Heat Wave

We just hit a heat wave here in San Diego. Since Sunday, temperatures have been exceptionally high with only a minimum breeze. Downtown temperatures went up to 96 degrees (that's 36° Celsius), while we at the beaches got temperatures in the eighties. That's very hot for these parts.

Unfortunately this happens while I have visitors that don't really appreciate hot weather. I have been out and about with them and the heat is a bit draining when walking in the sun and when driving in the car. Yet, we've accomplished quite a lot, we've been to the World Famous San Diego Zoo, visited Balboa Park, Point Loma, Ocean Beach, parts of downtown. We've been to La Jolla several times, the coastlines of La Jolla Cove, downtown La Jolla around Prospect street, been to Pacific Beach boardwalk, downtown PB, the bay, the Birch Aquarium, Old Town, Temecula and ... THREE malls: University Town Center, Fashion Valley and Horton Plaza. And, we were to the Delmar County Fair on saturday. Got some rides, some art, some foods, some animal smells ...

I feel as if I'm allowed to take a little time off after I finished the quarter. And the school year, by the way, also with straight A's! Summer quarter, and my research assistantship, hasn't officially started yet. So, I am juggling work with my free time. Try to spend as much time as possible with my family, make short trips to campus to touch base with my advisor and do the stuff I wouldn't as easily do from home. I have a couple of projects going now: the mitochondrial one that I will try to make into a paper in the next few weeks, and the MS proteomics project I had with Ines and which we are also gonna attempt to turn into a publication. So, all is good.

Otherwise, summer was supposed to be about the good life and it most likely will be. I'm even learning to appreciate our lovely house by the bay with the nice front porch and our little garden plants.