A Leg Grows in C Minor

Sorry folks, my life is going to be a giant rollercoaster until July. After that, things should be calmed down enough for me to write more frequently. I haven't announced yet that I have a new job! Mike and I went down to NYC the first week of April. I had three interviews, and at my first interview (New York Methodist) they offered me a job! That confused me a bit, so I decided to wait a few days until after my other interviews to see if I actually wanted to take the NYM offer. Well to make a long story short, NYM turned out to be the best place for me to take a job. It's in the exact neighborhood where we want to live in Brooklyn, I only have to work 3 days a week (although I have to work 7pm-7am), and I get a ton of awesome benefits. Plus I'm making NYC standard money, which means a hell of a lot more than I make at my current job. So as of the first week of June, I will be working and living in Brooklyn, NY. Scary! The only thing left to do is find an apartment...

From March 20th-25th I traveled all around the great southwestern state of Arizona. The weather fluctuated from 65 to 80 degrees, compared to 30 in Rochester, and I got to see lots and lots of cacti, never mind the GRAND CANYON! One of my best friends from college, Sara, moved to Tucson a couple years ago and wanted visitors. Angela and I decided to help her out with that, and it was a great time. The lowlight was my constant runny nose (I had to walk around the Grand Canyon with a roll of toilet paper in my pocket), but there were many highlights, including my wonderful new Mexican friends Adrien and Saoul (Sa-OOL) who declared their undying love for me whilst following me around Nogales. It was quite the adventure. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves: This was my view on the drive from Phoenix to The Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, baby: Silly Sara, always falling off cliffs.... Angela is very homicidal This is my "Where's Waldo" picture Sooo it seems as if ...

First of all, let me say a happy birthday (for another 40 min) to my now fiance Mike, who turned 27 today, and while I'm at it, a happy birthday for myself, who turned 26 yesterday. Secondly, I've been trying very hard to catch up on all the old movies that I stupidly dVRed all at once. I've watched some that I can't even believe made it to my "1001 movies you should watch before you die" book ( Ninotchka ?? Seriously? Greta Garbo was like a more boring Temperance Brennan, and Bela Lugosi was seriously underused.) and I've watched some that I very much enjoyed. A couple I've seen lately that are both highly recommended are The Red Shoes and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955 version). The Red Shoes is a British ballet movie. *Yawn* you say, and I thought the same thing. But Anton Walbrook's performance was spectacularly reptilian, and Moira Shearer did a fantastic job in her first role. It's basically about work vs personal life and havin...

...and it's me! Mike proposed to me last Sunday, March 16th. Apparently he'd had the ring since January but wanted to wait until before I went to see my friends in Arizona (where I'm headed tomorrow). I could explain how he did it....or you can watch for yourselves in this convenient youtube clip. (I love how pretty much everything in my life has been recorded for posterity...ah growing up in the digital age) And yes, he did call me a bitch at the end. It was a joke, we were at an improv show! Actually it was very sweet, because my mom and brother and a bunch of my close friends were there. I really appreciated them being there for the big moment. Anyway, the wedding won't be for about 2 years, and no I have no other plans. I know who I want to be in it, but I've only told one of those people. I was sick monday and yesterday, so today is really the first day I'm getting around to getting the word out. And tomorrow I'll be in 80 degree weather enjoyi...

If you are awesome, you will get that tv show reference. And if you need a clue, it's just a click away. Speaking of tv shows, I've started re-watching Buffy with Andrew, aka manwhoneedstoplayeverysinglethingonaddictinggames.com. We should be currently watching more Buffy , but alas, he is stuck on some lame RPG type ninja thing. As I am re-watching the episodes, I do miss the show, but I don't feel that longing I get when I re-watch Angel . I'm not sure if it's the lack of closure Angel fans got, or if it was actually a better show than Buffy . I think about Fred and Wes and Gunn, and even Cordelia, and I just want them to be together again, before my very eyes. I think about Buffy and Xander and Willow, and I just remember them fondly, nothing more. Granted, there are some episodes of Buffy that blow 90% of Angel episodes out of the water (the silent episode/musical episode) so maybe my Angel quotient was just not filled yet when it was wrenched away fro...

Sorry for my slacker-ness lately. I've been dreading this upcoming 5 day long lab run, as it always takes a lot out of me. With one subject staying it's usually okay. With two, it gets a bit tricky. Especially with our new system of screwing Andrew and I over by making us work 15 hr shifts. Other than that, everything has been going well. Scott moved his shoulder yesterday, which is awesome! I think that, in time, (probably a LONG time), he'll get most of the movement in his body back. Which is pretty cool. I got a Passport the other day for the first time. I'm now excited to go traveling around to random countries. Too bad I look like I'm 18 in my picture because they made me not smile and put my hair behind my ears (who CARES what peoples ears look like??). Valentine's Day was pretty cool. We didn't actually celebrate VD, but our 2 yr anniversary instead, which happens to be the same day. I wore my awesome California dress (which I will include ...

Picture time (and there are a lot of them)! I'll put captions on some, but I don't feel like telling the long stories of the trip. The wedding in Long Beach was great, the San Diego Zoo was great, the sandcastle making outside our beach house was great, and the rest was just...the rest. I wouldn't recommend cramming 8 people (4 couples) on one floor of a house. I still love California though! The view the first night we were in Long Beach Mmmm Jamba Juice Mmmmm shots of wheat grass Mmmm organ juices...? Mike's head looking suspiciously photo-shop like in front of the Queen Mary Ah, corny couple pictures...more corny pictures to follow: So the tire spikes had pierced their feet, see? And they're suitably upset? Well... I was trying to be a good actress, but I had no help from my partners. So we tried again: And apparently I'm still in horrendous pain while they're...being tickled? After our feet shenanigans we went to dinner at a cute greek place Wine...