One time there was a caterpillar in my aunt’s salad but that wasn’t too bad since they are really good at hanging on to leaves and are leaf colored and live where leaves are. (not nearly as bad as a cockroach!) My aunt didn’t want another salad though, after finding that (which the people offered after we told them…

One of my friends got a ticket from a camera and their dog was one of the passengers and they pixellated out the dogs face so that is what I think of whenever I think of red light cameras

The Catholic summer camp I went to was really only noticeably Catholic in that we said a quick prayer before meals and went to Mass on Sunday (but it was an outside Mass! IN THE WOODS! which was super cool to me). Otherwise we just gallivanted about and made lots of lanyards and went swimming and stuff.

Book parties! They are my favorite way to spend time with people!

Our school had a place outside each dorm to donate and the donated things were then sold at a big sale (still for pretty cheap, you get get a bike for like $15 there or something) during the summer where all the money went to some specific charity I don’t remember exactly the details of.

I got my dog because an awful awful person who left the dog in their backyard while they move away—except they left him in the house so no one found him for days. I don’t understand how you could do such a thing. He’s like the best dog ever and is super chill and is up for either adventures or sleeping in the house…

That’s very much different from the experiences I had, so I guess maybe there is no good situation and kids will always be awful and pick up on whatever differences they can? I mean, I still got picked on in my uniform about how I was wearing it, but it was much less than if people saw me in my one or two non-uniform…

Yes. Uniforms are the best.

Ah, well mine are literally all colorful Target 12 packs or whatever, so I guess I may just have much less diversity of underwear than other people. (Although there are so many different patterns)

If you have a shower in a bathtub and plug the bathtub for one shower, it can be remarkable to notice how much water is used up. (My nana grew up in India so every so often we would get these lectures about being wasteful Americans and using too much water when we shower, even though I think I’m decently average with…

Chapparel is so pretty. You can still landscape it and pick and choose which ones and make it look like a yard instead of the hills (but the hills are also so lovely and I would not mind a yard full of the buckwheat and lemonadeberries and deerweed and toyons that grow up on our hills.) I love the color of the…

Also, we got more done in like 20 minutes of talking to the day of coordinator than days and days of planning. Because she knew exactly how things were done so for things that we weren’t sure of or didn’t know how to do? (like where to put tables in the venue, how to organize things, etc etc,) she had instant answers…

Do people like care which set of underwear they wear, though? Like unless I’m wearing one specific skirt, I can wear any of my underwear interchangeably pretty much with whatever I’m wearing that day, (but that’s also how I buy my clothes intentionally) so it seems like there would be no benefit to organizing them…

Admittedly, I thought the Sistine Chapel was sort of disappointing, too. I was all for seeing it, because really, if you are in Rome (and especially if you are in the Vatican!) it’s something that I would have been disappointed in myself for not seeing. But I probably wouldn’t want to see it again. It was a lot of…

Also, at our wedding, our MOH & BM are both quite single (also both college students bc we are using younger siblings), so maybe their MOH/BM didn’t have a spouse/date, especially since that seems far to travel if you aren’t in a serious relationship (like, I probably wouldn’t have taken a random +1 to a destination…

My wedding is the day before my cousin’s 21st birthday, so we’ve been joking that at midnight we are going to flip over all the theoretical signs or whatever and turn it into a 21st birthday celebration instead.

It’s also super great for genome editing in model systems that don’t have as many genetic tools available as mice. I work in zebrafish and before this, there wasn’t a way to make targeted mutants, since we didn’t have the ES cells/selection process. So you only really got a mutant if someone was lucky to find it in a…

genes discovered in Drosphila always have the best names!

Yeah, although to a certain point I think it also depends on the individual child. Because my parents fed all sorts of things to all of my siblings including me and I am definitely far far more picky on what I like and don’t like than my siblings. (Admittedly, a lot of it is texture things... onions/tomatoes/bell…

I remember bouquet tosses at my aunts and uncles weddings, but it was just a swarm of children running around trying to catch flowers. I don’t think any grownups participated in it. It seems awful to have people do it who aren’t willing to do it or excited to do it.