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I keep rereading old LJ entries of mine and feeling bad that I won't be able to do that about this past year because I'm so lazy. I ought to work on that FB->LJ conversion idea I had sometime for at least my Japan mini-journalling.

Anyway, it's not like I even have much to say about this week so far. It's Wednesday, so D&D will be tonight. On Monday, I wore butterflies in my hair. See, last Thursday there was a company event at the zoo -- well, event is the wrong word, it was a volunteering event. Apparently we pulled weeds in a swamp-like cage and dug up part of another cage and were putting together a habitat for a bobcat, something like that. I didn't go, because I went to Oakland instead for the A's game -- Darvish was starting for the Rangers and I really wanted to see him, or more like, to meet Tateyama, which I didn't succeed in. But I did meet a ton of Japanese people, who were all crowding the Rangers bullpen before the game, including a lady who came here from Sapporo by herself to see him, a guy from Ibaraki who was cosplaying as Darvish, some various other people, I just chatted with them in Japanese, very fun. Even the guy who was sitting two seats to my left was from Hokkaido, though he works in San Jose now. I wore my Imanari jersey so a lot of people were saying things to me about him! Very cool times, even if Darvish sucked and the Rangers lost, I still had a good time at the game.

But anyway, so even though I spent the day at baseball, then at Gamescape to get Torres, then at my house for game night (where we barely played games and mostly hung out and talked), the rest of my company had the zoo event and then a Safari-themed happy hour afterwards, where they decorated our lunchroom in trees and birds and parrots and stuff.

On Friday I wore a suit to work for fancy friday and gave a Stig workshop, and at dinner one of the vines from the jungle decorations fell down so I put a little red bird on my suit from it, and then the Ninjas told me that I should take the birds and butterflies and wear them in my hair sometime. So I did. I felt particularly inspired on Monday morning and put my hair in two ponytails at the top, flowing otherwise, and attached butterflies to the ponytail and one to my shirt, which was also all purple and pink for a change. So, butterflies.

I stayed late at work on Monday, then on Tuesday didn't do much after work either, so I feel like I have very little to write. I brought Ella (Jenny's dog) to work with me on Tuesday, and we went to get lunch with Jordan and Josh at the Embarcadero center, and it was so sunny and hot, and Ella came along (I couldn't really leave her back at work), and I took her through the line at Boudin Bakery, which fortunately was fast and we found seats outside quickly, and she napped under a chair the whole time. But when she got back into work she found Cooper's water bowl and drank a ton from it, and he was like "WTF dude!"

Oh yeah, she also chewed up a nerf dart. I'm leaving it here on my desk as a warning to future people who want to shoot me.

C came over with me after work but there's not much to say about that either. We walked and talked and stuff like that.