NWO organized a "women in chemistry" congress today, which left me inspired and enlightened in a number of ways, and so i thought i would write something about it. Firstly the meeting was really well organized, so big props to NWO for all their work in this ( Read more... )

hot damn! i rediscovered my live journal account after about 5 years. crazyness! even more crazy is that i started this journal in 2004 when i moved to amsterdam for my master's program at the UvA..... and now, several countries and moves later, im back in amsterdam again, this time for a PhD. dunno how active i will be in writing journals, but ( Read more... )

so the weird internship in malibu california is coming to an end- its my last week. im glad to be coming home, but i don't really have a plan for things to do when i get back to the DC area. im still looking for a job, but what i realy want to do is go to a marine science phd program someplace tropical- i have decided i wanna go to australia, but i ( Read more... )

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so i was hearing some rumor about this ring tone that can only be heard by kids. at first i was like "thats a load of baloney!" but then i did some researching and discoverd that its not. aparently most adults start to loose thier ability to hear high pitched sounds. the ring tone is at about 17khz, which aparently most adults cant hear anymore. i ( Read more... )

went to visit my aunt uncle and cousin yesterday. it was nice to see them again, and i talked for a long while with my aunt about my grandma and how she is doing. she has alzheimers and apparently took a turn for the worse recently, she is mixing everything up and the worst part of it all is that my grandpa is getting real stressed out about it all ( Read more... )

yeah so i finally updated my friends list.. turns out there were a couple of people who had befriended me but since i never look at the list of people who have befriended you.. i was oblivious. YUP so they are all added to my listy-list now. WELCOME TO THE INSANITY my new freinds! (eh most of them are actualy "old freinds" about whom i was ( Read more... )

blady blah. not much to tell. i finished my course on economic botany... now lets hope i can actualy do something with those 4 credits, and count them towards my program. furthermore ive been trying to get my act together as far as the thesis goes. its going.. uninterestingly. hopefully over the next week or so ill have something positive to remark ( Read more... )

Yup well i finaly managed to post my long and cheezy thing about steve irwin a bit earlier. i realy wanted to make it better written, you know.. with correct spelling and grammer hahhaha. but 1. that would mean that i would probably never be satisfied with it becuase i would be trying to make it "perfect" and it would have taken me forever to post ( Read more... )

When i was five years old if you asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up, i would have told you "a stewardess". i guess now a days they are called flight atendants eh? anyway.. that was my plan of sorts, until i saw the crocodile hunter. around the age of 13, i was SO into the crocodile hunter. i was fascinated by the show, and i thought steve ( Read more... )