We bought tickets to honolulu on friday. We will go in mid november and fly back late at night on Thanksgiving, which means we will get to enjoy my dad's thanksgiving, something I haven't done since my senior year of high school. We will eat so much food. I also am thinking of coercing Chris to stay at Turtle Bay for a night, although my dad ( Read more... )

But you guys, I just found the coolest thing:

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/

Chris and I had fun looking up people with our last names. And Hef.

Got back monday night. Karyn is married now! Portland was awesome. I officially know that I love it for itself and need to be there again, whenever I can make that happen. They're fucking starting a city-wide composting program there, for christ's sake. The conference was very productive and the drinks were free. The vet was kind enough to ( Read more... )

I guess my work unblocked livejournal? I typed it in on autopilot, thinking I was typing in nytimes.com. To me, the only thing worse than a draconian and stupid internet policy is an inconsistently draconian and stupid internet policy. Well, to be fair, I guess it is consistently stupid ( Read more... )

This is really cool, and of interest to about three of you, all of whom are probably on the same Psych department email list as I am ( Read more... )

last thursday my dad surprised us with a huge box of frozen hawaiian food, courtesy of zippy's. i was expecting the "luau for two" but was taken aback by the inclusion of a giant haupia cake and some macadamia butter crunch. this last item is possibly more dangerous than the cake, but i guess macadamia nuts and coconuts can each hold their own in ( Read more... )

an unexplained cable television outage has befallen our apartment, leaving me impotent in my desire to watch the middle third of the AandE version of pride and prejudice (the one with colin firth, the only one worth watching), which is airing as we speak on the newly truncated "masterpiece" (formerly masterpiece theater). a tragedy to be sure, but ( Read more... )

Brain Surgery Lets Woman Listen to Music ( Read more... )

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MY ADVISOR SAID THE "GRADUATION" WORD TODAY.

We didn't set a date, or anything, as that would be premature, but she can't UN-SAY it. Right?

Also I am on track to have published 4 papers in total by the time this becomes a reality, which I guesstimate will be around a year from now.