Flip flop adventures

So several weeks ago I lost one of my favorite flip flops while wandering from the gym to my office...which is like a five minute walk. I suppose it had fallen out of my bag. I spent a week looking for it at about every lost and found on campus. Then yesterday, on my trek from the gym to the office, what do I spot....the mysterious flip flop, just hanging out in front of the financial aid building....

How strange! So the flip flops have been reunited...and are happy again! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dr's tom and kathy's excellent adventure

so...many of you may know that my parents, the aforementioned drs tom and kathy came all the way from historic lewiston, ny to palo alto to see me graduate....well....dr kathy has posted many of her pictures on her blog...i suggest you check them out...

dr kathy's blog


this has inspired sir gb to want to go to yellowstone....hmmm...i declared only if i didn't have to stay in a tent or walk too far.

also an fyi...thank you all for the graduation good wishes and pressies....thank you notes will be on their way shortly...the damn move got in the way of good manners...i hate it when that happens.

oh and good luck italia tomorrow....i need a team to cheer for to battle off sir gb's england squad...

moving time

so we are in the new place. it is very charming....

All of the books are unpacked (Sir GB has 7 bookcases full, many shelves double stacked), I am about halfway through the clothes, so now we are just trying to organize.

Tiger is adjusting nicely to her new surroundings...I am adjusting to living with a cat. Tiger has not noticed Cheetah (the life sized ceramic cheetah, who is not actually life sized, but i like to pretend), but she does love Grandmother's coffee table....she doesn't have claws, so she isn't doing any damage.....I'll have to get some good pictures of her lounging on it.


I have to publically give a big thank you to our helpful movers, Curtiss, Ena, Tahu, Terri and Phillip....yes, Phillip the dog...he was quite helpful.

May I introduce Dr. Gerbil

So, yesterday I walked through my graduation ceremony. My dissertation should be finished in August or September, but I went through anyway. Next year I'll be a research associate at Stanford (that is my offical title). But it was a good time....Here are a few photos.... one of me and my boys....Sir GB and Curtiss and one with the parentals...Drs Tom and Kathy.

European Adventure

So Sir GB and I are headed to Europe for Christmas and New Year....

The original plan was to fly probably into London and go to Otley to see Mum and brother Michael and his wife Penny, and then head to Sleaford to see Dad and Anita. Then on to London for a few days....

Well that wasn't really working out on airmiles....so....instead we are going to Paris first, then flying to Manchester going to Otley, then Sleaford, and then Madrid. It will be exciting nontheless I have never been to any of these places. So we'll be gone for about 2.5 weeks...at which point after a hectic summer and fall, we'll both need the break....

So it should be an interesting winter break!

In Honor of the World Cup

I present....

Penguins playing Ducks in Football!!!!

The tale of the tam.....

So...I am lazy...I have had my regalia for about a month....It has been sitting in a box in my bedroom....ooops...

Tonight I took it out of the box...and I must say I am a big fan of the hat....who knew I would look cute in a tam....I will have to take some pictures....perhaps when sir gb returns i can make him take some....

maybe this means i can transitions to berets....what a wide world of hats for me....although there is one i can never wear....that sweet pope hat. But you can learn how to make one here.

Grim and Mandy aka the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

I have realized that I call this show Grim and Mandy, I feel it is because Billy is inconsequential to my existence.

Back about a year ago, when my hair was significantly blonder, people noted my physical similarity to mandy (yes I have a pink dress with a black ribbon around it...if it only had a flower). In addition apparently I have a personality to match. I think it might be the sneer....

But I must say, this is one of my favorite cartoons....which is actually a big component of my television viewing.....much to Sir GB's dismay....

Any show with an angry little girl bent on world domination who enslaves the grim reaper...well that is ok with me.....

HAPPY MONDAY

So we just found out we got the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant we applied for in January. Unfortunately b/c I don't have my Ph.D. yet, I couldn't be a PI. The NSF has rules about these things, but I am a Senior Investigator on the grant, which is cool and can go on my vita...sot hat is always good....adding lines can never hurt....well unless you make them up.

That is about it for Monday. Sir GB is out in Monterrey with the Ladies, and then to Hearst Castle tomorrow....meanwhile, I hold down the fort in the park.

I survived

That is the trip to Lake Tahoe with Sir Grizzly Bear's mom and her friend Sybil (whose name invokes one of two images to people....Sybil from faulty towers, or the lady with all of those personalities...fortunately this Sybil was much more sane). The lake was beautiful, but it had snowed on Saturday which is kind of next level....snow in late May....

I only had one temper tantrum....clearly I can't wait until 3pm to have lunch when I haven't had breakfast....but luckily i kind of made a joke of it, and made everyone laugh by noting how important it is to keep me on my feeding schedule.....which Sir GB realizes it totally important for everyone's safety.

But I feel I have won them over...as I usually do, with my charm and wit.....I don't know why, but parents love me....

Pictures will be arriving shortly.....

In other news, the parental units arrive in two weeks for graduation....should be interesting...dr kathy has never been to California, and dr tom hasn't been since he was a wee slip of a lad, so Sir GB and I will show them around. We are headed to SF on Friday, Half Moon Bay saturday during the day, and then we have a party on Saturday night, Sunday graduation and then dinner at Three Seasons...which is super yummy....Then they head home.....but we will see them soon in the outer banks....

Which I know you will all be delighted to hear we have gotten back up spongebob games....

Poor Sir GB has no idea what he is getting into...but it will be fun, he just needs to remember that a certain amount of alcohol is necessary to survive such events....