"Since Thursday, downtown Los Angeles had gotten about 6.5 inches of rain. The city’s total since July 1, the start of the region’s “water year,” has reached 31.40 inches, making it already the fifth wettest on record, said weather service forecaster Bruce Rockwell. The record, 38.18 inches, was set in 1883-1884 ( Read more... )

so this weekend. saturday morning i got up early (after having only 4 hours of sleep thursday night and not too much more friday night with the rain and all) 'cause cookie2697 and i were gonna go to san diego. now the original original plan was to have gone to the grand canyon and left on thursday. it was probably better that i didn't end up missing those ( Read more... )

ok so an update. really, there isn't too much to say now from before this weekend, even if i had been thinking about it before. one amusing moment i'll share i suppose needs a bit of an intro, but here goes. so thursday night michelle and i went out to meet some people from her research group 'cause it was one of the guy's (will) birthdays. ( Read more... )

you were going to get some form of a real update, but now that i've realized i am dead tired, you're not gonna get it. sorry.

dude. i hate rain. it wasn't too bad when i went out to get on the bus this morning, but it really started coming down on my way to school. which meant that the already saturated gutters from last night/early this morning suddenly became even fuller. and i think i found the biggest puddle on my way in from the bus stop. water proof shoes only ( Read more... )

for once it wasn't me

i got data today. really cool data actually (litterally... absorption spectra ranging from room temperature down to something about 84 K). if i can get a couple more experiments done and figure out what it all means, i'll have a project done. but then again, i think the figuring out part is the hard part ( Read more... )

so a recap of my eventful weekend ( Read more... )

today was not my day. and on top of it all, i keep thinking today is thursday, which would mean tomorrow would be friday, which would be awesome. but tomorrow is thursday ( Read more... )

so tonight was the modest mouse concert. adam and i had been planning on going for a while, but then i guess forrest got a whole bunch of tickets too. so there were a lot of us. eight to be exact i guess. anyway. we got in a little late as we were waiting for everyone to get there, so we missed the first opener an part of the second. we didn' ( Read more... )