Off to a good start.

[starfoozle]

The few days before I went back to school were pretty brilliant. I went back to VA a few days early to hang out at my roommate's house with another friend of ours and go have DC History Adventures. We ran around all over Washington and saw giant ferns and Soviet spacecraft and totem poles and a giant metal spider. We also met up with spastic_visions for pizza,

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[last01standing]

...On a completely unrelated note. YOU ARE SUCH A BADASS FOR GETTING A RESEARCH POSITION THAT WILL END IN PUBLICATION. Congratulations.

[starfoozle]

Thanks! I just met with the guy I'm actually working with today, and he's super-cool, and my adviser turned out to be my favorite professor on the whole of campus (who isn't Blackwell, but that's because Blackwell isn't actually a professor.) The lab station has an entire table cluttered with coffee machines and electric teakettles, and there's a taxidermied antelope head wearing a bright pink cowboy hat up on the wall.

I think I'm gonna like this job. :D