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Last Friday night, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt-Rivers Museum (anthropology museum attached to it) had one of their night-time openings, this time with a really awesome slide/lights show about the history of science in the museum.  I volunteer bartended for a while, ran to see the newly-refurbished third floor of the ( Read more... )

And it wasn't quite like this:

http://www.miniclip.com/games/volcanic-airways/en/

The weather is lovely and springy and all the trees are out and the days extend until nearly 9pm.  Fantastic!

Some great links about Eyjaflallajökull ( Read more... )

I left Oxford at 4:30 BST this morning... it is now 20:04 MST... so technically 5:30 BST THE NEXT DAY.  In essence, I have been travelling through time (forwards).  And I didn't exactly sleep well last night -- I got maybe 2 hours of sleep.  So I haven't really slept since 8:30 BST on the 5th of April.

Anyway I thought it would be a good idea to ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I went with R to Berlin to see A and meet her bf V.  A is a super successful journalist who works for the German equivalent of the BBC!  She also is good at German, which is not unsurprising.

R and I flew off on Friday night, taking Ryanair, the "On-Time Airline" as they like to say out of Stansted.  In classic fashion, and just as ( Read more... )

As some (many) of you probably know, I study something called tephrochronology, which involves dating things via layers of volcanic ash (tiny glass shards known as tephra).  My research focuses almost entirely on Icelandic volcanoes erupting in the last 2000 years, so when a new one starts erupting, that's pretty exciting ( Read more... )

Email from my parents this morning:

We just got to Hawaii.  The hotel is next to the ocean and it's 80 deg and sunny.  Hope you're enjoying the weather at Oxford.  We took a lot of pictures in New Zealand.  We'll let you know when we get back to Denver.

Love, Mom and Dad

Yeah, basically, they suck. 

Personality tests

I have a slight obsession with taking personality tests.  I'm not sure why, because my results tend to be pretty consistent, but I just find something immensely satisfying about the actual act of taking the test -- watching the progress bar, solving analytical problems, etc.  And so any opportunity I get to take them, I will.

I was ( Read more... )

I was just reminded by my Denver-post-sponsored skiing-related emails that one of my absolute favorite Colorado tradition thingies is coming up this Sunday: Mountaintop Matrimony ( Read more... )