Thanksgiving in Spokane was great. Our family went on a fun-filled window-shopping-and-gingerbread-latte-sipping outing at the Plaza in Coeurd’Alene, spent 45 minutes on a waiting list to get Hudson’s hamburgers (most likely the best hamburger west of the Mississippi), saw the new Harry Potter movie and played Perfect Dark Zero on my brother’s Xbox 360 until the wee hours of the night – an insanely violent video game in which we snuck around on snow-covered pagodas and blasted bad guys’ brains out with plasma machine guns.
All that video-game playing stirred up the child in me. This past weekend when Clinton and I were browsing in the Apple Store, I felt an overwhelming desire to buy a video game of my own. I now own NeverWinter Nights and am nearly a 6th class rogue! Yes, very, very nerdy, I know. Unfortunately, it has infected Clinton also. We recently made ANOTHER late night foray to the Apple Store to get a second copy, and these days we are playing until 1AM every night in multiplayer mode.
The best news of the week: yesterday I accepted a position at Family Health International in Research Triangle Park, NC. Hooray! Starting this coming Monday, I will work in monitoring and evaluation, in the division of Contraceptive and Reproductive Health Technologies and Research Utilization. I’ll be sure to let you know how my first week goes.
Helpful Hint from Crystal: As appetizing as the product “Grandma Utz’s Handcooked Bar-B-Q Potato Chips” may sound, the chips actually taste vaguely like pork rinds (which can be a good thing, if you like pork rinds) and eating them leaves you feeling quite ill and even hung over the next day. Turns out they are CHOCK FULL OF PURE LARD. Take my advice and steer clear.
Have a great day!
