I took a picture out my office window to test a malfunctioning camera.
This is that picture:


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"Bubble gum tasted different under communism," said Kasia in the lobby of her parents' real estate office while drinking frozen green tea brought by a hairdresser.

An excerpt from my friend Casey's textbook, Introduction to Physical Oceanography. Don't worry about understanding it, just read through to the end.

Equation (6.5) is the geostrophic equation, and currents that obey this relation are called geostrophic currents. The consequences of the geostrophic equation are extraordinary. Consider again the ( Read more... )

( New Orleans International Airport, February 2, 2006 )

I have a real estate license. Finally.
I'm also alive, by the way.

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Last night, instead of going to bed like a good girl, I stayed up and continued to read about retirement planning. About a month ago it hit me that I'm kinda-sorta an adult now, so I'm trying really hard to understand this great big world of bank accounts, taxes, mortgage rates, and yes, retirement savings that, like it or not, I'm now living in ( Read more... )

I was reading about retirement planning. There were sample calculations of how much you should save, and to be on the safe side they assumed 30 years in retirement. I thought, 30 years in retirement? I haven't even lived 30 years yet! That put some perspective on things ( Read more... )

( This ain't no ordinary office job. )

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby announce that I've been officially admitted to the optics certificate program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Now I just have to make sure that I'm still officially admitted to the chemistry Ph.D. program :-D