Since I'm unemployed now, I have lots of time to do stuff like set up WordPress and consolidate my blogs. Those of you who anxiously await my once-every-three-months lj updates will just have to add my new blog to your rss reader or something.

Hey, 2008, what's up!

January: Went to San Antonio for work. My application for Canadian permanent residency was moved from Buffalo to LA.
February: Went to Boston for work, had an extra day and a half for sightseeing.
March: Nothing happened, I guess.
April: Went to Columbus, OH for work. Launched Expelled Exposed. Got totally bummed out by all the negative vibes. Escaped to London! Stayed with Bonnie-san, my Australian roommate from Japan.
May: Eurotrip, continued: I did Cologne, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Luxembourg solo, then stayed with Bryony in Brussels. The day after I got back, I went to Disneyland with Lauren and Kush.
June: My theme park brings all the Canadians to the yard: Elizabeth and Peter visited, and we also went to Disneyland.
July: Turned 25. Sooooooo oooooooooold. Was involved in a coup the revitalization of the Bay Area Skeptics.
August: Rafted down the Grand Canyon. Finished my book! Also went to LA to see Mike Einziger from Incubus's symphonic debut. For work!
September: Flew to LA for a 15-minute interview at the Canadian consulate. Was approved, pending the medical exam.
October: Went to Houston and Memphis and launched the new NCSE website for work. Spent a lot of time playing Harvest Moon for Wii. Dressed as a mushroom for Halloween.
November: How about that election, eh?
December: Finally got my Passport Request. Next stop: Canada!

As for 2009... last year my New Year's post was less "resolutions" and more "plans". Since 2009 will feature unemployment of an unknown time, I cannot make plans with certainty. So, I will make resolutions instead!

1. Improve posture
2. Lose weight
3. Wear makeup more often
4. Be more social
5. Okay, one plan: move to Canada! FINALLY.
6. One more: get laser eye surgery.

Rules:

01. Go to the [Flickr] search engine and look up pictures from the places you've lived (town, state, country) and make a mosiac out of them.
02. Copy the URL of your favorite photos [here].
03. Share!

( No one on Flickr has taken a picture of the Funabashi Daiso, so this is incomplete )

Look what I made!

http://www.baskeptics.org/

Please tell me if anything about it sucks real bad, before we send out a general announcement! KTHX!

OH HAI did I mention Canada officially will take me? I had my interview a week ago: $300 to fly to LA and back for 15 minutes of describing my job history. It's okay, Canada! If I had no patience with government bureaucracies we'd run into more problems in the future, I'm sure!

So now I just need my medical check, which is apparently only an issue if you have ebola or spend more than a month a year in the hospital.

As long as the economy doesn't totally collapse, I'll probably be moving to Ottawa at the end of January! THE LOVELIEST TIME OF YEAR.

Today's experiment........................................failed

via this recipe

Interview with immigration on September 23, guys! Whoa!

But I have to sell all my anime stuff before I leave. Sale post is here if you've changed your minds on anything. Hint: if I know you, I'll probably give you a discount. Because I mostly want to get this stuff out of my room.

I have been working for 15 hours, but at last, I bring you: Expelled Exposed, the ultimate guide to Ben Stein's propaganda-fest.

See if you can guess my favorite line! It's the one part I wrote that no one even tried to re-write.

Last weekend I was at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I'd never been to Boston before, so it was pretty exciting. Also exciting: the tiny digital camera I got for Christmas. This is the first time I've had a camera under about five pounds since high school.

While totally amazed by the glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (how do you do that with glass? Crazy!) I was disappointed that they weren't more sparkly. Blah, blah, realism, whatever. I wanted pretty pretty princess flowers.


There is all kinds of free stuff in the exhibit hall.


Later, we crashed the Science Writers' Party at Fenway Park.


I am a corporate whore.

"Every dance move is the Robot if you can imagine an advanced enough robot." - Demetri Martin.