Full House

My sister came home for summer break. As a quick primer, she's attending upenn dental and just finished her 2nd year there. She got the brains between the 2 of us. I just dumb. Hence i'm an engineer. But that aside, she's home for break. For a whole month. actually... not even a month. like 26? days. Something like that. That's all the break she gets now. No more spring break. No more winter break (just days off for the holidays, like a week). One month. That's all she has to look forward to. At least it's better than being in med school where you have 100hr weeks and 30hr shifts, not including being on-call. You don't really hear about dental emergencies and dentists being called at 3am to fix a cavity or chipped tooth. I think if this was the case, the number of dentist suicidies would jump up exponentially.

I think my parents are happy. Both the kids are home, doing the same stupid sibling things. We fight over the bathroom. She needs a car to go visit friends. I need the car to go to work. But she doesn't wake up in time to go take me to work, so she's stuck without a car. But that's okay since she doesn't wake up past noon either way.

But as soon as she got back home from school, i knew she was home. I didn't need to actually 'see' her. I just knew. There was a trail of destruction in the house that could have only been created by her. For example, i open the fridge, there's a huge thing of diet soda. Open the cupboard, there's all this junk food where once there was space. Go to take a shower, our nice silver drain cover is nowhere to be seen. Just a big black something instead. And a brand new toothbrush sitting on my bed. And not just any toothbrush. She managed to score me one of thos new-fangled sonicare do-hickeys that dispense toothpaste as well as brush your teeth. As if you couldn't get lazier, the fine folks at philips managed to neatly package an entire brushing solution into a fancy $200+ contraption. Thankfully, i haven't gotten the 'you have to floss' lecture yet. But it's only a matter of time.

Since she's been at home doing nothing but playing with the dog and eating all that junk food, I dragged her out with the stanford group this past weekend to bike across the



It was a lot of fun, and didn't take that long. Granted, we stopped for quite a while to eat lunch. We had these hamburgers on the recommendation of Irving



but i think this joint was the only place in the area that actually had decent food at a reasonable price. Granted, we were eating in sausalito, a particularly expensive area of the bay area. Although the line outside of this place was kind of insane, it was funny to see group/mob mentality at work. When we showed up, there wasn't that much of a line, maybe a few people deep. As soon as we (10 of us) all got into line, people must have assumed "wow, this place must be good, look at line" and started getting in line as well. So long in fact that it stretched 2 storefronts.



If you look carefully, you can see people waiting in line at the place so eloquently named "hamburgers". Classy.

So after about 17.6 miles of biking around, we triumphantly came to the ferry stop at tiburon.



We were in pretty good spirits since we all made it. But definitely not as lively as when we left. We ended up taking the ferry home instead of biking back. That definitely would have been an adventure. Some of us were up for this idea, but others were holding their ground with the ferry idea. I think if we had tried to make them bike back, given the chance, they would have probably locked us up in


(alcatraz)

My sister didn't really feel like biking anymore, and was glad we took the ferry. Lazy bum. So i did what brothers do best.




who knew i had such a fob for a sister? Heh.. at least we had fun