I think this is the best website (blog) I have found in some time.  Everything looks amazing!

http://www.chezpei.com/

For you Pomona people, it is Peggy's site ( she was in my sponsor group).  Chirp chirp.

Today in the mail I received "Tuck para siempre," "Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego," and "Harry Potter y la Órden del Fénix"!  I'm excited!!!

I just spent my entire day in the Engineering Library, and it was awesome.  For various reasons there was absolutely nothing I could do in the lab today, so I decided I would finally see what it was like to look through scientific journals instead of just pulling articles off of web searches.  It was great actually seeing articles that dealt with ( Read more... )

I left the office after the tornados passed, and a feeling of joy passed over me.  It was still raining, but not hard.  The drops were heavy and warm, falling straight without a hint of wind.  It was 75 degrees and bright out despite the clouds.  As I walked out in shorts and sandals, it suddenly reminded me of my summer in the Carribean.

Perhaps ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know/forgot/lost track of time, I will be flying back to northern California tomorrow. I'll be chilling in Davis with my mom and my brother during the afternoon and then head to Fairfield in the evening. There are a lot of you who I am hoping to see, but I haven't made up much of a schedule yet, so get hold of me and we ( Read more... )

With one week of the semester I was stupid enough to buy a copy of Photoshop (actually, the entire Adobe Creative Suite2). So instead of reading papers and doing homework all day I have been interrupted every 15 minutes by urges to try out random features. What an exciting life ( Read more... )

Inquiring about whether I can earn a BS in civil engineering in addition to my MS by May of next year. I sure come up with stupid ideas sometimes...

Hey everyone!
I'll be flying back to Northern California from May 18-28. Feel free to plan your lives around me. :-)

Oh, and Happy Easter!

70 degrees, sunny, and on the radio they tell us we are on a tornado watch ( Read more... )

When the tornado siren goes off, everyone knows they should get away from the windows and ideally get down to a basement. Important to note, however, is that when the siren stops a few minutes later that does NOT mean that the danger is over and it is a good time to walk to the store and buy milk. Apparently there is another siren that comes ( Read more... )