*Splat*

Life update!

I spent a half a months pay and then some on this:



Appropriately for me, it is made by the company Giant. I am in love with it, and it is my baby. I've been biking and enjoying it soooo much. I ride with a group of women on Wednesday nights, we go on a 21-mile loop at about 15-16mph. Last week I got ballsy and went on the Monday night ride out of the same bike shop, which is a way more intense, co-ed, 27-mile ride that goes considerably faster... I finished about five minutes behind the pack and was damn proud of myself... I hit 40mph on my bike. So screw running, I'm biking instead :)

Also I found out a couple weeks ago that I'm spending two weeks in June at NASA in Houston messing around with altered gravity and space cancer! We put some experiments on a plane that flies parabolas that create microgravity and hypergravity, and see if that affects the ability of cells to repair themselves. Ultimately we want to see if lunar dust is toxic in an altered gravity environment. Also, I WANT TO GO TO SPACE. I had breakfast on Wednesday with a retired astronaut who was a commander on two space shuttle flights (and co-pilot on another). I shook his hand. His hand, that landed a space shuttle. Twice. I also killed some time at work yesterday watching the live feed of the guys space walking it up fixing the Hubble telescope. Cool shite. Can I cure cancer and be an astronaut?

So other than biking and NASA, not much is new. My sister stayed home sick today with definite flu-like symptoms. I'm hoping she doesn't turn into a swine. That'd be awkward.