Tonight it's foggy in Berkeley. At around seven it started getting gray, and now the tops of the hills are covered in white fog. Nero is lying on the floor snorting, and Jake is awake for the first time in hours, with huge swollen wisdom-tooth-less cheeks. My night consisted of baking a sweet potato, changing Jake's gauze, and making slow progress on my AMCAS shit. I'm still a bit jet-lagged from Boston even though we weren't there long enough to get adjusted. There's a mysterious cricket sound outside that I've never heard before. I don't think I've ever heard the classic east coast summer night cricket sound out here at all.



bodega bay

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drunken wii-ing on july fourth

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grizzly peak

redwood regional park with sandy, jake, and dog. many attempts at getting nero to pose for a picture with us.

Indian Springs

Indian Springs in Calistoga, up in Napa. Heavenly. My pictures don't do it justice, and focus mostly on competitive GAMES, which seems to be the theme of the post-standardized test month. I have my heart set on going back for a night to float in the mineral pool and play cut-throat ping pong and bocce ball before I leave for Sweden.

You won't like me when I've changed

This is what we did in Ann Arbor post-LSAT and MCAT.





Also, we pined after this house for sale on Olivia Avenue. There were a million fireflies and it was really warm, the heavy humid kind I really miss. I met with two professors at the med school who were very nice and helpful but it sent me into a sort of tailspin.

Point Isabel with Jake, Zach, Ben and Nero

Arizona

scottsdale, saguaro desert, valley of the sun.

Alluvial

Here comes the last few months in pictures. Strawberry plum pie in the oven, snoring dog, motor city reggae, full sail pale ale, and pictures.

First, I am in love with my new camera - the Nikon 40x digital SLR. You could take photos of almost anything and look really smart. These were the first pictures I took, on a walk around the block. Look at them big, the image quality is sick. The flowers in California are so striking and pretty.