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I haven't made a public entry in a while
Not that it really matters, but I'm beginning to wonder if I should just give up on the part of me that loves Japanese baseball and realize that I'm in the US and I'm never going to live in Japan again and trying to stay involved is just not going to work out.
This is mostly because I JUST found out that the Japanese national collegiate team came to the US on a US-and-Netherlands tour this summer. I know there's USA-Japan next summer and I'm planning for that, but WTF? Even though this was also the middle of nowhere in North Carolina, I totally would have made my best effort to go had I known.
But I didn't know because I just don't really read about Japanese baseball the way I used to. I spend a lot of time on work, and on my boyfriend of 5 months, and I broke my leg a month ago (well, I moved to Mountain View at the start of June, got a bike, and had an accident on June 10 where my leg got twisted under the bike, I thought it was a sprained ankle but just found out on July 1 that it was actually broken, a displacement of the distal fibula, I have a cast until the 22nd) and so my life has mostly been focused on those things, especially with Google I/O on June 25/26, which took a lot of my time to prep for and to staff at AND I couldn't walk for like 10 days after my bike accident.
I don't know why this bothers me so much. I guess people know I'm not really an expert on the current state of Japanese baseball anymore. And quite frankly, working at Google and having a career is pretty awesome, and having a smart sweet boyfriend who does puzzlehunts and boardgames and takes me to musicals and all is ALSO pretty awesome.
Anyway, I dunno. But yeah, things have been busy the last while. In April, I switched teams from Chrome Devtools to work on Project Tango, which is a cool 3D computer vision Kinect-like Android device under the formerly-Motorola ATAP research division, and I've been working with super-smart people learning all kinds of crazy stuff about computer vision, so that has been pretty cool. There was a lot of work with that to get ready for Google I/O of course, and breaking my leg 2 weeks beforehand didn't really help (unfortunately, the place I live is a 10-minute bike ride from campus but there's NO public transit there AND it's not on a Google shuttle route; the closest is to take a shuttle to Caltrain and walk 3/5 of a mile home, which I can finally do again since I have a walking cast but it takes me 20 minutes). Of course, I did get a blue cast and put Chrome stickers all over it so it's a Chrome Cast, which is sort of funny I guess, or at least everyone at Google thinks it's pretty funny. But yeah, I've been having my boyfriend Chris drive me around a lot, and/or begging rides from people to get to/from work in general. I just took my first Uber ride yesterday actually, which was a lot cheaper and more convenient than I thought it would be.
I had been doing ballroom dance class at Google as well as lightsaber stage fighting, and I was ice-skating once a week, and playing ping pong, and I've had to stop all of that for a month, which has SUCKED in terms of exercise.
Chris and I went up to Seattle for Microsoft Puzzle Hunt in mid-June right before I/O too, where we played PH15 with Liboncatipu, and.... our team placed 3rd, which was pretty nuts! I had to limp the final runaround on my broken leg, but the hunt had enough broken-ness towards the end that a lot of good teams got tripped up getting to/through the final meta. I want to post more about it sometime but just haven't found the mental cycles to do so.
For the 4th of July weekend, since I got the 3rd and 4th off, we went to Napa, and ate a lot of good food and rode a wine train and toured a winery masquerading as a castle, and stuff like that. It was a lot of fun and nice to spend a weekend out with him. I'm hoping we can do a trip to NYC later this summer actually, but we're still working that out.
This weekend we're doing Berkeley Mystery Hunt and California Extreme. So, we're busy and cool things are happening. My life should be pretty good all things considered, minus the broken leg, but I'm just feeling so weird and melancholy over the Japanese baseball thing all of a sudden.
This is mostly because I JUST found out that the Japanese national collegiate team came to the US on a US-and-Netherlands tour this summer. I know there's USA-Japan next summer and I'm planning for that, but WTF? Even though this was also the middle of nowhere in North Carolina, I totally would have made my best effort to go had I known.
But I didn't know because I just don't really read about Japanese baseball the way I used to. I spend a lot of time on work, and on my boyfriend of 5 months, and I broke my leg a month ago (well, I moved to Mountain View at the start of June, got a bike, and had an accident on June 10 where my leg got twisted under the bike, I thought it was a sprained ankle but just found out on July 1 that it was actually broken, a displacement of the distal fibula, I have a cast until the 22nd) and so my life has mostly been focused on those things, especially with Google I/O on June 25/26, which took a lot of my time to prep for and to staff at AND I couldn't walk for like 10 days after my bike accident.
I don't know why this bothers me so much. I guess people know I'm not really an expert on the current state of Japanese baseball anymore. And quite frankly, working at Google and having a career is pretty awesome, and having a smart sweet boyfriend who does puzzlehunts and boardgames and takes me to musicals and all is ALSO pretty awesome.
Anyway, I dunno. But yeah, things have been busy the last while. In April, I switched teams from Chrome Devtools to work on Project Tango, which is a cool 3D computer vision Kinect-like Android device under the formerly-Motorola ATAP research division, and I've been working with super-smart people learning all kinds of crazy stuff about computer vision, so that has been pretty cool. There was a lot of work with that to get ready for Google I/O of course, and breaking my leg 2 weeks beforehand didn't really help (unfortunately, the place I live is a 10-minute bike ride from campus but there's NO public transit there AND it's not on a Google shuttle route; the closest is to take a shuttle to Caltrain and walk 3/5 of a mile home, which I can finally do again since I have a walking cast but it takes me 20 minutes). Of course, I did get a blue cast and put Chrome stickers all over it so it's a Chrome Cast, which is sort of funny I guess, or at least everyone at Google thinks it's pretty funny. But yeah, I've been having my boyfriend Chris drive me around a lot, and/or begging rides from people to get to/from work in general. I just took my first Uber ride yesterday actually, which was a lot cheaper and more convenient than I thought it would be.
I had been doing ballroom dance class at Google as well as lightsaber stage fighting, and I was ice-skating once a week, and playing ping pong, and I've had to stop all of that for a month, which has SUCKED in terms of exercise.
Chris and I went up to Seattle for Microsoft Puzzle Hunt in mid-June right before I/O too, where we played PH15 with Liboncatipu, and.... our team placed 3rd, which was pretty nuts! I had to limp the final runaround on my broken leg, but the hunt had enough broken-ness towards the end that a lot of good teams got tripped up getting to/through the final meta. I want to post more about it sometime but just haven't found the mental cycles to do so.
For the 4th of July weekend, since I got the 3rd and 4th off, we went to Napa, and ate a lot of good food and rode a wine train and toured a winery masquerading as a castle, and stuff like that. It was a lot of fun and nice to spend a weekend out with him. I'm hoping we can do a trip to NYC later this summer actually, but we're still working that out.
This weekend we're doing Berkeley Mystery Hunt and California Extreme. So, we're busy and cool things are happening. My life should be pretty good all things considered, minus the broken leg, but I'm just feeling so weird and melancholy over the Japanese baseball thing all of a sudden.