I dropped off my car this morning at High Road Automotive in Ballard, aka Seattle's Little Scandinavia. I could take a bus back to the University or something, but I figured I've never checked out Ballard in great detail, so I'll hang around here today while my car is getting a tune-up. Once I walked past all the boat and fishing supply shops ( ( Read more... )

Ok, I had to take the lip piercing out. I feel like a total wimp, but the flat back on the inside was clicking against my teeth and would get caught every time I yawned and it just felt too WEIRD. With all my tattoos and other piercings, I loved them from the moment I got them, but this was different and it was obvious to me that I wasn't going to ( Read more... )

Well, it's done folks. Another quarter in the books. Finals were pretty wild - my take-home fluid dynamics final took five straight hours... exhausting. After my last final yesterday, I got lip pierced to celebrate. I've had my eyebrow piercing out for a while - some scar tissue had developed and it was constantly irritated. Instead of getting ( Read more... )

It's been a really hard quarter but it's almost over: my last homework assignments are turned in and finals are all that is left ( Read more... )

I'm down in sunny Arizona for the next week taking in the AMS annual meeting. So far, so good... last night I went to the first session of the career fair and got to talk to to reps from the DoE, Navy, Vaisala, HDR (an engineering and environmental solutions firm)and lots of universities. The big players like Northup Grumman, Raytheon, the Air ( Read more... )

You can't go south... I-5 is flooded for 20 miles between Chehalis and Olympia. You can't go East... all the passes are closed because of avalanche and landslide danger. Bellingham is flooded and there are landslides there, too, so you're going to have trouble going north, but if you have to get out of western washington, north through canada is ( Read more... )

My GPA has slipped below 3.5 for the first time ever this quarter... that's ok, it was a hard quarter, and it was my complex variables class that did me in. That was a really disappointing class... I had heard great things about the professor (Kot) and then it was all really boring, not getting to the point, and terrible pi puns. I'm not really ( Read more... )

I will be arriving in Berkeley on Saturday, for two weeks! yay! I want to see y'all!

By virtue of owning my car, I now have the only tape deck in my family. My mom stashed all of her old mix tapes of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, classic jazz, Jefferson Airplane, etc in the car and I just found them the other day. Awesome.

( by Robert Frost )