This is always evolving... here's what I was thinking a month or so ago.. it's my quite optimistic to-do list! Lisa said she recently crossed off everything on her list(!!) so I was inspired to make one. She has to make a new one since hers is finished...
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People wonder why ST 7 is my favorite.

It's cause I'm hoping to get back here:


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I would facebook-status-update about how drunk I am right now, and how often the cops came to the party due to noise complaints.

But then my mom and grandma and advisory committee members would read it.

Damn facebook!

Sondheim was looking pretty good for his age tonight! He gave an interview at the IU Auditorium, and it was awesome.

( An evening with Sondheim... )

Aha, this wins my stupid thing prize for the week: the top breaking news story on CNN's web page included a picture of the swine flu virus, and I figured it was going to be an article about some quick progress that was made in understanding the virus. Instead, however, the "news" was that some weirdo decided to make some crappy avant-garde music ( Read more... )

I love the kind of data I get to use in some of my work. I'm writing a python script to parse this kind of stuff ( Read more... )

I don't get this news story about the 747 freaking out everyone in Manhattan a few days ago. I'm frankly not too surprised that it didn't seem like a big deal to the guy in Washington to have a plane fly by. I think it's whacky to want to take a photo there -- that's another issue. But *I* wouldn't have ever worried that a plane near NYC would ( Read more... )

I was listening to Miss Saigon OLC yesterday and today, and it's just so amazing. I was also thinking about how funny it is that my prototype of an Asian girl singing is Lea Salonga's voice in Miss Saigon... but also her voice is my prototype for an Arab girl, because she sings Jasmine's voice in Aladdin. So my mental space of female prototype ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I was minding my own business and went to NSF headquarters in D.C. to give a talk. Obama showed up and made it hard to get on the subway, but there was a big party ( Read more... )

I am at this pretty resort on a Florida island for a conference. However, a chunk of my tooth just broke off, so it's not as awesome here as it was a few hours ago. It hurts a tiny bit, but luckily not too bad... I was waiting for the extreme pain to hit but so far I'm ok. Scared to eat though ( Read more... )