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Wooooohooooo!!! I was accepted to San Jose State University for my Master’s in Library and Information Science! I’ll be taking classes at the Cal State Fullerton campus as well as online. SJSU is one of only two accredited programs in California for Library Science.

My classes will start at the end of January, and I’ll still be working full time at Barnes & Noble, so I’ll be testing out the time management skills… I’ll be taking two of the three core classes: “Information and Society” and “Information Retrieval” (see descriptions here)

I’m excited but nervous! Hopefully, if I enjoy these classes, I’ll be done in about three years, and then I can be a Librarian! My life is so like the movie Party Girl with Parker Posie, sigh

Had a really fun weekend. My cousins from Malaysia were in town, and stayed at our house for the weekend. Lots of swimming, bbq’ing, drinking. It was my cousin John, his wife Ashley, and their three children: Molly (5), Megan (4), and Jackson (6 months). Jackson is a BIG little kid!

John’s friend from college, John, drove up from San Diego with his family on Saturday (his wife and two kids), and we all went swimming. It was great to have so many laughing kids around the pool, diving and splashing.

Sunday we went to Main St., Huntington Beach for lunch before they left.

Some pictures from the weekend!

Finally! The project I’ve been working on for the last six months has gone live!
www.startrek.com was launched on August 1st, just in time for the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas.

I wish I could say that I’m entirely out from under it, but the people at Paramount have a finely tuned eye for detail, and there are still a few bugs to be worked out. Definitely nice to be able to say I was the Tech lead for this project, though!