I know I swore off Food I Made photographs but this is a little different

This is a miniature public thank you to my dad on his birthday.

He has probably inadvertantly passed on a great many things to me (my mom has, too, naturally). One of the more trivial things I long aspired to pick up was his ability to nonchalantly throw together a plate of literally perfect scrambled eggs. Weird and potentially uninteresting yet true.

This isn't terribly signficant in the scope of things I could thank him for or mention at all. But it just occurred to me this morning.

Happy birthday to my dad, and thank you for unknowingly teaching me how to make a pretty delicious plate of food.

it was an accidental monument

For some reason this board had the same ink on it from 2009 to last Sunday. Spring 2009, when I was putting in the final throes of biochem studies and creeping round the corner to a long spring/summer/fall of job hunting. Recording my running times on the board and seeing this fellow who brought me coffee in the mornings and went on long bike rides and grilled vegetables for us in the evenings (it worked out).

I wasn't exactly attached to the writing on my white board... I just kind of forgot about it and kept moving it from place to place with me. And now I've erased it and I'm studying... the same things. Again.

I promise I'm not trying to be majestic. It was just a monument to the recent past that took me by surprise when it was unearthed. It kind of reminds me of this project... (which I'm not entirely uninterested in emulating, at least tangentially) but I'm unwilling to do an accompanying self portrait.

That's all. Be well.

What Has Been Up (According to My Phone)

This is the Jori History of the last month according to my phone. It tells of the most important things, I guess (If I had a fancier phone, they'd be fancier images. As it is, they're pretty rough. Forgive me.)

Anyway. This is a tour of my last day of work (commemorative Western blot) (it's GAPDH, in case you're curious), moving my brother in with us, moving ourselves hundreds of miles, acclimating our dog to the journey, toasting the Grand One Year at our favorite burger/shake joint, Tiberius's first canine houseguest (and unrequited love), and exploring the new territory Jori/Jeremy style. The snake and bikes-in-Jeep photos warrant their own narrative, trust me.

Welcome to carpet, Tiberius

Where the whole room is your blanket.

I could post about our 500+ mile move, or about any of a number of timely things, but now that I've been a Stay At Home Jori for two whole weeks, all I can think of are about nine different posts exclusively about my dog, who is currently without his collar and thus: Stealth Puppy.

titanic

This was a post I wrote a couple weeks ago and accidentally left in draft mode, so it's a bit late. Sorry! 

There are probably rules against shooting food in black and white, but as my brother and Jeremy both pointed out, actual Titanic pictures would have had no choice.

Anyway. Special thanks to Corbin (a lifelong studier of the ship and its sinking) for inviting us to join him for a first class multi-course lunch, complete with hors d'oeuvres and Titanic/iceberg shaped ice, on the hundredth anniversary of the tragedy.... which suddenly sounds morbid, but it wasn't. He made food that they actually served on the Titanic! And made it one hundred percent vegetarian! Cheers to him.

On a separate, but more important note: who would like to make me these and deliver them to my lab? Slightly chilled, please.

goodnight

Jeremy brought me a pretty accurate teaching skeleton one day. Such a good surprise.


Happy Saturday. Or... caturday, for those who observe it.

Friday

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