My Christmas vacation in Hong Kong was nice and warm, and exhausting. For Christmas I tolerated a lot of extended family eating not-so-Western Western food (ham, roast beef, etc) and for New Years we watched seven minutes of fireworks off the building surrounding Victoria Harbor from a small harbor cruise ferry. The flights were horrendously long ( Read more... )

In less than a week I'll be on the other side of the earth. (Actually, it's not quite the exact other side; the time difference is 13 hours, not twelve.) Like last year's London trip, I'm hoping to keep a trip journal here: http://abluegreenaura.blogspot.com/Read more... )

so i realize i should inform my hometown cohort that I will not be home for Christmas, so if you want a hug from me, thanksgiving is your best shot. Jon and I will be home all weekend, Wednesday to Sunday. My crazy messed up family gets priority on turkey day (Two turkeys? this is going to be torturous! ha.) but I will hopefully be bringing home ( Read more... )

Lately, I have been dragging Jon along for hikes in the Rochester Area (after buying the book Take a hike: Hikes in the Rochester area). We've been on four from the book. In Greece Canal Park we got turned around somehow; the blazes were terrible, we wandered through a field, and we ended up in some large poison ivy patches. As soon as we got un- ( Read more... )

Ice cream tour 2008 ( Read more... )

Event Support is still the most interesting part of my life. On Saturday, Spill Canvas came to campus and I worked for a couple hours during the load-in. It was Yellowjacket day, one of UR's big community weekends with carnival games and carnival food and a nice sound big sound system that for once had enough mid-range so that i wasn't cringing ( Read more... )

It's just one of those days... weeks?... months ( Read more... )

a summary ( Read more... )

I'm at work, trying not to fall asleep. For those poor souls possibly reading this (why?) that haven't talked to me in three months, I'm working at a sleep lab, where my job is to watch the brain waves of people when they sleep. Right now the subject is in REM ( Read more... )

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY ( Read more... )