Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Central Park East - 7:10am

Good morning!  Humid, hot in the park this morning.  One nice thing is that since I've been done with finals I have been so much more relaxed.  I am really enjoying myself and finally feel like I have enough time to give to my projects in lab (designing experiments, researching literature, analyzing data).  It's also so nice to be able to go home and hang out with Brian and Sofie, go running, and think of good things to cook for dinner.  Just this week I had 3 happy hour plans for after work!  Tuesday, (yesterday), I met an old friend from SJU at Cilantro for margaritas.  She is a Physician's Assistant now and works at a breast oncology surgery center in Manhattan.  She actually does mastectomies on a daily basis.  She is supervised and working with a physician, but does many of the surgeries herself.  I always knew she was a really smart girl and it's SO wonderful to see her with a great job that she loves.  Today I meet up with some of my new labmates (i.e. Grégoire's lab), and tomorrow some of my current (i.e. the lab I'm not joining) labmates for drinks.  I haven't had this many social events planned in 1 week in a long time! 

Last night we cooked indian spiced pizzas with mustard greens and goat cheese.  Brian made the crust from scratch, I made the topping.  Tomatoes, onion, garlic, large bunch of mustard greens, coriander, curry, turmeric, chili pepper, salt, pepper.  Topped with pieces of goat cheese and baked for 10 mins.  Good, but not indiany enough for me.  I would like more of a curry next time.  I also found that the spices really masked the taste of the mustard greens.  There were tons of mustard greens on the topping, but you couldn't taste them - which I'd like to.

In other news, Brian has a race today!  3.5 miles in Central Park - I think it's called the JP Morgan run or something like that.  I know he's going to do really great and surprise everyone at his work with how fast he is :)  Can't wait to bring Sofie and cheer him on!! 

Finally, maybe the most exciting bit for last - we pick up Bear (whom Sarah insists should be named Sir mix a lot), on Saturday!  Here are his most recent pictures:

^In the bottom picture Bear is on the right, and Loon is on the left with the stick in her mouth. 


Have a great day!!