i have discovered that i LOVE ITALIANS :D


but anyways, highlights of this week -->

-christine and thida came over! it was pretty random and all the talking was helpful too....the only bad things were the biscuits and the parking ticket (i hate RUPD)...ohhh and christine can play on my violin 1)twinkle twinkle little star, 2)star wars, and 3)minuet in G....the puerto ricans next door weren't too happy about that so they started pounding on the wall HAHA...but other than that, it was super fun...thanks for driving all the way up here
- my lab went out to lunch at this random chinese buffet. seriously , you'd think that my lab would know better than to go to lunch at generic chinese buffets, since the majority of my lab is from china. but oh well, they seemed to like it. and we got free bubble tea! yea, since bing hasn't been in lab, we've had so much more free time =)...but some of the post-docs and grad students (with the exception of valeria, who is italian, and therefore rocks) haven't been coming in on time which slightly annoys me, cuz then i have to stay later as well, since some of my projects overlap with their. but anyways.
- who knew that going into lab on a saturday could be so fun? i had originally planned to go in on saturday only cuz my parents were gonna pick me up in the afternoon anyways, but valeria was there too, and so was riccardo (visiting student from italy), so we had coffee and talked for the longest time. and right when we were like ok, maybe we should get to work, adriano (valeria's fiancee, who works at baylor) called to see if we wanted to go to an indian buffet for lunch with other italian ppl and spanish ppl too....THAT was fun...lots of texas-bashing by the italians, but it was hilarious, so they're the only ones who are excused from doing that =P.
- fourth of july picnic with my family and godparents...man it's so HOT in houston...i was out there from 8 am till 2pm since my dad wanted to get there early to reserve a barbeque grill..but it was fun nevertheless

back to work tomorrow...i love lab! if only life was always like this. i really really like living like this, by myself and stuff, but with friends close by. can't wait till med/grad school and then maybe jenna and i can be roomies if we both end up in houston again! yay!