but no.
 i briefly considered getting out of bed, and getting the hell out of my brick building deathtrap, and then went back to sleep.

  to quote my mother, "Getting a Ph.D. isn't like getting married, nor even like buying a house: it only happens once in your life!"
  which in itself is not the right measure of importance, or else every moment would be equally important, which may be true, but isn't what my mother meant.
  nevertheless, it feels like a significant event, which is ( Read more... )

(>> is me; > is Eliza ( Read more... )

   I almost got to emeryville marina today, landed on a seaweedy beach in emeryville, and didn't have to swim! Not swimming is a first; swimming while landing doesn't count ( Read more... )

it's nice to know that evans can sway back and forth a few times without falling.

Spoon-wielding Mexican women besiege TV studio

and i hope this one stays funny for another couple weeks.

 expresso and bagel for breakfast;
 tea and a few donut holes for lunch;
a lot of half-ripe blackberries for dinner.

the day is warm and sunny, full of clock-ticking and construction and airplanes. the north-facing office is pleasantly cool ( Read more... )

if i don't feed my phone, it falls asleep, and i can't take pictures of a shiny swingy suspension bridge straight out of indiana jones movies, except only a few feet high in woody flatlands. trails shorter than 5 miles end surprizingly quickly if one is more used to 10-15 mile days. after miserable montreal weather, real summer is very nice. ( Read more... )

despite evidence to the contrary in form of lack of lj entries. rectifying that, a bunch of short updates ( Read more... )