yippee for LOST!

finally after 8 long months, lost is coming back tonight! it is one of the few shows that i still get excited about watching (well, non-reality shows i guess), and i have really been looking forward to new episodes after a very long hiatus.

i still have to upload all my photos from this past weekend ... erik's birthday party and visit from his grandma and opa ... so i will wait and blog about it when i can put the photos in too.

yesterday was erik's birthday. oh, and obama's inauguration, in case there is anyone that didn't know that! i actually watched it on my laptop in the lab, even though i wasn't particularly thrilled about it. i honestly can't get thrilled about anything that has to do with our government at this point. i would love to believe that obama has the power to unite the people of this country and make changes that will better our nation and the rest of the world, but i don't think he does. i don't think anyone has that kind of power, no matter how many people adore him and think he's the second coming of christ. anyhow, i have made a point to avoid the topic of politics as much as possible, so i should continue to do so here. the only other things i will mention - that crazy bow on arethra franklin's hat, and that awful poem that had people fleeing the national mall by the hundreds of thousands. now THAT'S good stuff!

this morning erik and i said goodbye to his grandma and i took him to school with some chocolate chip muffins for his class to celebrate his birthday. both of his teachers, miss stephy and miss morgan, gave him big hugs and congrats on being 2, and commented on what a big boy he is now. i did some work at the lab in the cellomics building down by the river and then realized as i was sitting on the shuttle to come up to the bst that i had left my lunch in the refrigerator in the lab (even though i reminded myself ten times before i left not to forget it). i ran up and back downstairs again, in hopes that i could get back on the shuttle only to see it pulling away as i ran through the lobby. no matter ... i made it eventually, and i got to enjoy my leftover chicken parm and spaghetti from big jim's. i still need to figure out what to make for dinner tonight. that's always a struggle!

since i am behind on my photos, i will leave you with this picture from last week of some cool graffiti i saw while walking along forbes in oakland. it's not a robot, but it's still pretty damn cool. i think it's a fire hydrant. or something. i need to make more of an effort to photograph street art. i find it very interesting!