2002-2007

My bitchin’ ’92 Nissan NX 1600 died many little deaths last year. The pictures above represent some, but not all, the breakdowns that made life exciting and my AAA coverage max out in 2006. The car tried, in every way, to convey to me that it was ready to let go, to leave the road…

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your golden sun will shine for me

Day Three of my San Francisco trip started with some 24th Street (Mission side) action for breakfast. I have such a pang of nostalgia for that neighborhood, for that time waaaaay back, when my brother lived there and I was a college girl and we had had ourselves lots of dangerous fun (hi, 80s! remember…

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something i love about working in a physics department …

… is getting email announcements like these: The Women in Physics group will be sponsoring a liquid nitrogen ice cream social tomorrow in the third floor conference room. All are welcome! Come play with cryogens and enjoy a delicious ice cream sundae! Photo: multicolored tanks of god-knows-what, originally uploaded by hambox.

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people in motion people in motion

Day Two of my San Francisco trip featured the reason I ventured northward on that particular weekend: the world premiere of improv group Crisis Hopkins and the birthday of one of its members, Sam Shaw. For purposes of full disclosure, Sam is the bastard man who discovered the moldy remains of the Babcock siblings and…

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Happy President Day

This is an open thank you letter to Tricky Dick Nixon. Thank you for Watergate. Thank you for being such a terrible and soulless despot. Thanks for popping the nation’s collective cherry — removing our denial and blind trust in our leaders. Thanks for helping to create an intensely strong bond between my parents and…

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open those golden gates — wide

Day one of my San Francisco trip (last Thursday) involved a bucketful of drive-drive-driving — with a massive payoff of two good friends (Molly and food) waiting on the other end. That evening’s meal constituted the second intensely pleasureable non-sex mouth experience in two days: On Valentine’s Day, I went to an afternoon roof party…

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