(1)  sather gate at berkeley is GREEN.  i always thought it was dirty silver.  i walked under that thing a million times for 4.5 years and never knew.
(2)  the nighttime sky is sometimes NAVY BLUE.  this is super cool to me.  so beautiful.

this lens gives me a new appreciation of the world - someone majorly bumped up the vividness and warming meter, and the world is ridiculously colorful.  so colorful that i can't even identify many colors.

however, if i had to choose one of my senses to be deficient, i think colorblindness is the best deficiency.  lucky me. 

...is having legs so antsy on a random tuesday night that we just have to walk up stairs and hills.  and then randomly discover this beautiful view.  super cool.

1 year ago, i was walking like an old old lady because i had overdone a kickboxing workout the day before and hurt myself.  my husband laughed at me.
4 years ago, i spent my birthday in the library frantically studying for a killer (no pun intended, har har) virology midterm the next day.  mak had to hunt me down in the library.
5 years ago, i was taking a chemistry midterm.
6 years ago, i forgot to bring my id with me and i could not order an alcoholic drink.
11 years ago, i was dreaming of what kind of life i would have in 10 years and hoping i would be out of boring simi valley.  what a dream come true.
20 years ago, i was so excited for my birthday party that i forgot to comb my hair.
23 years ago, i was so excited for that it was birthday that i got sent to the corner (for talking too much).  preschool teachers sure can be jerks.
27 years ago, i did not know what was going on.  i was probably grumpy though and wanted to be left alone and not fussed over.
100 years from now, i will be dead.

awesome.