long necks

Relationships change. You could just feel it with each passing day.

I don't see things as a race anymore. It's not a matter of catching up with everyone. Otherwise I would just live each day feeling left behind.

The same thing that I noticed with Poorneel, I see it happening again with Nants and Janey.

People are just busy, and it seems as though everyone's day has been busier.

My Dan's little Dan gave me a toy truck this weekend when the lab had a get-together at Half Moon Bay. Ate lunch made by one of the postdocs and his partner. We talked, we ate, we drank. I tried to get little Dan to play Scrabble with me, teach him to build words, learn new ones, but his current cravings consist mainly of trains and destruction. However, he was quite amused when I decided to be creative with the scrabble tiles and lay them in intricate domino patterns, for him to later knock down, of course.

Children are so easy to please, difficult to keep focused. That sounds an awful lot like me still.

The times I enjoy lab the most are when it's late at night, with few neighbors moving up and down the aisle, leaving me room to breathe and quietly think.