today a heavily armed secret service officer helped a lost momma mallard and her ducklings find their way out of the driveway near the west wing of the white house back to the lawn. cuuuuute!

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dude! alton brown will be in la crosse next tuesday! *grumblegrumblestupidannualmeetinggrumblegrumble* :-P

i just remembered that after i graduate, i won't have access to jstor! what will i do?!?

have i mentioned that since i'll be going to the aam annual meeting, i won't be able to see the yarn harlot in madison? *cryface* it'll be worth it, though... i think. :P

i totally forgot to say that the wheels have finally started rolling to get me to the aam annual meeting! i bought my plane tickets on a university card and applied for funding for the rest of it yesterday. looks like i'll have to put everything else on my card and get reimbursed. it was starting to look like the process to get me a hotel room ( Read more... )

yes, that was (unfortunately) an intentional dave matthews band reference. -sigh- but i really do have a lot to talk about.

it rained yesterday, and although i know there have been and will be flooding worries this spring, it made me so happy to have precipitation that wasn't frozen falling in a pretty decent rain for most of a day. one of the big ( Read more... )

martin luther king, jr.'s april 3rd "mountaintop" speech

robert f. kennedy's remarks on king's assassination

did you listen to radio lab's war of the worlds episode? if you haven't, you should. as usual, it's awesome.

your life in an excel spreadsheet.