I saw this one the door to one of the engineering labs at CU...

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Just finished my first ride of the season at Winter Park. It was a beautiful day and pretty empty as per the picture. I had a few good runs, but the snow was pretty packed and icy, which made hard work of catching edges with my board and easy work of catching earth with my bum. I'm definitely taking a private lesson this season in order learn how to finally ride on my heel edge; my calves will be so pleased.

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You know, about six days a month it just SUCKS being a woman...

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Today we move into our new lab. Our advisor got pushed into a new & bigger space by our department . It's mostly done and ready for occupancy and hence we are movers this week instead of PhD students. The coolest thing is that our advisor insisted that there be art in our new workspace and that in general we have a pleasant lab to work in. So, this is what the entrance to our lab looks like:

SO COOL!!!!

Here is a view out of one of windows:

Here's a general view of the lab:

And finally here is my new workspace:

It's awesome!! I love my team, my new lab , my cool advisor and my school!! More about the lab transition later. I got to get cleaning our counters while the guys move equipment.

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So I just got back from watching Betsy's brother and the band he's in and they are a blast!!! It's true bluegrass fun! There of course was the basic bluegrass instruments (banjo, fiddle, etc.) and what impressed me most was that they also used a Mandolin! I never really associated that with bluegrass, but was beautiful.

The whole band was so into the music and there were tons of people dancing. Betsy's brother was the bass player and he was just amazing. Below is a picture of him doing a bass solo during one of the songs:

Overall it was great, I bought the bands new CD and it made up for a bad day of football (37-3 Packers...I don't want to talk about it)

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So on of the student groups at mines has been pushing more recycling on campus. There are tons of posters up all over the building to motivate people to recycle. This one is by far my favorite:

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I had a semi relaxing Sunday. It started out with a but of frustration at watching the bears lose to Tennessee. On the one hand I expected the Bears to lose, I mean the Titans were 8-0 for a reason. However, we had started very well despite the loss of Orton for the week and the return of Chicago's favorite disaster, Rex Grossman. It started out pretty well, and our defense was shutting then down for the most part, but then Grossman is as Grossman does and the overthrowing and inconsistent passes ensued. For a minute, early in the 4th quarter I thought we were back in the game...**SIGH**
In other news, I finally made it to an Iron Chef challenge and it was amazing!! My friend Jen started this Iron Chef battle a while back and once per month the standing Iron chef is challenge to ancooking duel with a secret ingredient very much like the real show. Tonight's secret ingredient was chocolate, and the food was fabulous!

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They have a live journal app for it iPhone. I love it!

And you can easily post pictures! I love it!

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