This weekend I escaped to Santa Cruz (by myself) to hang out with Mo. As this was my last week and my internship had ended on Monday, I decided I could spend a bit more time than I normally do there. Mo also invited me to come to watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream with her and the SURF-IT group (UCSC’s REU program) on Thursday night, which would mean I wouldn’t be able to leave until Friday, anyway. San Jose is boring, and I wasn’t about to spend 3 days doing nothing, so I chose to go.

The first thing I did was go directly to Asana, to get some Thai iced tea. I’d just spent two hours riding buses and had actually taken the wrong bus heading in the right direction. By the time I’d found out, I was in Scott’s Valley and needed to cough up another $4 for the correct bus. I at least deserved a tea:

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I’ve been doing crazy things lately. Asides from the regular Wednesday trips to Santa Cruz, I found a Wit and discovered a small city in the backwaters of the Bay Area that the locals call “San Francisco”. It looks sort of like this. Lots of hills and little parking.

There, I went to the Renegade Crafts fair, where I bought soap, pins, and Greg, the stress cat.

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I’ve recently begun a new JDrama, called “My Boss, My Hero”. As with most of the other Dramas I’ve recently been into, this one maintains the style of comedy and hilarity while adding some emotional aspects to it. It all culminates into the best kind of drama.

The story is simple enough: a Yakuza lord wants his child, Makio, to become his succesor. Unfortunately for him, Makio is an idiot and often destroys his gang’s business deals by his stupidity. The prime example of this being in the first episode, where Makio is told to accept a deal at 27 billion yen. When he doesn’t, the deal goes up to 36 billion yen. Makio, not knowing which number is greater, still refuses to accept, and the deal is cut off and ends in a gang on gang brawl. The Yakuza lord tells him that his stupidity is unacceptable, and in order to prove his worth to the gang and become the successor, he must graduate from high school within a year’s time. What follows is Makio’s adventures through high school with pudding and attempting to act like a normal 17 year old (he’s actually 27). The following is mostly about the pudding.

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