May the Fourth be with you!

Happy Star Wars day, my friends! I hope you did something relaxing and nerdy today. Jason and I spent the morning sitting on the grass in a park reading (me: Imzadi II, Jason: Dune). Then we came home and watched The Empire Strikes Back (because I can't get enough of Han and Leia's snarky quips) and now we are finishing the night off watching SC2 casts.




(( shirt: Target / dress: UO / sandals and braclet: Forever21 ))
I watched a great video about nerdom this week - a message for a fan's newborn daughter from none other than Wil Wheaton (arguably the king of nerds). In it he explains why it's awesome to be a nerd.


I found myself thinking about this video a lot today. I have a lot of thoughts about it but I'm too distracted by Starcraft and kitty snuggles to write them down right now. Maybe I'll save them for geek pride day later this month. For now I think it's good enough to say watch the video, and then go do something you love doing, no matter what.

Holga photos #4

Once upon a time I actually got film developed in a timely manner. I'd like to say I'll get better about it, but that would be a lie. Regardless, here are some photos from the last roll I had developed. I shot these on my holga on E6 film and had them crossed processed. I think my poor little holga is on it's last leg though because most of the pictures came out horrible - it's like the film advance isn't moving things all the way. Sad. There were still a few good shots on the roll though.


Cannons at Manassass Battlefield park.


Katie and Gina at an 80's Mayham Dance night a few months back.


Photo of Gina way back when we had a photo date so long ago.


Jason at the Hirshhorn Museum last summer. I forgot how long his hair was!

Happy Friday, friends! I'm exhausted after an intense week at the Experimental Biology conference. I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend spent catching up on TV and snuggling the kitties.

A pharmer's clothes: April 23, 2013

Spring time in DC is perfection. Of course, I'm out of town right now in Boston where it is currently 40F and raining. Looking at these pictures is like salt in the wound. Le sigh.

I'm in Boston for the Experimetal Biology conference. Previously, I've only been to neuroscience or hematology conference - this is the first "basic" science conference I've attended. And it is amazing. I needed this so badly. Every talk I've been to has been interesting and inspiring. Yesterday I went to a lecture by Nobel Laureate Brian Kobilka! I've been in a really dark place science-wise for a few months. I think (hope) this conference is brightening things up again. Thank goodness.



(( shirt and shorts and sunglasses: Urban Outfitters (I have an addiction) ))

Jason came up with me for the weekend to visit one of my friends who lives in Boston. The weekend didn't go quite as planned (Jason got sick and we had to stay in our hotel all day on Friday because of the manhunt - scary!), but we still had an awesome time. On Saturday we went to a mead bar - so cool! They only had half a dozen meads, but that's still half a dozen more than most bars. I think Jason would have liked to pick that bar up and move it to DC.

A pharmer's clothes: April 11, 2013

Whoa, wasn't my last post just singing the praises of warm spring weather? What's up with the tights and turtlenecks? Yeah, so these pictures are from last week. My bad.


(( dress (worn as skirt): UO / turtleneck: gift from Mom / shoes: UO / necklace: Forever21 ))

Meanwhile, in the present, the weather continues to be crazy amazing. Possibly too amazing. It's melting my brain. So it's convenient that Lauren 'nominated' me for a Liebster award - aka fill out this survey thing myspace-style. Oh yes, I shall do this.

Over the weekend

Spring in DC is amazing. This week has been perfection. The weather is heating up - it's actually supposed to hit 90F today! (Which is going a little too far weather...slow it down, we don't need summer yet!) The cherry blossoms are blooming right now too. Last year I went down to the Tidal Basin to take some outfit photos. The photos came out well and it was really pretty, but it was kind of a bummer to go by myself. This year Jason and I decided to make a big deal of it and go see the cherry blossoms together. On Sunday we got up at 5:30am, packed a quick breakfast, and hurried over to the Lincoln Memorial. We watched the sunrise on the steps while drinking coffee out of a thermos and eating strawberries. We were both happily to find the reflecting pool is open again (it had been under construction for a year or so) and looking gorgeous. Of course, now they are repairing the Washington Monument that got damaged during the earthquake a few years ago. It looks like the Washington Monument has a little sweater on, haha.




After the Lincoln Memorial we walked over to the Tidal Basin to see the cherry blossoms. Only a few trees were at full bloom, but it was still gorgeous. Even though it was only 8:00am it was totally packed too! Partially because Sunday was also the Cherry Blossom 10 mile race. Seeing all the runners made me really miss running. Now that the weather is getting so nice it's helping with my motivation to run too. I really would like to do another long race in the next year or so. We'll see...




After the cherry blossoms we checked out the Freer Gallery of Art - one of the Smithsonian's we hadn't seen yet. The gallery is right next to the Smithsonian Castle, which has a beautiful garden behind it. The magnolia trees in the garden were at full bloom and it was amazing. I think the magnolia trees are my favorite (sorry cherry blossoms!) They are just so pretty and they smell SO good.

It was a perfect weekend. I wish I could say it was refreshing and got me ready for a productive week, but really with the weather so nice all I want to do is sit outside and drink iced coffee. I can always be productive next week, right?