I let this blog go dormant for the past few weeks since I had some urgent business to take care of. Then I had to move, and then there was family drama, so for a while this blog was far from top of my priority list.
I'll be posting more starting tomorrow. To make up for the lost weeks, I'll be posting 2000 words per day, and in 10 days or so when I will have to lie the blog lie fallow again while I am traveling and whatnot, I should be caught up until I return from that trip.
I am really excited about living in a new place, but I'll have to go back and clean the old place too, to see if I get my deposit back. I can eat so much healthier over here in Sacramento compared to Davis, because here there is fresh produce on the cheap, as well as a very well stocked Chinese supermarket that also carries Japanese and Korean cooking ingredients/materials.
My best friend will be visiting me one weekend after our trip to Napa Valley and after a wedding but before her birthday this year, so I am excited about that as well. There is so much shopping in Sacramento! Shopping, eating out, etc., is all pretty convenient, but I wonder if there will be anything unique the state capitol has to offer.
10 years ago, I first visited this city as a high school student, for the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Program, and I have nothing but good memories of the people I met and the places we went. I got to present and debate real bills on the California Senate floor, in a mock senate hearing kind of thing. It was BEAUTIFUL inside the state senate, and I thought it a real bummer that they didn't allow any cameras or photo-taking inside it, on the senate floor at least. However, I doubt that that is a place I could actually show my best friend. I'm not working for any state legislators, after all, but 10 years ago I was a little entranced by the people who did work in state politics and public policy that way.
What's more, I had a crush on someone who graduated from UC Berkeley and was from Oakland, and worked as a staffer for a female Asian American legislator. I was 17 and he was years older, and there were other girls who also developed crushes on him. One such other girl hugged him pretty tightly while we were saying our goodbyes, and I was going to shake his hand like everybody else, when he pulled me into a hug, and his ears were cold against mine. I think from the impulsive way he did that, and how I was the only one he chose to hug, he also had a crush on me. On the train back to where I was living at the time in Central California, I kept thinking about that hug. Back then I was no good at talking to guys unless spoken to, so I didn't ask for his contact or anything. I also knew by then that I was going to attend MIT, not Berkeley, so the odds were that I would never see him again, which made me sad. I thought, he's just the type of guy who dispelled all the myths my parents told me about Japanese men, and years down the line I'd probably wonder about him and hope that he's happily married. And now, I'm remembering him again. If I could have married him, I'm sure I'd be exceedingly, exceedingly happy right now. He was Japanese American, so I think he wouldn't have been too traditional in his expectations of me. I met him two months after things ended with my first love, which happened partly due to the long distance between us, but not pursuing either my first love or this Japanese guy were both regrets that I still hold.
For my birthday wish this year, I wish that I would meet somebody as wonderful as he was, so I can show him my appreciation and experience love anew.
Speaking of coincidences, today marks the birthday of my first online boyfriend I ever had. I don't do romance online anymore, but seven years ago how could I not be taken with a New Zealander who, apart from the accent, also had one of the most alluring male voices I've ever heard? The one with the #1 sexiest voice, however, still belongs to my first love, who's somewhere in California. I hope that he's well, too. =)
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