And, uh, today I found out that some of my research was just cited in a Supreem Kort (yes, THE Supreem Kort) opinion. Sweet god I'm awesome.

Ordinary Eternal Machinery

1. Yay Jenny and Mike! Best news ever, best future brother-in-law ever.
2. I have to go to a lab meeting in a minute, at which I will be relentlessly bored, so this won't be that long.
3. Unless I get started listing things.

Life's good. No complaints, really. I was having an extended Case of the Mondaies for the last week but I think it's cleared up now. My chakras were all spinning the wrong ways and shit.

I received 2 "gratis" (italian for "douchey") copies of a book that I wrote a chapter in. How fucking cool to have a hardback book I wrote part of. It's really satisfying, especially because they gave me two so I have one prominently casually displayed on my coffee table at home, one shelved academically alongside better, more important books in my office.

I signed the copyright transfer page for an article that's going to be coming out for sure that involved that awful data collection with kids who have bad parents. That's kind of nice, something came of that!

Raedy and I got to work together on a paper from the stuff we did as undergrads about fish swimming and the hand posishes that go with different fish. That was 1) awesome, to work on something with Raedy and 2) a total blast from the past.

JD working at home is a little weird. I have finally realized that I cannot do ANYTHING productive when he is in the apartment. Normally I would work, take a break and clean up the apt or watch montel or judge judy or something, then work. But he has to have silence so the tv is out and cleaning is also too noisy. Then the instant he's off work I don't want to do any chores or work, I just want to hang out and do fun stuff. The obvious solution is to go work in my office, but I have only just remembered that. Le sigh. Also I am continuously hungry when I am in my office, no matter what. Hmmmm.

I have been taking a super challenging yoga class once or twice a week. It's fantastic. I sweat balls in there and it is very definitely at the upper limits of what my body is capable of doing. I love it. It's tonight, yay.

Other than that, I am working on a handful of papers and trying to launch my data colleckshun for my Big project.

Next Weds we are flying up to Oregon for a friend's wedding. I am going to see Portland, finally, and we're going to drive down to Eugene through wine country and *ahem* make a day of it. I had to purchase white shoes for this bridesmaid outfit, so I feel entitled to meander through the wineries instead of coming to the out of towner-welcoming BBQ.

We had our anniversary a couple weeks ago (June 21), or as Ashleigh called it, "our love birthday," and we went down to San Diego for a day/night. Fun fun.

Last weekend we drove to Phoenix, through the 120 degree desert, to see JD's gparents. That was nice, and they love him a lot and are super proud of what a good person he is (I am too) and it's nice to see them get so excited about the fact that he's not a fuckup. I did get to hear a lot of voiced opining on issues that I feel completely opposite about, too, so that was an entertaining exercise in self-restraint.

Yeah not much is interesting. I am super happy with everything and I love all of you. Kisses.