It's a long long day

We just had one of those marathon lab meetings. This one lasted for 2 hours and is probably the longest one I had been in. But thank goodness it isn't as boring as the usual ones. Paola and Feng talked about fossils today.

My little SURF student stopped by for the lab meeting today. Well, she's not really that little, but she's young. Her name is Kelly and she seems social enough. One thing I cannot deal with is non social primates. That breed seems to be rather prevalent at Caltech, usually I find that my cats are more interactive than them. Of course being that way I am it would be impossible for me to work with someone I cannot communicate with. Roger has changed hsi opinion of her and now thinks that she is cute.

Yesterday was Roger's birthday and Mariu held a birthday party in his honor. We had some delicious Argentinian BBQ with REAL charcoal! I had thought that stuff we buy at vons was real charcoal! Eric thinks that we should get some for our next BBQ. Food was great, company was wonderful and there was plenty of booze.

Finally got an email from Paul after a long long absence. Turns out the company was under some internal review and he was really busy.

Still haven't heard from Cheryl. I hope she is still in Taiwan.

Tomorrow is Bob's 60th birthday. Anhthu and Brandon are having a little party for him at the lab. I think I'll stop by. But the drive to UCLA will be hell though, and I am not entirely enthusiastic about it.

Off for a run........