Am Successful Entertainer (With a Lot of Help From My Friends)

My new vet-school friend had this great idea to have an ethnic food potluck, and so yesterday evening we did.  It was a good time, I think there were 11 people and we did Indian food.  This is because in Pullman they have never heard, culinarily speaking, of the Eastern Hemisphere.  So there was daal, and cucumber salad, and lentil salad, and naan, and chicken korma, and that classic Indian favorite, no-bake peanut butter balls.  My dog did not pee on anyone or anything, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and there was much discussion about instituting a tradition of different cuisines on a semi-regular basis.  I feel it was a success.  I have never had a party before, and I like this potluck thing where everyone else cooks and I just have to provide plates and utensils (perhaps I should wash those dishes, come to think of it).

I even started today out on a go-getter note.  Indy and I headed off to the Chipman trail to get a run in before it got hot this morning, and walked the 1/2 mile there, ran two miles, and walked (more slowly) back.  Without stopping!  We are so proud of us.  At first I thought it would be great because Indy would be tired after these runs but I think she is getting fitter and more energetic.  That was supposed to be my role, and instead I am tired.  (The whole point of this is that next time I see Uncle Dan, I will be the one running back and forth across the street, while he is the one stumbling down the sidewalk struggling to maintain consciousness.  So Dan, 5 more years sound good?)  However, did I mention I ran an eight minute mile the other day?  If I didn't, I ran an eight minute mile.  Thank you very much.

Tomorrow: 1 embryology "quiz" (I looked at last year's quiz; it is nine pages long.  This greatly exceeds my quiz threshold), 1 cell phys case study quiz (Quarter Horse presenting with hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, an autosomal dominant C-G point mutation resulting in an amino acid substitution from Phenylaninine to Leucine in the protein coding for sodium ion channels in skeletal muscle).  Friday: cell phys exam (certain death).  Tonight: beer.  At Rico's, because I am now a classy graduate student and no longer slum it on campus.

Ahhh.  It's good to be back.