• 97.03.20 Gloria Estefan | Loftus Stadium, Pretoria RSA
• 97.07.26 Erasure | Saambou Arena, Pretoria RSA
• 04.03.21 Counting Crows | MTN Sundome, Johannesburg RSA
• 05.03.10 R.E.M. w/ Arno Carstens’ New Porn | Coca-Cola Dome, Johannesburg RSA
• 05.03.20 Katie Melua | Carnival City, Brakpan RSA
• 06.04.03 Depeche Mode w/ The Bravery | Wembley Arena, London UK
• 06.04.17 Robbie Williams w/ Freshlyground | Loftus Stadium, Pretoria RSA
• 07.02.17 Pride Carnival of Love Street Party | Cape Town RSA
  • Coda
  • Goldfish
• 08.01.22 Lenny Kravitz w/ Lissie | Paramount Theatre, Denver CO
• 08.04.23 Kraftwerk | Fillmore Auditorium, Denver CO
• 08.06.03 Ladytron w/ Datarock | Gothic Theatre, Englewood CO
• 08.09.13 Monolith Festival | Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison CO
  • LoveLikeFire
  • The Veils
  • Foals
  • The Morning Benders
  • Superdrag

• read up about gene regulation for orals
• update blog
• finish cataloguing recipes on OneNote
• science essay for CM640
• teaching ePortfolio for GRAD792
• design oligos for gene silencing
• logo for the Colloquium
• get a new lab notebook

• The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen
• Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh | Michael Chabon
• The Secret History | Donna Tartt
• The House of Sleep | Jonathan Coe
• Human Croquet | Kate Atkinson
• A Home at the End of the World | Michael Cunningham
• The Easy Way Out | Stephen McCauley
• The Raw Shark Texts | Steven Hall
• Atkins' Molecules | Peter Atkins (textbook)

• cartooning
• reading about transcription factors
• making mosaics
• making home-made sauces and jams
• writing short stories
• archiving Dad's genealogical research
• writing proper letters
• properly organizing the jpegs on my hard drive
• more frequent blog posts
• that enormous backlog of books and movies I never get to

Phrases from home I like or think have no equal in other parts of the world.

• ag, shame!
• now-now and just now
• calling a traffic light a robot
• saying 'you must' in stead of 'you should'
• 'did you come right?' or 'how did you get that right?'
• Afrikaans words like
  • lekker
  • sommer
  • mos
  • nè

• Akane
• Ambrosia
• Aura
• Autumn Glory
• Beacon
• Bonnie Best
• Braeburn
• Cameo
• Connell Red
• Cortland
• Cosmic Crisp
• Cox's Orange Pippin
• Early Blush
• Elstar
• Envy (Scilate)
• Eve
• EverCrisp
• Fireside
• First Kiss
• Florina
• Fuji

• pink or purple anything
• taxidermy
• books used as furniture
• acrylic anything
• glass topped tables
• vinyl wall decals
• plants that don't thrive indoors
• ridiculously tiny wash basins
• crystal chandeliers (even when used ironically)

• labwork
  • bioinformatics
    • WRKY box database mining
    • what are those genes?
  • genome walking
    • isolate DNA (GR)
    • GenomeWalker nested PCRs
    • clone products
    • sequence clones
  • copy number
    • sign up for radiation certification
    • Southern hybridization
      • probe design
      • blot & hyb
  • PAL2 ?
• publication

• decaf
• teatime
• Depeche Mode
• exact change
• postcards (sending & receiving)
• comments on my blog
• listening to music I really like
• internet streaming radio
• being included in friends' weekend plans
• new leaves on house plants
• knowing that things could always be worse
• when people laugh at my jokes
• when I manage talk to guys without feeling awkward

• smooth green Dr. Martens
• Bonobos stretch wool trousers
• YSL eyeglasses
• Penguin Great Ideas series 3
• LOMO camera: LC-A+ or SuperSampler
• tropical garden designed by Made Wijaya
• Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by Harry Clarke

fruit I've tasted:

• Cattley guava
• feijoa
• marula
• wildepruim
• cherimoya
• Surinam cherry
• umdoni
• loquat
• pitaya
• rambutan
• tamarillo
• longan
• pepino
• carambola
• amatungulu
• mangosteen

fruit still to try:

• jackfruit
• durian (erm... not too sure about this on...

• Lamb
• Cocteau Twins
• Temposhark
• Phantom Limb
• Isaac Hayes
• Sparks
• Dirty Projectors
• Some of those Canadian bands Dalyn keeps going about
• Bomb The Bass
• Florence + The Machine
• Grizzly Bear

• having more than one blog
• arranging books according to size
• planning trips around orchid shows
• googling facts to help win arguments
• having a favourite molecule: it's zingerone
• successful labwork leads to a victory dance
• cataloguing favourite recipes on MS OneNote
• buying books based more on publisher than author
• knowing the catalogue numbers of Depeche Mode singles
• getting excited when Science has a special section on plant pathogens

songs that remind me why they are the best band ever

• Home
• Rush
• Clean
• Wrong
• My Joy
• Corrupt
• Newborn
• Insight
• Precious
• Dream On
• Stripped
• Lie To Me
• In Chains
• Dangerous
• I Feel You
• Higher Love
• Strangelove
• It's No Good
• In Your Room