pure comedic gold

Until I can get my act together with New Zealand photos and such, check out this site which is AM.AZING. My new favourite site:

http://mymomisafob.com

Leaving for China in a few days (the traveling just doesn't stop this year), and I'm feeling pumped for it. I am trying to convince my parents to take me and my brother on a side trip to Tibet, but I'm not sure they're biting. For one thing, I hear the altitude sickness absolutely KILLS. Any thoughts, China readers?

Some other ramblings--hardly anyone is at home this summer. Some friends are abroad and others are working or staying at school. It doesn't matter much since I'm not home either this summer, but sometimes I pine for those days when everyone would show up at my house and we could spend the night laughing and playing card games or Mario Party on my old Nintendo Gamecube.

Andrei is spending six weeks at UC Berkeley this summer for LSA (the Linguistic Society of America). I not-so-secretly hope that he falls in love with California so that we can move there after college. Then I'll finally buy up a sweet yellow vespa (a lá FLCL!) and ride it to work everyday. I admire Andrei so much for loving linguistics enough to spend an entire summer on it, plus the work he's already done for UROP. He also presented one of his papers at another linguistics conference earlier this spring at Cornell. He makes me way proud :)

Other thoughts in my head include how to get my 13-year-old brother to think I'm cool again (I think in order to accomplish this I may have to hone my violent video game skills), and whether I should use this blog for my China travels too.

I guess I should wrap up Australia and New Zealand before then, though. :/