will someone please explain to me how I am going to manage to ( Read more... )

somehow I survived the end of the semester, and the grades coming in thus far aren't half bad! unless something goes terribly wrong, I will have something > 3.0 to tell grad schools about, which makes me happy. if only the registrar didn't suck...but that is a rant for another day ( Read more... )

I am so tired of writing serious stuff that matters, and I am nowhere near done. It all has to happen by Wednesday, and right now it is Friday night ( Read more... )

well, looks like I jinxed it. shuttle launch is now set for January 2. sigh.

here is my latest procrastination tool, courtesy of diy.despair.com:


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On Tuesday, there was an astronaut - Gordon Fullerton - giving a physics colloquium! Half of it was giving Sam Eisenburg a $10,000 scholarship, and the other half was the astronaut talking about SOFIA (awesome IR-telescope-in-a-plane) and other random test piloty type things. Then I sat next to him at a catered dinner! :) It was a great dinner ( Read more... )

I really dislike how everything happens at the end of the semester. I don't just mean I have tons of work to accomplish - though that is also true - but more the fact that there are a bazillion parties, dance events, music concerts, guest speakers, movie nights, restaurant outings, and more that ALL feel the need to happen in the last 2-3 weeks of ( Read more... )

not having perfect pitch is analogous to being colorblind ( Read more... )

No seriously: Dear UW, please let me in to your astronomy grad school, love Meredith ( Read more... )

In searching through old emails, I did not find my CV/resume because it only ever existed as a Word document created between February and October 2007, and that is the period during which I was dumb enough to not back anything up. What I did find was this gem, from a rambling Word document I wrote after having been in Moscow, Russia for a week or ( Read more... )

this article makes me EXTREMELY happy, you have no idea. add onto the SETI thing the human exploration of space, etc. I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets it.

SETI: Is It Worth It?

in other news, I am procrastinating too much, and while the GRE may be done and over with, other things are most certainly not. bah. back to it.