January 23

Birthday! I am now a quarter of a century old! Crazy to think about it like that! I had a really, really good birthday. I'm so thankful for my amazing family and friends who helped to make it so awesome. My mom bought pizza for my whole office for lunch, which was so thoughtful. I went in to the office for a few meetings and to get some grading done. When I got back to my apartment Daniel had left my birthday present on my coffee table. Kind of creepy, but also nice, haha.

In case you can't read it, the bag says, "Happy Birthday to my favorite Asian-American of all time." Hahaha. What a nut. I love the owl beer because it has a really cool bottle cap. I'm going to look up some crafts I can do to make something with it because I like it so much. Some people came over for birthday cake. My mom had ordered me a cake from Concannon's Bakery, a local bakery in Muncie, which is delicious. Then we went to Savage's for a few drinks and just to hang out. It wasn't anything too exciting, but it was still fun and nice and chill. I liked it. :)

January 9

Today was full of getting things in order for this semester. Nothing too exciting. Wednesday's are pretty easy because I don't have class or teach and I only have to be on campus for one meeting. These days are going to be dedicated to thesis writing. Yay! I did go to the mall to get new running shoes which was more frustrating than it should have been. I don't understand why all women's running shoes are neon and have some shade of pink. The gendered assumption that all women enjoy the color pink is annoying. I managed to buy a pair without pink, but I couldn't avoid the neon. Apparently that's a thing now. Ugh.

Tonight we re-established Savage's night! It was awesome. My colleagues and I used to go to Savage's one night a week our first semester just to relax. We didn't do it last semester, but I think we're trying to implement it again. It's an awesome local bar that has good, cheap food and drinks and just a super chill and fun atmosphere. I'm glad that we're going to start going again.