I just got an email from the head of the Environmental Science department saying that I'm getting the 2006-2007 Barry Commoner Award.  Which means that I get $500 just for doing well in my major!  I'm not dead broke anymore!  This is a pretty sweet thing to learn upon waking up ( Read more... )

There is a building in Sellwood named "The C.A. Butt Building."  I think this is quite possibly the best thing I've heard in my entire life, and I have to tell EVERYONE about it ( Read more... )

If I take off my shirt and position myself so the shadows fall just the right way, the little mirror in my room can make it look like I have visible abs.

I am muscular that's why people like me

I thought I'd give Livejournal an insight into what my schoolwork is like.  So I'm going to post my list of references from the term paper I just turned in.

Carpi, A., and Lindberg, S.E. “Sunlight-Mediated Emission of Elemental Mercury from Soil Amended with Municipal Sewage Sludge.” Environmental Science & Technology (1997) 31: 2085-2091.

Carpi ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I'm biking to school, I pass middle-aged men in business attire who are also riding towards downtown, on mountain bikes that are way too small for them. I always leap to the conclusion that these guys are unhappy alcoholics who are biking because they got DUIs and had their licenses taken away ( Read more... )

Because I am a financial genius, I haven't really changed my spending habits as my work hours dwindled and disappeared over the past couple months. My monthly income is significantly decreasing? Well obviously that means I can buy just as much shit as always! ...I'm procrastinating on finding a job though, because getting some shitty temp job ( Read more... )

One day last week, during the two-hour gap between my classes, I killed time sitting in the library, looking at random books out of the physics section. One of the things I read was "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene - a chapter where he talks about time. The basic point (or the point my brain decided was most important, anyway) was that ( Read more... )

I'm taking an environmental science seminar series this term for one credit. Not all of the seminars I attend have to be environmental science ones though, so in a few hours I'm going to a physics seminar about white dwarf stars. I'm way too excited about it, because I think stars are neat. And I have such an extensive vocabulary that I was able ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to try to write more often in this thing... I'm bored tonight, so I'm making a bunch of mix CDs, one of them being "stuff I listened to a bunch in high school." Which in turn is making me nostalgic. And being nostalgic gives me the urge to preserve chunks of my life in writing. And I'm far, far too lazy to keep an actual, ( Read more... )

Elections are my version of sports. I don't give half a shit about the Super Bowl, but I suspect how I feel tonight is how other people feel about the Super Bowl. Except I'm not rooting for one team to win so much as for the other team to lose. And I think Super Bowls don't generally make people stay up all night reading CNN.com, waiting for ( Read more... )