Science (non) Fiction

Ok, so after a bummer week, I had a great weekend! Mostly spent hanging out with friends, plus a little time in the lab - all together, not too shabby. Picked strawberries early Sat morning with Beth (the ones I picked are mostly gone already!), then a couple hours in the lab, followed by STAR WARS III in the afternoon with friends - we almost didn’t make it in the theater in time to get seats, but we pulled it off - pretty good movie too, by the way! We decided that we wanted to end things on a happy note though, so after eating dinner in the back of Chad’s pickup truck (from Cook-out!) we watched Star Wars IV and then selected parts of V and VI - late night with a LOT of Star Wars! Church on Sunday morning, attended a volunteer appreciation banquet with a friend (it had a pirate theme - use your imagination to guess how lame it was (in my friend’s words)! Then some of us hung out at Becky’s that night and watched Princess Bride because one of the guys hadn’t seen it yet (I know, gasp!) - then hung out talking til much too late, which is why I keep yawning this morning…
Anyway, now that I’ve caught you up on my life for the past few days, I’m off to get back to work - volunteering tonight so I have to get stuff finished up early or at least on time!
I’ll leave with a fave quote, something I need to be reminded of quite a bit:

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket–safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis