Summer!!!!!

Ahhhhh, there is nothing like rubbing aloe vera into your newly produced sunburn. At least the sleeves of my jersey are really short so MOST of my arm is tan. Now that the sun is out we Long Islanders have seemingly remembered why we moved here. The beach!! and the fun hill climbs on the way to beach. While the local beach is absolutely gorgeous and only a couple of miles away, it is also up some pretty steep hills. In interest of saving my legs I decided to try a more cir-cum-que-it-o-us route, and it turned out to be twice as long and still bringing me up the same hill, just on the opposite and steeper side (just as successful as my spelling apparently).
Of course I can't complain, because while riding up the super steep hill I had the time to lay in the grass (gfjslmm)and come up with the idea of the tan through bike jersey!!! or reverse clothes. Somehow I have a feeling the bike jersey will be more of a hit. In addition to random bicyclist and sun bathers, the flowers have come to bask in the warming glow. In interest of saving you guys from having to look at my funny tan lines, here are some of the flowers that have magically appeared in my yard.

Dodgeball

To prove how effective lab meetings are. In some other lab's weekly meeting it was brought up that they could probably beat all the other labs in the game of dodge ball. While I am not sure why they decided dodge ball was the sport of choice and not let us say soccer, but this eventually led to a random smattering of e-mails and a full out tourny. While the lab didn't even make it into the second round, the Marine Disease lab did quite well (blame it on the foreigners). Note the fencing around "the pit" and the crowd that gathered to spectate.
Our lab racing for the balls.
Some action.
More action.

Sailing!

As it turns out, I am more productive when I do more things (that doesn't say much about efficiency, but don't tell my advisers or they may end up crakin' the whip!). In order to celebrate this old revelation, I have joined a group of colleagues to form a sailing team. We meet on Wednesdays and race against the locals (mostly well-off retired lawyers form the city). Unfortunately this last race was a slow one (we didn't reach 3 knots until an hour into the race), but that gave me plenty of time to respond to the commands the boat owner, Bill, makes in a seemingly foreign language. Some of the crew trying to catch the best wind.
Our reflection
Our competition smoking us.

fist bumps

What is it with the fist bump?First it was the wedding lock fist bump at Michelle and Scott's wedding (click randoms and m blog link for pictures), then it was Obama and his wife's campaign bump, now it is every where from tiger woods to other golfer people and the ladies on The View, leave it to my sister to start weird and widespread trends.

Vax to Flax

Every year my schol has a four mile race from the main campus (Vax) to our closest marine labs in flax pond. Last year I ran really fast, but on the wrong course ( I ended up running somewhere between 8 and 9 miles in 1 hour and 20 minutes rather than just 4 miles), so this year my only goal was to not get lost. I ended up second (I folowwed somebody towards the end, but more importantly I did not get lost!! I couldn't find any pictures with me in them, but here is a picture of the start.