Three weeks from today I leave for the Netherlands. I'll be there until December 31. My address will be

Matenweg 73-106
7522LD Enschede
The Netherlands

I have a job performing adaptively-shaped femtosecond laser spectroscopy. The one thing I don't have yet is my passport. It's been over 12 weeks.

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There was an old Indian belief that by making love on the hide of their favorite animal, one could guarantee the health and prosperity of the offspring conceived thereupon. And so it goes that one Indian couple made love on a buffalo hide. Nine months later, they were blessed with a healthy baby son. Yet another couple huddled together on the ( Read more... )

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I rowed 16,000 meters today. 10 miles of rowing, all in less than 90 minutes. Am I really still alive?

Finishing off a jar of peanut butter, a tub of Nutella, a bottle of honey and a tube of Ritz crackers simultaneously is an immensely satisfying (and delicious) feeling.

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It is early Friday morning, 6/9/06, and I've slept maybe 15 minutes since yesterday morning.

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Summer plans: Saturated absorption spectroscopy of 83Kr to resolve hyperfine structure in the 4p5-5d manifold and determine the coupling coefficients by utilizing two-step, sub-Doppler, CW-IR laser excitation.

I'll be in Wisconsin, if you care.

Switch the mango and the Sbake and I think that this is entirely too accurate for its own good.

This past week-and-a-half, I had more first's than I think I've ever had crammed into the same period before.
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