lilythescorpio

printing recommendations?

2009-06-08T01:05:12Z

I want to print some business cards by July, can anyone recommend a print shop for me (online or local)?
Ideal shop would have
- high quality printing
- affordable cost
- good customer service

<3 you for helping!

funded

2009-05-21T02:19:21Z

I LOVE people who graded my research proposals. THANK YOU for being so generous and understanding. and I owe my profs who wrote recs for me, THEY ROCK.

NSF is funding my lab, so I get to keep my job. Yay for population genetics, database management, mapping, and niche modeling. Nay for not having a job that would let me draw at night without feeling guilty about not working/studying/writing up that senior thesis for publication...

produce vs. create

2009-03-25T05:21:45Z

There's a clear line between producing and creating art. I think I have always leaned quite heavily on the producing end. It's not that I don't want to create, but the barrier between paper and the image in my brain.
On a side note, I miss drawing and I miss figure drawing in Berkeley.

"The link between my brain and paper is broken, and it's time to shoot the messenger." - smashmethod.

omnivore's dilemma

2009-03-22T20:23:14Z

I finally finished reading Omnivore's Dilemma, yay! Waiting for people to return their library copies sucks, so I gave in and bought my own copy. The week before Joel Salatin (a farmer mentioned in the book) gave his talk at Stanford, I asked around to see if anybody might want to go to the talk with me. When I mention this book to people who haven't heard of it, a few of them asked if it's about converting people to vegetarians... It's not and it's a fun read.

I didn't know Michael Pollan was a Berkeley journalism professor until Laur brought it up, but now he sets a high bar for Berkeley prof's books. I am gonna read Nature in an Age of Global Warming next. It's written by Anthony Barnosky, one of my favorite profs in paleoecology ; )

the only things that count

2009-03-11T06:46:03Z

I forgot why I logged on facebook, but I saw Cass' page and her quote:

Growing up, my parents always said, 'You will leave this world the same way you came into it: with nothing.' It made me realize that the only things we do in this world that count are those things that make the world a better place for those who will come behind us.
~ Tyrone B. Hayes

The inconvenient truth

2009-03-02T07:44:32Z

It was not a thriller, but it was totally worth watching.

lilythescorpio @ 2009-02-13T21:40:00

2009-02-14T05:41:40Z

Yesterday's party was fuunnn, a synergy of geekiness.

I got a shiny gift @__@
Happy long weekend, and happy valentine's day!

5 min blog

2009-02-09T20:59:27Z

Lunch break~

For January reading, I finished Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. This is the first and only self help book I have read so far, and I think it's pretty good :) Some lessons included: be proactive (focus on what you can change and take responsibility for your feelings and doings), establish your principles, and prioritize around them.

I'm still working on Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (pg 300 or so). If you live in the United States, I'd recommend this one. I'm not vegetarian, and I don't think I will become one (so long it's a symbiotic relationship). but gosh, the meat and processed food I eat are GROSS (and unnatural and inhumane)... I think I will cut back on those as much as I can ;__; Lunch break is over... more on this awesome book later.

sexy career

2009-01-08T04:24:53Z

For all the people who are going through the stress to stay in academia...

MSN's 10 Sexy Careers You Never Thought Of
"10. University professors
Behold the power of intellect: Someone who wasn't even on your romantic radar suddenly becomes the target of your affection when you find out he or she is intelligent -- or at least could be. Being a professor doesn't make anyone an automatic genius, but chances are these academics have expertise in at least one field, can speak a second or third language and have ambition (seeing as they spent a hefty portion of their time earning a few degrees). Plus, if anyone can make glasses go from nerdy to sexy, they can."

third week at stanford

2008-09-16T05:54:26Z

Ray linked me a part time job, but it says "If you have too much on your plate (full time student extra job slaying dragons in the evenings), you should not apply for this job. It takes a lot of time to become a true Faerie"

I disqualify! :'( ...because I kill too many dragons at night!

I have an ambition

2008-08-05T05:09:48Z

to buy a set of Photoshop CS3 Extended... even though I'm broke and have little time b/c of various research/volunteer work

but youth! chase after your dreams ~ *floats away in Morita style*

AX

2008-06-24T07:47:19Z

I asked Willy if the area I will be staying at in LA is safe, and he linked me a newspage:

"One year, we had almost 106 homicides in eight square miles," he says from the intersection of 7th Street and Alvarado."

okay, that's the exact intersection...

lilythescorpio @ 2008-05-08T20:22:00

2008-05-09T03:27:49Z

I was told I should go to commencement by my major and department advisers... so I will.
I am not inviting anybody because it's a month after the tickets are sold out...

and it's the Saturday of FANIME... so I will be late to the con :(
anybody wanna pretend to me be?

lilythescorpio @ 2008-05-06T11:52:00

2008-05-06T18:53:10Z

I picked up my diploma today
It's probably time for me to grow up

In loving memory of

2008-04-23T02:26:42Z

my sweetest pet and friend (and roommate), Chibi.

She's not just any furry friend. She's cute, kind, and smart. She helped me go through my hardest time in college, yet she left so suddenly.. I should have known earlier - I shouldn't have attributed her crankiness to her potential allergy or blaming her gentle bite on the fruit-smelling hand soap I used. Sorry, Chibi. (I'm not having another pet until I have trust for doctors and vets, have a huge yard, and can ensure that I will always have time for myself and my loved one).

I hope that she rests in peace, with all her favorite food, water, beddings, and toys; but without any pain or suffering.
Thank you, Chibi.

I want to draw better

2008-04-03T00:46:40Z

I WANT TO DRAW BETTER

and we all know that sitting on my ass can only do so much for helping me to level my drawing skills. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE EXCUSES MAKERS, i.e. work, research, sleeping, checking facebook/LJ/DA...
therefore I'm going to work on my research/presentation now.

If you have any other leveling tips, please share.

lilythescorpio @ 2008-02-08T17:04:00

2008-02-09T01:10:13Z

"Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are 'not welcome in our city.'
Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of federal funding to the city as well as money designated for the University of California-Berkeley"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/07/berkeley.protests/index.html

I don't necessarily agree with the Berkeley message, but... Oppressing expression of opinions, and taking funds away from already under-fund research institution is WAAAYYY cool! It's better than addressing Washington concern directly to Berkeley local government. Attack UC Berkeley is the thing to do (even though it's not a student-run protest)! especially when none of the Republican lawmakers' sons are in the marine ;)

my dentists

2007-12-11T20:59:33Z

my dentists took 8 x-rays of me in the past month...
they are determined to give me cancer

on the brighter side, thesis writing is over

Something to watch

2007-12-04T02:52:26Z

Really, watch it if you have time (1 hr each) :3

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/view/ (especially if you can vote for the next U.S. president - WOW, what a good combo...)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/ (especially if you are going to Vegas).

immunity

2007-11-08T01:14:06Z

something to read when you are surfing online: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004662.php

Happy Halloween

2007-11-01T01:13:11Z

Happy Halloween :3
School is being incredibly scary now... so I will go study

Law makers..

2007-09-29T01:04:54Z

One law maker, many votes :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG6X-xtVask

Midterms are coming.. fast

Foreign Affairs

2007-09-02T21:02:08Z

I'm taking a foreign affairs class for my ge

I'm usually not very up-to-date with current events, but with fat papers on my neck, I will try...
The recent blog sent to us: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/bush_on_disbanding_the_iraqi_m.php

Our course website:
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

So far the material has been very interesting and distressing

famous?

2007-05-14T21:49:36Z

http://ib.berkeley.edu/
I'm at upper left corner, same page as professor Eileen Lacey (one of my favorite professor of all time)! and Bio1B field section (one of my favorite class of all time, definitely my favorite field class)! and of course Barnosky and Kraatz are on the description page. Their support and acknowledgment mean so much to me. now you know most of the non-art/anime/family people I love :)

so yeah... time to study for my last final :<
eek

Origami

2007-04-12T22:56:36Z

I found this cool page :3
http://homepage3.nifty.com/kakitsuka/gallery/