Christmas Celebrations

I have really been enjoying all the Christmas festivities around here! My family and friends sure know how to celebrate. On Thursday, Mandi, my mom, and I celebrated Christmas, as my mom had to work on Christmas. We started out with dinner at the Chart House, one of...

LA Holiday

I have been having perfect days here in LA. I drove down on Saturday…it rained off and on for the first 3 1/2 hours, and then really solidly for the second 3 1/2 hours. I’m pretty shocked that I made it in that amount of time, with the horrible weather!!...

Holiday Party and Los Angeles Bound

It’s been a busy week getting ready to head to LA–wrapping gifts, finishing up shopping, packing, laundry, etc.–as well as really starting to get into the nitty gritty of writing my qualifying papers, and trying to get all of my December work done at...

Champagne and Tiramisu

Last night, our friends April and Seth had us over to their beautiful Berkeley apartment to celebrate our engagement. Fantastic cooks, April and Seth made us a wonderfully tasty meal of bread and hooch, Caesar salad, and carbonara. We finished off the meal with...

Presentation Success!

I just finished giving my pre-dissertation research project presentation to the Developmental Brown Bag at school. It was on the paper I just had published. WHEW. I was really nervous about it, as I have a ton of anxiety about speaking in front of large (or even...