Happy Mardi Gras everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, International Pancake Day, whatever you want to call it. I hope you partook of the free pancakes at IHOP. I hope you partied, but not heartily enough that you will regret it tomorrow going to work or church for Ash Wednesday ( Read more... )

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So Friday was "See where Heather (georion23) works and meet all her school peeps" day. We drove up to her school - Arizona State, School of Earth and Space Exploration. I got to see her lab. It was neat to finally get to see how she will be conducting her experiments for her thesis. Don't ask me how it all works... I understand it on a superficial level, ( Read more... )

Yo. So I realize it's been a long time since I last wrote anything. Things have been busy. Flew to St. Louis. Now I'm in Tempe again visiting Heather. Yup. I'm officially a jet-setter. But it's on Southwest, so it's not like I'm going first-class swanky or something. The best I can do for luxury is grabbing the window seat in the exit row... that ( Read more... )

I left for Arizona with my cat Shadow in the emergency animal hospital. I didn't want to do it, believe me. She'd already been there a week. She had hepatic lipidosis and pancreatitis. Basically, what happened is that somewhere a few weeks ago she stopped eating for some unknown reason. Because she stopped eating (either because of the pancreatitis ( Read more... )

My "Adventures in Arizona" series is the recapping of my vacation last week. I apologize. I should have specified. "Day 1 (Wednesday)" was actually the 30th. I will date them from now on to avoid confusion.

So the flight from Austin to El Paso was wonderful. Almost completely empty. I had an "A" boarding pass, and I was one of those dorks who sat near the front of the boarding area about an hour or so before the plane even arrived. Window seat, baby. And the mountains... whoa.

Then came El Paso. BORING, except my first view of real live mountains. ( Read more... )