Mr. Philena kidnapped me on Labor Day weekend. We had started by going to the Marin Shakespeare performance of Much Ado About Nothing, which was fabulous. The two leads were apparently old stars for the Marin Shakespeare company who had requested (via a vulgar, badly-written couplet) to do Beatrice and Benedick, and it became extremely clear why ( Read more... )

Although no eggs are forthcoming. But the move is complete, our new apartment is completely furnished--including screwing all the bookcases* to the walls, as per earthquake code--and all that is left to unpack is a small box of bathroom things and a small box of CDs. The floors are mopped, the carpets are spread out, the plants are in their new ( Read more... )

As I mentioned below, these images will not be as nice as the others, because they are not of me and Daniel. Instead, they are culled from various websites of hiking trail and botanical information, with nary a philena or a Mr. Philena to be seen. But we had a nice time, so the proper thing to do is brag to the internet about it ( Read more... )

Because one does not document a marriage with only one entry! Plus, we went honeymooning afterwards. Various technical problems (computer refusing to read CDs and a lost/stolen camera, mainly) have prevented me from providing the range of photographs I would have liked, but my father kindly emailed me the pictures he took, so I provide you here ( Read more... )

Daniel has a new name now. We were married on Monday, and are now proudly sporting our matching wedding bands that I described so happily in our last entry. I hope to post more pictures soon, but right now all we have are the ones we took ourselves, and those are all documentations of the preparations the day before. Actually, it's only one ( Read more... )

Daniel and I are getting married in two weeks and two days!

Our wedding rings are ready to be picked up! In full crunchy*-hippy Berkeley-denizen character, we ordered them from a recycled-gold jeweler. The idea behind this is that precious metals can be reclaimed from all sorts of sources--many of them discarded electronic devices--so we can get ( Read more... )

I goofed up at work last week. My supervisor was in Zambia and had asked me to do some things, and I just forgot a few of them, and I had to face the repercussions when she got back, and I felt terrible. I still do. I had a dream about it last night, in which I did even more things wrong, but since they featured switching offices through worm-hole ( Read more... )

AdvertisementsI find advertising so fascinating. Daniel finds reprehensible the idea of manipulating people to buy what they don't want/need, and I can certainly see why, and maybe it is, a little bit, but the techniques of consumer manipulation is, I repeat Spockishly, fascinating. I know I've discussed this before, but I have more to say on the ( Read more... )

Happy April!I am going to Berkeley! They finally offered me funding, and although it is not, alas, as juicy as Cornell's (or even, as far as the first year offer is concerned, as Santa Cruz's), it is sufficient, and I have accepted the offer and I am going to Berkeley ( Read more... )

Specifically, go to Tahoe! Go now, fly like the wind (which, since you are a weather pattern, is not merely a rhetorical cliche), and become snow over the northern part of Lake Tahoe! I like a cozy evening with tea and a movie or a good book as much as the next domestic sybarite, but I must confess that this rain worries me when I know that Daniel ( Read more... )