I am excited. Tis always a delight. Bonfire! Demonstrating the true meaning of rage to the undergrads! It's the best. Perhaps I will even post more about it when I get back.

Visiting the house can involve interacting with the past nostalgicly and interacting with the present surreally. Good times all around.

You will never leave me feeling as disappointed as facebook ( Read more... )

Look at me posting things ( Read more... )

It was highly glorious ( Read more... )

Some people have an entire career they spend doing things that I do better than they do. For example, Progresso. If I reheated the soup I made Friday, it would still only take three minutes and it would be a billion times better. It turns out that this soup was consumed at a party, which I do not regret, but come on Progresso. These are the times ( Read more... )

Party last night. Twas fun! Ashley made a cake and I made a gumbo, which provided breakfast and dinner today. So the food was chiastic, since yesterday the gumbo came first. This pleases me ( Read more... )

APS just sent me the printer proofs for my paper. So I am proofreading them. It's like, what the word means. Pretty neat. Question they sent me: should "two particle," as in "vacuum plus two particle state" be hyphenated? Hell if I know ( Read more... )

The reviewers for my paper would like me to correct two unimportant typos, and then I am accepted for publication in PRD. Hells fuck yeah.

Also, Christmas break has been super fabulous, but I'll write about it later.

Why, in a term in which I only want to take one course with a set meeting time, it must conflict with the cosmology seminars? No Lie groups for me. I will console myself with homological algebra. All the fun of algebraic topology, without any pretense of studying pretty spaces. Just arrows. Ah well, at least there is also a likely wholly redundant ( Read more... )

Took a trip up to the Dartmouth Grant over the weekend! Full of snow, and a lovely scrambley hike up to a cool cliff. Went with Joe and Ashley, because other people are all attendance failures. So sad, but we had tons o fun with ourselves ( Read more... )