1) Are you currently in a serious relationship ( Read more... )

munchkin graduated. patrick graduated. i am done with my first semester of grad school. (grades have yet to be posted, but hopefully there won't be any surprises there.) anyhow. whoop for winter break. i'll start a rotation in a new lab on jan 4th. which reminds me i need to go email that guy... anyhow. hanging out at the parsons family ( Read more... )

so i've got a few minutes to kill here before our luncheon starts. this week and next week we have (mandatory) luncheons where each department tells us all about what they're doing and why we should consider rotating through their labs. (we have 3 "rotations" where we intern in a lab for about 8-9 weeks to see if we want that PI (principle ( Read more... )

so i'm here in buffalo. i have yet to finish unpacking (dad and i got about halfway before he had to fly home). i made a colossal mistake and didn't sign up for internet service at my apt since i thought the apt provided it... WRONG. so i am scheduled to have internet installed...in three weeks. i am an idiot. so i'm pretty much devastated by ( Read more... )

so we headed out of our hotel just a little before checkout time and headed over to the airport. we got there at noon (our flight was at 4). after over an hour in the check-in line, we were told that our plane had mechanical problems on its previous flight and was still in repairs at a very distant airport--our flight had been delayed until just ( Read more... )

today we went to mt fuji. it was cool ( Read more... )

today we wandered around tokyo and visited several areas we hadn't yet seen. mostly in search of the elusive chess set, as patrick and i each wanted a souvenir set from japan. alas, after a hard day's journey (and a hard night's internet search yesterday for munchkin), i've come up empty handed ( Read more... )

this morning we slept in, then headed out to book a trip to mt fuji. we had a yummy breakfast at the train station, then headed to the same part of town we were in yesterday. after some confusion (the lady yesterday told us tower 1 instead of tower 2), we found the travel agency. we have booked ourselves a day trip to mt fuji for thursday. we' ( Read more... )

is it really day 10 already? wow.

this morning we left kyoto for tokyo. we began our morning on a shinkansen (bullet train). more specifically, we began our morning on the wrong bullet train. munchkin and i both gave our little ticket checker guy the stricken/panicked/lost look. fortunately, we just had to jump off at the next stop and take ( Read more... )

today we went shopping in kyoto. we strolled through an outdoor mall for several hours. then we went to the "handicrafts center" recommended by munchkin's guidebook. it wasn't the crappy little camp-crafts center the book made it sound like. it actually had lots of really nice things crafted by local artisans. so we now have all of our ( Read more... )