Trader Joe's Southwest Salad is amaazing. I don't know what's so amazing about this particular one, but it's the only salad I've ever liked :D

Current weather in Boston is disgusting. It's 80-90% humidity and 80+ degrees Fahrenheit... gross. It has also been thunderstorming a lot overnight, which always wakes me up. It's cool though - I like watching thunderstorms, as long as I'm indoors. Recently I got reminded of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek (such cool harmonies), and I've been listening to it on loop - it's so melancholy though... goes well with the gloomy weather I guess.

My rental wooden cello bow started falling apart, so I went to the rental store to get a new bow, and decided to try the carbon fiber bow. While I'm not a big fan of the carbon fiber instruments (they look so... unnatural), I've heard some good stuff about carbon fiber bows (they're more stable/reliable/consistent, they can sound much more powerful if they are well crafted, blah blah blah), so we'll see how this goes :) I am also getting tired of the wooden bow expanding like craaazy when the weather gets warm and affecting the playing.

Speaking of which: this weather (high humidity and temperature) is really shitty for cello playing -- cello in particular because it's easy to sound dull on the cello I think, because of its lower register. Everything I play sounds sooo clumsy and dull no matter what I do. Oh well.

Eunyong says in a month or two, we might think about moving onto a different project because this current one "isn't moving forward"... he's working on a publication right now, but once he's done with that, he'll actually do benchwork with me on this project, and if we can't make progress in the following month or so, we'll ditch it and move to something different. This is why crystallography projects suck - it's an all or nothing deal, and if it doesn't work, god knows why it didn't work... there's not much we've "learned" in the process. I also feel bad that after 9 months of being in this lab (and 7 months working on this project), I haven't really been able to make any intellectual contribution to this project :-/ Hmph.