Los Angeles

Mom and I drove up to USC today. She had class and I was meeting my partner for the heparin project. We present on Saturday. Strange weather today. It was warm and rainy!

Heparin

This past weekend I researched and wrote on the heparin contamination for my USC class. UCI's Langson library was really nice.

League Champions

Sara putts out on the 18th green for the win and leads her team to the League Championship.

Work In Progress

Dad and I are building a garden. Yesterday we cemented the fence-- which is perfectly level and plumb, I might add. Each panel required 32 screws! We'll put the gate up today. In the next few weeks we'll tear out the remaining grass and start building the boxes.

Santa Ana Winds

We're experiencing our first strong Santa Ana winds this Fall. The winds peaked at 83 m.p.h. through a nearby pass. The largest eucalyptus tree in our backyard was blown over while Sara and I were watching. It was taller than the eucalyptus on the far left. The winds are supposed to increase overnight. Fire watch 2008!

Scripps Pier

Ben and I took a trip down to La Jolla to have my birthday dinner with Gwen and Connie. It was so nice to walk on the sand for a little while. After dinner the four of us played Mille Bornes... for four hours. It turned into a hostile and competitive game and I loved every minute of it.

Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday and it was fabulous! My family and Ben treated me to lunch at Blue Agave (the fajitas and the company were excellent). Later in the evening mom and I ate at Scott's Seafood next to the Orange County Performing Arts Center (Yum, Scallops!). We walked over to the theatre to catch Kirov Ballet's performance of Don Quixote. Diana Vishneva is amazing! I prefer her classical ballet to her contemporary dancing any day! (Check out an earlier post on her Beauty In Motion performance). Overall it was very beautiful and the dancers were powerful. I'm looking forward to spending some time in San Diego on Friday with friends I miss dearly.

Kirov Photo Copyright: IDFB 2008 (The dancer is not Vishneva but she's amazing nevertheless)