The boy grad student has been away at a three week training course (where they learn to do such things as insert tubing down the spinal cords of mice), but he came home for the weekend. We decided to be deliciously unproductive, and the highlights of the weekend included seeing Batman (go see it!) and noshing at The Counter. I think I could exist entirely on sweet potato fries . . .

This weekend also began the massive monstrosity that shall be known as Wedding Season '08 (and this doesn't include the wedding we already went to). I picked up a bridesmaid dress, dropped off a wedding gift (yay!) and am driving out of town to attend a shower on Tuesday. The shower is for a dear friend who has been a constant companion since we were two years old, so I am excited.

Things I am Loving

It's officially summer. The air is warm, my cardboard-box apartment is hot, and lab feels like a fabulous air-conditioned retreat (did I really just use the words lab and retreat in the same sentence?). In honor of the early days of summer, I have been obsessed with the following in recent days:

This stuff is worth its weight in gold. You can apply in the morning, forget about it during a whole day of bbqing/baseball game watching/beach volleyball playing, and you realize the sun went down and you didn't get burned. One caveat - it is not exceptionally waterproof, so I still stick to Ocean Potion for surfing.















Yummy, no fake additives, and antioxidants, oh my! The male counterpart to the disillusioned grad student's best friend came to visit for four days recently, and stocked our fridge to the brink with these. I am addicted.















It's pink, with a bit of gold, and it's just fabulous. If you know me (which, of course, are the only 3 readers of this blog), you know that I own about 17 Chanel lipglosses. But I've gotta say, this one's been in heavy rotation since the weather warmed up. It's the anti-scientist lipgloss.