Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Viva my weekend.
I’m taking it easy for these last days of being 29-years-old.

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Last month, we ended up in Lodi after the Stockton Asparagus Festival. An air-conditioned wine tasting at the Lodi Visitor’s Center helped revive us. The festival was fun but we were wiped out from walking through 100-degree weather and [...]

Another round of hot Kansas weather had me craving ceviche. It’s so easy to make and it tastes refreshing, as a meal or a snack. As long as you have the patience to wait for it “cook” in the fridge, I think it’s worth the wait.

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Here are the fixings for ceviche - [...]

LAS VEGAS — Watching “Charmed” at Ate Gigi’s place…It’s nice to have an oasis - away from the smoke and noise of Sin City. Ate G’s currently re-doing her statistics exam.
It’s about 60 degrees and windy out here. That makes it a cold day in Vegas.
I had a great time at the conference. [...]

DALLAS — inside the terminal, waiting for my flight back to Cali. Just finished up my interview in NY. Found an old friend from high school. I’m tired. I have a headache. I feel carved out like a watermelon…I have no idea how I did on the interview. It was such an involved process and [...]

it inside the Museo del Corso…sounds like an improv jazz concert in the other room…Mark and I are sipping chianti….
Mark: “All roads lead to Rome…but not all flights…we had to take Ryanair to get here and Easyjet to leave…”
You don’t want to take too much luggage on Ryanair…they smacked us with a $200+ charge for [...]

blogging from porte maillot…waiting for the 10 euro shuttle to take us to Paris-Beauvais airport…going to Italy…Mark said he’s going to get by in this country speaking English….I bought a loney planet book on Italy from Jaymie in ur Medill Global Program for 20 Euros. Who do you think will survive?
Gotta remember to cover on [...]

i found this pic on flaming burn’s blog……how did I stumble on this blog? well, someone at UC Berkeley had th bright idea to open up the mailing lists….and this blog address was among one of the many angry, insightful, funny, absurd responses back to all UC Berkeley students (past, present, and future).

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