Kokochi

Chatting with Japan

I was excited to use ISight to chat with my parents and literally carry the laptop around the house so they could see how I live. And now we got ISight at work (Six Apart) to chat with our wonderful group in Japan. This was our first time and we celebrated a very big launch that they worked very hard on. You see them here, and us in the tiny corner on the right. It was great to open champagne together and toast a drink. We took pictures of each other from both sides. It was the end of the work day for us (ah, nice champagne) but for the Japan team, it was just morning. One team member hadn't slept the night before and drinking champagne in the morning might not have been the best. Nevertheless, it was fun to have this connection!

In time for spring

Hope you like Kokochi's new look. I wanted to update the colors a bit and add some details : )

Props go to Dav for helping me!

At the palace of fine arts

Beautiful walk today...

I guess I'll moblog...

Transcription by Jughead:
My brother Ian is visiting (yeah!) and so Dav, Ian, and I are walking along Embarcadero towards the Farmer's market.
Ian is on the phone with a friend and Dav is talking to his sister via phone too.
Mmm. What should I do? Take pictures and moblog!

panda love

We're at lunch for work and I got Jean-Yves to photo my phone to show you my new phone plate...Panda love! Thanks to David & Anil for showing me : )

check out my new fancy shoes!

I love feeling free to fall in love with whatever type of shoes or wacky clothes I want to. My taste used to be more in line with what society expected of me, mainly cuz I worked in places that wouldn't approve of me wearing pigtails or walking around with kitten shoes. But as I get older and actively carve out the lifestyle that fits me, I'm enjoying the cute, weird, and wonderful things I find. Like that bear hat from Austin. I had also bought a cool vinyl & velvet skirt there and Dav kindly bought a matching corset for me. Already went out in that outfit.

I love my new shoes! The only thing is they don't have platforms like most of my other shoes so I'm having to re-adjust to my 'real' height. Even Dav noticed how short I was compared to before...

drats!

I'll be squinting today...

What I passed on the way to work

Transcription by Gen:
Yes, only in SF do you pass a van with a friendly-looking bear sitting there. He was actually parked across from where I was walking; I took a double look, slowly approached, thinking he might talk to me, then whipped out my phone. Too bad I wasn't wearing my bear ears. Yeah for bears! (I like pigs + elephants too [heart])

Is it genetic?

I'm back in SF now. Dav stayed one more day and I'm picking him up tonight (which I'm looking forward to cuz I already miss him).

But I *almost* missed my plane yesterday. I had looked at my itinerary and thought I had to be at the airport at 8:30pm. Cool, I thought... I get to attend all the panels and then hop over to the airport. Then as I sat down for the last panel at 5:00pm, Dav came up and asked to confirm what time I had to leave. I double checked my flight and found in horror that 8:30 was when my transfer flight in Phoenix leaves and that I had to leave Austin at 5:50! I didn't even have time to pick my suitcase up (which sweet Dav will have to lug now) or say thanks and bye to Dav's friend and our host Frank (thanks Frank and Lori!!); I rushed out of there so fast that I literally ran through the middle of a group discussing stuff (how rude of me!).

On the plane I laughed at myself. This is *so* typical of me. Then I thought of the time my brother left a town he was visiting with a huge good-bye party from his friends, only to discover he was leaving a day early. He was so embarrassed that he stayed at an airport hotel instead of coming back. And my parents were in Italy and arrived at their hotel a day early, then completely missed their flight out on that same trip by a whole day. I've gone to the airport to pick up a friend to discover I was a day off too.

Being early is certainly better than being late. And I haven't missed a flight yet. But it seems my whole family is constantly mistaking travel dates! Dav's a math guy. Maybe our kids won't have this tendency...

cutest baby @ sxsw

Just couldn't resist taking a pic