Yesterday Bennett and I put in an offer for a house. We've been actively looking at houses for the last month, and yesterday we found one that is by far the most practical for us of any we've seen. It has a finished basement (minimally finished, but that's fine for us, it'll just be for the cats, laundry, and tornadoes), a finished attic (I'm super ( Read more... )

I'm trying to level up a runecaster, solo ( Read more... )

The other day Carrie told me that there's an iPad app, Frotz, that lets you play text based games. Clearly, this is the most awesome of all awesome news because that means: I can play the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game! That Douglas Adams wrote! It's such a witty, snarky game (also very difficult, which is why I use the walkthrough. Well, I ( Read more... )

Comment and I'll:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 . Associate you with a character/pairing. (NOTE: I'm not super fandom-y, so this should be hilarious)
6. Ask something I've always wanted ( Read more... )

Survived teaching the first full week of the semester! Most exciting moment award goes to the group in electronics who set one of their resistors on fire (on accident: too much current!), followed by the same group who later shorted their linear potentiometer and it started smoking. On the other hand, those two students are very into the material ( Read more... )

So, yeah, a lot of stuff has happened this summer that I really should be writing about/keeping record of, if only so that later if I come back later and read all this it'll be there. But by now so much has happened that it's kind of overwhelming to write about? So, I'm going with a list. Then maybe I can get back into more regular posting here ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, something awesome happened. I downloaded the app Draw Something (that's fun but not the awesome part) and started playing with Carrie. Then, on twitter, Gail Simone posted that she had the app, would anyone like to play? Would I! So I've played a few rounds of the game with Gail Simone. Eeee! She even drew a Batman lunchbox for the ( Read more... )

Recently I got these individual soups from the hippie aisle in Kroger, the best being the corn chowder. So yesterday when going grocery shopping, I looked at the ingredients list and picked stuff up, then gave it a go today. Turns out to be super easy, and very delicious! Which is good, because I'm always disappointed when I try to make a veggie ( Read more... )

To the surprise of hopefully no one, I don't read too many Christian blogs. The one I follow constantly though, is the Slacktivist. Fred Clark is always thoughtful, insightful, usually funny, empathetic, and has interesting points. Today's post is no exception, to the point that I had to quote my favorite parts here:

Jesus entered into fellowship ( Read more... )

It's Doctor now! I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday. I gave a talk first, to a nice full audience. There were physics grad students, chemistry grad students (mainly from Steve's group), my whole family, my committee, and most surprising of all, 4 undergrads who I TAed in Math Methods last year. The talk went well, although Kathie ( Read more... )