Painting

I spent a couple of hours last night at Alice and Val's place, helping to paint their new shelves. The paint smell is not good for Alice and the baby, so it had to be done while she was out of town. I only spilled a drop or two on the floor, and luckily Val caught it and cleaned it up. Val was pretty happy to have some help, but really I only did it for the free food - he fed me some rice and veggies, which is a whole lot better than what I would have made for myself at home. This is basically what happens when John isn't here - and when it's the last 2 weeks of class - I forget to think about getting groceries and cooking good meals, and my diet ends up being sort of bad. For example, I boiled some eggs that were in the fridge the other day, and it was the most cooking I'd done since I thawed out some split-pea/lentil soup two days before. It's a bit embarrassing.

We love ice cream

Val, Alice, and I ate almost enough ice cream to make us sick last night. But we just can't turn down a trip to the Dairy Bar. Janice needed to celebrate because she just presented her proposal to the Earth Sciences department. I heard through the grapevine that Janice and Nathan both did a great job. Janice is studying coarse-grained sediment transport in the lower Piscataqua River, and Nathan is looking at using GPS data to find the separation between the WGS84 ellipsoid and the tidal datum in a specific area (Bay of Fundy!).

In this photo: Val, Nick, Lynn, and Janice

Easter Potluck

Val and Alice hosted an Easter potluck at their house last night. It was a blast, we got to eat lots o' food, and then we dyed eggs! Here's a picture of everyone before the meal, doesn't it look yummy? Val and Alice made paella, John and I brought John's special black bean/cilantro salad, Lynn brought delicious devilled (sp?) eggs, kurt brought 2 pies, and Nathan and Alyssa brought blueberry/apple crisp. We all had a good time, and Kokua supervised the entire operation. Because she loves us.