Is it ironic that I can't seem to slow down long enough to get through a full chapter of the Tao Te Ching ( Read more... )

So many good things are happening right now!!!  I wish I had time to post about them, but I have to study  for two tests tomorrow (and stop procrastinating on studying until the night before tests all the damn time).  Maybe I can post about stuff soon.

Also, this post is pointless, but I decided not to delete it anyway.  So what?  Get over it.

1. I've got a meeting at noon to finalize stuff for the class that I'm helping to teach this semester:  "Discussions on Science and Public Policy: Environmental Sustainability."  It will be incredible.
2. Big plans for cleaning today.  Clean room, clean bathroom, clean computer files.  We'll see how that goes.
3. I had Alli give me a sewing lesson yesterday ( Read more... )

I just procrastination cleaned half of my room.  Life is better now ( Read more... )

Quick Update:

1.  Building Dashboard Grant= Fully funded.  $25,000, plus some additional funding from a campus department and some in-kind donations.  This is incredible, and proves that the impossible can happen.  This grant was a disaster after I gave the oral pitch, but somehow the idea was redeemed enough to convince the committee.  I hope and ( Read more... )

Watch this.  I promise that you won't regret it, especially if you are at all a feminist.

I want to perform this.

I had 10 minutes to pitch my idea for the MU Information Technology Committee's Interdisciplinary Innovations grant today.

I was trying to get them to bring Building Dashboard technology to campus, like this).  It's all web based.  All of it.

I had plenty of time, almost an hour extra, because I was so prepared.  I've been doing this for 2 weeks--a ( Read more... )

"If our beliefs are important enough, we live our lives in service to them. “ -Holly Dunsworth  (this comes form here,  which is a brilliant and rather accurate description of some of my own beliefs about evolution)

I need to be less reserved and fearful. Life is to be lived; to be savored. I spend it in constant exploration, yet I still limit ( Read more... )

 Life is good ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, I have two florescent lights in my room with tons of plants underneath.  I've had this going for about 2 years now (kind of 3), and it's become a fixture of my room.

I just went over to look at my plants and noticed a weird yellowish color on the top of my compost bin/trash can.  I leaned in closer and saw that they ( Read more... )