I'm home right now. It's rain, rain, rain but still nice to be back and see Portland in the fall. I will be traveling a lot soon, most of it astronomy-related ( Read more... )

I think there ought to be a rule where professors can't compel you to hand in a problem set if their class has older problem sets waiting to be graded and returned. If they aren't done grading PS#1, it's not fair to make us hand in PS#2 right now because they're just going to sit in a pile until PS#1 is ready to be returned. The point of due dates ( Read more... )

Actual message left on my voicemail this evening while I was out of my room for a moment:

I locked myself out of my FUCKING room and the person that's supposed to open the [unintelligible] door is not answering his FUCKING phone. [emphasis very much hers ( Read more... )

I'm pretty busy now and I don't really have motivation for LiveJournal anymore. I'm enjoying not having reading/writing classes this semester, but not enjoying things like...constantly feeling like there's some work I could be doing on something but I'm not really sure what. I don't really know though. If you want to know what's going on, just talk ( Read more... )

Okay, stuff is taken care of here in Portland. It's been a nice week of doing nothing, and tomorrow I shall return to Wesleyan. I've realized that I'm going to be pretty busy at school this coming year, between ( Read more... )

So, funny story about moving out yesterday. I woke up aroud 9:30 am and starting packing my stuff up. By a little past noon I had everything in boxes and ready to go. My car was, as always, was parked in the lower Mission Lot (roughly equivalent to living in the Butts and being required to park only in the Vine St. Lot). So I leave the building to ( Read more... )

Packing up and moving, again, tomorrow morning. Today was my last day of work. We dropped a rotten watermellon off the roof of TPL and it splattered into pieces on the concrete. I, too, fell onto concrete while playing touch football in the freshman quad and now have cuts on my elbows and a sore read end ( Read more... )

One more week at Williams. It will be a frantic week indeed, since there is still so much stuff to do before the summer ends. The poster session was this past Friday. I thought it went pretty well, although it was just a bunch of Williams kids roaming around and looking at posters made by people they probably knew personally. It's been determined ( Read more... )

Stop slobbering over John Roberts. He is not a "moderate." He's not anything. I don't know diddly squat about him and neither do you, because he's been a circuit court judge for all of two years, before which he was a lawyer who, as it were, did not necessarily argue his own personal beliefs. It is rather alarming to me that within 5 minutes of the ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. At Friday snacks, various people are normally tapped to go to Stop 'n Shop and buy cheap food to distribute to everyone. But today, we made Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. This is a time-honored ritual observed by nearly every physics department everywhere. It was good. Then we stood in the middle of the science quad and blew up ( Read more... )