It's not easy being cute, or One

Kadie turned one this month. Which for a little Chinese girl, is a pretty big deal. Unfortunately for Kadie it also means that you don't quite understand why you keep getting handed from person to person, or why your Mommy won't let you roll around (or scoot on your butt) on the floor of the dim sum restaurant.

Look! She's wearing the slippers I bought her in Beijing!
And let us always remember that there was once a time in life when it was preferable to have thunder thighs and cankles.

Tonight Megan (seen mid-expression in the first picture above) and I are going to see Bono speak at Claremont McKenna! For about three years out of college I was U2 and Bono obsessed. I have, as of late, found a new man to obsess in respect over, but I am nonetheless feeling a little star struck.

Good effort, Guy, Good effort

Two former Washington DC roommates must be operating on the same wave length because they both requested/demanded updates. I will make an attempt.

This is the most interesting thing I've read today, on the blog of a friend of mine. He quoted musician David Crowder as saying something along the lines of: If you come to a river and there are people drowning in the river, compassionate people pull them out, even if they keep coming, people keep pulling them out. You don't worry about much insomuch as they're in the river and can't get out of it - that's compassion. Eventually, when someone decides to go up river and find out who's throwing them in the river - that's justice.

I don't know if that is an original thought, but I liked it. Though, I would add that justice would be throwing that person into the river to put a stop to it all. Or at least clocking them real good in the face.

In other news, I am slowly becoming an old person. I drive slow, I like to play gin rummy with Maybe, my back hurts on occasion, and my latest favorite pastime is jigsaw puzzles.

This weekend I will be a groupie girlfriend as Maybe's band is playing two (yes, two!) shows! I need some kind of "I'm with the drummer" apparel. Perhaps a bag?

What else... tonight I find myself going to LA... to an information session at UCLA for their MSW program. Last night I was whining to Maybe that I didn't want to go, "I don't want to drive to LA! I don't want to be in LA! I don't want to go to school in LA! Unless I lived in LA! And I don't want to live in LA!" He just held me a little tighter and said "I know..."

My one consolation is that I get to have some good curry in LA with an old friend.

Also, my goddaughter turns one! My parents are in China. I quit Myspace and Friendster. Work has been kind of slow. My cousin is dating a famous author. I am still addicted to Freecell. Maybe is thisclose to finishing his dissertation. The Cal loss made me feel sick to my stomach. I am trying to decide if Blue Cross or Kaiser is the better HMO. And I have to work the next two Saturdays!

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Peace out loyal readers!

Bearojans!

Early on in our relationship, Maybe and I knew we had two things going against us:

1) My love for and his loathing of Souplantation
2) My love for the Golden Bears and his love for the Trojans

As college football season has come upon us, we are learning to navigate the tricky realm of inter-team relationships. For example, last weekend I attended my first non-Cal game at the coliseum. It was actually a really beautiful day and a fun experience. I don't know how a person couldn't get swept up in the glorious thing that is college football.

On Saturday night (after an impromptu evening in Santa Barbara) we returned to my parent's house to watch our games, both of which my dad had taped for us. We were up till 2:30! Thankfully both our teams came out on top (barely). Come November 10, our relationship, and our ability to root side by side for opposing teams will truly be tested.

"But what would happen to our children? What would they be?"
"What would they be? They'd be half Cal, half USC. They'd be half Golden Bear, half Trojan. That's all they gonna be."

(For the reference skip to 4:15.)