June

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06012015

It's June already :O Mondaze, but very productive start of the week. Got in the office bright and early right before 8am, and had a productive day all the way till just 5pm. Brought in the new scooter for work and scooted around the team room, still too embarrassed to scoot out into the common area. After work, I met up with my high school history teacher who wrote my college rec! So nice to connect with her again and catch up. We got dinner at Tom Yum District, it's like Chiptole-styled Thai food. After dinner, I drove down to Richmond and it started downpouring on the way down. It was insaaane, the rain came down so hard I could barely see and the lightning lit up the entire sky. I think lightnings are so cool.

153/365
06022015
Slowday at work, very slow. Feasted at Texas de Brazil afterwards and had so much meat and delicious dessert. I think I've had enough red meat to last me the next few weeks. Now just in a major food coma in bed. zzz

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06032015
Work - the usual. chill morning but a busy and packed afternoon. After work, a few of us went to Phil's house in Downtown for board game night. This is what Richmonders do in their free time I guess. Learned how to play 7 Wonders - explaining the rules took almost as long as playing the game itself, but it's a fun game. Then we got Gelato afterwards and it was amazing. Gelati Celesti - marked it as one of Richmond's dessert places to go to.

155/365
06042015
Long day at work, and had some office exercise towards the end of the day playing the mini hoops basketball and throwing a football around. We were waiting to go to the Corporate 4-Miler run. It was drizzling/light raining, but we still ran anyway since we were already there. I went as hard as I could to see what my pace would be for a 4-miler, and I averaged a 7:47 pace. I thought I could do faster, but was still happy with a sub-8 minute pace throughout the entire time. My second half was only a minute slower than my first half. Afterwards, we feasted on sushi and sashimi, and then the torturous drive back to DC in the rain and at night. D: 

156/365
06052015
National Donut Day means donuts from Astro Donuts at work today! Helped film this stop motion video to highlight donut day stuff. Today at work was like a fun and games kind of Friday. The hammock came in, played with the scooter, and had several games of ping pong. Went to the Nats game afterwards with the interns and got reminded of how boring baseball is. But after that, met up with a bunch of people at Clarendon and went out. Hard. Had rounds at Spider Kelly's and played shuffleboard - I'm not as good as I was in Dallas. Womp. Then went next door to Clarendon Ballroom and had a great time on the dance floor with a few more drinks. Haven't gone out like this in so long, especially danced. Very fun night with an awesome group.

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06062015
Struggled to wake up this morning for dragonboat. Managed to get myself out of bed to go to practice, which didn't feel as horrible as I expected. Had lunch at Neal's where he made paella and it's so picture-worthy. So pretty and not bad. In the afternoon played tennis for an hour and my backhand is so inconsistent. Time to get more into this now that it's warming up outside. Got ramen with Shah and Katy at Adams Morgan since Shah was visiting DC. The ramen was just average in my opinion, and then we went out in Adams Morgan and U Street afterwards. It was a sober night for me and I called it a night at midnight to get some sleep.

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06072015
Slept in today - first time in a very very long time. Met up with Ann in DC since she stopped by before heading up to Ithaca. We went around DuPont and wandering into random shops and stores there. Then went to Union Market in search of hipster areas in DC. Didn't really do much and we just sat outside chatting about everything, about life. Also played around with my camera trying this floating image for the first time. It was a chill and relaxing afternoon :)

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06082015
Slow day today - just chugging along. Serviced my car afterwards and walked around the neighborhood to take some photos. Stumbled upon this yellow old school van. And luckily I got back indoors before it started pooooouring.

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06092015
Busy day at work staring at the screen all day looking through multiple colored cells. Was so exhausted and dizzy by the end of the day. But had some fun conversations, many of them, throughout the day. I forget what they were about lol. Richmond at night and feasted on sushi while watching Game 2 of the NBAs.

161/365
06102015
So found out I'm paired to an ADP buddy that's coming in mid-July. I didn't sign up for it but oh well that's fine. Also got looped in to a lot of the fun committee things and helping out with the posters and banners. I like doing these things so it's not too bad.

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06112015
Exciting day at work today. The video I made for Donut Day got sent out to the whole department and got lots of positive feedback about it haha. Guess I gotta keep up these videos periodically for social events going forward and just for funsies every month or so. It's like a fun side project, but quite time consuming. Went to dragonboat practice after and felt really good today. It was a good long practice and I felt pretty good after. Got Bon Chon with a few people afterwards and found out so much more about the history and politics of DC Dragons. A lot more drama than I expected and a lot of things about people that I didn't know before.

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06122015
Ran a bunch of errands this morning so got to the office around 11:30. Did a few things here and there, and then worked on the website project that's due in a month! So little progress, so little time D: And for most of the afternoon I just played and hung out - played ping pong, foosball, and discussed our next video project! So happy people are enjoying the video and excited for the next video! I bummed at home for a while before going to Eden Center to get Banh Mi (yum) and some snacks! Then played tennis for like 2 hours. Playing at night is so much nicer than in the sun, but still so hot and humid.

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06132015
KDC Media Day! Super long day doing photo shoots and filming promo videos for the 6 artists competing in the Kollaboration DC showcase in August. Long, but really fun day. Started early setting up a dark room/studio type of environment t George Mason University. I was in charge of all the photos so took a bunch of head shots, posted photos, and candids to use as promo and marketing material. We played around with the lights and had different light bulbs and light sources to do cool effects. Got to see a few of the artists sing a complete song and that was pretty cool. By 4, we were done and exhausted. Packed up and went to get some burgers and ice cream - much needed and well deserved first meal of the day. Then I went over to a BBQ and we jammed out to 90's Britney music.

165/365
06142015
Dragonboat then running this morning. Productive morning! Met up with Deborah in the afternoon and we got SnoCream in Annandale. First time there and it's really good. I was expecting it to be overrated and just average shaved ice, but I got Thai Tea flavored icy with 3 toppings. Perfect for today's 90+ degree weather. Then in the afternoon, Margaret, Peter and I filmed part of the video we're making for work. So many troll scenes and goofy scenes it's hilarious. Spent the night putting together some of the clips and dubbing Mission Impossible music to it.



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06152015
Fun and busy day at work. Prepped the upcoming food drive on Wednesday and sent out mass email to the entire department! Had like 4 hours of back to back meetings and almost didn't have break for lunch, but they were all productive! After work, Margaret, Peter and I finished filming our video outside the office. The car scene looks so bad ass, especially with Peter's 370z. Came to Richmond and finished editing the video heh. So excited for it!

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06162015
Richmond day like any other day. Had hot pot from Cheng Du which was horrrrrible, and then watched the NBA Finals. Wooh Golden State beat Cavs!

168/365
06172015
Felt like crap all day cause I'm sick and so hard to get through the day. Thought I would have a chill day today, but ended up being pretty busy and getting things done by 5pm. Nothing exciting, lots of tea during the day. A bunch of people around me had cucumbers on their desks for some reason. And then came home.

169/365
06182015
Typical day at work today. After work I pumped out 6 Facebook cover photos for the Kollaboration finalists to use to advertise the upcoming showcase. Took a while but I enjoyed it.

170/365
06192015
Fun day at work today stalking down the executives to get photos of them for my video. Successfully hunted down all 4 of them, even on a Friday! I went to watch Jurassic World afterwards and I thought the movie was just meh. It wasn't anything too spectacular and it was very predictable. I felt like it's part children's movie if it weren't so gory and violent.

171/365
06202015
Dragonboat in the morning, more tired than usual maybe because I'm still slightly sick. Then haircut took a long time - waiting and then the haircut itself. By the time I was home and showered it was already past noon and I just bummed all afternoon until KDC meeting. I was so excited to get Snocream, but when I left my apartment at 3 I realized it opens at 5 :( Very disappointed, maybe tomorrow! Then on the way back from dinner the storm rolled in and started lightning and thundering nonstop. My sunroom was like a light show with surround sound. No like.

172/365
06212015
Extreme exercise day Sunday as usual. Dragonboat and today was exhaaaaausting. Two 250m, two 500 m, and a 2k all race simulations. Good prep for upcoming Baltimore race next weekend though. So pumped for it. Met up with Teddy and Co for lunch and most likely gonna have Teddy as my roommate starting September! Excited to have a roommate I'll probably hang out with more. We got pizza at Pupatella and it was sooo amazing. This white sauce and prosciutto and corn pizza was amazing. Then afterwards I food coma-ed and napped for an hour or so before going running. Then got Snocream afterwards it was sooo good for this 90+ degree weather. Then played 2 more hours of tennis until like 10pm and now I'm completely drained. The Lemon Ice Gatorade is actually pretty good.

173/365
06222015
Lots of food today at the food drive at work today - very impressed! Also sent out a promo video to hype people up and people received the video well! 8 hours of work to produce a 1:20 minute clip. Worth or no? Rest of the day was meh - got annoyed at someone bringing up stuff. What's the point even? But anyway, came to Richmond and feasted on sushi. No more room in my tummy for Corona but that shall happen tomorrow.

174/365

06232015

Team happy hour!! The team intros took a while, but afterwards the Sumo match between Yogi and Jason, and between the interns were pretty good. It's so ridiculous haha. And then we played cornholes for a good amount of time while drinking beer. Drank so much I was so stuffed and tired by the time it was dinner. Then had drinks with people at Rock Bottom till like midnight talking about the most random stuff. Good times in Richmond.

175/365
06242015
Postcard from Lauren from Portugal! Well, she mailed it from Spain, but then no stamps so actually mailed it from California haha. But it still got here so that's all that matters. :)

176/365
06252015
Attended People and Money at work this morning and the talks were realllly good. Really excited to start planning this to bring it on campus, but gonna be so much work D: Also finished the food drive I organized today and in 1 week we got over 1000 items!! Pretty impressed with the turnout actually, I think the competitive factor between the offices really motivated people to bring in food. Then dragonboat after work the usual.



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06262015
Friday funday as usual. Did a bit of work here and there, but for most of the afternoon I was wrapping up food drive stuff. Then by 3pm almost eeveryone was gone, so I played a few rounds of ping pong before heading home. Bonchon for dinner and I forget how large the chicken legs are, glad I only got the small instead of the medium. And then played this online Pokemon drinking game, kinda like Monopoly and each square you land on makes you drink. It was actually really fun and involves a loooot of drinking. Then went out for a bit in Clarendon but it wasn't all that great so came home to zzz.

178/365
06272015
Spent the afternoon apartment hunting and found good apartments in the area that's worth moving for. So not gonna resign the lease and going to move a couple of blocks away. The top choice has an indoor 25 yard swimming pool! That's so amazing and time to get back into swimming if I do move there. Then it was the KDC Open Mic Night at Board & Brew in College Park. Such a pain traveling today because it was thunderstorming all day and just so yucky out. But the event went well and the people there enjoyed it! Wasn't too stressful because it was more low key, but we still pulled it off well :)

179/365
06282015
Super exhausted today. Woke up at 6am to get to Baltimore for the dragonboat race. We were right by the Under Armour headquarters on the turf field there. The race itself was pretty small with only a handful of teams, so the heats went by really quickly with little breaks. We raced 3 500 meters, which was mehh.. Our final race we were stuck behind the other boat's wake and we just couldn't get over it. But the 2000 meter at the end we did really well. Kept right behind the boats the first 1500m and then after the last turn and the final 500m we beat two boats and made up 2 boat-lengths' worth of distance. Too bad the Silver for the 2k didn't count, so we just got a Bronze for the 500m. Then had Honey Pig after omg it was sooo delicious, just what we needed. Now it's like 8pm and I'm ready for bed..

180/365
06292015
Getting 8 and a half hours of sleep felt sooo good, but still not enough. I don't even get this much on weekends. Work today was quite busy. Forgot about this meeting at 9:30 that I had to prep for so I scrambled to get everything done before then. Managed to finish it and the meeting went okay haha. At night I went to the White House hoping to see the rainbow lights, but I guess it was only up on Friday and then they took it down.

181/365
06302015
Super slow day at work I was just so exhausted and not in work-mode. Played tennis for 2 hours after work with new tennis balls and it was so hard getting used to them. They bounce higher and are so much faster. I couldn't time it well and played horribly :( But on the bright side, I got tickets to see Imagine Dragons at Verizon Center next Monday!! :)