Equinox Eggs

Cooked in onion peels rendering them a deep red/brown. We jumped over a candle and planted our hopes in the earth.

My Angel of The Morning

The Entertainer

Juggling tinfoil.

Golden Brown Slices of Toast

Big props to Eric today for helping me do silver staining for mass spec.

Out of this World Flyers

Outerspace-themed trapeze show. I was an astronaut.

Goodbye, Menno

Enjoy your parting gift! We've started giving away a part of the creepy scarecrow doll to everyone who passes through our bay. Menno chose a leg.

My Dead Ancestor

John Adams rests in peace in the basement of the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Irene poses with her favorite calendar and Andrew is purifying green fluorescent protein.

Taking the T

I rode on the entire Boston subway system today. I've thought about doing this for several years now. Highlights include: being offered some salad, seeing two people using shower caps as rain protection, seeing four people pick their noses, and riding on the only trolley line that bisects a cemetary. For the record, it took nine hours.

Signs of Spring

Daffodils inside, leafless trees outside. And I noticed my tulips are coming up in my windowsill planter box.

The Most Beautiful Beach I've Ever Seen

Gold Rock Beach, Grand Bahama

Sunset

Ich habe die Haie in den Bahamas gesehen

Fairy Basslet

This fish always puts its belly facing whatever it is swimming over- even if that means upside down like this!

Hello again, Mr. Sea Turtle

Reduce, REUSE, Recycle

Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate

Yes, those are people dressed up as a potato pancake and a cookie and the MIT mascot wearing a yarmulke.

Kung Hei Fat Choy

Chinese New Year in Boston's Chinatown. There were lots of firecrackers. I'm glad I brought earplugs!

Alternative Aerialists

Eva and I checked out the other side of silks. The crowd was different from Jordan's, that's for sure. I found out where the mohawked people hang out.

Down by the River

Snow

It finally snowed, but only an inch or two. This winter has been very disappointing.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Katie made me this amazing card.

My Fortunes

Ice Cream and Jelly Beans

This is what I look at while doing trapeze. The ice cream booth has a banana split made out of Jelly Bellies with a crane putting the cherry on top. We always get the kiddie scoop because it's huge.

Snowy Sylvester

I can scrape the snow off of a car like a true Bostonian. Still haven't shovelled though.

Happypotamus

Leslie used her amazing knitting skills to make me this super-cute hippo. Thank you!!!

Trapeze Staff Show

Theresa flying.

You Want Mutants?

Free T-shirts!

Freeze Thaw Cycles

Prismatic

Skaters on Frog Pond at Sunset

Dinnertime

My new favorite vegetable- brussels sprouts. Mmmmmm

Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

MIT students designed autonomous robots that competed head to head to corral the most robotic "mice".

Math Panda

I went to the MIT Integration Bee. People were nerdy. The contestants couldn't solve a lot of the problems. I realized I don't remember anything about calculus.

Maxwell meets Maximilian

Jenny and Nick brought in their little bundle of joy to the lab.

Das ist ein Bauhaus-Haus

We went to see the house of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement, in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

My Floatie Farm

I used the sheep with life-vest for my overnight ligations.

MIT Nuclear Reactor

I toured the facility today.

Maximum Muscle Doorway Chin-up Bar (TM)

Voting: A Civic Duty

The US senate election in Massachusetts.

"Snow"

When I first moved to Boston, I imagined winters with lots of pure white snow piling up. Instead it was just very cold. And what little snow we get turns into this brown ice that stays around for weeks. Oh, Boston---what could have been!

Frozen Charles

The Charles River has been frozen for a while now. Apparently a boat went through the river and broke up the ice in its path. I've never seen that before.

Luckiest Nose on Campus

I assume the reason that the nose is shiny is because people rub it for luck. But you never know what these MIT students are up to...

Travel Pens

The most recent addition: a pig from Anna. Its nostrils turn blue and it oinks. I love it!

Dance All Night

Portuguese shaking her booty to DDR.

Avatar in 3D

Eva and I are going to find a way to visit Pandora, but first we need to learn how to climb vines/ropes.

Swanky New Foyer

They remodeled the entry hall of my apartment while I was gone. It looks much more modern now.

Rose Bowl Parade

We watched the parade and then got to see the floats up close afterwards. It's amazing what they can do with flowers.