. By like 5am I was soooo out of it. Got to Ithaca around 7am, earlier than I expected, so I went to Stewart Park to watch the sunrise haha. It was nice there and I took photos, but then still had time to kill so I napped for like 45 minutes on the car. Felt so good. Got to collegetown around 8 and got coffee and CTB and met up with Tiffany to go to biochem with her. Worked during the day, somewhat, but wasn't too productive because I was so tired. Went to Walmart with ChuChu and Jess to prep for Mid Autumn Festival and then I took a super satisfying 20 minute nap lol. At night I also went to the Homecoming laser/fireworks show for the first time! I thought it was pretty good and I think it's better because it's the 150th year. Makes me miss Cornell so much more and so happy that I chose to come here. Then off to Mid Autumn Festival! Just hung out and talked to a bunch of people, some of which I now know more about! The food was alright and there weren't as many people this year. And the clean up omg took so long. Now I'm finally ready for bed. Sleeping for reals after two days D:

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10182014

Sleep is so good. Anyway, woke up and Tiffany made pancakes with berries! Not my typical breakfast but it was good nevertheless. Usually my breakfast is nonexistent haha. In the afternoon I visited Robert at his studio and it's so nice and cozy! But kinda lonely though :/ Then got coffee with Jason and then went to his apartment.. lol the kdphi house. Since all the kdphis were at the football game, Jason and I played pong one on one haha. It was good seeing them and catching up again! Then I bummed in the apartment for a while and then met up with Tiffany in Duffield. Don't really know what I did with my afternoon but before I knew it it was dinner time! Got Spicy Asian and got too much food for two people, so took the rest home and now there's leftovers! Then came back to Duffield and I did a littttle bit of work but not really. Then Nancy and Laura was stabbing an umbrella with the stick of the umbrella, and I got a battle scar on my hand because Nancy stabbed my hand... So dumb haha. Then there was a panic because this centipede was crawling around. Such derpiness in Duffield.

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10192014
Woke up and made breakfast for Tiffany! Eggs, tomatoes and avocado! Then I got lunch with ChuChu and Robert at 4 Seasons and today was so cold, so the hot soup was perfect for it! Bummed around all afternoon until I went to Target to get socks because I forgot to pack haha. Oh and went to CUAUV meeting for a bit to talk about the Capital One event tomorrow! Nice seeing the Business/PR team again hehe. After Target I went exploring the Casc trail with Jason! I like it! The trail is pretty clean I guess cause it's new, and it's a nice view from below. Was so tired walking back up the stairs though omg. Got dinner at Taste of Thai with Kevin, we got take out and I brought it back to Duffield and met up with Tiffany. Also checked into Statler room! It's not as fancy as I had imagined, just a pretty standard hotel that's Cornell-themed. My room faces the west side so I see campus and the clock tower!

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10202014

Worked remotely today from Duffield! But Duffield internet was so crappy as usual and kept getting disconnected from the Capital One network and took so long to reconnect it. Took a quick break to Walmart to get supplies for the event tonight and met up with the Gold Rush crew! We were at max capacity with waay more people than we had expected. Had to increase our food budget and find more chairs for people to sit in. The event went really well and people had a lot of fun! It was so tiring for us because we walked around so much answering questions. But I think it's a really successful event but still lots to be improved. After we ended at 9, got dinner with Tiffany and Mercado in the Commons. I thought their food was just alright though, but oh welps. Last night in Ithaca tonight!