California: not so good at pretending that February is winter.

(Daily temps almost to 70, all plants ESPLODING in an orgy of spring.)

Lego coat o' arms

FORWARD to the mushrooms!

Got you these photos, guys. I don't remember which one of you had the camera at the time, but nice shootin'. Macro sexiness all 'round. That was a sweet mountain.

DON'T DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL

The Church of Scientology on Castro Street has a lot of motivational posters up on the windows. One of them features Patrick.

They're watching you, bro.

Lunch

I can't resist the urge to post some more things about food. It's a
long weekend, so things are particularly calm here. Of course that
means that I've been making the tasty eats. This is pasta sauce with
lots of peppers, a couple carrots, cilantro/rosemary/basil and
meatballs made with breadcrumbs, romano cheese, spinach, garlic and
cilantro accompanied by tasty, perfectly aldente whole wheat linguini.
With a cup of tea and and a pool of early afternoon sunshine in an old
silent room.

Also, accompanied by some papers discussing the possible links between
gamete determination and sex determination and whether the two
processes are definitely linked or arise through separate pathways.

Consternation

I am aware of the fact that you don't really miss my ugly mug, but I
am posting this picture for two reasons:
1. I guess I sleep on my face a lot, because I realized around
midmorning several times this week that my hair sticks up into a
fauxhawk BY ITSELF.
2. This was the last time that my camera was fully working properly. I
picked it up off of my desk and turned it on and the screen was really
weird looking. I was making this look of utter consternation because
the buttons weren't working and the only way that I could take a
mirror picture was to cover the flash.
Since then the screen has stopped working entirely and the only
controls that definitely work are the on/off and taking a picture. I'm
generally confused, and potentially going to spend some time in the
next couple days poking at it to try to get it to work.

My bread is better than yo' bread!

No-Work Bread gains raisins, cinnamon, whole wheat and DELICIOUSNESS.

[add a good handful of raisins, substitute one cup regular flour with
whole wheat, and add what you think is too much cinnamon]

Roller Derby Queen

Meanest hunk of woman I've ever seen!
Down in the arena.
Uh huh.

I am totally going to make this happen at Brown.

SNOW IN DURHAM!?!?!

Yea so this is what I did this past weekend. 7" of snow so we made a snowman outside Crowell that stood over 6'3. And then I went body sledding in the same night. And again the next night...

So Yea I have way too much work going on now. :( This semester kinda sucks work wise at least.

THAT IS FRESHLY KILLED WASABI

Guys they sell it in the japanese market like 5 minutes from my house-- 5" by 3/4inch diameter (once peeled) for $1.50!

Tea at Work

Harmony is amazing for giving me a way to brew good loose-leaf at the
office!