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A month ago, I found two sketches from eight years ago. They were finished but uncolored. I took a little time of my evening brushing them with some watercolor. The above sketch is from the Court Street of downtown Athens, Ohio. And the one below is of the Baker Center of Ohio University at Athens.
It gave me a sentimental feeling to look at these sketches.

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Being a professor in a research university is different than in teaching universities or colleges. Research is a big or dominant part of our duties. Formally, my current load is 60% for research, 20% teaching and 20% service. In reality, teaching actually takes most of my time and energy.
I love doing research. I enjoy staring for hours looking at random facts and having a never-ending daydream trying to make sense of them. I love collecting stories of people and spend thousand hours trying to untangle knots and to connect …

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Happy super belated New Year!
Yes, it’s too late to wish you a happy new year… I wish you all had a good start of year 2010. And it’s not too late to say: Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentine’s Day !
Apology for a super long silence. It’s just hard to go back to blog writing after stopped for such a long time. I am back now. Have many ideas to write but not sure I’d be able to get them written down soon.
So, new year. What’s new? I got …

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So, it’s still about yesterday, which was the day of the today of the yesterday, and thus a continuation of http://merlyna.org/?p=822
My bike+house key now is always attached to my wrist (I put on an elastic band on the keychain), and my hat never goes anywhere (it has a rope to keep it hanging on my neck when the hat is not on my head). My preventive system works well. I now rarely forget my key or my hat.
First class went well, hat on. Then a meeting with LG, it went …

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So, today was my teaching day. As usual, getting up, having coffee, re-reading class material, checking my slides, etc… getting ready for the class.
It was a great day in Tempe. The temperature was just great for bicycling. My bike tires had been flat for some weeks, but I determined to cycle anyway. So, I took the pump out and to my own surprise, apparently the tires weren’t flat. I forgot that I did the whole pumping two days ago. I forgot that I didn’t forget to pump.
OK, I thought I …

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In the midst of writing-craze (been staying up until 4-5am this week), I was trying to get ahold of my lovely sister in Bandung, Debi, who had her birthday. Timezone difference and my muddled mind, in combination with Debi’s unpredictable schedules, set a perfect situation for a series of “ouch-debi-isn’t-here” episodes. After calling umpteenth times, I still couldn’t talk with her. I managed to talk with the husband, my bro-in-law, and the son, though.

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disclaimer: If you think this is a kind of ‘random stuff’ that has been circulated in cyberspace (where someone has to tag 5 or whatever other bloggers to write on the same stuff), you’re wrong. This is not ‘it’ and I tag nobody, so nobody should feel obliged to write this kind of thing, and in fact I warn you not to write such thing! :p*
These are what have been really happening in my last TWO weeks….. True story.

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Bad me, I haven’t really spent much time and energy to really blog. So what I’ve been doing so far is writing/creating some quotes (as my FB status)…. I can imagine some people get it, some don’t. It’s OK, these are not ‘mainstream’ quotes. Just remember those who laugh last usually don’t really get the jokes, hehehe.

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today, around 01:20 pm.
Back from teaching, I found myself locked out. I brought my set of keys, but I left them inside my own office! But no worries, G, the administrative associate of CSPO (that’s an institution where I work at ASU), holds the master key!

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In case you were wondering…. I did come to the party (that was supposed to be held yesterday). Right party, right place, right crowd! :p I was still sleeping when the first call buzzed me to remind me about the party. Apparently the story that I went to the park yesterday was circulated already among the invitees! Of course, I had to re-tell the story at the party too, where people were much entertained by my suffering!! :p