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Happy New Year!
My resolution: to be happy. -
hello.
It's been a long time since I've written in this. The truth is, it's taken me a long time to untangle the emotions I associate with my past romantic relationship (the good and bad) from the medium itself. I mean, we first met here. We did a lot of talking here, mostly past each other. It always seemed difficult to navigate the boundaries of ( Read more... ) -
Blissful ignorance
Soo...did you know that certain messages people try to send you on Facebook--in particular, if you're not FB friends with the person--get filed away to a separate folder, and no notification is sent? You never see them unless you check the folder, and if you aren't expecting anything or don't really use Facebook often and didn't know such a thing ( Read more... ) -
Richard P. Feynman to Arline Feynman, October 17, 1946
I found this in Don't You Have Time to Think?, an extensive collection of letters, personal and professional, edited by his daughter Michelle. Something reminded me the date was near. Her introduction to this one is this: "This letter is well worn-much more so than others-and it appears as though he reread it often."
Thursday, Oct. 17, '46 ( Read more... ) -
11th hour thoughts concerning this morning's Higgs announcements
For those of you not on Facebook at the moment, a little something I wrote as an extension of yesterday's post. Biting my nails and waiting for 2 AM. About to get dressed and drive off to the lab for this viewing party we're having ( Read more... ) -
"Higgs Week," or, all I want for my birthday is a cohesive Standard Model
I don't have a lot of time to write as detailed an entry as I would like at the moment, but I thought I'd at least excerpt part of a letter I wrote a friend earlier today, mentioning what's going on in high energy physics this week ( Read more... ) -
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know
So, are you guys still out there, listening? I spent a lot of time on it and thought I'd get some comments from my China entry but I didn't. Maybe because I write so seldom, these days (but I write seldom partly because I don't get any comments!), or because some awkwardness makes me shy about reading many of your entries, and therefore ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Just before I left work tonight, maybe half an hour after midnight, security dispatch sent a "code 2" over the internal radio system about someone getting shot on site. We in the control room joked a bit about physicists and their arguments ("the Higgs does TOO exist!") but everyone was a bit on edge. It's not something one often has to deal with ( Read more... ) -
love
I guess it wouldn't quite be Valentine's without late-night, ill-advised, confessional chat conversations with former loves, would it? ...oh, just me? Ah well. Happy Valentine's Day, theotherjay; and happy Valentine's, everyone else out there who is dear to my heart ( Read more... ) -
I cried when I wrote this, I'll always remember
that the worst kind of lonely is alone in December
Actually, although I love that song and particularly that line, things aren't quite so bad. I am having winter/loneliness blues hardcore right now, but I remain mindful of my many, many blessings.
This year has involved:- shocking indulgence in travel on my part--mostly to Portland, which still ( Read more... )