What I do when I have nothing else to do

Hey all,

Once again, it's been a while. I'm back from Australia, and am just going to chuck up a bunch of photos of what I've been up to a la Phil's Life in Pictures:

Mary's Royal Birthday Bash:

Yes, that was Mary as Queen Elizabeth enjoying some crisps after winning a Nobel Prize from the King & Queen of Sweden.

What else? I shaved my head for charity in celebration of finishing the ol' PhD!

I then ran in Bay2Breakers, and then checked out a solar eclipse:

This past week I've knitted some slippers, read some books, done some running, and that's about it. No job yet. Still at risk of losing our house due to increasing rent. Hung out for a couple hours in the hammock this afternoon, reading "Word Nerd" and soaking up the Cali sun.

Tomorrow I'm off to Edmonton for a week to hang out with the peeps up there. Stay posted for more then!

PV Wedding

My friends Chris & Shahla had their wedding while I was back. I wasn't part of the wedding party, but I did get to play a role in it: Elham and I were given the responsibility of setting up the Sofreh Aghd. Here we are after setting up the Sofre Aghd:

The wedding ceremony took place at Balmoral Beach, and it was GORGEOUS! It was a bit worrisome earlier in the week, when it rained ridiculously heavily for over 2 days straight (stat: some regions of Sydney got their entire monthly rainfall in 17 min). But by Thursday afternoon the clouds parted, the sun came out, and we had a wonderful day for a wedding.