Well, we blew it.

Apartment hunting in Berkeley is like dating; every moment is a rollercoaster and sometimes you get your heart broken. I'm not even exaggerating-- great apartments are so hard to come by that when you find a really special one you've got to grab on to it like your life depends on it. My roommates and I found one such special apartment this weekend, but I think we blew it. A good intentioned mint-plant-present was accidentally interpreted as bribery. Eesh.

So, other than accidentally bribing people, my weekend has been lovely. It's the last weekend I get to enjoy myself for a while. . . I've got about 40 pages total that need to be inked in the next week or so. The weather here was ubelievably warm and sunny. Just what I'd been waiting for! I've been sitting on unnamed-mystery-FO for about 2 weeks now. I've been itching to photograph it and send it off to its recipient, but the days kept being foggy. I took advantage of the sunny weather and went to a favorite spot of mine for the FO photoshoot. I'm not going to show the FO yet, but here's a glimpse of the area I chose for the photoshoot.


It's one of my favorite places in Berkeley. I also got to visit one of my other favorite places in Berkeley this weekend-- Grizzy Peak. On Saturday afternoon Sam and I drove up the hill (the hill's name is Grizzy Peak) behind our school's big labs (engineering nukes, you know) in search of some big rocks to climb. The bouldering area we found was amazing. . . kind of like a boulder field. But there was too much poison oak everywhere, so we just explored for a bit then got the hell out of there. Before we left I got the chance to take this photo. What a view! Would've been a great place to climb, but even that view isn't worth poison oak.