1) OMG OMG OMG I have like 3 months to my defense OMG OMG OMG OMG. OMG ( Read more... )

1) Cardio in classes is kind of like DDR but with arm movements too. Yay ( Read more... )

I'm feeling kind of together and productive with my life lately, so I think I'll start blogging again! What can I say, it's a lot more fun to discuss accomplishment than talk about how I spent a whole weekend in an armchair surfing the internet.

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So, it looks like by this time next year I'll be living in Berlin. I have a postdoc at the Albert Einstein Institut in Potsdam. Exciting! A bit scary.

Sometime next week y'all should be able to hear me talk at the KITP, should you be so inclined. I gave a talk today in the friday afternoon session ( Read more... )

In 2008, ( Read more... )

Having declined a four day trip up north to stay in town for various school-type workings, Uwe and I are spending, I think, our first Official Holiday alone as a couple. Which mostly means we are doing every day sorts of hanging out things today, but we just picked up the fixings for dinner.

Uwe is making crock pot chickenpheasant and dumplings ( Read more... )

Tired from sorting out embarrassingly last minute details of a postdoc application, I decided to make myself a nice simple lazy meal of ramen this evening. But of course I chopped up some cabbage and spinach to add for vegetables, and then decided to add some chopped garlic and soy sauce and balsamic vinegar and sesame oil and things to supplement ( Read more... )

I finally wrapped up reading The Confusion by Neal Stephenson yesterday morning, which I've been making my way through in little bits and pieces for quite some time now. Yay! Now I need to track down a copy of the last one to complete my collection. I am enjoying the elaborateness ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of waving my hands around when I'm trying to figure out how a problem set up works. I do it in talks, too, when I'm trying to get a mental picture of something people have talked about. Back in elementary school, I counted on my fingers for almost every math problem. It's actually a bit startling, now, to realize that I don't do it so ( Read more... )

I guess I'm not the only one waiting for the rest of the swearing: Guardian Story on The worst swear word in the world.