The bricks are falling.

The reviewers liked my book proposal.

ACS posted my face across the internet.

Summer is coming.

Bring it!

The seagulls are back which means it's almost summer.

We are two weeks out from the end of the semester and I can almost taste if, even if what I'm tasting is an absence of fruit.

I suppose that is dramatic, yet I have reasons to think about a free and open summer.

For one, it will be ten years since World Pride, since Toronto, and since my advisor ( Read more... )

Dear X,

I can taste the end of the semester. Others have already started to buckle, or rather unbuckle, and I think it's my turn soon.

Marc and I have been enjoying living in sin, learning from one another, and taking it week by week.

I have still so many bricks in the air, but I'm trying not to think about them as bricks, but rather things to ( Read more... )

As of late I've become addicted (at least I've noticed I'm addicted) to two types of emails:

A) emails that mean I get to do something (respond/fill out a form/reply)

B) emails telling me I've earned/won/garnered something

And it's been a dry spell!

Is it summer yet?

Spring break began yesterday with a trip up to CT to visit Dick and Rita, and see the Seclows. It was really nice. Though we typically meet somewhere sunny and warm, in a room not set around a table, it was as it always was.

I have this memory of being on vacation with the Seclow's I guess it was in the 2010s, when Tom and Theresa were showing ( Read more... )

But before I get up and do this I felt compelled to post.

Having settled in a week+ I can safely say that we are starting to figure out how to live together.

I won't say it's easy, though there are many benefits.

The challenge comes from the reasons we like to spend time together, notably out capability to focus and pay attention to one another.

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And we survived.

:)

Yesterday it was announced in the evening that classes would be remote. I pivoted and created a lesson that was observed today.

It was very stressful the past 24 hours. My head hurts. I went into work because I don't have internet and cared so much but the stress remains.

I knew that I was stressed, and when I wanted to relax a bit part of me ( Read more... )

And more accurately labeling my emotions.

I think I'm feeling this way because I have a therapy appointment later this week, and so naturally I will be feeling better/thinking better then and be mostly smiles and reflective rather than emotive.

The event on Friday went really well, if not with a bang but a whimper. In reading through Seven Years ( Read more... )

When some strange student in the future reaches back to write about my life they will of course have noted Chemical (R)evolution as my first foray into non-mysterious science theatre, but today is the day!

I head to Philly and present 'The Material History of Soap' a live soap-making demonstrating that teaches the fundamental science behind soap ( Read more... )