Amy's Almost Here

I just returned from an Organic Chemistry symposium up in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah. It was quite an overwhelming/adventuresome/affirming experience. It's going to be quite a journey, but I know I'm headed down the right path.

The highest mountains (which are at around 11,700') remain snow-capped even into mid-June (which is still surprising somehow even though I clearly remember my mom mentioning a childhood memory of snow in Wyoming on the 4th of July ... crazy).

Well Amy just arrived ... more later.

Waltz of the Flowers

(Day 1)

It's what's playing on this rainy afternoon as I sit behind my computer which sitting in front of the window pane currently providing a light percussion accompaniment to Tchaikovky's piece. A nice addition, really.

This summer, I'm eating my breakfast cereal in Fayetteville keeping up with chemistry via research in the McIntosh lab (novel natural product synthesis - cancer research, it's an honor to be a part of this project, although that's easily forgettable around 7 on Mondays) and with Microbiology through Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain.

Fayetteville's so different during the summer.

The rain has paused ... I don't think it really took that long to write this, no, must have been a quick shower. I'm going running.

Closing shot: check out Matt & Kerrie's new son Abraham Jackson Archer, he's awesome.