i will be leaving for New Jersey by Friday, May 19th, as i have to be there by Sunday, May 21st. i will be there until ~August 1st. i'm doing a research project at Rutgers on the paleoventilation of the South Pacific, which means i'm sorting foraminifera shells from cores [read: mud]. It's way more exciting than you think/i'm making it sound ( Read more... )

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
--Longfellow--

1. yes, this post would have been cooler had it been done a few days ago.

2. i just finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John ( Read more... )

"Procrastinating makes the world go 'round!"
"No, plate tectonics makes the world go 'round."
"Actually, conservation of angular momentum makes the world go 'round."
"But... but... I thought it was LOVE!"

"I want for you to be apart of the organizing process, for you to help secure outside
sponsorships, and I want you to get in on the rip-roarin' good time!!!!!"

--from an email--

Why is grammar so hard? I am often lazy with it, sure, but i feel once one knows the rules the rules can be broken, especially if done stylistically or for some purpose ( Read more... )

Madison is too cold. I'm here, now, and though my new place is nicely next to school, it's a good half mile walk to my bank. Walking to the bank was the only thing i had to accomplish today, so at least it's done. Now i have many hours with few important things to do. Very nice, i think i'll not do much. I managed to spill my coffee while at ( Read more... )

My education is, at best, very sketchy. I admit it ( Read more... )

Doesn't cut it.


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Classes! are done!

Four Finals, and i'm home free.

I just spent half an hour reviewing UW's spring timetable, and i cannot emphasize how frusterated i am. Nothing is open, nothing happens to be offered at different times other than 1:20 MWF, which is when i already have Physics (BLAH!), and nothing i do will make it possible to actually do well ( Read more... )

--some physicist whose name i forgot just now ( Read more... )

and mouths to pay ( Read more... )