this post is all about seth
It makes me feel good when Seth asks me questions about things he's doing in grad school. Because I feel like he considers me an intellectual equal and values my opinion. Not that I don't think that in general, because I do, but he's a man and most men don't go around telling people what they think or how they feel just because they're there and they can. For example, this week Seth has been reviewing these presentations that other grad students have given and one of them was about synthetically altering carbon nanotubes with different functional groups in order to separate different compounds, in particular DNA. He asked me a few questions about it and while some things I said were of no relevance (because I didn't read the papers or see the presentations so I just get the bare bones of the idea and therefore not so much to work with) other things were useful. What made me decide to blog about this is that he was trying to figure out the conditions in which they were functionalizing these nanotubes, because in a lot of cases aromatic things tend to require harsher conditions, which is not desirable, and I mentioned stacking/aromatic interactions in nanotubes as a problem as well and he said, "I hadn't thought of that. You're right." which was a highlight of my day. So I really just wanted to say that I appreciate that he values my opinion and thinks I'm smart even if he doesn't necessarily go around spouting that off, which frankly, would scare me anyway.
I discovered this weekend that Seth and I are true nerd soulmates. We were watching tv/playing world of warcraft and there was some one liner about something in the bedroom and furry and handcuffs (I forget the exact line or even what we were watching) and I made some joke about it as per usual and then mentioned that it was actually kind of funny because I happened to have some furry handcuffs upstairs in my closet. And no joke. So does Seth. In fact, we went in this store together in early October just to kill time and browse around and joked about spicing it up a little and getting the furry handcuffs. Well. My sister's birthday is Halloween so I went in there like the next week and got her a card and a little wind up penis called Hop-a-Long Peter and decided I would buy the handcuffs and break them out when the time was appropriate. Apparently Seth had the same idea. Turns out that we both bought furry handcuffs from the same store within days of each other, came home, put them in our closets, and FAILED TO MENTION THEM UNTIL NOW. OVER TWO MONTHS LATER. And they're still in the closet. Nerd soulmates.
I discovered this weekend that Seth and I are true nerd soulmates. We were watching tv/playing world of warcraft and there was some one liner about something in the bedroom and furry and handcuffs (I forget the exact line or even what we were watching) and I made some joke about it as per usual and then mentioned that it was actually kind of funny because I happened to have some furry handcuffs upstairs in my closet. And no joke. So does Seth. In fact, we went in this store together in early October just to kill time and browse around and joked about spicing it up a little and getting the furry handcuffs. Well. My sister's birthday is Halloween so I went in there like the next week and got her a card and a little wind up penis called Hop-a-Long Peter and decided I would buy the handcuffs and break them out when the time was appropriate. Apparently Seth had the same idea. Turns out that we both bought furry handcuffs from the same store within days of each other, came home, put them in our closets, and FAILED TO MENTION THEM UNTIL NOW. OVER TWO MONTHS LATER. And they're still in the closet. Nerd soulmates.