Obama is our President ( Read more... )

two of my best friends are getting married tomorrow and I am a bridesmaid!! this is basically the best thing ever. it's like a mini Mudd reunion. yes, everyone is getting married and we are growing up and it is crazy, but if it is an excuse to all see each other and have a grand time than who can really argue ( Read more... )

well, Mike has a job now! he'll be working at the California Center for Sustainable Energy beginning Monday. his position is a bit more administrative and a bit less engineer-y than he'd like, but the organization itself is a fantastic one. I'm just happy he's not constantly stressed out about his job search anymore (he winds up sick and gets me ( Read more... )

I’m headed to the AAS meeting in Long Beach this evening, and I’m delighted that my poster (a) actually got done and (b) looks fabulous. Now hopefully I can make some sense of it with an audience of astronomers, because just saying “it’s about neutron star masses in X-ray binaries” isn’t quite enough ( Read more... )

and this is the part where we leave, and head back to San Diego ( Read more... )

(this is partially for you, David, to show how painfully aware I am of the havoc wreaked by flight delays in the wintertime ( Read more... )

it's officially Christmastime! why ( Read more... )

I love it when my 2nd semester grad school texts are the same ones I used at HMC ( Read more... )

it is pouring, and I am sick ( Read more... )

first and foremost: I am not right now ( Read more... )