To indulge my ever-growing nesting instinct, I have been cleaning and organizing like crazy. Last weekend I dug up all my photos and mementos from my semester in Florence, including the side trip I took to northern Spain to see the cathedrals of Barcelona, Burgos, Leon, and Santiago de Compostela. As amazing as Italy was, the one week in Spain ( Read more... )

It's zombie-free day #3 for me, and I'm hesitant to say that my energy is officially back. I can't describe it in any way except that feeling you get when you've been sick for weeks and suddenly, when you feel better, you realize that you forgot what normal was. Regardless, normal is what I'll take. Normal is so great compared to zombie-land ( Read more... )

I managed to make it to Pennsic for 4.5 days (4 planned + a spontaneous revisit--it's so convenient to come back for an evening when you only live 2 hours away!). It was awesome. Here are my highlights ( Read more... )

I don't think I've updated for nearly a month. Here it is in a nutshell ( Read more... )

So far in 2 days in Biddeford, Maine, I've heard Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, Finnish, French, and Italian accents. Makes me wonder whether the next one of these conferences will be in Europe. I could definitely live with that ( Read more... )

Lab has been totally kicking my ass. Big, whopping roundhouse kicks. I've worked all day and all night for 2 weeks and I'm barely going to be ready for this conference. I actually remembered today that one day a long time ago I thought science was cool and fun. I also remembered that A and I used to do things like go to movies and out to bars ( Read more... )

Our vacation was just long enough for me to realize how badly I needed a break...but not long enough to want to go back to school this morning...ugh. Not ready yet ( Read more... )

The company that services our film developer is called "Merry X-ray." I love it. I wonder if they wear elf outfits when they come to fix the developer ( Read more... )

So the day started out crazy...way too many experiments in way too little time...and way too few of them working ( Read more... )

I definitely agree about the "used to be shy" part. Who is Guy Smiley?

Snuffleupagus
You scored 58% Organization, 53% abstract, and 52% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables.

First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean ( Read more... )