Chrissy's Photo A Day

Today is today. I forgot I had a blog. Seriously. My memory is so bad I forget that my memory is bad. I forget what I used to do, what ...

We went to see John McCutcheon in concert last night. He is fantastic. We used to see him when we lived in Charlottesville because he liv...

I got to the last level on Train of Thought. It's very hard and I doubt I will ever master it. But it's fun to try. 47 trains. ...

Why didn't I take two photos so one would have my mother's eyes open? This is my mom and her 1st cousin VC. They both like clun...

Me on the top of the Westin at the conference having lunch with one of my doc students.

Another day in Atlanta. Cold. Rainy. I RAN A 5K THIS MORNING in the dark in the rain. I came in last but that was ok.

I'm in Atlanta with my students at a conference. I'm staying on the 54th floor of a fancy hotel and this is my view. I really...

Today my best friend from high school visited. We hadn't seen each other in over a decade. She brought a picture of us when we wer...

I got my hair done today- cut and colored.  It took something like 3 hours.

My student I finally figured out how to make a gear adhere to this generator. She has designed an adaptor and 3D printed it. I starte...

I sat outside today in the sun reading this book.

We got dressed up and went to a fancy dinner at the art museum to hear a famous photographer for National Geographic talk and show images...

Squirt went to the ER again today and actually got two MRIs. While we were waiting for the results, I didn't want to leave home so my...

My grad student and I were testing analogues of nanotubes for a strength test. We tried a variety of materials and the winner was what we...

LONG day. I had student advising all morning, meetings with grad students in the afternoon, and then taught this evening, I made up a sto...

Today students came over to work. First alw came over to work on Snails stuff, then my Saudi student came over with her baby to work on h...

I got something off my to-do list today-- I organized my jewelry drawer. Today I found out my colleague got promoted to Full Professor....

I play this brain game (my neurologist told me to) and one game with trains is really hard. You have to plan ahead and think quickly. I...

Today is my mom's actual 84th birthday but I was too worried about Squirt to really even care. He is having really scary back problem...

I wanted to paint my sisters' fingernails-- give them manicures. I bought a color I thought they'd like and did the whole manicure...

My sisters are here for our mother's 84th birthday. I started this blog when she was still 73. Wow. We did a little clay project toda...

I met my friend for coffee today to kvetch about my life and all the things that seem to be going wrong. I noticed how nice her nails loo...

Today is Squirt's 27th birthday. I started this blog in January 2007 when he was still 16 years old. Wow. Today I worked on creatin...

Posting those photos yesterday of my birth father and me spurred my 1st cousin Barb, whom I've never met, to get in touch with me. She s...

This is my birth father, PTJ. I did a stupid Facebook test to see what I'd look like as a man, and I got this: I guess I lo...

A remarkable day. I was supposed to be gone today, so nothing was on the calendar. I texted my doc student A to see if she was OK and she ...

Today was busy and I did a lot of running around which kept my mind busy. I had a minor surgical procedure this morning which went fine. I...

I went to the studio this morning and glazed some pieces in blues and greens. Then went to school for a noon meeting that got canc...

Today was interesting. We went to church, came home, worked, and then went to Mom's for dinner. We had just finished this first cours...

We had dinner tonight at our friend Terri's house. She is a local artist and her house was full of her artwork: sculptures, paintings...

Friday. I had a department meeting today. I also added two people to my mural. I also went to see the bowls that I'd made for the E...