I wrote a fan letter to an author I like, and she responded, and then I responded, and then she asked if I'd be willing to tell her more about my job, because she'd like to use it for a story! We chatted this morning for two hours, and I hope at least some of it was helpful. Her heroine lives with a boyfriend at the beginning of the book, but they break up, and she needs to find somewhere new to live. I told her how I get a discount on my rent because I rent from and live with my brother, so I was able to give her a sense of what kind of living situations her heroine can afford if she's getting a discount on rent vs striking out on her own.
A city/town in California that has an interesting Spanish-language name
Tell the DBD where you live in four words (or less) without using any proper nouns
Quit
How many times a week do you eat a sandwich?
Deepavali
Today in Covid
Elsewhere in college
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
PRO
CAL
Just gave a virtual tour of my facility to a Cal mineralogy class. Their messages in the comments made me smile:
1) lol
 "no stanfordium"

2)
 Oooh Go Bears

Wait this is awesome, I didn’t realize Berkeley had been helping in the whole process!

3) 
^!

4) 
Thank you for the presentation! Love your ppt artwork!

I wrote a fan letter to an author I like, and she responded, and then I responded, and then she asked if I'd be willing to tell her more about my job, because she'd like to use it for a story! We chatted this morning for two hours, and I hope at least some of it was helpful. Her heroine lives with a boyfriend at the beginning of the book, but they break up, and she needs to find somewhere new to live. I told her how I get a discount on my rent because I rent from and live with my brother, so I was able to give her a sense of what kind of living situations her heroine can afford if she's getting a discount on rent vs striking out on her own.
mmmm (Angelina's) chocolate
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Car DIY