A friend of mine sent this over to me yesterday— the new Honda Accord commercial, which is so fascinating to watch. It’s even more fascinating once you understand the engineering feat it took by reading this article. After almost 4 years of living in Seattle, I’ve never traveled up to the San Juan Islands–for shame. Today, I will finally do so—Pierre and I are just heading up to Orcas Island for a day to get away from the city and check out island life…really looking forward to it. Went to a party last night at Stephane’s Spanish teacher’s place, whose roommate is the belly dancer in the group, Children of…

Damn, it’s been a long time since I’ve written in here. And so much has happened: We’ve had a war, I witnessed a friend getting shot in Iraq on Fox News, my project slipped by a month, I got a paycut, then got a payraise so that I would make as much as I did last year, got food poisoning from one of my favorite Malaysian restaurants, flew home to surprise mom for Mother’s Day, discovered that I’m taking salsa classes with one of the conductors of the Seattle Symphony, Kansas lost to Syracuse at the National Championships (boo hoo), a tornado hit my hometown for the first time in…