I'm married!! I still don't think it will feel quite real anytime soon. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out or just showed up to celebrate...it was so great seeing all of you. I'm writing this from my hotel room on the way to Prineton at the moment. Only 2 more days and 1200 miles in a U-Haul to go!

Forza Italia!!
So, I must say, ragazzi, the proper way to watch a World Cup match is to be in Europe. My 4th of July celebration came in the form of a beer in one hand, a panino in the other, and jumping up and down screaming in the middle of the square with a few thousand other screaming Italians. And then forming up into impromptu parades and ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Frances!!!!

Just got my last response back, from Berkeley, a no. I want to know who works in the admissions office after 10 on a Sunday night? Crazy hippies. So it's been 3 no's, from Berkeley, Stanford, and Cambridge. I'm beginning to think they don't want me in california. So its a toss-up between Caltech, MIT, Chicago, Princeton, and (not very likely) ( Read more... )

...or, Why I Shouldn't Be Allowed to Talk in the Morning ( Read more... )

So, I am officially tired of being responsible. I've spent all week conferring with different people, trying to figure out my schedule for the rest of the month, booking flights, and other such stress-inducing activities. I'm going to be missing a rather insane amount of school: week after spring break I leave Wednesday night to visit MIT, and the ( Read more... )

un sacerdote e un rabbino giocono a scacchi. Il sacerdote dice al rabino, "Dici mi, Rabbino, hai mai mangiato il prosciutto?" Il rabbino dice, "Se, una volta quando sono stato all'universita, ho mangiato un panino di prosciutta. Mi molto vergognavo (I regretted it greatly)." Dopo qualche minuti di silenzio, il rabbino domanda al sacerdote, "Anche ( Read more... )

Stupid, stupid people.
The basic gist of it is that there is a group of radical southern baptists who go to funerals for US soldiers killed in Iraq and perform anti-gay protests, because the deaths in Iraq are the result of God being angry at a nation which tolerates and harbors homosexuals. I can't even begin to go into all the myriad ways in which ( Read more... )

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"We know an awful lot about the properties of silicon. Orders of magnitude more than any other material. Silicon is the number two most occuring subject for scholarly research papers. Number one is of course sex."
And people wonder why I like science so much.