And another birthday has it found it's way to me; time to spool up the ol' LJ.  I'm now 28, apparently.  I'm also apparently getting a PhD in May.  Maybe I'll even have a real-person job (!) lined up by then ( Read more... )

Apparently, the world did not end yesterday, instead choosing to grant me another birthday.  (Thank you, world!)  Little has changed from a year ago:  All is well, still in Madison, still working on a PhD in physics, still planning to graduate in Spring of 2014.  Sooner, rather than later, I'll actually have to figure out what I want to be when I ( Read more... )

Another year, another birthday.  Funny how that works.  Number 26 finds me in Naples, Florida with my sister, parents, and grandmother.  Always good to be with family.

What's new with me?  Still at UW-Madison, working towards a PhD in physics.  I suppose you could say I'm in 19th grade.  I finished classes last spring, and earned a physics MS in ( Read more... )

 One quarter of a century.  That is how old I am today.  Difficult to believe, but I suspect this feeling of disbelief will only grow as I age.

Today finds me in Madison, WI, where I have been for the past year, and where I plan to be for the next several.  I'm still in the physics PhD program; I've finished most of the coursework and am researching ( Read more... )

Another year, another birthday.  This birthday finds me in Madison, Wisconsin, as a first-year PhD graduate student in the Physics Department.  It is the first birthday that I have not spent in Albany (discounting, of course, all my birthdays  before I was born). The past year has been rather eventful.  This past summer, I traveled with Rachel to ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again.  It's birthday number twenty-three for our intrepid and increasingly taciturn adventurer, and keeping with Tradition, it's time to break radio silence once again ( Read more... )

For much of college, I've largely neglected this journal. The only consistency I've found is in writing to mark my birthday. It seems that this continues to be the case, as today is my twenty-second birthday. (Most birthdays last for a whole twenty-four hours; it's not fair that this last less than half a minute!)

So here it is, another birthday ( Read more... )

Why is this post like The Matrix? Because it's bullet time!

The following are an ad hoc collections of facts and factoids pertaining to the current state of affairs in my life, listed in no particular order.

• I have completed one year of study at the University of Chicago.
  
  • It has been the greatest academic challenge I have, to date, undertaken.
    
  • I miss ( Read more... )

Coming home from my aunt and uncle's today, traversing the highway connecting western Chicago suburbia and urbia, I saw fireworks. Not fireworks like I saw last night, like I've seen for years, sitting in a crowd of thousands, our gazes statically fixed on no more than a fifteen degree slice of sky. No, tonight was different. As my uncle and I ( Read more... )

Grandpa Leo passed away this morning ( Read more... )