home is where the comfy bed is

sorry to those of you who read this since i've been slow on the updating bidness..

anyways! i got to go home this week! WOOO!!! The east coast really makes me feel significantly more homesick than LA did. Part of it is not having one of my best friends from home as a roommate but really it's just different out here, plus no car, no hdtv, no video games, no tkd/shorinji and my crappy dc bed really make home seem so appealing.

The place where I work (the Asian American Justice Center) has yearly retreats with it's affiliates in SF (ALC), LA (APALC), and Chicago (AAI). For those of you that have done organizing you know that retreat is really just code for 2 day meeting. And that it was. But really it was awesome. I got to go home tuesday morning, have the day to chill with friends and fam, go to tae kwon do, and then do the retreat things from 8:30-5ish on wed and thurs. This meant I got to sleep at home which was fucking awesome because i'm pretty sick of twin beds, shitty comforters, and crappy pillows. Every minute of sleep i got in my own bed felt like it was worth 3 minutes on my DC one. At home we watched some movies, Old Boy on blu-ray, the princess bride, and a failed attempt at seeing avatar which was sold out despite being a 10pm showing on a thursday after it'd already been out for like 2 weeks...

The retreat was cool. It was really nice meeting the folks I work with but only hear on conference calls. Everyone was pretty nice and we mostly talked about things that didn't really pertain to me. I got to facilitate one of the activities which was neat cause I felt like it was really something that let me use the skills i gained in college. We were also given pretty good food. It was interesting seeing how the different offices have different cultures and specialties. At AAJC we don't do direct service and the other offices do a lot. I sort of wish I got to do more of that kind of stuff but AAJC is good experience. Maybe after a little while I can try to move to one of the diff affiliates so i get a more rounded view of the API legal scene. Awkwardly i think i met the person who got the job in sf i wanted. o well, turns out i knew her, she's cool and stuff so w/e.

During one of the lunch breaks we went to the ferry building which has all these cool little shops and had a couple of oysters. I also got the chance to try this place that my dad told me about which is only open on thursdays at lunch called 4505 meats and had this awesome thing called the zilla dog. it was basically a hot dog with hot sauce, kimchee and chicarrones. Yea. It was awesome.

In other news virgin airlines is pretty sweet. wifi and power outlets. chipotle in dulles has breakfast burritos that arent' very good. i miss my bed.

Weezy and Andy are over this weekend, i'll write about it later but its late so yeaaa