Is it Christmas yet?

This week has been pretty up and down.  I think it was inevitable, what with being sandwiched between retreat and the arrival of my family, this was bound to be a drop and change week.

Some highlight include...

1. getting a free (FREE!) pastry from Patisserie Valerie on my way to work the other day
2. learning to knit
3. some pretty nice in situ stainings
4. and the fact that it is currently snowing.

Lowlights include...

1. getting sick after retreat (that was fairly predictable)
2. everyone I know having already gone home for the holidays, causing my to spend a lot of quality time with my computer-turned-television
3. my overexpression constructs not digesting into the right size fragments (i.e., stuff not working)
4. having to stay at work until 2 am to clean up after our institute christmas party.  I thought I was done yelling at and cleaning up after drunk people when I left college. Go figure.