( Boston vs the OC )

I have a vast quantity of cooked white rice that needs to get eaten up. Suggestions for dishes?

Yea! I weighed in at 170 this morning, down from a high of 190 a year ago! Met my first goal weight!

While I've stopped going to the gym as the end of the quarter approached (I really needed that extra 1.5 hours to get everything done!) I did get in touch with a cousin who's a nutritionist and started logging my food again. This morning I'm down to 176! Ok, so this week's average is a less impressive 177.3 but that's a whole 2 pounds better then ( Read more... )

One of the lab tech's commented yesterday that usually it was the guy in the lab who fixed the printer or installed software but here it was me. This got us talking about women we knew in science who had house-husbands, flipping gender roles. I can't decide whether the conversation was insulting or amusing.

There is very little stranger in the world then having to deal with a bruised chest. I never realized exactly what muscles were involved with opening doors or moving futons.

Oach

I got a whole bunch of fun gizmo's for my bike this week (frame bike pump, spare tire, bike computer, second water bottle) so there was absolutely no excuse for me not to go on a bike ride today. I had intended to bike around the bay but ended up way down in Corona del Mar.
( Recap that you might not care about )

I drove! My advisor asked me to drive for a field trip he was doing for one of his classes. I spent today driving around the university and down to the beach. Didn't have any accidents, did get a sunburn on the back of my calves. All in all pretty proud of myself.

yoinked from coslinks:

http://www.tweenbots.com/

A neat experiment about random strangers helping a 'lost' robot.

I think I can safely say that grad school ate my free time. The first two weeks of this quarter have made me stress monkey with no time so my gym time has suffered.

( Two week recap )