Cat or car?

So there's this guy who works in my lab named R. R can't decide if he should get a cat or a car. Now, for most college kids this decision is pretty straight forward, but for some reason for R its a difficult one. I've been teasing him about this for at least two week now...ever since he first told me that he was debating between these two options when I came back from San Antonio. We went to Rostov's to get coffee around 5 today, and on the way back he was like, "I've made up my mind; I'm not really debating between the two anymore. I'm getting a car." Fast forward not more than two hours. R got a text from his dad regarding the availability of kittens. That apparently tipped the scales completely in favor of getting a cat. As of 7:30 PM today, R is fairly certain he's getting a cat.

advice from laura:

its really not polite to point.

Don't Lose Hope

I finally downloaded a bunch of random grad school pics off of my phone, so over the next couple days I'll post them. This is a picture of a rainbow I saw while driving home one day last semester. I had had a particularly difficult day in the lab, and I took it as a sign that I shouldn't lose hope in grad school. Then again i saw texas in laura's jello, so make what you will of it all.

(in)line

Burch and I have started a new line of t-shirts (pictures coming soon!). We call it our (in)line. Its kind of like the (red) campaign but proceeds don’t benefit AIDS charities. The first in the series will be making its debut Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted.

Lab Love

My laptop cord died. It lived a good life...over three years of intensive use (and probably more than its fair share of abuse). Unfortunately, though, it died in the middle of the day (around 2pm) while I was in the lab. To spare me the effort of having to drive home to find my other cord, my advisor adapted the working end of the cable to fit a power supply. I love my new laptop cord...its nerdilicious!

Red Mango

After dinner in Brooklyn with the fam, V and I went to spend the night in Manhattan with D. To satisfy a late night craving for icecream she took us to the Red Mango near her place in the Village. Unfortunately Red Mango has actual yogurt that happens to be frozen, not the frozen yogurt that tastes more like soft serve icecream. Needless to say V didn’t really like it. He did pick out all of the fruit topping the yogurt I got, though.

Broadway

Saturday afternoon we all went to see the matinee showing of Phantom of the Opera. I was a little nervous because I wasn't sure V. would really enjoy himself, but as luck would have it he apparently loved it. After the show he turned to me and was like, "That poor phantom...Christine should have stayed with him!"

The Tennis Match

Periodically my family attends random awesome sporting events…usually because D gets us tickets. For example, one year we went to the UVA/Tech game the day after Thanksgiving. It was D’s first year at UVA, and she got us tickets. Today’s tennis match is another example. I’m a little fuzzy on what the exact deal is, but it involves her law firm and a kids’ chorus that was going to perform.

But basically, we ended up with really awesome seats at a team tennis match in which Serena Williams was playing. Watching her play was really awesome. Unfortunately she didn’t sign any autographs for people in the crowd. On her team was an Indian tennis player named something Paes….I’m a little hazy on the facts surrounding him. I know he has played with Serena in mixed doubles before, and I know he’s really good, and my only fun fact about him is that he’s Malayali. Beyond that, though, i don’t have any details. Dad got his autograph, but you couldnt really see it well. So after the match I got an autograph that was actually visible for dad.

New York: Day 1

Driving in last night was crazy. The hardest parts of the drive were getting stuck in horrible horrible traffic crossing the Delaware River, and just being completely exhausted for the stretch of driving from the beginning of the NJ Turnpike all the way to Brooklyn. We’re staying at my cousin’s awesome place in Brooklyn Heights (I’ll get some pictures up tomorrow). When we finally got in at almost 3 AM we just crashed.

Day 1 was supposed to be: the bodies exhibit, lunch in midtown, the guggenheim, dinner in midtown, and then the tennis match. But because of our extremely long (and late) night, we ended up taking it easy in the morning…at least I did. Dad had to get up and move the car at 8, but I slept in until 10. We ended up having to scratch the bodies exhibit, but we still made it to the guggenheim.

The Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit currently running at the Guggenheim is fantastic….especially since he designed the museum. My brother wasn’t so into it, though, so after a while I took him to see the film running in the basement so Mom and Dad could finish checking out the exhibit. Mom caught up with the two of us in the basement theater and ended up watching the entire film (V. and I skipped out early to check out the giftshop and loiter in the lobby), while Dad saw all of the exhibits currently running at the Guggenheim.

After the Guggenheim, we got some water and sat down across the street from Central Park and just spent some time talking and enjoying the day. The weather up here is gorgeous…not very hot at all and not too humid.

my so-called life

i'm setting up thunderbird right now, and its loading all of my gmail messages in from the beginning of my gmail days. as it updates the list i keep coming across old emails. some make me nostalgic while others are the kind that you wish would just stay in the past or whatever. anyway, i found my first gmail signature and realized that all these years later nothing has changed.

"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would
have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do."
--My So-Called Life

Question of the Day

Why are you standing there waving? RUN!
(from david's status message)



image from wikipedia

Prayers on Dipti's Birthday

Dipti came home for her birthday last weekend.

The festivities started off with a havan.



Then there was dinner...which was elaborate, as usual.



Dinner was followed by a birthday cake, which was the classic Richmond birthday cake: Ukrop's yellow batter chocolate frosting yumminess :)



Hopefully Dipti had a good time...i know the rest of us did!