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Where did you learn russian? Middle school, high school, Oxford university… Oxford university? Very nice, very nice. Exactly

Long term life goals

Watch Cal win the Rose Bowl

Own a home in Hong Kong

Visit every national park in the United States

Build a new building for the UC Berkeley campus

Get a fist bump from Barack Obama

Read every book I was supposed to read in high school

Publish a photography book

Watch Arsenal win the Champions League

Go to Steph Curry’s retirement game

2016

Five things I liked

Passing the PE

Visiting New York in January and getting to see friends who live(d) there

Finally doing a vacation I’ve been planning since grad school by visiting Maine and seeing old friends in Boston

Stephen Curry

Stephen Colbert

Five things I hated

The Donald, and politics

Workplace politics

Cleveland, a very close second behind Los Angeles for being the worst place in the world

Sonny Dykes

Dead celebrities

Resolutions

2016: -Continue working on that media backlog! This needs to stop being a resolution every year. It’s moving along. -Pass the PE! Passed the PE! -Work toward getting that promotion, but don’t resort to ass kissing like other coworkers are doing. Did what I could, and I still refuse to kiss ass. Still waiting while dealing with company politics. Foot out the door. -Learn how to do vibrato on the violin. Kinda. Sorta. -Keep setting aside time for traveling and playing with my camera, even with the PE coming up in April. Traveling, yes. Camera, not as much.

2017: -Continue working on that media backlog. -Buy a house. -Stop wasting so much time reading sports sites and blogs. -Stop letting people interrupt me all the time when I talk. -Spend more time with my violin. -Use my cameras (both the DSLR and film camera) more often! -Actually meet my Fitbit goals. -Figure out my long term finances and plan things out more carefully. -Get better at cooking. -Read all of Lord of the Rings. -Keep making travel plans. Vancouver, Montreal, Alaska, London, Hokkaido?

Reason #19024808274915 I need to buy a house

So that my dad stops opening my mail to look at my bank statements and health insurance information because he doesn’t respect my privacy and then tape the envelope back shut because he thinks I’m too stupid to notice.

Reason #19024808274914 I need to buy a house

So my dad will stop using my mail as napkins.

Play it slow Lay it low You lead and then I’ll follow

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Caminito del Rey | by Paulo Sousa

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Amalfi, Italy (by Justine Kibler)

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♕ You’ll get that throne you want so badly, I’m sure of it. I hope it brings you happiness. I pity the lords of Westeros. They have no idea what’s coming for them.