As I mentioned earlier, I will shortly be moving to the very buttcrack of Denver. As soon as the laundry is done, actually. the buttcrack of Denver doesn't come equipped with an internet connection. And I don't know how long it will be until I have one installed. So my shortlived blog will go on somewhat of a hiatus. There are many stories I'd ( Read more... )

nothing like waking up in the morning, stepping out of the back of your truck and seeing frost on your windshield.

Thank God for subzero sleeping bags.

I will very soon (within the week) be moving to the buttcrack of Denver. Or at least within a block of it. I don't know what it is about me and assholes or buttcracks, but this is only temporary...

this makes me happy.

oh, and did I mention that amish girls kick ass? Well if I did, then it's certainly worth saying again.

Someone told me this week that I looked like a famous actor. And sometimes I think people expect me to behave like one. You know, throwing telephones at hotel employees and chopping off the heads of corrupt emperors. Or maybe it's that I want to live up to those sorts of expectations. There was a time and a place not too far away from the here ( Read more... )

So I'm doing a titration in anal-ytical chemistry today. Got the stirbar going, adding half drops at a time and getting a pink endpoint so light you had to squint to see it. My titrations come out 0.098.., 0.09734, 0.09735, and I've got one more to go. Things are looking OK, 'cause there's usually good reason to throw out the first one. 4th one ( Read more... )

So I've been participating in Ramadan for the past week. Well, in so far as I haven't had a drop of alcohol. Not even during communion. Typically, I'll have a drink while grading labs. It seems to make the process go a bit smoother, as I am less tempted to write things like WTF on lab reports. Seeing as that wasn't an option, I somehow got a ( Read more... )

So I'm not sure which of the following is most disturbing. I woke up before dawn on a Saturday. Realizing this was somehow wrong, I went back to bed and dreamed about applying Quantum Mechanical Wavefunctions to education research. I wish now that I could somehow remember what I was doing in my dreams, because it seemed quite brilliant at the ( Read more... )

Well, I got a B on that exam. I guess I'm not quite analytical enough, because it certainly wasn't the chemistry that did me in ( Read more... )

So today is the start of Ramadan. I feel that I should be participating to some extent. I am typically more prone to ascetiscism than most, and in light of recent events, perhaps now is a good time for me to indulge in it once more. But I'm not sure how or why. I've already eaten a ham and egg sandwhich this morning, so fasting is pretty much ( Read more... )

That's me right there.I can get up before the sun each morning, and work until long after it's clocked out. I can workout like clockwork and dominate every field of study I put my hand to. But at the end of the week, none of that matters. My legs quake beneath me and I fall to my knees, because I've lost the very earth to stand on ( Read more... )