In the last week I've been determined to get a decent blog post on here updating about different life events---mainly, our trip to Costa Rica---and I've succeeded in failing to do so. Although Fridays are usually a somewhat slow day at work, tomorrow I have the honor of going to an ALL DAY faculty retreat as the advising office representative. However, the word "retreat" in this instance is deceptive---I'm not going to some luxurious spa to get away from it all; instead, I will be in a conference room with 15 faculty members and some head honchos from the dean's office trying to figure out how to solve the Design program enrollment crisis (i.e. the number of students in our major has gone from 320 to 600 in the last 4 years and yet the amount of faculty and sections we offer remain close to the same).

So my quest to write the perfect blog summing up our experience in Central America will have to be postponed. However, here is a quick update of random things that are catching my interest at the moment:

Harry's new Christmas CD:




Ingrid's new song that she played when I saw her in concert last month:




I started this book on our trip and am almost finished with it. Amazingly true story of one person's determination to solve public health problems in developing nations.


Finding that perfect holiday baking recipe