new tool

I have wonderful and exciting news!!!! I'm happily typing to you from my new laptop. She's a lovely MacBookPro in glossy, shiny silver. She plays video, downloads pictures, files, and more! She's light. She's fast. Meet Dot. She's my new MacBook Pro. We're just getting to know each other, but based on my past Mac relationship, I can already tell we'll be going places and together through thick and thin.

I'm sad to retire Computrix; she's a feisty old broad, but alas, no longer meeting my needs. I'm going to have some friends clean her up and potentially donate her, or sell her (for a very low price) to some kids for their first computer. I really can't stress how much I've loved my iBook G4. We've been together through a very influential and important time in my life. I've spilled water, beer, wine, and puke on the keyboard. Dropped her countless times, and yet, she still runs. Computrix hasn't always run like a dream, but over the nearly six years we've been together, she's been a reliable little machine.

Santa was very good this year. I'm so thankful for my family, friends... and Dot. I wonder what challenges lay ahead of Dot and I. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

'real' adult

M & D sent flowers to the office last Monday.  Before I read the card I was flipping my wig a bit.  I never get any mail or packages delivered to the office, and to be completely honest, I was a tad afraid/concerned about who they'd be from.  It probably didn't help that the office was full (a rare occurrence in itself) and a-buzz with "Oooo!  Liz!  Who's the new boo?!"  I called M after reading the card and we both had a good chuckle.    M & D were congratulating me on my first Finals Week with no finals... apparently a milestone into adulthood.  I'll take whatever excuse to receive flowers.  

The flowers sat on my desk all week and made me (and my office mates) smile.  I brought them home Friday because they were still looking great... and almost an entire week later, they're still beautiful.  Do M & D rock, or what?

surprise from the past

When I returned from India, Erin filled me in on a book that was coming out by artist Keri Smith.  I've posted things by her before.  We were giddy back in July about her upcoming book How to be and Explorer of the World.  We decided that since it made connections between artists (Erin) and scientists (me) that really it was a book about our adventures together and overall curious friendship.  I pre-ordered the book on Amazon and promptly forgot about it until Friday when it materialized on my coffee table.  Thank you past Liz!  You made me remember all the things I have stopped thinking about lately due to overwork and overload of college life.

way to my heart

I recently started dating a wonderful person who has found the way to my heart... plants.  Here are some flowers I received.  A week later they're still looking amazing.

I later dissected some of the flowers to study parts for an exam I took this past week.  Not all, just a few.  :)