on tuesday, my labmate deanna successfully defended her dissertation (above). i had a couple leis shipped from hawaii for the occasion. they conveniently matched not only deanna's outfit, but the rest of the lab's as well...somehow we'd all ended up wearing some shade of purple that day.
to celebrate afterward we went to flying saucer (above) for trivia night. my team tied for first but lost the final question. that's okay though because we still won a $35 gift certificate to go back this week!on wednesday, i went to the first day of texas relays (sorry, i forgot my camera on this one) because the distance events were being run. in the women's 5k, there was less than a 1 SECOND difference between the first and second place finishers. i have never seen a 5k come down to the last second like that it was phenomena. then, the men's race had an exciting finish two with the first two guys finishing within seconds of each other. as i'm trying to incorporate some running gait into my dissertation, i figured watching these races was good preliminary data collection...or something like that. after the races, i joined some of my housemates at emily (another housemate)'s dance performance Poof! In Movement! at gregory gym (below, yes, that is a raquetball court).
on thursday, i finished the draft of the manuscript i had been working on and sent it off to my co-authors. yeah! i am hoping this gets turned around pretty fast, so we get it in press asap. 
on friday i went to a beer tasting sponsored by dogfish head brewery with jim and kenan. the founder of the brewery was there and described each of the beers and how they came up with the ideas, names, art, ingredients, etc. grapevine market did cheese pairings for each of the tasting flights as well. the friends i was with home brew, which is apparently huge in austin, so when the guy from dogfish wasn't up there, i had my own personal question answerers. i learned a lot about how different types of beers are brewed and why. i decided that midas touch was my favorite of the evening.saturday, i went out for my long run...13 miles. yes, that's right. it's taper time! woohoo! my legs felt like crap though and i was exhausted. i took a nap when i got home and felt a little better after that. then i joined, gokce, hilda and jesper for a classical guitar concert and some general hanging out and chatting about life.
today's palm sunday. since mass this morning, i've been getting through more reading for the ol' dissertation proposal, and tonight, i'm going to see itzhak perlman at bass concert hall with some roommates and friends from my department. its gorgeous outside, but at least i get to have my windows open and enjoy the breeze!
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