life on my windowsill

Summer is my little desert painted pot that unexpectedly sprouted life.  These are the first steps to my dream garden.

Summer is also this strawberry rose gin fizz with lime seltzer.

refresher

fancy cucumber fish one of my dad's students made

This is undoubtedly going to be a longgggg semester.

How can I already tell?

"On the other hand, a rainfall of 0.01 inch per hour, which could be constituted by 135 raindrops 1 mm in diameter, or 70 1.5-mm drops, or 30 2-mm drops, or 5 3-mm drops, or 2 4-mm drops, per square meter per second, is very close to what Barat considered the minimum detectable rainfall."

-exert from Tropical Ecology reading

and this morning, I saw a kid in a Duke shirt and my immediate thought was "Hey, I go there, too!  I should befriend him" before it set in that I was, in fact, back in school.

and first weekend in a long time spent on campus, and I basically wanted to kill myself before the boredom did.

Recognizing faces and remembering names is a such struggle.

I need a refresher.

lychee mojito mmmm