Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everyone-

It's been a long time since I last wrote... sorry! I just got caught up in grad school life and visitors. My brother Jesse has been visiting for the last two weeks. I think he managed to see every corner of Seattle- way more than I've explored so far! We made two trips down to Oregon while he was here, both for rugby games. I've been playing on the Seattle Rugby Club women's team. We were undefeated this fall in league play (3-0) until Saturday, when ORSU (from Portland) beat us in the last 10 seconds by one point. I'm also playing on an intramural flag football team comprised of biology grad students. Surprisingly, we're doing really well. We didn't look like much in our first game (most people didn't know ANY football rules), but we've steadily improved since then. If we win our playoff game this afternoon, we'll head to the semi-finals in Husky Stadium, where we'll play under the lights in front of thousands of screaming fans.

Brent and I are headed to San Jose for Thanksgiving, so we have a 14-hour drive ahead of us this evening and tomorrow.

Happy thanksgiving to all of you!

Haldre