Hey, I know if I were on that other social media thing this would reach more people faster, but I'm being a curmudgeon about that. Anyway ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to me!

That is all.

So, I'm in this band. It's called Bad September and we play retro-futurist steam rock. Yeah, you heard it here. Retro-futurist steam rock, baby.

We're playing a gig at Bedlam Theatre on Tuesday, March 23 around 8:00 ($2 cover may be collected) to celebrate Jason Waye's birthday. Happy Birthday Jaye ( Read more... )

Friday I was prepping dinner and sliced more than veggies. Michael was kind enough to drive me to the ER, where we were attended to by, among others, a lovely pregnant woman named Laura. She stitched up my finger while Amelia watched, fascinated, from her perch on my lap ( Read more... )

Today I went to my first kid-n-me class. It's a music class of the "Music Together" brand. It's basically musical circle time. We all sit in a circle and sing what the leader sings while doing silly hand motions. Sometimes we get up and move and sometimes we we bang sticks or shake maracas while we sing. I admit to being conflicted ( Read more... )

I keep saying that I need to do more reading related to my research, and I often succeed for a couple weeks and then get distracted. But no more! I've been reading up on goal setting, and am setting a concrete goal, tracking it, and making it public ( Read more... )

For fun, I occasionally watch TED talks online. I've been doing this for a few months, and I've gotten to the point where I'm seeing connections between talks. Today it was the connection between Ray Kurzweil's discussion of the exponential growth of information processing (Read more... )

From viajes (and others at this point ( Read more... )

As I write this, Amelia is asleep in her little-bed. With any luck she will stay so for several hours. She's growing HUGE and she rolled over this week. Her smiles will melt your heart ( Read more... )

baking cookies...
playing cello...
reading livejournal...

...while my baby sleeps off her first round of vaccinations.