Weekend!
It was highly glorious!
Friday there was cookie making with Sprocket, one of the xkcd forum people. Cookies are always a win, but right now they are missing. I think they were left with Cloyd, a Dartmouth undergrad we drove up to carnival. I don't know why he was entrusted with the cookies. I wanted the cookies. Maybe I will find them. Or just make more.
But then we drove up to Carnival! Ashley took Cloyd and Elise, a Tufts physics person who has now been exposed to AO, took me. There was Tamorra Pierce book on tape. Instead of judging her I think I am going to read it now. What can I say, there's a twelve year old girl in all of us, right?
And then we Carnivaled. It is a very fun one. And not all alumni have forsaken the youth! Sarah and Matt also made it up. And I suppose I will begrudgingly count the 09s there as alums. Old enough for me to take money from, but not old enough to list by name. But the money I needed, it was for Mystery Beer! Always a favorite. Hooray beer!
Saturday there was ice skating on Occum, which is always delightful and festive, but pales in comparison to yesterday. Ashley and I went up with Elise to fetch a piano from her family's cabin in Antrum, NH, which is right on a lake. After retrieving it we did skating. Having the entire lake to ourselves was extremely delightful. At first we stuck to the patch right by the cabin, but one area a bit away had no snow on it for a huge area. It was totally fresh and gently rolling. Outdoor skating is highly superior to the rink nonsense.
So now I am having naked coffee drinking time. Coming soon: finishing the coffee, brushing the teeth, putting on the clothes, and then possibly even physics. Right now we are in the editing phase of the paper (the follow up to the one submitted in November / published last month).
Another thing I need to do soon is write up my talks that I will give in South Carolina. I am giving two at Clemson - a general colloquium on exotic spacetimes (wormholes, time machines, fun stuff) and a more particular one on what I do (integrals, slightly less exciting. I'll spice it up somehow). I think I should probably find a way to draw pictures for these. We'll see. Ginger is encouraging pictures very strongly. She is a friend there, we were comrades at the Baylor REU. She has already been published in Nature, so chances are good that she'll be in a position to offer me a job, so I will try to accommodate her picture request.
Friday there was cookie making with Sprocket, one of the xkcd forum people. Cookies are always a win, but right now they are missing. I think they were left with Cloyd, a Dartmouth undergrad we drove up to carnival. I don't know why he was entrusted with the cookies. I wanted the cookies. Maybe I will find them. Or just make more.
But then we drove up to Carnival! Ashley took Cloyd and Elise, a Tufts physics person who has now been exposed to AO, took me. There was Tamorra Pierce book on tape. Instead of judging her I think I am going to read it now. What can I say, there's a twelve year old girl in all of us, right?
And then we Carnivaled. It is a very fun one. And not all alumni have forsaken the youth! Sarah and Matt also made it up. And I suppose I will begrudgingly count the 09s there as alums. Old enough for me to take money from, but not old enough to list by name. But the money I needed, it was for Mystery Beer! Always a favorite. Hooray beer!
Saturday there was ice skating on Occum, which is always delightful and festive, but pales in comparison to yesterday. Ashley and I went up with Elise to fetch a piano from her family's cabin in Antrum, NH, which is right on a lake. After retrieving it we did skating. Having the entire lake to ourselves was extremely delightful. At first we stuck to the patch right by the cabin, but one area a bit away had no snow on it for a huge area. It was totally fresh and gently rolling. Outdoor skating is highly superior to the rink nonsense.
So now I am having naked coffee drinking time. Coming soon: finishing the coffee, brushing the teeth, putting on the clothes, and then possibly even physics. Right now we are in the editing phase of the paper (the follow up to the one submitted in November / published last month).
Another thing I need to do soon is write up my talks that I will give in South Carolina. I am giving two at Clemson - a general colloquium on exotic spacetimes (wormholes, time machines, fun stuff) and a more particular one on what I do (integrals, slightly less exciting. I'll spice it up somehow). I think I should probably find a way to draw pictures for these. We'll see. Ginger is encouraging pictures very strongly. She is a friend there, we were comrades at the Baylor REU. She has already been published in Nature, so chances are good that she'll be in a position to offer me a job, so I will try to accommodate her picture request.