last week i ran 18.5 miles, and made a pie-thing with potatos and blue cheese
knees doing fine
February 16, 2012
one of my roommates moved away so we had a party. look, photos of my house and my housemates and my friends for once!
look aunt sharon this is your guitar! there were two real guitarists at the party who both thought it was excellent
oh yeah, making stacks of bottles, playing rockband and putting together puzzles. scientists trying to party.
the housemates (+ one extra)
will miss her very much!
February 2, 2012
I Ride Greyhound
by Ellie Shoenfeld
because it’s like being
in a John Steinbeck novel.
Next best thing is the laundromat.
That’s where all people
who would be on the bus if they had the money
hang out. This is my crowd.
Tonight there are cleaning people appalled
at the stupidity of anyone
who would put powder detergent
in the clearly marked LIQUID ONLY slot.
The couple by the vending machine
are fondling each other.
You’d think the orange walls
and florescent lights
would dampen that energy
but it doesn’t seem to.
It’s a singles scene here on Saturday nights.
I confide to the fellow next to me
that I suspect I’m being taken
in by the triple loader,
maybe it doesn’t hold any more
than the regular machines
but I’m paying an extra fifty cents.
I tell him this meaningfully
holding handfuls of underwear.
He claims the triple loader
gives a better wash.
I don’t ask why,
just cruise over to the pop machine,
aware that my selection
may provide a subtle clue.
I shoes Wild Berry,
head back to my clothes.
February 1, 2012
running status: last week 12 miles
this week: 9.5 miles so far
i start to get mild stiffness/pain in my knee after about 4 miles (leftover from karate injury). but i count it as progress because it used to start hurting after only 1.5 miles, and then it would hurt for a couple days. now it never hurts the day after.
Monterey
January 30, 2012went to monterey with my former colleague and then to carmel and point lobos. and then stopped in san francisco on the way home for dinner! very nice day, surprisingly hot
weird alien landscape-looking rocks
about to get washed away while taking my photo
this trail is closed! CLOSED!! VERY VERY CLOSED!!!!! DONT GO THIS WAY!!!!!!!!
very very good cheese
January 26, 2012
cabin in Tahoe with the bridesmaids!
dancing with wii
made this snowman
walking in the snow
sledding
January 25, 2012
let us sum up…
since i last appeared i have been sick for 2.5 weeks, been to new york for an experiment, been to lake tahoe for a bachelorette ski(sledding) weekend, hosted my dad for a weekend and went with him to the all-california sacred harp singing, read ‘the scarlet pimpernel’ and half of ‘middlemarch’, ran ~25 miles, worked for days and days on another experiment here in livermore which is a PAIN IN THE NECK, wrote a draft of a paper, made a huge mess of my room and did no laundry (well, until yesterday), and pretty much subsisted on handfulls of cold cereal. i wonder why i kept not getting better from being sick??????
‘the scarlet pimpernel’ was like the 1903 version of twilight i think.
Mariposa
January 8, 2012frosty morning
cozy baby
frozen tenaya lake
standing on the lake
why does ice have these funny bubbles?
mother and son
father and son
son
the little family
kat completing the double axel
beautiful yosemite. very little snow yet. strange year.
experiencing something he cannot communicate
opening presents
new year
January 5, 2012trivial persuit circa 1981
some of us less interested than others
ice cream and pickles at midnight
for the pickles: thanks Penny and Chuck!
also….
singing with my dad
puzzles with my cousins:
selling parking spaces, coffee and donuts at the rose parade
stealth bomber and parade crowds:
trying to take a family photo but we are all too tired…
some new years resolutions…why not
-drink more water
- see if i can do a half marathon in july with my colleague’s wife (unless i start feeling aches and pains while training). so far this week i have run 6 miles and all is good. will try to keep track and keep you posted.
