Specifically, things that make me not want to eat at a restaurant for fear of food poisoning.

Discount sushi
Hot pot buffet dessert bars
Cheap buffet restaurants
Buffets served for "brunch" at restaurants that don't normally have buffets
Chinese restaurants (and Thai ones are sometimes like this too) that serve fried rice with all meals as a normal ( Read more... )

V. excited: I'm author on three abstracts for the Botany conference this year. This will be my first big conference where I'm actually doing stuff.

The actual presentation I'm giving, about a subset of my dissertation research.

A poster I'm presenting about some independent research I'm doing.

A poster I'm not presenting, but that I have done a ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Tom and I were going out to dinner. We were headed down Foothill Blvd when Tom noted that a car that had veered ahead of us was now driving in the parking lane at full speed. Tom said something like, "that car needs to slow down" and as he said that, the car rammed into a parked motorboat on a trailer at 35-40 mph, crunching up the car ( Read more... )

Yesterday, soon after I got home from the trip back from D.C., I got a phone call from Phil, calling from Asha's phone, in NYC. Apparently, they were outside Jon's apartment, but Phil's phone, which had Jon's number, was dead, and Asha's didn't have it. Phil wanted to know if I had Jon's number, but since I'd just met him for the first time about ( Read more... )

Who's had a cold in the past week? Tom and I turned out to both have colds while I was in D.C. Andrea had one as well. Keri says she has one, although clearly it's completely unrelated. I'm just curious: who else currently has a cold or just got over one in the past week?

I just realized that I drunk bought books on Amazon last night ( Read more... )

To assuage my pique at getting my DS chewed by Jodie, I got a new ice-blue one on eBay. Pretty!


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TiVo remote: Brett ( Read more... )

I weighed one pump of liquid hand soap vs. one pump of foaming hand soap. The liquid soap weighed 2 g, while the foam soap only weighed .83 g. If you want to save soap, the foam is definitely the way to go.

I have never heard this before, but it's awesome: "The woman doesn't have issues, she has subscriptions."