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Hm
I was finishing coffee with a friend yesterday afternoon, and while walking back I bumped into my sup's husband. He looked at me, smiled and said, "You're absolutely insane! It's certifiable!"
He later explained, "It's good to see a little insanity in the department...its refreshing"
I head out to sea for three weeks in september. It's my first time. If you were to draw a line of latitude west from Vancouver, we go out approximately a third of the way to Japan, then north to Alaska, and back south along the coast. I'm very excited, although I will be spending much of that time tending to my experiments shipboard, or filling bottles with seawater in a van, garbed in a white suit made to look like a diaper, wearing plastic gloves so as not to contaminate the precious samples with microscopic grains of dust. Going out to sea also means spending a month cleaning and preparing all the materials my group requires.
This is the first september in 18 years that I won't be attending class. I feel grown up. Leaving the womb only to enter another called academia. However, I think it will feel like home.
I was attempting to complete a crossword puzzle today on the bus, and a few clues jumped out at me:
"Now to Caesar" --nunc (apparently I haven't lost all my latin)
"copper to a chemist" --nerd
"noble gas" --xenon (doubley nerd)
I haven't completed one yet...its been 4 monthes since I started trying them in the dailies.
I'm beat
I was finishing coffee with a friend yesterday afternoon, and while walking back I bumped into my sup's husband. He looked at me, smiled and said, "You're absolutely insane! It's certifiable!"
He later explained, "It's good to see a little insanity in the department...its refreshing"
I head out to sea for three weeks in september. It's my first time. If you were to draw a line of latitude west from Vancouver, we go out approximately a third of the way to Japan, then north to Alaska, and back south along the coast. I'm very excited, although I will be spending much of that time tending to my experiments shipboard, or filling bottles with seawater in a van, garbed in a white suit made to look like a diaper, wearing plastic gloves so as not to contaminate the precious samples with microscopic grains of dust. Going out to sea also means spending a month cleaning and preparing all the materials my group requires.
This is the first september in 18 years that I won't be attending class. I feel grown up. Leaving the womb only to enter another called academia. However, I think it will feel like home.
I was attempting to complete a crossword puzzle today on the bus, and a few clues jumped out at me:
"Now to Caesar" --nunc (apparently I haven't lost all my latin)
"copper to a chemist" --nerd
"noble gas" --xenon (doubley nerd)
I haven't completed one yet...its been 4 monthes since I started trying them in the dailies.
I'm beat