about that last post...

it was a bad day.

and frankly, this is my blog. i get to complain. therefore... a big "HA!" to my AC :)

to see what i've been up to work-wise... here

what else... fun visit to the piercing store today. i got new rings for my cartilege piercings!! nobody but myself can tell, but it's neat :-D

it's been really cold here... right now (at 0545, mind you) it's 30 degrees Farenheit and dry as a bone. even the rain feels dry. when it rains, that is.

and lemme tell ya, my skin loves the dry. it thinks it's a competition, and tries to match the dryness. especially on the back of my hands.

at least i'm not back home working in the chocolate shop. we washed our hands so often that the backs of my hands would dry to the point of cracking and bleeding. this does not = teh s3x.

neither does my over-filled laundry basket. haha, i typed "baskey" originally. yeah, laundry needs to be done. and a room clean. and maybe a once-over with a vacuum on the lovely mass-produced rug, if i'm feeling saucy.

random fun occurence of the day: i found my grandfather's immigration records online!! and his parents', and a person who i think is his uncle. it was pretty exciting. the family came to San Francisco when my grandfather, Edwin, was 17. shortly after arriving, it was decided that the last name should be "Americanized", and they dropped the "ovsky"... yeah, i'm a quarter white Russian.

can you imagine what it must've been like being Russian in the USA during the Cold War? no wonder nobody talked about the Russian side of the family. my mother told me once that Edwin (who, btw, was her father) would speak to his family in Russian or Mandarin (they lived in Shanghai after the Revolution of 1917), but he never taught my mother Russian, or anything about judaism. another part of his life that probably didn't make him too popular back in the day.

i may continue to research his life. Edwin died before i was born, but at least there's records of his immigration- my father's family's records burned in the San Francisco fire.

and i don't think they had Xerox machines back then... :p

Currently:
reading- textbooks aplenty!
listening to- "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd