I've got to stop making my weekends so bloody insane.

I've been on a strange sleep pattern lately, and this has not helped with the over all chaos that is my life. When I mean chaos, I mean relative chaos... My life isn't actually that crazy, which is nice. The drama that is in my life mostly belongs to others, where I play a spectator or aide.


Yesterday morning I awoke at 5:45am after perhaps four hours of sleep. I woke up early to accompany my friend to his first half marathon, which was very exciting. I'd like to think of myself as the kind of person who goes the extra mile for my friends (Pun!) and try as hard as I can to be there for them when they need me to be. Yesterday was not an exception.

Post-race, I ended up going to the city to Marrakech, a Morrocan place with dancing, hookah, and food. It was my friend's birthday. I think he was very happy that all sort of people showed up. :) However, I didn't get back home until after 1am... Ew. And I fell asleep in the car, which affected my sleep so that I couldn't fall back asleep right away. :p

Around 3:15am, we had an earthquake!

How do I know I'm very Californian? When earthquakes don't bother me in the slightest. They don't phase me at all. Also, when I can pretty accurately guess the magnitude of the quake before the results are posted on the USGS website. :)

Anyway, enough boring stuff, This weekend, I'm cleaning my boots, getting some stuff together to donate and likely taking Stephanie back to San Jose. I've also decided that this week, I am going to make char siu bao, which are Chinese barbecued pork buns. Pictures to come when this happens!

I also told my friend I was going to post pictures up on how to make chocolate-dipped candied ginger... So I'll do that too! Maybe I'll tint it red in light of Chinese New Year, which is Thursday. :D

So... This is it.

Bienvenue. It's been a long time since I've written anything online that was intended for people to even glimpse at. But here it is. I received encouragement from my friend and co-worker who's taken on the mighty ambition of working on not one, but three (!) blogs. Amazing.

Mine, however, I plan on keeping pretty simple. For I lead a pretty simple life. Looking back, I've found my previous blog to be so young and amusing. Here's hoping that this won't be the same.

This will be a little cross-section of my life. A project blog, of sorts, because I love my projects. I love cooking, have recently learned how to knit (and now knit like a mad woman), and have somewhat-recently moved back into my parents... The revamping of my room itself is a project all on its own.

What of the name? The name of this blog is derived from linguistic terms. (I love linguistics.) In linguistic terms, a mora is a unit which makes up a syllable. A bimoraic syllable is composed of two morae. And a mora can be broken up into smaller pieces, but we won't get into that.

I've taken the idea of a mora with some poetic license and used it in a way to compare my life to one long string of language. There are bits and pieces of my life and there are bits and pieces of language which shape us. So, I'm hoping here to write a little about the bits and pieces that make up my simple existence.

Merci et bonsoir. A retour.

P.S. First posts... Hawkward.