Diary —
I’d put aside my thoughts of fish and bicycles when I moved up here for school. But two weeks ago, I snuck up to Seattle for the weekend, to see the Boy. We were laying around in the funny glow of the last day of vacation, talking about everything and nothing (as you do), when […]
Hoorah for the end of the semester! I feel like I found about the right level of effort this spring, working reasonably hard, but not on the edge of burnout. Next step is to see about some efficiency improvements, especially now that my time is no longer so structured by classwork… seriously, taking an empty […]
My mandolin calluses are still iffy, but I think I’ve officially moved from Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to Boil Them Cabbage Down. Which means I need a reliable source for the shittiest drum loops EVAR, preferably in a format that can be directly imported into GarageBand. Because what does the world need, if not abominably […]
… is having to clean up after someone who vomited in the shower, because it’s your turn to clean the bathroom and you shoulda done it before the party.
Fabulously important update! The culprit was a housemate, not a guest, and even better, the type of person who doesn’t even need to be shamed into cleaning […]
Today I sat behind a guy with a shirt printed with the lyrics to the Cal fight song, which I hadn’t seen before:
OUR STURDY LITTLE HAWK,
IS WATCHING FROM THE SKY.
LOOKS DOWN UPON OUR COLORS FAIR
AND GUIDES THEM FROM ON HIGH
OUR BANNER RED AND WHITE,
THE BEAUTY OF THE SIGHT
SAYS FIGHT FOR IOWA CITY HIGH
FOR IOWA CITY […]
I skipped yesterday to do homework. Problem set and final all complete, two term projects to go, hoorah! I mean, yikes!
Today’s conflict: the second round of talks on fault permeability vs. communicating with laypeople and policymakers. I took a little from column A, a little from column B, and came away feeling inspired to blog. […]
My head is full of Science! It’s leaking out my ears, and kind of hurts.
Poster-standing-by duties were fun, if exhaustingly people-oriented. I can chat up strangers, and I can talk shop, but trying to charm new people by talking shop with them is synergistically more energy-intensive than either form of conversation alone.
One person who stopped […]
Why are all the interesting talks at 8 in the morning? And at the Marriott? Let’s send the space physicists over there instead, or reserve it as punishment for people who can’t have a technical conversation for more than 5 minutes that doesn’t involve post-perovskite.
The wireless “access” is just sad. Don’t they understand that geophysicists […]
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Wait a minute - I thought hipsters drank cheap, “ironic” domestic beer? Whatever happened to PBR?
If you look down to the right, you’ll notice that I’ve put up a couple of new themes, one of which is about pirates. However, it is not yet filtered into pirate-speech. I’d say […]
It’s weird to sit here in my co-op’s little study room, worrying about the spatial variation of deuterium concentrations in snow, while in some other part of the country there’s chaos and misery. But it’s not like there’s ever a time when the world is empty of chaos and misery; it’s only weird because pain […]