Someone just posted an album of photos from the Known World Dance event, which includes a bunch of great photos of us dancing in the street during the fire drill, and there is a photo of the choir which shows a less blurry view of my new dress than the last photo I ( Read more... )

Yesterday's bad news about my most recent experiments had me feeling down. Today, however, I knew before I came in that my microprobe session would be devoted to trying to get good analyses of mineral phases in the older experiments for which we'd either not yet obtained good analyses, or there weren't really enough of them to be confidant with the ( Read more... )

Today in Italian class the lesson was focused on food-words and menus in Restaurants. They also touched on the cost of eating in a restaurant. The teacher commented that a restaurant which charges 200 Euros for a meal is quite expensive, but one which charges 30 is a fairly typical moderately priced restaurant. This number sounded a bit steep to ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me are not surprised that I am so fond of record keeping that I check my bank balance on line promptly after each time I spend money. Today, for the first time since moving here, I used my "bankomat" card, rather than paying cash in the grocery store (when I first arrived I didn't know how long I'd be without a card, so I ( Read more... )

The past few days have been kind of low energy, with not much work being accomplished. While it hasn't been as hot here as it has been in Portland, it has still been hot enough to slightly lower energy levels, and having started the week with adventures followed by a late night I haven't really perked up to normal energy levels since, as you might ( Read more... )