I went to the opera on Saturday at Glimmerglass (being the opera house in the middle of nowhere central new york - ok, near cooperstown http://www.glimmerglass.org/ ). We all picnicked before hand with plenty of wine and cheese and fruit. And it was apparently the usual Sid and his ( Read more... )

ok folks in da' burgh
I'm going to actually get in tomorrow early afternoon. I decided against driving at night in the rain...
and shall leave again sunday early.....

Yesterday I replaced the G string on my violin... God it sounds sooo much better. It was this terribly old (in fact, the one that was on my violin when it emerged fromm a garage in NH after who knows how many years...) string that I had put back on after breaking an other. And now that I know how nice it can sound, I've gone and ordered new ( Read more... )

Today I think I finally had a break through sort of an experience with my advisor. A class from ESF was visiting our lab and we all had to give them little demos on the sorts of things we do for our research. So I gave them a demo that I originally was dreading, but then had a blast doing. My plan actually illustrated more points than I was ( Read more... )

in every language I've learned the "r" always causes me problems...

RRRRRRRRR

There is in fact a story behind my last question.

Which means that once more people reply to the inquiry I'll tell the story. But I'm looking for entertainment first.

Tell me what you think of when you see (o)

I've decided I want to take the Mammalogy lecture this semester ( Read more... )

I totally slipped on a metal grate tonight, and it seemed similar to genuflecting in church. So I commented to my friend while walking along that it I practically genuflected while walking down the hill. and some random guy over heard the word "genuflect" and was convinced I was dissing him. And tried to pick a fight. which didn't happen, but ( Read more... )

I'm going to a conference on bats today (leaving in like 10 minutes) to try to convince people I"m cool and they want me in their lab.....

So send cool intelligent thoughts to the brains of all these people....