reading

Strangely enough, despite drowning in work and house stuff, I'm having my most productive reading month since February. Not sure how that works, but the spreadsheet doesn't lie. Icing on the cake is that two books this month were star-worthy (I only give stars to the top 15% of the books I read).

and finally

One last installment from a visiting professor. How great is my team? Definitely a pick-me-up as I (not so) slowly drown at work. A coworker gets back from paternity leave on Monday, so I'm hoping things will start getting better once he's back.

continued

This time, the gummy store owner and my Dev Rel team combined forces to send me some gummy love.

then this happened

One of my engineers brought me gummy candy from my favorite store in Zurich.

not all bad

Last week had some highlights. Boyfriend brought me chocolate from a place I like in Harvard Square.

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The best thing about a rough week is when it ends. Whew.

keeper

Boyfriend knows that I might manage to starve to death when I'm not at work and he's not at home, so when he goes out of town for a couple days, he gets extra food for me to eat, some of which is pictured here. Note that he cooked the burger patties and cut up the mangoes, because he knows that when I get desperately hungry, I get too weak and impatient to do things like use a knife or turn on the grill.

that feeling

When your dog poops on his final walk of the day, meaning that you can go back to the house and change into pajamas until the next day. And also, it's Friday.

it's official

I own half of a small piece of California, and half of a house. Craziest impulse purchase ever, but I think it's going to be fun.

cronuts

One of my coworkers owns a donut shop, and is playing around with a recipe for cronuts. I got to my desk this morning to this little surprise (without a bite taken out yet)!

purge

Time to do another purge of my belongings. A couple hours of sorting today has already yielded a giant bag of clothes and a stack of books. Next weekend, it's time to tackle the bathroom cabinets and the boxes in the garage, and after that, the storage closets and the guest room. I don't really like doing it, but the growing piles of stuff to donate, recycle, or throw away are encouraging.

timing is everything

After some waffling, I decided to take Henry on one last walk, and we happened to catch the perfect moment, with a double rainbow on the left (and it hasn't rained at all) and sunset on the right.

laughing all the way

Things that made me laugh today: Henry circling the speakers, trying to find the birds that he thought were trapped inside; a dream I had in which Boyfriend took it upon himself to buy me a bra, and ended up picking one that looked like a tube top with the brand name Dressy Bressy; mishearing something Boyfriend said as "tuckle," and googling it; old music videos by the Hooters.