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This isn’t about Washington, per se. What it is is a non-exhaustive list of things that I love that I’ve discovered or re-discovered (etc.) since moving here. Consider it a sort of belated New Year’s retrospective/thank-you. Learning. In particular, language, sounds, and computers. Also, brains. Bikes, especially my fixie, now that I am finally strong [...]
Freelance science and health journalist and mental_flosser Maggie Koerth-Baker is guest-blogging at boing boing. So far she’s got posts on how to colonize a nation, a proposed expedition to the center of the earth, and Scutigera coleoptrata, the house centipede (including such fun facts as 2) Scutigera Coleoptrata are Efficient: They’re actually capable of eating [...]
1 cup of coffee 1 “bagel ‘n schmear” 1 GRE vocabulary book 1 package Nestle Toll House Semi-sweet Morsels 0.56 pounds green beans 1 seedless watermelon I consider the watermelon my great triumph of the day, despite the fact that, as it turns out, watermelons are quite heavy and do not fit easily into small [...]
Or, the goals post! Join choir next year. Remember that singing/arranging/directing is fun Bring my sketchbook to Dharamsala Actually apply to my study abroad program (before next monday!) Not be such a workaholic Figure out what I’m doing with my life (or at least the bit of it that starts when I graduate from Williams…) [...]
Paresky is open and it is wonderful. The food is good too; they serve whole-meal plates and make it right in front of you! It’s wonderful to be able to hang out and study and have that coffee-shop background noise, but still be in a campus building surrounded by just about everybody you know. I’m [...]
It is snowing outside, and we’re supposed to get something like a few inches of snow overnight. VANILLA ICE IS COMING TO WILLIAMS IN TWO WEEKS YES IT IS REALLY TRUE
I’m going to get to be second-author on the paper about the experiment we finished in my lab last semester, and that I spent most of the summer researching! And there’ll be model fits in it! ee!! Tomorrow will officially be the first skiing day of the season for me, which is also very exciting. [...]
email U. Virginia people RE: Tibet trim plants call tech support about my computer’s insomnia make a dentist appointment meet with Safa about writing up our data from last semester (!) I will do them soon, though! Things I did do today included having my JA interview, which was all different kinds of fun/exciting/anxiety-inducing, not [...]
Knee deep in stuff to do, but taking a bit of a break to jot down a selection of what I’ve been seeing/doing: Today/last night it snowed! I woke up to that particular kind of light that you only see when it’s snowing: bright, diffuse, and completely pure. The snow that’s already fallen gives everything [...]
(in no particular order:) Seeing my sister for the first time since she went away to college! Seeing my family for the first time in almost three months woodstoves, dogs, and baked goods getting hurt again (grrrrr) running with Jue and Tony and finding out that I’m sort of in okay shape playing frisbee at [...]
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