Words of wisdom from the mentor
The thing about JavaScript is don’t hate the language, just hate the people who write the libraries.
Everyday happenings…
The thing about JavaScript is don’t hate the language, just hate the people who write the libraries.
Second week down, coding away, and I have quite a few updates. I’m glad my work station is finally set up because I was definitely getting antsy after that first week. On that same you’re-actually-working-now track, I started hitting up the gym and trails to test out my ankle. It’s still sore, but I’m proud of myself for being consistent the past 4 days.
Current mile count: 8
I’d like to keep track of this just cause even though I might skip some days from being lazy or doing strength workouts instead, I wanna show myself that I have actually been working out this summer. Somewhat. It’s just nice to see the progress :].
Today was nice because I figured out the first steps in my project and moved onto the main part, which I still need to break up into milestones. It sucks not being able to talk about my work though, cause there’s no content to go with these posts. I guess that’s what weekend adventures are for though – storytime!
After the weekly Friday happy hour at the AWS kegerator, I met up with a bunch of other interns to watch The Dictator. It was pretty much everything you’d expect from a Sasha Baron Cohen movie…and surprisingly there was really not that much nudity. It was overall a decent movie (and of course full of crude jokes) and if you’re into that sort of stuff I’d recommend it.
We tried to hit up Gordon Biersch afterwards but it was 21+ only, so we crossed the street to Von’s Roast House & 1000 spirits.
I mostly took this picture b/c A needs some inspiration…I was reminded of her when I saw the first drink on the left, and to say….FALSE ADVERTISMENT. There are only 975!! They did have an awesome room with all the different taps on the wall though :].
I’m not really sure what happened but we split into all the Indian people…and the non-Indian people (they split our group for seating convenience). So I basically have a bunch of new Canadian friends and one from Ohio. D was obsessed with the idea of white sand beaches. Which matches his go-to beer choice of Corona with lime I guess. Apparently Canadians don’t spend much time at the beach :P.
On the way back I had a lovely wait at the underground bus station because everyone was leaving the mariners game and every bus was full. I had a great conversation with a random guy that started with my feet…and how he did a double take because he thought I wasn’t wearing any shoes. Now I know my feet are tan…but apparently Rainbows are not a common thing up here and apparently my feet blend in. J basically said that was totally awkward turtle, but I just thought it was funny.
N and I walked around the street fair today. Apparently it’s an annual street fair, the longest running one in Seattle (who knows if this is true?). I don’t really remember what I read. But it was pretty cool. Definitely a lot of handmade stuff, recycled stuff, delicious food, and I found the first coffee that I enjoy black.
There was a lot less jewelry, a lot more random stuff, the food was much better than SF market fare, and surprisingly normal-priced. Seattle Times had the coolest comic strip umbrellas, but unfortunately I didn’t get one because they wanted a two month subscription. I did get some other goodies though :].
First off – the heartiest, most delicious bread I have ever had…sandwich bread wise. I don’t know what it is, but apparently the story (according to N) had to do with some guy getting out of jail and suddenly making bread. Or maybe he was really drugged and decided it was a great idea to make bread. N wasn’t sure, I wouldn’t know, but here’s the bag that I got with my bread, and the slogan seems to imply something along the lines of bread and jail.
I also picked up some popcorn. I’m kind of a sucker for caramel corn in general, but I tried their white cheddar and it was a lot better than TJ’s popcorn…so of course the stomach in me overpowered my brain and I got a bag of each. It’s cinnamon butterscotch, with white sugar instead of brown, so not your traditional caramel corn.
There were a lot of awesome prints that I really wanted to get since I just stick stuff on my walls, but in the end I found some cute pins that were pretty cheap. The robot hugging the octopus is mine, the other three are up for grabs by friends.
I also picked up a bunch of random stickers for A, an Odwalla kiddie juice box (typical me), and a cute mug for Q. I’m still on the lookout for gifts for the rest of my kiddos.