In my ideal world, I would be in Punxsutawney right now for Groundhog Day. But things don\’t work out and I don\’t have a car.

Perhaps, next year it will be important for me enough that I will come all the way back to Pittsburgh just for this event.

In life, living with regrets is the hardest thing to do. The I could have done something differently type thing. The What would I have done differently if I knew what I knew now… The If I hadn\’t so spontaneously spent over $500 in that store!

I try to avoid that, but one of my major regrets in the last 2 years is…

…dropping my powerbook.

I see no silver lining here (except that nobody will want to take my laptop now). The consequences varied from unsteady hard drive resulting in multiple reformats then a hd replacement to curious people always touching the dents wondering if they could push it back in. And of course, the consequential teasing which can be a little overt. Today, I installed a new battery and had to push it a little bit to get it in, accidentally painfully pinching my palm. Ouch.

It\’s my last day in the masters lab before we move to Craig Street. I remember the first day I came into this room was July 2004 a month before I started the masters program. So sad that…so much has happened here, so many memories.

The many meetings that took place in agony during methods and iid.

The times I sat here eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. And feasting on free food.

The naps that I took (not that many because I don\’t believe in making another place my \”home\”).

The windowless rooms where the days would pass by and I would never notice.

And more.