Arlo is nine weeks old! He was feeling kind of slouchy this week. We had some excitement this week--we flew to Minnesota for the weekend to see our college friend Erin get married! Arlo was s...

Thirty-six weeks! I'm in my ninth month of pregnancy now, and strangers are not shy about commenting on how pregnant I am (which I have no problem with--I think it's kind of cool!). Surprisingly, I ha...

Happy almost-New Year! I was lucky enough to have both last week and this week off from work, which has been so relaxing. I don't think I've had a 2-week-long break since college! We spent last week v...

Running And my last little bit of news--I ran an 8k! Patrick and I ran the Homer's Classic in Silverton the weekend before last. He finished in a little under 37 minutes (wow!), and I finished in a...

We made a quick trip to Seattle the weekend before last so that Patrick could do the Seattle to Portland bike ride for the third time, along with Andrew and Jon. I came along to help get the car back ...

I spent the past week in California for work and took a few days to visit my mom, grandma, and aunts while I was in the area (it's always so much fun when they all get together!). Now I'm back home in...

Portland must be rubbing off on me, because this past weekend, I went camping and ran a 5k, and I enjoyed it! When we finished our first 5k, I searched for more upcoming events on active.com, and the ...

Last week, to celebrate my birthday, Patrick and I headed out to Washington's Long Beach Peninsula for an overnight trip. It was our first time visiting the Pacific NW coast even though we've been in ...

I haven't written in a while! When I last wrote, Tree and Andrew had just arrived in Portland for a visit. Soon after, the snow started. It kind of put a damper on our fun Portland activities, but it ...

We had a good time in California last week. The main reason for the visit was my monthly work trip, but Patrick came along too (so much nicer than being alone for a week!), and we visited my mom, step...

Another good (and busy!) weekend in Portland. On Saturday, we went to the Screenprinting for Change party that I mentioned earlier, and we had a great time! I need to get more involved in the Portland...

This week, Patrick and I are living it up at the Hotel California in Palo Alto. It has kind of a budget feel to it, but it's in a good location (right next to the train station, two grocery stores, Su...

We had a great time in Colorado this past weekend. We crammed a lot of relaxing into four days! Friday, September 22: We arrived late Thursday night, took the shuttle home, and went straight to...

We planted our summer garden today. It was kind of sad because our winter garden was still doing pretty well, but I'm looking forward to watching this new garden grow. And I salvaged a few poppy pla...

As I said earlier, camping last weekend was fun. Every year, my stepdad's family goes camping for a week in Shaver Lake, CA, at Dinkey Creek campground. Patrick and I joined them (and my mom) for th...

Oh boy, lots to catch up on! We went on a quick East Coast visit at the beginning of the week, and when we got home there were just tons of things to do! Our vacation included (1) a day in Boston, (...

We just spent an exhausting but great day in Big Sur. We drove down to Monterey last night after work. We were thinking about going to the Aquarium's member's-only night (since we are members and ne...

Patrick is back home, which means pictures from the New Year's Eve party at Erin's house! This is my favorite, I think. Click for more. It was a good visit. We got there late Thursday night ...

We had a really nice visit to Colorado. I wish it had been longer, but we made the most of our time there. We had the usual Christmas morning brunch with my mom, stepdad, stepdad's ex-wife, stepbrot...

We're back home in the Bay Area. We had a great time in L.A. this weekend and got to see lots of people from Mudd. We drove down on Friday and stayed at Morley and Erika's place that night. Then on...

I've finally posted the pictures from our trip to LA and Noah and Jenny's wedding. There's nothing too exciting, but click the picture below for more (I'm smiling like a fool, but Patrick sure looks ...

All sorts of stuff happened today! First, I met with Anne (yes, again! She can't get rid of me lately), and she said she thinks I'm done with my lab work! This is of course assuming the surface a...

Vacation recap: Saturday: We started out our Saturday by going to Filoli, which I'd been wanting to visit for a long time. I think I was expecting it to be more like the Arnold Arboretum, all s...

Patrick uploaded some recent pictures today, so here are a few more from our New York City adventure (click the picture): Patrick took most of them; he's good with the camera. There were a bun...

Yesterday, I wore my pajamas all day. Patrick almost did too, but then he got a craving for pearl milk tea around 10 pm, so he put on real clothes to go out and get us some. Life with Patrick is goo...

Here's my exceedingly long recap of our New York City adventure: Friday: So our New York adventure started out at 6:45 Friday morning. We took the T to Chinatown, got some hot chocolate for Pat...

Patrick posted his pictures from the past few months, so I have a few new ones up now too (good thing he lets me put his pictures on my website!). There are a few older pictures of us in the Caitlin ...

I was looking through the Thanksgiving issue of Cooking Light while at my mom's house, and they had a bunch of good-looking recipes, including one for roasted brussels sprouts with ham. Of course, it...

One of the things I don't like very much about myself is how self-conscious I can be. I try to tell myself that nobody really cares how I look on a given day except for me. But I still walked around...

I'm back home and in a bad mood, as usual (compared to relaxing with Patrick in California, being back at MIT sucks every time). I didn't do much today, other than being sad that I had to leave Patri...

Okay, here we go (and might I just add, I had a wonderful time on this trip, despite how busy we were): Tuesday: My flight got into San Francisco around 8pm. Patrick picked me up, and then we wen...

(this is Part 2 of my story; read Part 1 first) Friday: So Friday was when the wedding stuff started in earnest, and since Patrick was the best man, he was involved in most of it (and I was lucky ...

Pictures from Tree and Andrew's wedding are here! Click the one below for the whole album. Some were taken by me, and some by Patrick. A long account of our vacation will be posted soon. ...

Okie doke...all pictures are pop ups. Look out, this entry is looong! If you just want to look at the pictures, they're in my Boston photo album. Friday: We had breakfast at Miracle of Science, a...

I've been going through pictures for the last few hours. Patrick finally put a bunch of pictures from the last few months online, so I went through them and picked out my favorites. I added a bunch ...

Okay, here we go! If you don't want to click on all the links and read everything, you can look at the most interesting pictures in my photo album, here. And for everybody else, here's a recap of ou...

Last night, we went to Zachary's in Berkeley with Noah and Jenny (Noah is a friend from college, and Jenny is his girlfriend). We had stuffed pizza, and it was way good. And the Raiders won the pre-...

So my bus trip was 2/3 nice, 1/3 painful. I got home to good old Fort Collins, CO, safely. I'm very happy I'll be taking the train back to CA instead of more bus. I'm too busy being lazy to take ...

Pictures from Boston are up, as well as a few from the NNUN Convocation in DC (not as many as I would've liked, but I was feeling lazy). Not too exciting, but there you go... We just got back from...

We're back! Boston was fun and MIT was pretty impressive, though it didn't suck me in like Mudd did when I visited back in 1997. It was depressing to fly into LAX and be surrounded by brown ever...