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Thursday night I was wandering around SF with a friend who was in town for a training (she was born and raised in SF, but has been in NC for almost 20 years). After going up Coit Tower (neither of us had before!), we wandered up the curvy part of Lombard Street on our way to a restaurant (Alive on...

I’m helping to organize my Berkeley High 30th year reunion this fall, and in the process am catching up with some old friends as well as making some new ones (BHS was–and still is–a big school, you didn’t know everyone). Joey Yovino-Young wrote a great piece in the Berkeley Daily Planet that I’d recommend: In the Beginning is the Word.

I’m usually really good at directions. I can spend a few hours in a town and have a good sense of which way is north, where to catch the bus, where the health food store is, etc. However, for some reason I have Greensboro upside down. I keep thinking that the north direction is south. Which leads me to mix...

I finished the Modeling Physics workshop in Charlotte, and am now sitting in the Tate Street Coffee shop outside UNC Greensboro. I checked into the dorm late this afternoon, and am happily preparing for more physics tomorrow. We finished the workshop on Friday with lunch at a nice Greek restaurant across the street from UNC Charlotte, then I started driving...

Friday afternoon I took Gabriela to the bus station so she could go visit friends for the weekend, then I took off driving up to Asheville to meet Karen. We’re having a great time roaming around Asheville. We’ve had some great food (Tapas, breakfast buffet at the Grove Park Inn (see photo to right), Indian buffet — if there’s one...

they won so it isn’t a shame… Gabriela and I ran some errands after class today and then made it to the Charlotte Knights baseball game in the middle of the sixth inning. Luck for us, the game went 12 innings, so we still got our money’s worth :-). The Knights pulled out a final run in the 12th, and...

I’ve been getting up on east coast time, but going to sleep on west coast time. This only leaves a few hours of sleep. Today I got back from the workshop and took a two hour nap. Then, it was off grocery shopping with my dorm neighbor Gabriela, and a quick stop at the coffee/bagel corner for decaf. Gabriela tried...

Today I ventured east to Crowders Mountain State Park, about 40 miles away. I got a later start on the day, so I didn’t get there until about 2:30. Right when I got there and ready to hike up to King’s Pinnacle, a thunderstorm rolled in. I waited in the car for a while, trying to decide if it would...

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