December 2011
15 posts
Currently
Updating books from the ’70s on California water code. Feel like I could’ve been an extra in Chinatown!
Waited
in a thirty-person line after work at the post office to mail my portfolio, only to discover pages 3 through 18 in my printer tray when I got home.
Wh-what? Happened? I distinctly remember stapling something together last night… fingers crossed it wasn’t recipes? HELP.
In which I have to write three personal statements...
Statement of Purpose
Personal History
Autobiographical Sketch
Just
ate cookies so fast I’m not sure they even existed.
Notes from home
Mr. Kim got a Roomba and programmed it to run every day. Mom is starting to develop feelings for it.
Mom: Roomba-ya, you’re tiring yourself out working so hard.
More true stories
Mom: Hey, are my earrings pretty?
Mom: C'mon, tell me. Are they pretty?
Kristine: You're not wearing any.
Mom: ...Oh!
She even did a head-shaky thing to show them off.
more mom
She and Mr. Kim were playing golf with another couple and my mom hit her ball into the other man’s pants pocket, fifteen feet away.
phone with mom
mom: Have you noticed your sister always says she'll do something and then doesn't?
me: ...
mom: Have you noticed that?
me: What?
mom: That she says she'll do something and then she doesn't do it!
me: Lots of people do that.
mom: I don't.
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