On Sunday my daughter and I did the quintessential Seattle thing to do, the thing that no one in Seattle ever actually does: we went up the Space Needle. It was lucky for me that it was foggy out, because going up the elevator with the glass doors, watching the ground drop out from below you, is a seriously freaky thing: you just can start ( Read more... )

Well, let me tell you about this party ( Read more... )

Who wants to hear the story about how I made a fool of myself in front of Paul Allen and the drummer from the Posies?

He rechazado the internet, for the most part. These are sad times, sad times ( Read more... )

My husband's first comment was, They've found Sauron!

I fear I've lost a friend who was dear to me, through my own carelessness.

I feel very bad, very very bad.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A ( Read more... )

If you scroll down a little bit, notice that you can click the link to watch people wait in the rain in Richmond, Virginia. Out of context, that sounds even MORE fun.

It's election day. It's also the day that Dr.'s grant is reviewed at the NIH. In Washington D.C. On election day ( Read more... )

We went to a Halloween party with some of Dr.'s coworkers: two Muslims, two Hindus, one Christian, and a few miscellaneous. They sat around talking about potassium and playing strange board games ( Read more... )