Been lazy about updating lately, but things are going well. To wit ( Read more... )

It was a pretty good week, despite Remy being sick for a few days. On Monday, I went to one of the nearby libraries for a meeting of a German conversation club. The moderator of the club emails news articles to everyone, then you're supposed to read those and come to the meeting prepared to discuss them- auf Deutsch, natürlich. I always try to keep ( Read more... )

Reaction stoichiometry. I no longer remember the nifty algebraic trick my dad (who had a MS in chemical engineering) taught me for balancing chemical equations, but I was still able to successfully balance a number of them in my chemistry practice book. The best trick, I find, is to immediately get rid of any odd numbers of atoms in a compound ( ( Read more... )

Been a while since I've "checked in"- publicly, anyway. I don't know, somehow I doubt anyone's interested in my life's minutiae. Anyway, in case anyone is curious about what I've been up to ( Read more... )