Snakes.

Lately, orange..but in moderation.

One cat, Lester Fallsapart, from a character in Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues (and some of his other stuff too I think..a regular Falstaff).

Chicago, the boring part.

I guess cooking, but that’s mostly out of necessity. I do enjoy drawing, playing pool, being outside, a good game of scrabble or cards, traveling, cats, all that stuff…

That’s kind of tough..lately I’ve been on a Caribbean kick–lots of curried goat!

Momentum transfer depedence of non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering from core-shell electrons. Total reflection x-ray fluorescence, grazing incidence x-ray diffraction.

I sure liked that last National album.

Peeing in the shower.

When the leaves are just barely poking out of their buds making sky a translucent green.