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One of the rhododendrons in the yard is getting ready to bloom.  I kind of like the way they look before they actually do that.

My second shipment of birthday club chocolate came today.  In included this beautiful bar of dark,  wrapped in a very pretty package that explained a bit about it.
PS  It was pretty tasty.

In November of last year, I posted an image of the view out the skylight as I lay on the floor doing some yoga and stretching. Here is the same view today.

(These images shouldn’t be TOO triggering…)

Dug out a few more college notebooks today.  Found lots of fun stuff, including my Biochemistry lab reports, which were written without the help of any kind of spreadsheet or graphing program, and were hand written. Then another handwritten chart from Ecology (?).  And last but not least. my beloved VertMorph notebook (that’s Vertebrate Morphology to the rest of you).  I had to copy those notes too, just like organic chem, because I needed to clean up and colorize my drawings, and make my notes legible.

    

That’s fair.

My mom has been asking me to take her to the Arnold Arboretum, and we finally went today, when it was warm and sunny and fabulous.  We accidentally came across the famous lilacs, and I took a picture.  I liked the concept of the picture (of the plan?) more than the picture itself, so I took it to Prisma, and now I like it much more.

Doug’s b’day gift to me arrived today, a little late, but no matter. It’s a 3 month subscription to a mail order chocolate club.  I will get different chocolates from all over the world!  I am amused that one of the bars from the first shipment came from a company that is 25 minutes away (Taza is in Somerville, for those of you unfamiliar with it).

TRIGGER WARNING:  organic chemistry images

I decided to finally start tossing my college notes.  It was an entertaining process, finding notes between me and a friend, my assorted notes to myself (“LEARN THIS!!!!!”) and just flipping through.

This right here is how I passed Organic Chemistry:  copying over my notes and color coding them.  It must have worked, because I seem to recall I did pretty well in that class.

My rep, Jake Auchincloss (who I just call “Congressman Jake” because I always butcher his last name), held a zoom town hall today.  I like him.  He seems to know what he’s talking about, and he knows what his constituents want.
(more discussion below)

It was time for a new pair of sneakers, and these were on sale. (If you are familiar with Rykas, you know $50 is a stupid good price.)  They fit fine, as most Rykas do, and they have leopard spots.  😁