Bah!

Still up... 2:15AM... must mean Jan's back in India and that's sad. Firefox just crashed, so I switched to Chrome... Was a long day at work 11am - 10:30pm. And I didn't even write any of the peer reviews, though I spent a large portion of the weekend doing that so I guess I deserved a break.

K, gotta get up at 10am. Good night!

P.S. Watched the season premiere of 'How I Met Your Mother" earlier and it was *awesome*!

P.P.S. 'watched' can also be spelled 'whatched' at 2:19AM.

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!

It’s what we’ve all feared. The zombies have formed a corporation.

US Open

Sooo much fun! I got to see the end of a Djokovic match, Sharapova, Roddick, Serena and Murray.

Zombie attack

This is a three part story:

1. I woke up Saturday and the first article I read was this.

2. To keep the theme alive, in the afternoon I purchased Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

3. Nick visited me on his way back from the Motherland this weekend and we had quite a lengthy and detailed discussion regarding strategic answers to the question outlined in the form below.



I'll share the answers I've collected shortly, but for now I'm still rethinking the sidekick to match my soundtrack!

Welcome to Bollywood!

To prepare me for my upcoming visit to India, Jan took me to see a Hindi movie call "Love Aaj Kal" (which translates to "Love Now and Then"). We came to the theater for the opening night 9:30pm showing on Friday. It was sold out! So we got tickets for the following evening.

Two and a half hours of singing and dancing and romantic comedy and a prolonged scene of the dreamy main actor coming out of the shower with only a towel on is a perfect girl's night out.

And nothing makes a Sunday at work more fun than listening to the song from the movie over and over and over again:

Now I just need to learn the dance moves before I can make my trip. (Well that and get malaria pills.) According to Jan she has to do at least one jig on the way to and from work :).

3 very cool things in photos

We've had some really incredible thunderstorms and downpours in NYC. Here's a view from my office window with my plant which is thankful for being relocated to my much sunshinier office:


Here's my typical lunch. Mmm salad bar.


I got some freeze-dried mangosteens from Trader Joe's! They actually taste like dried mangosteens! Most amazing fruit ever! Can't wait until I can have fresh ones again.

Gah I need to get a life

Sorry I've been so bad at blogging. Just swamped with work. But I've finally uploaded photos from Ithaca: http://picasaweb.google.com/obelomestnykh/IthacaSummer09?feat=directlink

Wish I was there now so I could go swimming!

TODO: Get a life so I have stuff to blog about :) or else I'll be reduced to blogging about my lunch...

Home sweet home - stream of consciousness

- Opened the swim season today. After a few cold laps where I had trouble catching my breath. I was loving it. It was so hard to get out and get back to work.

- Getting used to driving again. Nothing more stylish than driving around in a van. Weird to have passing drivers flashing their lights to warn me of a cop around the corner. Forgotten experience.

- Saw Bruno with U and C today. Finally in a mostly empty theater! Finally could get to a movie right when the previews are about to start. Woot!

- Had the first feeling of missing NYC today when I was driving home at 10pm after the movie. What an early time to come home. Not used to that. Now sitting with the open patio door watching TV with my brother. I hear the wind rustling the trees and smell the greenery, I <3 being home!

A night with vinophiles

6 Rieslings from local wineries. The winery owner gives the following advice:

Don't be to anxious to swallow. Hold it in your mouth for 5 seconds.

Still can't really drink much of white wines, but it was fun.

And after...

Chrysalis wanted herbal tea. We went (in the dark) hunting for mint in my mom's garden. Came back with oregano. She wouldn't make tea out of it :(.

And then...

How come there are still clementines in the stores? I guess these are from Chile, not Morocco so it's a different climate.

U: You know a clementine is only two bites.
as he shoves half a clementine into his mouth

Yay for Ithaca nights! Though it doesn't feel much like summer...

The Red Wheelbarrow

by William Carlos Williams

So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

This is one of my favorite poems.