I'm feeling all fired up about my paper. This is a good thing, and I think largely due to the professor I've been working with this semester. Actually, I picked out her name as someone I wanted to work with waaaay back when I first applied, but it's taken until now to be able to actually have time for a reading course with her ( Read more... )

Antoine and I have our first tree! A couple's first Christmas tree is a Big Deal. The kind of thing you tell your kids about, and complain about how impoverished and Charlie Brown it was, whilst carrying it home barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways ( Read more... )

New netbook! Super shinee new royal blue Toshiba netbook! Her name is Azure and you will have to pry her from my cold dead chewed off appendages to get her away from me. No stolen netbook this time, no siree ( Read more... )

I got this e-mail from my brother-in-law this morning ( Read more... )

cranberry-pecan bread (god forbid I ever become gluten intolerant, because this recipe looks like a pain in the ass ( Read more... )

I got me some funding!! It's not a whole lot, but it's from my department, which has over 100 grad students, so competition is rough. Plus, it is extra nice to get a little show of support from the people I need to impress the most right now.

Oz just got back from his follow-up at the vet: a recovered kitty ( Read more... )

Classes start tomorrow. Boo.

Today I decided to exercise my Constitutional rights and go to a healthcare town hall meeting held in Albuquerque. It was hosted by our very own Representative Heinreich, who is fairly new (voted President of Freshman Class of 2007). With Heinreich were the head of the Emergency Medicine department at UNM, which includes (or included) managing ( Read more... )

Chocolate cupcakes with powdered sugar and Nutella accents

Success! Mostly. I think I might need to tweak this one. First--the cake recipe, a sour cream chocolate cake, is awesome. Moist and fluffy and everything I think chocolate cake should be. I was a little nervous because this is my first recipe that involved melting chocolate, and all ( Read more... )