After weeks of wrangling and a last-minute change in research destinations (which came about today when my adviser asked if I could spend a day at UCLA instead of Stanford despite the hundreds of miles separating the two), I finally have an itinerary for my trip to California next week:

• Monday: fly to Los Angeles
• Tuesday: research at UCLA
• Wednesday: ( Read more... )

I downloaded a bunch of photos off of my camera tonight and realized just how far behind in posting I am.  There's stuff from L.A., a trip to a farm last weekend, a tour of one of Christopher Columbus's ships, a visit to a Mormon temple, and some random other stuff.  It's been a hectic few weeks.

For now, some shout-outs to important folks in ( Read more... )

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Los Angeles is a very strange place, in that a twenty-mile separation there seems almost as insurmountable as the distance between Ohio and California.  By a lucky coincidence, two of my friends from Northern California will be in the LA area over the next two weeks, and we have already entered logistical negotiations over when and where to meet, ( Read more... )