snow

the first snow fell today. it was small and pellety and melted as soon as it touched the ground in most cases. however, it’s still only october, and i think the fact that we’re seeing snow right now is a little bit… unnerving. especially for a California boy like myself.

this evening, the snow ramped up [...]

wine tasting photos added

So yesterday, a group of friends and I went wine tasting around Lake Cayuga. Even though it was raining and I’m not a wine connoiseur and it was pretty exhausting, there were some major upsides:

The ratio was four girls to two guys. Um.. yes.
I felt like bourgeoisie even as a graduate student (wine tasting is [...]

obama-rama

a rebuttal to http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6425923706&topic=11471

*To Barack Hussein Obama,* 

First of all, the people that address Senator Obama including his middlename like it’s something everyone should know and fear lose a lot ofcredibility in my book. Nobody ever addresses Senator McCain as “John Sidney McCain,” so I don’t really buy the argument that this is just a formality. It’s meant to [...]

visitor!

mom’s in town this weekend; both parents in one week, how exciting!

hopefully this will help relieve some of the homesickness I’ve been getting recently… but at the same time, it’s also because I miss my friends.

nyc photos uploaded

all of my photos from my New York City trip have been uploaded. In particular, I would like to bring attention to the lovely lobby of the Hudson Hotel at which I had the pleasure of staying. Perhaps if I have time at some point, I should write a review of this hotel…