Updates

*My dad and brothers were able to get multiple-entry tourist visas! Yey! My mom and youngest brother, Sam, will be flying in 3rd week of March; my mom going to Salt Lake to be with my sis before she gives birth and Sam staying with us until my sister's wedding in May. My dad and other brother, Wilf, will be here in the Bay Area by the first week of May and then we're off to a spring roadtrip covering three states -- SoCal-Vegas-Utah. Can't wait!

*More than half-way through the three month internship, I am grateful for this experience that has enriched my professional life and opened possibilities I haven't thought of before. Suddenly, charting my way back to the loving arms of academia does not seem as daunting as before.

*NogNog and I are back in each other's arms :0) Though driving still stresses me out, this time around, I think our relationship will be for keeps :0)

*Though the past week was no basis, I can actually smell the arrival of spring. The days are getting longer, the nights, shorter. This means more time for fun stuff after work -- a 3 mi run, a bike ride around the marina, a walk around the park. Spring will surely cure the discontent that winter never fails to stir in me.

*Leila and her husband, Kevin, spent a week here in the Bay Area. Having Karen here when Leila came to visit was an added bonus! We spent Friday night and the whole of Saturday with them. The Saturday adventure was, as Leila put it, one for the books! I am just thankful that though years separate each meeting with these friends of mine, we never fail to reconnect each time. It is true that adage, old friends are the best kind of friends.