there's something about waking up at the ungodly early hours of the morning. the world is still dark, time and space and everything else are all off balanced. i woke up at 4 AM yesterday morning for my 6 AM flight home, and the day had never felt so long before.
so, i haven't updated in 21 days. but for the past 21 days of my blogging absence, i've been flying here and there, living out of a suitcase, exploring and vacationing in different cities. one week in san diego, and the next was seattle.
what can i say about san diego? i got to be a girlfriend, and he got to be a boyfriend. we did the dates, hand-holding, and all other things that make a relationship as sweet as it can be. if we had a song, then it'd be toploader's "dancing in the moonlight."
in seattle, the sun doesn't completely set until 10 PM. seattle is a wonderful city, a lot like san francisco and berkeley for its culture and liberal setting. it is so green and clean there, with dependable and great public transportation. i've never drank so much coffee and had so many mochas before in a week, but i was in seattle, and i do believe that i was doing my best to fit in as a seattle-ite. i did the dorming thing that just about everyone and their mother has done, something that i missed out on three years ago since i started college. i met great people, networked and mingled with design professionals and professors, and cracked photoshop jokes here and there like the design nerds we are. icograda design week was worth every penny. i was in a great design atmosphere for a week and a city with so many things to do and see. great food and tourist sights were at my finger tips. of course, i had to be a major tourist, flashing my camera and peace sign at every chance i had. i had my fill of the space needle, pike's place (where the fish scene was filmed for the real world seattle! yeah, tv junky, what!), the experience music project, and the birth place of the first starbucks (complete with the original logo of wood-cut drawn mermaids and exposed boobs). it also helped to have met a local at the conference to tell me the in's and the out's. she was helpin' a sista out.
today i had lunch at sonoma chicken coup and ate samples from various vendors at the farmer's market in downtown san jose. i kind of miss seattle, but it's a beautiful day in the bay area and it's good to be home. i've got one free roundtrip ticket to anywhere in the US with my name on it. and well, new york and hawaii are looking pretty sweet right about now.
