SNOW!!!

"Be a hearty New-Englander" --Sunny, my roommate

It was 49 degrees when I woke up today. Yesterday I almost got blown away by 40 mi/hr wind gusts. I've unpacked my scarves, joined the facebook group "Afraid of Freezing at MIT," and washed out my thermos. And I can't stop coughing.

But for some reason I feel just fine! :)

"Here comes the ( Read more... )

yaaaay, flickr update!! See? I am still alive. :)

Yay, I finally got around to loading pictures onto my Flickr Photostream! I'll probably be photoblogging more often for now, as there doesn't seem to be much to say as of late...

So check them out! (pictures from the Harry Potter and the HBP midnight release party, Ocee Park, and California Pizza Kitchen).

In other news: yay! Only three more

i promise i'm still alive, just very busy and slightly stressed out. been trying to get all the typical pre-leaving-for-college-things done while keeping up a 40-hour work week and preparing for my senior recital (reserve saturday, august 13th at 3 pm). So far I've: (1)bought a laptop (finally settled on a latitude d810. sweet, huh?) and (2) ( Read more... )

Oh yeah. Anyone who's interested, we're meeting tomorrow at 11 at the Forum B&N. I'll be the one in full gryffindor costume, and robin, too. (*in a Count voice*: "von! two! gryffindors!") :P

( and for good measure )

*grumblegrumble* effing MIT security. it took me way too long to get the stupid certificates i needed just to enter the stupid HASS-D (HASS = humanities, arts, and social sciences) lottery. (and i just used "stupid" twice in the same sentence. hmm ( Read more... )

"Life ees hard"
-- my supervisor, upon yet another failure in our attempt to define the mechanism of the reaction between hydrogen and ethanol

I think I know why work is so depressing: my lab has no windows! It didn't really hit me until yesterday at 6 pm, when I walked outside and realized it had been raining the entire day without my even ( Read more... )

( AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! )

It's a little late now, but happy Independence Day! Recent Independence Days haven't been all that exciting, so this year's was especially nice. It's good to have a way to celebrate that doesn't involve (1)painting my nails alternately red, white, and blue, or (2)posting a scrolling red white and blue "Happy Fourth of July!!" in my journal... * ( Read more... )