bethany, birthdays, and research

so obviously bethany beat me to the punch on detailing my quick nyc visit. it was really a great trip, even if my flight got canceled and i missed my tues mornging TA responsibilities (which, thankfully, zhiyong covered for me!) I don't have much of a friend base in atlanta and it seems like everyone is scattered to the 4 winds (or from it, come to think of it:) ). and we played hand and foot which was of course awesome!

yesterday was tejas' birthday and we celebrated it on sunday. and after getting him an extremely fun board game that he loves, i proceeded to lose one of the pieces to it after the inaugural round.

......AND my paper got accepted FINALLY to j chem phys B with very mild revisions requested!
woohoo!

meow

haha this is awesome:

http://zeitgeistyarns.blogspot.com/2007/03/daily-conversation-with-cat.html

just add: because crazy turkish landlady is afraid you will break into her house and sufficate her baby. to the list of reasons and its MY daily conversation with my cat.

i also tend to pick them up and talk to them if they are in the bathroom with me when i'm peeing. i don't think this is weird. tejas thinks it is really weird.