( Belly pic at 27-ish weeks. )

I have crossed over to the dark side. I now work for an insurance company ( Read more... )

The baby looks healthy and is probably a girl.

( Pictures. )

PhD comics has occasional flashes of brilliance. This is one of them.


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Thanks to a massive snowfall, today was pretty quiet at the food bank (oh, by the way, I'm volunteering at a food bank). I took to organizing the section of tea bags, drink mixes, salad dressings, ketchup packets, and various random things. I found a two-pack of tea bags that someone had torn open and removed one bag from. The following thoughts ( Read more... )

They let me play with the scanning electron microscope. I knew there was a good reason to be in grad school.

( Kasia's very own SEM images! )

We had a big snowstorm and they closed all the roads out of Colorado, just in time for Christmas.


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Everything they told me about the first year of chemistry grad school is true. And they told me some scary things.

I just got through my first round of exams. After taking a class test on Friday evening, I got up at six on Saturday morning to take a "cume" or cumulative exam. I'd already gotten up at six last Saturday to take the same cume. We ( Read more... )

I just came back from another perfect lunch break, eating good cheap Chinese food by a pond surrounded by greenery and stone architecture, in the warm sunshine and cool grass, under a sky that seems bluer than physically possible. I'm wondering whether one day this will all fade into the background, or whether I'll always be in disbelief that I ( Read more... )