Well, I’m officially famous.
Today I was reading the SI Informant – a blog dedicated to news around the School of Information. The top article is one about the ASB fundraising potluck we held on Friday night. The event was a big success [we raised over $370] & the recipe book includes almost 50 recipes.
Here’s a snapshot:

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While looking at the blog, I noticed that the girl in the header was wearing a shirt similar to one I have. And had long braided hair. Then I realized that it is me! The photo must have been taken at orientation last fall while we were meeting and doing activities with our 501 teams. On the left is Huang & on the right is Caitlin’s bag. I immediately emailed them to share the news!
Although I’ve probably mentioned it before, that team was the best group experience I’ve ever had. We worked together for the entire semester, consulting with a client, doing intereviews, sharing data & building models [including a 6 hour marathon session of affinity diagramming]. It was a lot of work, a lot of stress, but we worked together well and did a great job. In fact, we enjoyed working together so much that we’ve formed a trivia team this semester! One night a week we head to a local bar for trivia – last week we tied for ninth!
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Last summer there was a sign outside the Ladies Literary Club across our house. The sign simply said “Pie Lovers Unite” & I was so thrilled/confused by the sign that I took a picture of it with my phone.
Yesterday, while reading an article about Slow Food Huron Valley in the Ann Arbor Chronicle, I discovered that it is an event hosted by the organization. Here are the details
This year’s Pie Lovers Unite! is set for Saturday, July 24 at the Ladies’ Literary Club in Ypsilanti. Last year’s PLU featured pie prizes (including for the category of “most unusual” pie), pie haikus, pie charts and more. Admission is a pie.
Awesome!
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I love this picture & would love to replicate something like it in the diag tunnel where the SI entrance is. Beautiful!

photo by overthemoon
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The North American Bear Center has a “den cam” set up inside the den of a bear who will be giving birth very soon. A live video stream lets you peek in on Lily – so far I’ve only seen her sleep, but I can’t wait to see little baby bears! See for yourself!
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Today, in honor of Martin Luther King, there were no classes. This allowed by to stay home, reflect on the role of archives & records in the civil rights movement & do some programming. So far I’ve written a program that can do simple math, that can ask your name then welcomes you & another that calculates overtime pay. Before long I’ll be a computer programming whiz & be making all sorts of iPhone apps.
But really, I’m already famous, so who needs that?