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what a rainy day. but soon the plants will grow, and the trees and the garden will start. so in the spirit of all the new life coming soon, keep raining ( Read more... )

Last night was the highly anticipated Mountain Goats show at UNH. This marks one of the few times I've been in the university public in the last couple years, and each time I'm reminded of why I am a science geek hermit locked up in my lab all day long. But besides the flagrant consumerism and perversion of once-utilitarian footwear (Beware the ( Read more... )

 Warning! / Achtung!
Spoiler alert for the following films: Avatar, Precious and The Blind Side

Two more to go! And I have a little less than 24 hours. I still need to watch An Education and A Serious Man before Oscars start tomorrow. Not that I'm watching them, but that was my original goal ( Read more... )

So with me being sick again (I really hate flying commercial airlines, I always get something from the hacking person next to me), I have decided to spend my bed rest wisely and watch each and every Oscar nomination for Best Picture in preparation for not watching the Oscars at all this weekend. This will surely prove to be a daunting task as I had ( Read more... )

Let's see... what has happened in the past week or so? Mostly I've been working so hard I can hardly think straight at the end of the day. I have the proposal due, design review for imager apparently already due, must give my oral thesis proposal this semester, blah blah blah. Two weekends ago, we went to Boston to celebrate Mardi Gras, but for ( Read more... )

I don't really appreciate the Valentine's Day holiday or any of that stuff that goes along with it. This blog post is not related. But I was reading another blog this weekend that talked about love letters and it made me think about how wonderful love letters are. Not on V-day, but any day. Emails and texts and especially facebook messages just ( Read more... )

{This post is an nod to my friend and colleague, BPS, whose regular cooking-related blog posts are much more fancy than what I normally cook.}

I love wontons, really I do. Unfortunately for me, most wontons are prepared stuffed with pork. Since I don't eat the little piggies and I stumbled upon this fantastic looking recipe, I just had to try my ( Read more... )

I would really like to get into a book club, especially in the months that are the longest here in NH: February through April. The problem is, there aren't any decent ones around that I can find. You would think at least the University or Portsmouth or something... but no. And I don't want to join one of those book clubs for middle-aged women ( Read more... )

I've pretty much been a zombie since I got home from Antarctica. But Friday I did go out to celebrate the freedom of actually choosing a place to eat. No dining hall! I went with Sarah and Ben and Mike to Margarita's to get fresh(ish) Mexican food and drink. We had to wait for a stupid table because of all the stupid people, so we migrated to the ( Read more... )