K2’s posterous

two of the coolest things i've learned/discovered all by myself since getting my new semi-colorblind correcting contact lens:

(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.

*chuckle*

watching my clumsy husband clean out and try to figure out our new hydration packs is amusing, annoying, and endearing all at the same time.  lol.

i've noticed that birthdays make me morbid now.

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.