stop saying the word gummy!

If I could have one wish or one invention, it would be Gummi-vites applied to Microsoft Excel.  Don't you just hate taking vitamins?  Escpecially the ones where you have to chew highly compressed chalk in the shape of cartoon heads?  Why is it so hard to be healthy?  Why does my mom do this to me?  Isn't there another way?!?  There is!  Let's all take a minute to thank the genius who invented gummi-vites--the candy with nutritional value! 

Now let's all take another minute to write the inventor of gummi-vites a letter demanding that they come up with some similar mechanism for eating your excel spreadsheets.  I just can't get mine to taste good.  But more importantly, I can't get them to do a damn thing I want.  Also, I don't know what I want.

Please mail your suggestions to:

Bridget Bradshaw
c/o Friday Harbor Labs
Library, desk by the light with all the dead flies
Friday Harbor, WA
98250

The fact that it would be backwards never occured to me.

This is what I've been working on for the last couple of minutes.

In the you double-you


For those of you who enjoy consistent downpour, this is your time to shine!  It certainly is a good thing I chose NOT to bring my rainjacket!  Because who spends time outside, am I right?  So here I am sitting in the lab, mentally prepping myself to go out into the great concrete outdoors and wander into somewhere where the hot chocolate comes with generous amounts of whipped cream. 



This is the most recent picture of me I could find.

Also, you know what's funny?  I feel like an island person now, even though I'm a mainlander--born and raised.  But as I look down on my nasty nasty salt encrusted boots and a pair of pants I found in my room from a couple years ago and the flannel and coat that I've been wearing literally without fail for the last 6 days (that's correct, I wear them in bed and the shower.  just kidding!  I haven't showered in more than 6 days), I think that I now have more in common with an islander than a mainlander.  The city is too big and people wear shorts over tights and shoes that have never seen dirt and aren't wearing 90000 layers.  I have a minumum of 3 layers every day when I ride to school in Friday Harbor.  I think this is because everything is a short enough walk that you can stay under awnings most of the way to and from school on the ave. 




Here are things I am looking forward to when I am back for good:

1.  Thai food

Here are things I am not looking forward to when I am back for good:

1.  Spending money
2.  Going to school (category: real)
3.  Having homework and sitting in suzzalo.  I need to find somewhere else this year.  Too many bad memories.
4.  Cars
5.  Cement
6.  Noise
7.  Nights that aren't clear or dark
8.  People that are normal (category: annoying)


And in actuality, I am also glad that I have good friends back in Seattle to have dinner parties with and that I can hopefully hang out in the Burke like a little goblin all the time and actually not care about school so that I can make time to bike and run and row and go back to doing things that I can't do when I get too into my own research.  In short, it will be nice to take a break from caring so much.

But I will miss boat days.  Beats a land day any day.