I've been in the Netherlands for 40+ days now. Work's coming along, I suppose. Late last Thursday night, my new roommate (another postdoc here, with previous affiliations including Stanford & Yale) and I moved into our new apartment. If you want my new contact information, get in touch with me via direct means. I still check my LJ friends list ( Read more... )

Things have been quiet on the ol' LJ lately -- globally, and on my space here -- but in the past month I've been inspired to write a couple food-related posts. Many of you boohoo that I don't write about my food adventures enough. Some of you lament how I quit detailing my sandwich consumption. The latter group will have to survive with the ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I turn 10000 days old. This is kind of like the odometer post.

My S key works (new keyboard), I have a new digital camera, I am in the process of buying a new iPod, and on Wednesday I go to France for 4ish days. I will attend Nasal 2009 and hang out with Doug. Bye-bye, money.

Checking in here ( Read more... )

I went snowboarding a few weeks back. It was fun, but I don't know if I'll go again this season or ever try to get that good. Carrie and I, each of whom had been once before but didn't feel comfortable, took a lesson with some strangers at our level. I was on the lift with one of them, a guy named Steve. He told me he's a jet pilot who wanted to be ( Read more... )

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I want to make more entries that are memories from when I was younger, because I fear I'll lose them in my head as I age. Here are a bunch. (Here is a bunch ( Read more... )

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Another crock pot adventure. Inspired by the veggie-blending here, I attempted a soup of my own. I blended, if I recall correctly ( Read more... )

As is my annual custom, I've not really kept this LJ thing going while enjoying summer. I spend some time at home, mostly catching up with GReader and sleep and food and sometimes showering, but never really feeling like I have time to write. Right now I'm having a lazy morning and I plugged in my keyboard so I can actually type the letter s ( Read more... )