Last week, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation was awarded to two professors that I’ve worked for – Prof. Langer at MIT and Prof. Arnold at Caltech. These awards are the highest achievement that can be given to an engineer – the Nobel prize for engineering. I watched the live feed on the web, it kind of blows my mind that I had the opportunity to work in these world class labs. Working in these research labs taught me so much about the scientific process. Congrats!
Get out of the house! You don’t know how much I struggle with finding outings for the family. We are not very coordinated – often times we will spend a free afternoon just frittering away time, playing bejeweled. We made it out to Frederick Douglass’s house this past weekend 🙂
We are often busy in the evenings, so sometimes it’s hard to have a quiet evening at home. Last night we had no plans – so we made handmade pizza and popcorn/movie night. I called January the Martin/Lee household celebration of small appliances month. We bought a room humidifier, a brown rice cooker and a popcorn popper. I got tired of having popcorn in a bag – so I got an air popcorn popper and had popcorn with real melted butter and salt. Yummy. The dogs agreed.
We try and have movie night once a week – it doesn’t always work out and we always watch the same thing – we watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. It’s the only thing we can all agree on. Last night was a great episode about the SF city dump. Now that is a a dirty job.
Two classes this term – one online and one in person. I found another professor for Anatomy and Physiology II. Hoping that he’s more organized and, frankly, easier.
He said he didn’t mind eating in class (which is held in a lab) which is great – as there is actually no money to have labs that involve chemicals stronger than baking soda.
Did you know most hormones are derived from cholesterol?
Two Sundays ago, we had a National Taiwan University, ME65 class reunion on 1/20/2013. All these people are in their early 70s. And, of course, we are all survivals. Unfortunately, a lot of our classmates are gone, to see God or Budda. Therefore, it is a privilege that we are all well and can sit together for pictures.
Only me is working at this moment, all of them are happily retired. May be I have something to do with Dura-Cell, ticking all the time 🙂
This weekend, I will be back to Washington DC for a real reunion with Rena and, also to spend, our Chinese New Year (Year of the Snake) together.
The temperature yesterday hit 70 degrees here. I would have jumped for joy until I realized that it was 70 degrees like 3 weeks ago – this is the craziest winter ever and it was like 8 degrees four days ago. Ruby, my trustworthy companion is getting old, I’m giving her joint medication now – whenever we stop walking, she wants to lie down and eat grass. I totally understand. When I reach her age, I hope I’m lucky enough to lie in the sun and have people come up to me and say hello.
It’s so strange to walk in summer weather and see withered trees.
We may be (what’s the opposite of undefeated?) un-undefeated, but we are having a pretty good time.
Yesterday was a day of food. Korean food for lunch and steak for dinner. An unbelievable day of feasting. I have been very moody recently (actually maybe for the last 2-3 months) it is not exactly a depression which I have experienced many times, Jeremy describes it as my mid-life crisis. Maybe that is true. It would be not surprising that I am suffering from this malady and not Jeremy. The main manifestation of this comes with the addition of more and more hobbies. I will not list my “hobbies” which may or may not include items that may incriminate me, but I must agree that it is getting a little bit out of control. (Can I count eating as a hobby?)
