I went to a potluck at Stanford. Adelaide was hosting it with her roommates in Rains. I got to see Amy, Nima, Caryn, and lots of randoms Stanford people. Stephanie came along and we got to talk to everyone. Amy is now living behind the Zynga Mountain View office. Nima and Caryn are living in Mountain View as well, just down on Latham st. I really enjoy having them close by. I made some Guac for the party and took my veggie juice so that I wasn’t tempted to eat too much. It worked rather well up until the end of the party, when I had a few slices of pizza.
Nima and Caryn took me bike riding this morning through Portola Valley. It was a really intense ride and I was lagging behind a little the entire time. I am going to be walking a little funny tomorrow from it. I really enjoyed the ride, and would love to do it again. We ended the ride with a quick pass through Stanford and sat in the Oval for a couple minutes to cool down. We talked about what we would do if we had no worries about money. Nima would dance, Caryn would get a PhD, and I would do the same things I’m doing now, just with a small difference in the time weighting.
We then went to the Cal Ave farmer’s market to meet up with Steph and Tina. The market had lots of delicious blueberries, and of course I got a Samosa. We sat under the giant metal flowers for a while and chatted. I also got a good bit of broccoli and cucumber.
We went to Holy Grill and talked about what Bo has been doing. He seems to be doing well, but needs to be a lot more insistent on the companies he is helping to hire him or pay him. He seems to be really happy now that Umi is here and they are going to be getting married soon. I found out that Sean Teague is moving to the bay area. I hope Bo is happy wherever he ends up. Also found out that John Forrest just graduated and is looking for a job in robotics for a mechanical engineer.
We went over to Adam’s house for a makeup party. We decided that I would do Stephanie’s makeup and that she would do mine. I chose to make her look like an egyptian, she chose to make me a two face.
One side of the face has “normal” makeup and the other has “fancy” makeup.
We did this at Adam’s house with Andrew, Jeremy B, and a couple of people I hadn’t met before. I had a really nice alcohol free diet ginger beer, but I added a little bit of vodka. Adam also made a drink with lavender syrup. Adam also served really nice cheese, it was a goat cheese with garlic and herbs.
After horseback riding Steph and I went straight to Shezan. Castro street at the time had an art fair going on. While we waited for our food at Shezan to be ready we went down the street and looked at some really amazing art. I got something for Nana, and possibly will get something there tomorrow for Dad. After about 20 min we went back to Shezan and got our food, which we took down to Shoreline lake to eat. The lake was really pretty, and I was hoping to see some goslings but no such luck.
Last night I set up some veggie pulp + soy sauce + honey nut granola bunches of oats that had been blended together to dry out in Nick’s dehydrator. They weren’t fully dried this morning, but I tried a bit anyway. They were unbearably bitter. I’m not sure what happened, because the mixture was pretty good last night before it was dried. I’ll try spicing it tonight, but I’m not sure it can be salvaged as it currently is.
This was a nice little restaurant, and much better place to get lunch than the minimart across the street from it. I got a really tasty breakfast bagel. The bagel was a sun-dried tomato based bagel and soooo tasty. Steph and I shared an iced coffee to keep us going.
After sailing we decided to go ahead and get an early dinner in Santa Cruz. Steph looked on Yelp to find Lillian’s and it was fantastic. They had a wine special for a gewurztraminer that was crisp, but not sweet. They also had some stuffed pesto gnocchi, which was really good. I’d still say that Cafe Moulin is better, but not by that much.
Yesterday, Stephanie and I hosted a chocolate tasting at my place. She set up the chocolates and I set up the wines. I served a white (the heinz eiffel riesling), a rose, and a red. Jonathan brought some Sherry, which was very tasty. The night was very nice and we had a pretty decent crowd show up.
There were 12 different chocolates, 1o of which we got from the Chocolate Garage. The others were the best we could get at Safeway. They tasted like wax when comparing them to the Chocolate Garage chocolates, even though they were the best from Safeway. I feel very spoiled now that I have had really nice chocolate.
I took all the leftover pieces in a plastic bag with me to work, and enjoyed them on the train ride to and from SF.
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