It's strange how things tend to come around ( Read more... )

6:15 PM: So, I decided that today, I was going to blog the entire night of the election. I just got done voting here in Wilton, NH, where I posted a straight Democratic ticket, including a vote for Jeanne Shaheen in the Senate, Paul Hodes in the House, and Barack Obama.

I did elect to exit poll, which they had in front of the steps of the Town Hall ( Read more... )

I swear, when you are moving, you never get a moment's peace. I started with The Vegetarian Month on August 1st, and I finally have one moment's peace to write about it. Finally. Moving, I suppose, is a drop-dead adventure. There's always somewhere to go or something that you've forgotten, and by the time you realize those small things, there's a ( Read more... )

Matt, my brother-in-law, mentioned that after everything that has happened in the past few months, I should really just fuck the blogging and write a book. What seems to be more amazing for me is not simply the sheer volume of shit that has gone on for me and Shannon in the past few months, but the fact that, a few hard days and tough moments aside ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day at Noble High School. I found it to be an incredibly difficult and incredibly fast day. I arrived early, around six, to clean the rest of the mess that I had left in the room of the chemistry teacher next door. Left a lot of lead (II) chloride and copper (II) sulfate residues in microspace equipment by virtue of the fact ( Read more... )

It's been nearly month since I wrote my last entry. I just don't think I was able to use my blog as a coping mechanism until now. The past few months have been really difficult. Finding out you have lost your job, losing relatives, and finding out that your grandfather was never really worthy of your trust makes for a hard time. But, now it's June ( Read more... )

It's going to go without saying that it has been a long month. Right now I am one week away from April Break, and haven't written in four weeks. I've been trying to write this entry for that long, too, but every time the impetus moves me, I just get depressed about what I am going to write and stop. Well, now, I'm in Orono, playing in the Maine ( Read more... )

I think that part of the nature of scientists is that we freak out about the things that we don't understand, and we freak out even more about the things that we don't understand when they go wrong. Think of it like a car engine: if it runs, but you know nothing about it, you take for granted the fact that it runs. However, if you were to pop open ( Read more... )

I was going to do this yesterday, but I decided to hold off because Maine absolutely got BURIED in snow today. So, here I am, in Panera, camping out, enjoying the rain (it changed over at 10:00), and doing what I thought I'd do yesterday, but what I got ultimately more time to do today.

101/1001 UPDATE #2

five -- volunteer for five political ( Read more... )

Ah, finally, I get a moment's peace. It's been hoppin' this past two weeks, and with the busy-ness comes a lot of tension and a lot of temptation to gripe about work and kids. However, I am going to skip on that for the most part. I'll have a 101/1001 update tomorrow. It turns out that Shannon's going to join me on the 101/1001 quest, which I am ( Read more... )