Personal Life | Janna Rodriguez

Sep 26 2009

Seattle and 3 year Anniversary for J&R

Well… great things had happened …

What had I been doing lately… For Memorial Day weekend I
went to Seattle with my parents. Just spending time with them was great… The
city, I loved it! And thanks to Prof. Viney who gave me extremely good advised
about where to go, what to do and where to eat… Pike Market absolutely amazing!
It is very inspiring for me since I get to experience the success of lot small
business owners. We went to Space
Needle, which it was an amazing view of the city. Also, we went to Pacific
Science Center, the EMP and Hall of Fame, all of them great! The city has a new
subway public transportation, which is very modern, simple and it is a cheap
way to move around the city, “The light rail”. We had a great time.

Now, moving on to something else, this past Friday, September
25 was the party for 3 years anniversary for J&R. I had a great time and it
was really nice to see that working hard for 3 years is paying off! It is very
rewarding and hope we will still be open for several more years…

I am still going to school… it seems that I am going to be
in school forever! But I love it! Love it ! I learn so much from my professors,
classmates, books etc…

Working projects:

1)
Working with Tom on “The D Magazine”

2)
Training myself Illustrator

3)
Doing “The taste of Downtown Merced” (I will
write more about this later, because I will love to heard feed back about this

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Oct 06 2008

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Personal Life

homework…

Finally after almost 1 month of school I was able to finish my homework on time.

I has been really an semester but learning a lot of new cool things.

Finally, last week I went to rotary breakfast with my friend Jaime and Ale…

Also, snow is coming pretty cool! Snowboarding time!

Jul 29 2008

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Hobbies, Personal Life

Skydiving

I spent at least three hours trying to figure out how to edit videos. My original skydiving video was 15min long and 100MB size. After trying different things and I was able to upload a part of this incredible experience, and share it with you.

I still remember this day, it was at the end of January and I was freezing! However, I was feeling such an anxiety because I did not know what to expect. At the end everything was worth it. Absolutely true facts about skydiving:

1. Nothings compares with it

2. First time is unforgettable

3. Do it with you best friend! (three years later we still get thrilling when we talk about it)

4. It is pretty addictive

5. A combination of feeling so inexplicable

6. And many more…

Link below:

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Apr 14 2008

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Personal Life

Math Conference

As Einstein says, time is relative proportional to whatever a person is doing…

Meaning, if I am doing something that I enjoy then time goes by super fast; the other hand, if I am doing something that I dislike then, it seems that the clock does not move.

This weekend was kind a weird weekend; I mean, as always wanted to accomplish a lot but have not enough time. So, here are the good and bad:

Good:

1. I did my taxes! Yes, finally got all done, taxes for routes, for j&r, and personal funds! Ufff!!! Thanks God, the guy who does my taxes (and has been doing them for the past 5 years) is pretty familiar with all my stuff…

2. Work on my abstract algebra and complex numbers homework. It seems that it is not that much homework to do but it was pretty convoluted. One of my neighbors at loft is a lecturer at UC and providentially for me he is a mathematician. He had offered to help, but it is not like I want to be bugging him with every problem…

3. I finished my laundry… which I really needed to do.

Bad:

1. I went to movies, and saw lead heads. The movie was pretty bad, at least I didn’t like it… it think, I was kind a redundant and at the end nothing happened. Definitely, I am more of a scare movie type.

2. Thought about relationships and how complicated they can be. And the benefits of not having a relationship.

3. Need to do quarterly taxes for J&R and I did not since I took weekend off from work.

Anyhow, moving on to a different theme, last week I went to Math Conference in Marina del Rey. The experience was awesome! I meant it, remarkable! You learn so much for one weekend. The best part about it, is that I was able to convene, talk and interact with Joseph Gallian. And some of us would wonder who that hell is Joseph Gallian. Well, he is the best of the best for abstract algebra! Yes! He wrote the text book that we are using at CSUS, and at least other 150 universities use his book. I mean, I had talking thousands of classes, and read another thousand books, but never meet who wrote any of those books… and meeting him was a huge deal! And interacting with him and getting advice was just an unbelievable luckily experience…. The best part about this trip is that CSUS Math department paid for everything, hotel, meals and travel expenses, yeap! What else could I ask for???

PCUMC was a pretty cool experience!

PS Pictures attached…