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Hmm. To think that for a while there I made a point of updating my journal once a day.

I will be able to continue with the biochem series next quarter (as opposed to having to take the whole thing next year). Timely intervention by lexicat might have saved my bacon in this respect. (I owe you.) This vastly improves my life ;-) Now I just need my spine to continue getting better, so that this makes sense.

CWTA is now on break. Somehow I forgot that was coming.

I still need to post a little more about the solstice party, but the tasting this year will be of dessert wines (but not sherries or ports). If possible, bring a wine snob description of the wine -- the wine bottles will be covered with brown paper, and we will attempt to match wines to wine descriptions.

Our lab manager make an eggnog that is about 30% distilled spirits. Eek.

I discovered that I can like jogging. Really. Very weird.

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If you're interested, I've posted a long update about the goings ons for the Artspawn Chen group over at artspawnchen. This includes information about the schedule there, what new forms we might be starting, and the possibility of starting something up in the U-dist area.

Blood for the Winter Solstice?

So the Puget Sound Blood Center just called me, and asked me to donate as their supplies are low. I ended up setting up an appointment at the Bellevue office for 1 pm, and decided that while I don't really think of Solstice as a blood holiday, it seemed like a not unfitting way of marking the day.

Anyone else interested in marking it in a similar fashion? (I know people who celebrate the solstice as a religious holiday, as a non religious holiday, and as just a good time for a party. I vacillate between these myself.) If enough people can make it in more or less a group, they'll receive us as such and send us a special thank you card. It turns out the center in Bellevue is open until eight on Wednesday.

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