mom and brother are out of town so my dad and i took advantage of the fact and went to the zoo. there's a special exhibit on stringrays where you pay $3 and get to pet the stingrays all you want. it's essentially a big shallow pool with 30 or so stingrays inside it and you stand on the sides and hope to get to touch them. which my dad and i did. ( Read more... )

For months now I have been jealous of my friend's convenient F-Spot usage for all his pictures. Seeing as how there was no equivalent program for non-Linux users, I relegated myself to organizing my pictures by events and years, without being able to quickly find all the pictures I have of any particular person ( Read more... )

First author!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18455697?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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...that you find out that your ex is engaged. i just didn't think this would happen so soon. and of course, i find out on facebook. oh my. my reaction was the same as when i found out that he was dating her: a silent OH MY GOD (i was in class for the first, and i don't want to wake my mom now) and the urge to laugh ( Read more... )

i had my 6-year-old yesterday (who used to be my 7-year-old but i had the age wrong). we're working on wh- questions, one of which is "who?". my supervisor had come in and was helping out with the session, and we were talking about the garbage because i had shown my client a picture of a garbage can to talk about what we put in there and stuff like ( Read more... )

tim! i'm so sorry i missed your call today. i looked at the phone just 2 minutes after you called. i was just sitting at home reading the ASHA leader after taking a nap (which is why it was on silent...) before returning to frances searle to write some parent reports. hope your plane ride went fine - call me again if you get the chance ( Read more... )

i've now denied readership of my LJ to 3 people here at NU. not because i don't like them, but i like to keep this journal high-school friends (and randoms who read this and i don't know about it) only. but it's so awkward to be like "yeah..i have one, but i don't post to it much and it's really geared only towards my high school friends." oh well ( Read more... )

when i went shopping, the check-out guy's english name was "Jester". we went to crocodile and this guy tried on a shirt in the middle of the store (which involved taking off his other one and walking around shirtless). yuck. went to starbucks but they wouldn't let me take a picture of their bilingual menu. saw cats chasing each other outside of ( Read more... )

good thing my mom and i are about the same size. i also got to awkwardly report my luggage as missing in cantonese. how fun ( Read more... )

now that i'm on grad student listserv and am registered with the national student speech-language and hearing association, i've been getting lots of emails and regular mailings about positions opening up all over the u.s. to work during and after my fellowship year. usually i ignore them because who wants to work in nebraska or something, but today ( Read more... )