I can have a new userpic every few years, right? :-)

It doesn't really do the photo justice. galenaskton, you do indeed rock like a rocky thing.

I'm going to state the obvious: I don't post much on LJ these days. If you want to keep up with me on the internet, I post a lot more often on Facebook. I do, however, still read my LJ friends page. I may not read it every day because of this silly "school" thing that's cutting into my valuable internet time, but I do read it.

We're all moved into the new apartment as of Saturday night, and we're checked out of the old one as of Sunday afternoon. The move went smoothly and the people who helped us were awesome. Even the weather was perfect for moving - cool and cloudy, but not raining. Now we're in the long and painful process of unpacking. The bathroom is unpacked ( Read more... )

Wendy introduced me to Brennan's yesterday. The shopping experience is like this: First, they give you tons of free samples. Then, you try to calculate how much fruit you can eat before it goes bad, and load that amount into your cart. Then, you cheerfully give them all your money and go home with bags full of awesome*. (I think maybe we need ( Read more... )

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I totally just impulse shopped a 500-level chemistry course. (How many people get to say that?) The resulting fall class schedule makes me look like I'm going to be a senior, for real, finally. Which I am - my advisor has confirmed that, barring some unforeseen disaster, I'm going to graduate in May 2010. Yay, progress! Now I just need to find ( Read more... )

I find it discouraging that the Writing Center offers workshops on "Thrusdays".

In today's lab, the class had an hour and a half to characterize the compounds we made before break. Most of the class didn't get everything done, but I failed to get any data whatsoever. My lab partner was unexpectedly absent. The only good luck I had all day was that the samples were all in my drawer, not his (although it turned out not to ( Read more... )

Israel troops admit Gaza abuses
Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

This link's mostly for Gerry, but maybe he's not the only one who would think these amazing pictures of a recent undersea volcanic eruption are interesting.