i always play catching up

this is probably the first time in a very very long time that i have 5-day hiatus between posts. i've been very very busy procrastinating, so please bear with me.

i have made my decision to go to irvine instead of santa cruz for graduate school, mainly because of a few points that i consider quite important to me:
1. access to good asian food places.
2. guaranteed on campus housing.
3. free parking on campus housing lots.
4. access / options to join different projects.
5. field of neutrino physics.
6. friendly faculty members.
7. department's event organization skills.

irvine managed to provide all of these, while santacruz failed quite miserably. while santacruz offers more money, i don't think i would be willing to sacrifice all of the above factors for money. besides, my life has been following the path of "turning down offers with lots of money," and so far i have never regretted my decisions. after all, one earns the bragging rights for turning down money offer.

i went up to santacruz to visit on monday, bringing my tablet and my laptop with me, and it was not until i got on the plane that i realized that what i brought with me was not my tablet, but merely a mousepad and a mouse because i left the tablet pen on my desk. so i was stuck without being able to doodle on my tablet until wednesday.

i came back wednesday noon only to find out that my baggage was sent to orange county instead of sandiego. the southwest personnel claimed that it happened because sandiego has the code SAN and orange county has the code SNA since they're in santa ana. apparently my luggage wanted to go to irvine more than i do (irvine is next to santa ana, for those who don't know).

LiFe SuCKS has been up and running since april fools now. i've been doodling on tablet a lot, so check out the DOODLES section. the WEBCOMIC also has accumulated 4 strips now. my goal is to update the webcomic section daily, if possible.

i got more tortilla bread last night, so now i can make quesadillas again. stupid sam killed my last stock of tortilla bread, so for a few days i was stuck with not being able to make quesadillas for midnight snack. i finally got over my laziness last night and bought some more.

life as a vegetarian isn't that bad. aside from the occasional drools i get when i see my friends eating sauteed fish or barbecued ribs, i don't really get sudden cravings for meat. maybe from now on i'll eat only vegetables when i'm home, and eat meat only when i go out to eat with friends. easter is coming up, so my vegetarian days are almost over.