Jeff’s Blog

I’ve been so neglectful about writing here, since I’ve been so busy. Oh well.
Today my parents dropped by for dinner. They’ve been up in Oregon for the past several days, looking at property and houses there, but were working their way back to southern California. We had pizza at Zachary’s, which was [...]

I dropped by KALX Live again tonight. Ah, it’s just like how all my Saturday nights used to be. Anyhow, Betsy, Ian and Aaron were there and it was nice seeing them all again. Betsy, Ian and I talked a lot about the Triangle area and they gave me a lot of [...]

I’ve been so busy being back in full-time work, that I hardly have time to even write here these days. Still, Thursday marks the end of the lecture week for me. Tomorrow, I have some office hours and a meeting with my new reader. Unfortunately, I have a ton of things to [...]

Today seemed to be pretty relaxed compared to yesterday. Less running around. A bit more into the teaching groove. People even came to my office hours today, which was a pleasant surprise. The oddest thing is that I’ve really been on semi-vacation for the past month. It’s sorta strange to [...]

Today was a long day. I got up early, to allow time to xerox off the first day handout. Things went pretty smoothly and I had plenty of time left over to read the newspaper even. The lecture seemed to go ok as well. After that, I spent a lot of [...]

I hung out with Ricardo last night at KALX Live and he was talking about this Bollywood movie Disco Dancer (some screenshots here). It looks hilarious and I want to see it at some point.
I spent something like 3 hours today doing various cleaning and fix-it workshifts and I’m spent. However, I still [...]

A guy from UC Glass came by this morning at around 8:45am to put new windows in my room. While I wasn’t exactly thrilled to have to get up so early, I now have windows that seal and lock well. Very nice. MUCH quiter. The old ones were kinda rustic, but [...]

I’m back in Berkeley after my bizarre reverse red-eye flight. Actually, both planes were late, but only by about 20 minutes. Monday afternoon I got around to meeting up with the new landlord and signing the lease (mission accomplished!). However, I had some time to kill in between checking out of my [...]

I didn’t manage to really do anything today. I slept in until about noon, but I rationalize that’s only 9am PDT. I did however hear back from the landlord guy and he said it should be no problem to meet up tomorrow, so that I can sign the lease. Definitely good news.
I also [...]

An interesting article about how all liquor served in South Carolina has to come out of those miniatiure bottles. Interesting stuff.