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Hermit Time
While I haven't posted in a while, I have been reading peoples postings here. However, this is going to stop for a few months ( Read more... ) -
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I count myself blessed to have friends and family as wonderful as you are. -
42.
It has been far too long since I have posted here. I seem to have been largely abducted by the ease of 30-second Facebook posts. Sorry, folks. I still intend to use this journal, though. I think I've covered most of the following there, so please bear with me if I repeat myself too much ( Read more... ) -
State of the Cas
It's been a while since I posted here. I am doing fine. My proposal / dissertation is moving forward more slowly than I would like (and I have yet to receive any formal comments from my advisor), but I am making progress. I have a third draft of the actual proposal I need to send out very, very soon and I need to make some final selections on my ( Read more... ) -
Centennial Sakura Viewing (Sakura 2012)
This weekend was full of win. I spent the first half of Saturday afternoon doing science demos for kiddos in Washington, DC. One was cloud in a bottle...which may be my new favorite demo. It was rainy and cool but worth the trek. (Also, there were far fewer people on the metro than I was expecting ( Read more... ) -
Okay, now I'm curious. . . .
Johari Window (compares positive traits you see in yourself most vs. what others think of you ( Read more... ) -
Super Nerdy Weekend of Awesome
I spent this weekend with Chris, and it was one full of win.
On Friday night, we made the Voltron-inspired Blazing Sword Burgers as invented by Jamie Noguchi (anyone who doesn't read his comic, Yellow Peril, should). We decided that we had to go full-geek on these and instead of making gigantic burgers, we would make gigantic sliders (okay, ( Read more... ) -
When Big Booksellers Won't Stock Your Book....
This is a repost from the LJ of author Jim C. Hines (Mel has posted about at least one of his books, if I recall correctly, and I encourage you all to go read his LJ, because it contains various combinations of informative, hilarious, and thought-provoking ( Read more... ) -
Happy Holidays!
Hello all ( Read more... ) -
Thud.
I just sent off the first draft of my proposal to my advisors.
I still have a presentation to put together for Saturday (luckily it's going to be composed of stuff I already have), and I haven't even *started* on my poster for AMS. It looks like I'll have a bit of work to do over break....
But at least I got my draft done. This is no small thing