I haven't been posting much on this blog, though I did start up a tech blog over at www.williamqliu.com.
Let's see, for the holidays I visited California to see family and friends. I started out in Davis to see two of my cousins, one of whom just graduated college and started her first job as a mathematics teacher for the Teach for America program. I always knew that being a teacher was difficult, but I finally got to glimpse how rough it really is. She would leave at 6am and get back from work at 9pm.
My younger brother also happened to be there and I got to spend a lot of time with him. He flew in from Nebraska and our flights arrived within an hour of each other. We ended up leaving Davis and driving down to Reedley together. During our talks, I sometimes forget how different my brothers and I are. My younger brother is the ambitious, extraverted, and smart one (though somehow not really technically inclined). My older brother is very technical, introverted, and conservative. I'm simply the wildcard.
Reedley was the same as I always remembered it. For a week, I felt like I was in high school all over again. I even went to hang out with the same friends since high school. I think the only thing that was different was that for this vacation, I got my family to do nightly P90X workout sessions in the living room. We didn't get far past the warmup sessions, but they were still fun group events.
For the last few days a friend and I went up to San Francisco to visit another friend. We all knew each other since high school and again, it felt like no time passed since then.
My next trip will be to go somewhere new, but this 'catch up' vacation was long overdue.
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