there were lots of people at the party, which of course i like! (everyone's listed from left to right)

maria, laurie, sabrina, gina, and sandy



paul, megan, julianne, and erin



linda, monette, kirsten, and barbara



stuart, betsy, chris, and michael



oh, and me!, i was definately there!



ariana was there, too!



and so was bob!



and so were angela and carmen, who even came over from next door(can you believe i'm already forgetting the names of buidings on the campus where i've spent the past 6.5 years of my life?!?!?!?) there they are hiding between chris and linda. oh, and to the left of chris is shaya. gina and shaya helped put the party together with stuart. THANKS GUYS!
oh, and can i just mention, no one escapes my camera good thing i'm not evil papparazzi...


there was a cake

(yes it's for ME! megan's a freshman who just got the workstudy job in our office last semester; she can't leave yet)
it was a most delicious chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting; i regret leaving my piece behind in the little fridge in grad admissions....this is what i used as justification for buying that madeline pan...wait...i'll tell you about that later



there was a michael sacramento original good-bye white board (that "new" face to the right is carol)



and there were "speeches"



and there were gifts in huge bags (which REALLY came in handy when the strap to my book bag broke about half an hour after i left-aka-on my way to piedmont-then-home)


and little envelopes that packed big punches

along with a picture that includes solomon (i hope things are going really well for you in taiwan!)


and getting those last few good-byes

like with barb here


as well as learning that some folks don't like to be blogged

i've edited one of the two faces; you can still kinda see jacob off to the right there....


here i am the morning of my last day as an employee at CAL

i made sure to wear all my most favorite clothes!


and i celebrated afterwards in true guettagirl fashion

i started making up the CHAMBER OF SECRETS lego set!



geewillikers i love the sound of those little plastic bricks jingling around in their numbered bags



on sunday i went into the park for a walk. i think golden gate park is the most beautiful public park i've ever had the pleasure to interact with (this would include boston, nyc, & paris; although central park DOES have that glorious dancing animal clock, you never feel quite as lost in central park as you can feel in golden gate park)

a little artsy picture

and these folks; there were actually two groups of them. this group were dressed in the figure skating costumes, and what's difficult to see(and why i didn't take another picture i simply do.not.know.) is the american and olympic flags trailing amongst them. the other group had the speed skater costumes on with rollerblades whilest flying their flags....what i wanna know is this: are these actors or actual atheletes who are promoting this year's winter olympics? cuz, if it's the athletes, i guess i understand the idea of getting people excited by exhibiting some of the actual folks who're gonna be there...but if it's actors; well that just seems downright fraudulent...


yesterday i took a walk downtown to the central sf post office. it's pretty down there in it's own way

another guettagirl original, thankyouverymuch.
and, finally, without further ado, one of the more heavily justified kitchen tools i've purchased in recent years

yes, the mini-madeline pan...hopefully, after all the museum touring i'm doing with neil today (first tuesday of the month!) i'll still have the energy to give this baby a test-drive!


and that's it. i'm now all caught up