How fitting it is that my very last picture of the 365 project is taken at the very last second before the day, nay, the year is completely over. There's alot that could be said about tonight and even more to reflect on (one thing being that this is the second year in a row that I have been more sober than drunk when the clock struck 12...something I haven't done since before college), but there will be more on that later.
Just spotted and installed today: more unoffensive landscape art to add contrast to the bare white walls and sea of blue cubicles.
A nearby SAIC office happened to have closed down recently (not a good sign, actually), and as such, the excess office supplies/furniture/decor were ransacked and distributed amongst other surrounding SAIC offices like plunder from a pirate's buried treasure (sorry, I just watched the trailer for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie). Some got the chairs, others got the staplers. What we got was the office art.
My sister made a realization that despite it being her birthday, we never had a cake or candles to celebrate. So here we are.
Every year my family has a White Elephant gift exchange. I came away with a fancy schmancy foot massager type thing (considering my contribution was a Giants snuggie, I think I got a pretty good deal). While the thing still tickles the hell out of me, I'm sure I'll learn to appreciate the awesome power of little rotating balls on my health and well being.
I have relatives staying over my parents' place tonight, and they decided to bring their pet iguana or lizard or dragon or whatever to stay. Let me tell you, these things feel exactly like their rubber toy counterparts.
Just cause we have our Christmas party on the 24th doesn't mean we can't celebrate on the actual day as well. 
For reasons I don't recall and are now irrelevant, my family decided to have its Christmas celebration on December 24th as opposed to on the actual day. We all gathered in Watsonville, a small farming community where my grandma currently lives and where my mom and most of my aunts and uncles grew up. 
So correct me if I'm reading this incorrectly, but did a former tenant of my apartment run a fake business here? And that you need a permit to run a fake (fictitious) business in San Francisco?
I love the holiday season. There's never a shortage of free food in the break room at work, no matter what job I'm working.
Happy 20th birthday to my sister!
Did any of you catch the lunar eclipse tonight? I got the first 10 minutes of it, before the rainclouds/signature San Francisco fog rolled in naturally and ruined this once in a 500 year phenomena for me.
To celebrate our boss's departure for vacation last week and subsequently an unsupervised next 3 weeks, we decided to take an extra long lunch at the Chinese buffet down the street.
I've always been a staunch proponent of Team Microsoft when it came to the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac wars, so it pained me to learn that the industry-standard software in the world of video editing could only be run on computers that are made by a company whose mascot is a fruit.
I figured if I wanted to make any headway in this industry, it was necessary to invest in this machine (most internships require that you are running a Mac), and make the ungodly switch over. Luckily one of my instructors knew the plight I was in and was able to hook me up with a fairly good deal (and threw in a free copy of Final Cut Pro to boot).
Not the first year I missed the decorating of home (home home...where the folks are) for X-mas this year, but this inspired me to put up some holiday decorations of my own that I didn't also use to light my parties back in college (look up the 'lighting' section)
Since moving from a cubicle to a new office back in August, I have been able to enjoy the presence of two minions, a view, and no blue cubicle walls. A nice perk is that when we grow tired of staring at transit schedules on an excel sheet all day, all we have to do is walk over to the window and watch for any interesting happenings out there in the "outside world."
Another day, another day on campus, another observation of the holiday decorations that have been up for the past month.
My coworker used to always rant about his former supervisor who was a bit "rough around the edges." He would drag his feet, he had an annoying laugh, his clothes never matched and he used to carry around a rainbow umbrella.
No, I don't know who I played either. Apparently this beady eyed blonde kid is Eddie of the Fisher Price Little People. He's one of those characters you'd only be aware of if you were a kid under 4 or if you were a young adult who's raising a kid under 4. In either case, I didn't have quite the name or face recognition as the Cat in the Hat or the Curious George costumes got.
Plus thanks to them, I have enough food to last me for at least the next 3 days.
