It's a little hard to get back. Yeah yeah, I know I spent my break wishing I was back in Boston, and don't get me wrong! It's great to be back with all the guys, working hard in classes (loving calculus... oh sweet sweet integration by parts), working at the office and at the lab, having mini-adventures... etc ( Read more... )

I added a few new pictures to my Yahoo Photos page... nothing major, but someone out there may be interested.

http://photos.yahoo.com/lnicciaccia

It's really really snowy. Beautiful, but cold. Lovely, but miserably frigid at the same time. The old brownstones on my street look really surreal in the snow... I feel like I've been transported back to the 1890s or something. Jerry and I walked around the shopping district with Steve's friend from Mexico City, Ray, who is really nice. We ran into ( Read more... )

Procrastination! Shhh... I'm supposed to be writing a grant proposal for my new job so that my lab can get $1000 to pay for PCR materials. But instead I'm sitting in front of my computer listening to They Might Be Giants. Why has it taken me so long to discover this band??? Yes sure, they might be totally ridiculous and generally more popular with ( Read more... )

I was walking home from class today when this pair of guys walked past me. One of them said to the other: "Would you rather be pecked to death by birds or stung to death by bees?" That reminded me of that guy at the IHS graduation (Mr. Moore?) and his questions like that. And then later, I thought: "I have no idea what my answer to that is ( Read more... )

Everyone should listen to Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan. Everyone should "dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free..."

I wish I could be young forever.

Ben Folds, wherever you are, will you marry me?

One thing I've learned about myself since I've been at college: I hate pretentious people. So so much. Now don't get me wrong, I've met so many wonderful intelligent people here, but there are also a lot of artsy, smarter-than-thou assholes around here... I guess anywhere you go to college, yeah? I just can't stand it when people think they are the ( Read more... )

You know what's great? Being late for class so you can listen to the awesome piano solo breakdown in Eddie Walker, by Ben Folds.

... music is a gift you give yourself.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haullnicciaccia goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a giant grain of rice.baronofbrass tricks you! You get a rotten egg.contramichael gives you 4 blue passionfruit-flavoured gummies.desafinado22 tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!indinprincess gives you 5 red-orange banana-flavoured pieces of taffy. ( Read more... )