E-mails as a Nonchalant Passing

I looked at my inbox and distraughtedly waved away the 200 in my inbox. I just don't have the heart to sit through at my desk and weave through all the countless messages - most of which are from things that I subscribe to.

I made Baos last night (you know those dim sum things with the fluffy white bread and the meat filling). They were pretty darned good if I say so myself. I feel relatively optimistic that things will work out at the moment and I hope you all are doing well. I can't say I'm terribly sad at the moment just because I have so much to do- even still. I feel that I might be where Santa Monika is in a few days, but I'm trying to keep it cheery.

So outside my room is basically a mini-forest. At least that's what it looks like according to the landscaping that my neighbors did. There's a blue jay's nest at the top of the Hawthorne tree and I have a "bird's-eye" view from my bed. It's pretty cool.

I was really excited to see squirrels, but had forgotten that only in Berkeley are there weird squirrels that come up to you that can be handfed. Which reminds me, I was reading a Smithsonian article about a professors who had become quadriplegic and had shifted his research from animals in the Amazon (because he could no longer take trips there) to squirrels. Apparently squirrels are not animals that should ever be handfed because of the high likelihood that they will bite you. *Mental Picture of Squirrel eating Mentos*

In other news, quite literally, I was reading up on the JFK Airport "crisis" and the Libby trials. Geez, I feel so out of touch with the world. It's weird having a TV and having ... cable. I was watching TV and realized that the MPAA or whomever is in charge of cenorship on TV has really laxed on what can be shown and said. It used to be that naked (topless women) was not an okay thing to show and now it is admissable. Maybe it's because of the TiVO box parental controls or the Comcast box locks. I don't know. Any opinions?

Ah, time to unpack again. It seems like it took a week of packing and it'll take two weeks to unpack. I'm so thankful that my parents are generous with space.