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[May. 23rd, 2006|05:52 pm] |
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I sent a draft of my thesis to my two advisors and showed my face at the university today. I had to fix a few silly problems with my thesis first like not including my main adivsor in the list of people who will have to sign it and writing "blah blah blah" in a few places where I didn't quite know what was going to go there.
Stupidly enough I let them remove a mole on my foot this morning, which hurts a bit right now, but mainly was stupid because we signed up to run the Bolder Boulder next Monday. For some reason I thought I had another week until that was coming up, so it will probably be mainly walking for me.
Slowly the excitement of finishing up with my research is getting to me, the only problem with it is that I actually have to do some work before it is done not just wait for the day to come, its not like Christmas that way. That is nice about some holidays, they just come by no matter how hard you worked beforehand. |
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[May. 20th, 2006|01:20 am] |
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Have been in Boulder for over a week now. It is nice, not too exciting, so I should be getting lots of work done. But as it goes I am nto progressing to fast. I really should work harder, when I hear from other people who are trying to graduate soon they always work so much more.
All that is missing from my thesis though is the conclusions. I wrote the abstract today and the introduction is crap but at least it is sort of done. Of course it is not actually, I just tell myself that. I will have to rewrite it at least another 4 times and put in references and two figures, but it has reached its desired pagecount.
I went to TKD for the first time since November last night. There were a lot of new people there, and many of the people I am used to weren't there so it was a bit weird. It was still nice to go and exercise and see Mr Pologe. It was pretty much all sparring all night, so I was really exhausted by the end, but at least I still remember how to do a proper sidekick.
It is really hot here during the day, we have to water the yard for more than an hour each night.
Tonight we went to Qdoba for dinner, on a bike ride around the pretty creek path and then watched Pride and Prejudice the new movie. It was a very nice evening.
This weekend I need to copy more files, fill out an application for another scholarship and send out the draft of my thesis to a few people brave enough to read the total mess I have written.
I am so looking forward to being done with this...I will miss many people though, I didnt think I would make such good friends in Chicago when I first started, but Dan, Emiliano, Lori, Gabrijela, Alberto and of course Robyn are a lot of fun and it is so easy to find something interesting and different to do each weekend. It is a very diverse group of people, especially considering that they are all physicists except for Lori, but all the backgrounds are different and that makes it so exciting and makes the conversations go back and forth in strange ways. This is not the best way to explain it, but it is difficult to describe. |
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[May. 15th, 2006|01:53 am] |
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I am back in Boulder for now. Tom and I bought an insane amount of flight tickets, for him to go to MN, for both of us to go to LA and then for me to go home (one-way!). We didn't buy the ticket to Germany for him yet since return tickets in August seem to cost more than the really should or than we can afford.
Thursday and Firday were taken up with graduation events. It was fun to wear a docto's robe and the hat and hood that go with it. For pictures look here: http://katskat.blogspot.com/.
Today Hanna came back from Lake Tahoe and we watched the Gilmore Girls season finale and some Veronica Mars. There are some TV shows that I just love and really get into the characters. We then sat around for over an hour just talking about what this fake person on the show should do and which guy she should go with and whatever. It was a lot of fun though.
I am too tired to write more, so maybe I will write more tomorrow. |
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[May. 2nd, 2006|12:51 am] |
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If you haven't seen it, the Steven Colbert thing at the White House Press dinner is awesome. I thought it was very funny and took a lot of coursge to do. It made my afternoon:) |
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| May 1st, yay! |
[May. 1st, 2006|12:14 pm] |
Adding more to the fun in the Fermilab gym: Yesterday, while I was running on the treadmill, since it was still raining like crazy outside, they played the "Ride" on the radio, really loudly. I guess someone was doing exercises in the other room to an opera CD or so. It still makes me feel weird :)
Happy May 1st everybody! |
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[Apr. 29th, 2006|04:18 pm] |
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Last night was freaky people night at the Fermilab gym. SOme guy who was bald on top, with long dark curly kind of greasy hair was there. He was wearing a ripped up t-shirt and jeans and a big belt and very big hiking boots. THe belt was tied way too tight and the shirt was tucked in. He tried to lift very heavy weights and would scream while lifting them, not jsut grunt or whatever but scream and then drop to the floor after putting them back down. It would have freaked me out more, but there were other people there and they were making faces behind his back too, so it was ok.
It's not like it is a normal gym in any way otherwise, where else do you see peple run on the one single treadmill reading physics papers or sittign on one of the three exercise bikes with jeans and a calculator and some scrap paper in their hand. Also, ENglish is not the main language there, nor is SPanish, but German, Russian and all the other Eastern European languages, in addition to one of the Indian languages spoken bythe two middle aged Indian women in saris who come in on Wednesdays. You never know beforehand what you will see. It is kind of fun that way. The smell is not however. It is good when it is not raining then I can go running outside.
Off to eat good pizza. Yay!
I hope I don't get the cold that has been circulating here for weeks. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2006|01:06 am] |
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88 pages:) that's how far I have come with my thesis. It was the easy part though, just reformatting some papers and figureing out the Latex template. I started the introduction, but it is difficult to find all the relevant review papers to read.
We signed up to runt he Bolder Boulder, 10K on Memorial day, I should start runnign more again, otherwise that is not going to be any fun.
Slowly but surely I am getting nervous about my defense. Alberto is defending next week, so he was a bit of a wreck today, but we went to dinner and talked for a long time so that was good. He also gave a practice talk with scary questions from his advisor but he could answer them all. I wish I could answer all of Nick's questions...
like "why the heck are you going into medicine?", no not really, he actualy seems ok with it by now.
Now Adam's wedding is just 6 days before my defense date, that is scary and a bit of bad planning on my part, but I guess that is how it will be and I will make it work:)
I am excited for summer to come so that I can go swimming in various lakes and maybe even the sea. SPF 45 here I come.
I think I might have lost my Mp3 player, which makes me sadder than it should, it is not just the fact aht it was expensive, but I collected all this wonderful adn terrible music on it. All my REM and my terrible 80s music... whoever picked it up at the airport to and didnt give it to Lost and Found probably will delete all those songs from it...:( It is just a thing, but somehow I grew attached to it. I had just figured out how some of the option work on it ( after 3 years of owning it !) Sad. It was not a Ipod, but much better and originally it had more diskspace than my laptop...nwo my new snazzy laptop has more, but still it was so cool. |
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[Apr. 19th, 2006|01:56 am] |
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I should really go to sleep, but I am not quite tired enough.
I downloaded the thesis template and started fixing up one of my papers to make it work as a chapter. I dont think my thesis will be really long or anything, but it is kind of exciting to start on it. We also finished anoher paper, so soon I will have three papers published, that's not bad for a very short career in astrophysics.
I had a great Easter weekend. Friday night I went to a concert with Dan and Lori and their friend Larry. It was in a strange neighborhood, but the concert was great, some Asian girl singing and later on a guy. On Saturday I tried to go to Chicago earl to get some t-shirts at the Gap, but like always I was late, so I barely had enough time to run to Navy pier and go see Deep Sea 3D with Robyn, Matt and Mark. Afterwards we met Meredith and went to a really nice Italian restaurant. It was like a little Colorado reunion in Chicago. Around 10 we realized that we were a bit late for Dan's concert so we hurried, but we got there too late and didn't see his band, but hey, we paid $5 and go to see some "Death Metal" band perform, it was fun. But not fun enough to stay, so we went to a bar and hung out. Again a nice evening.
Then on Sunday since I hadnt driven towards Chicago often enough that weekend I went over to Emiliano's house for Easter dinner. It was a great time, many people and also two babies, it was a full house. There was lamb and asparagus and potatoes and tomatoes, and a jewish apple dish and all kinds of liquor. People from at least 5 different countries and many differnt backgrounds. We started eating adn talking around noona dn finished around 6pm:) Then some left to see another concert or do homeowrk, but the rest of us watched a German movie with an Italian guy in it with Enlish subtitles, so a perfect mix.
There are some fun Serbian Easter traditions like smacking hardboiled eggs together.
Thursday I go back to Boulder for a few days and TOm and my 5th anniversary:) Yay!
I started reading "A peoples history of the United States", it is interesting and depressing so far. Robyn and I got into flags today and looked up all the ones that are outside Fermilab, we also looked at many other, for example Palau.
I am excited about the schedule for the medical program or better "programme" that I found online today, it includes an elective that should be done abroad and many other interesting things. |
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[Apr. 11th, 2006|11:51 pm] |
I am now living in the Fermilab dorms, in a tiny room with a single bed...Haven'd had that small a bed since I had bunk bes with my sister. It is not even "extra-long" like they were at Caltech. My blanket keeps sliding down at night and my enourmous collection of pillows too.
I have met 4 or 5 people in the dorm so far, one Russian guy who seems to be mainly wearing a bathrobe and eating meatballs, one Rumanian guy who is really nice ( we went to see "Thank you for Smoking on Sunday"), an Indian guy who says hi and talks on a tiny little cell phone so it looks like he is talking to himself, a old guy who smells bad, and a couple who was friendly and watched Gilmore GIrls with me today.
I really have to work on my thesis soon...ahhh!
The last few days I have gone over the main paper again! and am now on the 17000th draft or so. Why couldnt A. figure out that he wanted one that one graph done differently about a year ago when I gave him the first draft... I also started writing on the third paper, I hope that will be easier, I am trying my best not to involve A. too much in it so that maybe I can get away with just a few drafts that Nick and Robyn look over.
The Italian elections have caused a lot of discussion here...Berlusconi is a complete bastard and lier and hey look at that, he got a lot of votes, amazing how you can at least sort of win elections with politics of lies and fear.
I really need to not eat too much, being alone a lot makes me want to eat more, I guess it is just being bored, it makes my stomach sick to eat too many sweets and it makes me feel too big which then makes me eat more...ha I thought that was all teenager stuff, but I guess it doesn't end.
I stayed up way too late last night to read the Da Vinci code, now that the movie is coming out. It is very captivating.
Now I am trying to start to teach myself some biochemistry, ha! It is actually surprisingly interesting, at least the first 15 pages of this very introductory book, so I guess I should not make and rash conclusions here, it might be better to wait a few years for that. Actually I am very excited to get to do somehting else. Now I hope I can get the money stuff worked out and get TOm to the UK... |
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[Apr. 5th, 2006|03:16 pm] |
My foot still has an issue. Does anyone know what it could be: it only hurts when I walk on it, and not if I stand on my heel or ball of foot. The pain is on the outside of the footsword and it doesnt feel like a bone problem, more like tendons or muscles...
Today is not my day, it started by sleeping too long and missing the lecture this morning that I actually wanted to go to, then I moved my big suitcase into the trunk of the car and spilled everything from my backpack onto the street int he process. I also discovred that when I went shopping last time I bought a yoghurt, but didnt take it inside (it must have fallen out of the bag), so it was a bit smelly in the car. To cheer myself up I was going to get a muffin, but when I took the yoghurt to throw it in the garbage in front of Starbucks, it exploded on my pants. So now my left foot hurts, I didnt brush my hair and I have nasty old yoghurt stains on my pants. Yay! Oh well it is nt too bad, I just look kind of ridiculous. |
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[Apr. 5th, 2006|03:12 am] |
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I posted some photos on a blogger website since it was so easy to put them up using Picasa. The address of the blog is: http://katskat.blogspot.com/, so go there if you want to see pictures.
I had dinner with Mike ans his friend from work at a pizza place in Naperville. Now my stomach is still full, thats why I am posting on the internet at 3 in the morning...
Tomorrow I need to pack and clean, and on Thursday move into the wonderful dorm2 at Fermilab...it is the building that looks most like a shed, nto that the others don't look like shed, but this one beats them all.
I hope that the DFeS puts up their financial aid forms soon, so I can apply for some loans for my first and only year of tuition that I have to pay at Cambridge.
My foot still hurts, it is weird and very annoying. |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2006|11:56 pm] |
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My left foot hurts a lot, I am not sure what I did to it. It just started hurting this afternoon when I was walking to the printer...weird! Now it is hard to walk on it.
My old running shoes were getting worn out, maybe the reason for the foot hurting, so I got new ones, they are very comfy and fancy white, but probably won't stay like that for long.
I finished the new draft of my second paper, it should go to the referee this week after Andrew reads it and makes lots more comments even though he has read it about 15 times already. Now I have to work on the third paper, making plots and all that.
We went to some comedy club on Saturday and to eat tapas beforehand, both were excellent and enjoyable, but in very different ways:) This weekend was very fun in general, Robyn and I watched Harry Potter 4 on Friday night and had Shepherds pie and shortbread for our "English" evening, on Saturday we did those two things mentioned above and on Sunday I watched tennis and then baked for about 3 hours for a dinner and game evening. It was nice to hang out with Lori and all the others of course too, but Lori is really nice and funny. Emiliano ate 4 or 5 of the apple cakes I made, one serving is about 0.5 or 1...
Sava is very cute, he is about 5 months old and can now focus his eyes on things that are not yellow, its funny though when he sees somethign yellow he smiles, it doesnt matter what it is. He wasnt frightened by the huge amazing thunderstorm as much as his mom was.
I need to get to bed earlier tonight, this whole time change hting doesnt suit me, the other way is better for me:) I think I will be a good night shift doctor...
I am supposed to pick things from my Grandma's house, but I don't exactly remember the furniture and all that I asked my mom to get me one of the rugs though, there are some nice ones in the house. My mom has to get rid of 9 fully furnished rooms and about 2500 books:) It is insane what gets collected when people ahve enough space to keep everything they have. |
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[Mar. 29th, 2006|01:13 pm] |
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Back in Chicago after 3 nice weeks in Colorado. Haisi and my sister came to visit, not together but as a relay team or so. :)
We went skiing in wonderful snow, which was the best outdoor thing I have done in a while. I love the feeling of flying down a soft really steep slope and trying to keep control of my skis (usually works, just once or twice did I fall).
We also went hiking a lot and took a bike ride in the snow sleet. The ride took us around Boulder and while trying to find at least one of the many bike paths we got lost and ended up in the landfill/recycling part of town, it was a bit funny and pretty smelly. At the end though we were nearly frozen especially since it was sunny when we started and we didnt have big jackets. Andrea, my sister's friend who was also visiting was funny, becuase she kept singing to keep herself warm and when we passed the CU cross country team they all looked at her funny, becuase she was shivering on a bike that was too big for her and singing Yellow submarine as loudly as possible. :)
The fact that I am going to med school soon is starting to get more clear in my mind. I am starting to be a bit nervous about it and sad about leaving but also excited about going...I got myself a book about anatomy so that I can read a bit beforehand and dont seem to be the biggest idiot in the class right away.
I guess I should get nervous about my thesis too, but the denial is working for that right now. I really need to get going though on that. I just want to be done with it, but I also like getting paid for this, no more money for me for a while starting in July. I don't think I got one of the scholarships... so my Grandma's money will have to last for 4 years... at least it will be put to good use hopefully. It was nice that I got to tell her that I am going to Cambridge before she died, that made her happy since she spent part of her residency there.
Next week I am moving to the Fermilab dorms from Tom's family's house. It will be much more expensive, but their son is coming home soon from college. Then I might have an extra hour of work time each day which will hopefully be put to good use for my thesis and not just be used to procrastinate more.
I read Women of the Silk and Memoirs of a Geisha, both very excellent. I really like the books from the "Women of the SIlk" author, I had already read the one about World War 2 in Japan, Samurai's garden.
Robyn and I saw Harry and the Potters last night, two brothers singing about Harry Potter, it was funny and silly:) I felt old standing in a crowd with college students, thats sad! |
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[Mar. 7th, 2006|12:06 pm] |
I am back in Colorado for a while, actually three weeks, which is nice. Right now there is a cat asleep on my lap so that I cannot get up.
This weekend I went skiing with Tom and Haisi up in the mountains. It was nice, but the weather was a bit warm, so that the snow got all squushy (thats not how you spell that, but it looks funny) and wet. In some places it was icy too. We found several nice runs in Vail though, that place is so huge!
Today and tomorrow I will hopefully together with Tom clean the house and get it ready for Julia to come for 10 days. I don't want her to have to sleep on a dusty floor or something like that. Also, in our bedroom it is difficult to get fromt he door to the bed, since I have all my suitcases and clothes and everything distributed over the floor.
I have to finish my referee report soon, the simulation run took longer than I expected, but mainly due to the fact hat the supercomputer people keep shutting down the processors and that the queue to resubmit jobs is very long. Then I have to make figures for my new paper and send them to Nick. THis will be the third part of my thesis, so hopefully I can finish that soon. I don't know yet if I will do another little project to be included in my thesis or not, we will see.
THis afternoon I will go and get the next health check for Cambridge, hopefully that will fulfill one of the two requirements they put on my admission. The other one will happen around July 11th ( I am already looking forward to that, most people don't, because it is stressful to defend a thesis, but then I will be done and have 2 months of vacation time!!!)
ALright I better get going with all my grand plans, so that the procrastination only maybe starts in the afternoon. Tonight I am making dinner, probably Gulasch (one of the few meat dishes I eat) and dumplings and asparagus or so. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2006|03:59 pm] |
Ok, I had to go to a seminar, so the last entry was cut short.
We went to eat pizza on Saturday, at a really good place with thin crust pizza to have a big dinner for Michele. He is leaving this weekend to go back to Italy. Yesaterday we helped him sell all his furniture to some guy with a hige SUV and then watched the Godfather I and II at Mark's place. There wasa lot of dessert there, I had made the tiramisu and RObyn and Matt brought canoli, so lots of good sweet filling things.
This week is going to be hectic I can already tell. I have t clean, pack and do laundry, probably not in that order. I have quite a bit of work to do that I dont want to do and then there is a dinner on Wednesday night and I am leavng really early on Friday to go Boulder for 3 weeks (yay!)
I bought socks finally, now I dont have to wash the 4 pairs that have buddies still every few days.
Alright, back to work. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2006|02:26 pm] |
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I made tiramisu yesterday and it turned out well, better than I was thinking it would while I was making it. It seemed lumpy an dnot sweet enough when I added the mascarpone. I heated the egg yolks a bit before putting them in, so that nobody wouold get sick. |
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| back in Chicago |
[Feb. 20th, 2006|10:35 pm] |
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Last week I went to Boulder, which was really fun. I didn't work at all, just ran some errands and fixed my application essay for the financial aid application and then went to Steamboat Springs with Hanna and Dane.
We had fun sitting in the hot water for a few hours and jumped into the cold water next to the hot pools. Tom even went in the cold water, that was impressive. He looked all cold afterwards though.
We played the new train game that Tom got for Christmas, we had played it once at Mike's house and it was still fun... taking cork to Milan and Napoli was certainly worht it for me.
There was a bit of trouble with my application form today since Nick went out of town and forgot about it, but I guess it will all work out.
Telling Nick that I am not going to do a post-doc, but go to med school was a bit scary. I like him and I really could not have had a better advisor in grad school. I think he sees it as a personal failure that I am not more enthusiastic about astrophysics. Andrew on the other hand I think was a bit mad about my choice, I haven't talked to him about it, but he is a nice guy, just sometimes he gets intoa weird mood and then it is hard to get him back to the happy side.
I need to go swimming and to the gym more often, my body doesn't like not being exercised, I feel slow and crappy when I dont move for a few days, well tomorrow I will go and see how it is. Hopefully there is not one of those boring pizza and beer sessions around 5.30. They are terrible, people sitting and talking about particles and modified gravity in a darkened room around 6pm, it makes me go to sleep.
I like watching the Olympics, it is fun to see people flying throught he air and all that, amazing how much of it involves fast sharp things on ice or people flying high above a frozen surface...
My graduation date is set for July 11th, at least that is what I would like it to be. I like Tusdays, they are not next to the weekend, but early in the week so you dont have to worry about things for too long...:) SO I should have enough time to take a long vacation and go visit people before going to Europe..
Ah back to Europe, that will be strange, leaving here and getting used to stores not being open all the time and people driving smaller cars...No, I am happy t go back, it is just strange to think about it sometimes. We will see what happens, it should be fun. I love seeing new places and meeting new people and maybe if I get to be really lucky Tom will come to Cambridge too and then it would be really awesome. |
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[Feb. 8th, 2006|01:09 pm] |
Don't keep grapes in your backpack, in a plastic bag that comes with holes so that the grapes can get air. I realized my mistake when I opened my backpack at work today and found the inside of my backpack covered in sweet grapejuice. It smells good, at least for now. It is not as bad as it could have been though since I didn't leave them in for too long and only about 4 or 5 exploded.
Tonight is Dan's show in downtown, his band has a 10:30 pm spot on a Wednesday night, but at least 5 of us are going to be there so thats ok. We are going to get Thai food beforehand. Maybe that will help my feeling that I wan't more real food. In the last few days I have wanted pretty much only salty foods, maybe I should start eating better, not only snacks and salad. That sounds weird, when I mean eating better I mean not just salad and balance bars and fruit, I mean real food. Most people would consider what i am eating healthy, but the problem is that it keeps me slightly hungry at all times and then I want snacks at night and the only thing I have is ice cream and other things like that, and if I eat that then I can't sleep.
I mailed a lot of money to doctor's offices now that my settlement came through. Yay! Maybe one day my credit rating will recover and I will be able to sign up for a credit card again. Good health insurance is one of the most important things for me now, this experience has really shown me how good I had it in Germany. This system here sucks! And I don't mean that in a funny or light way, no it is completely amazing that people don't do more about it. That politicians don't make it their priority to go after real health car and not just better drug benefits or whatever. That is like putting a little bandaid on a open fracture.
I need one more person for my thesis committee, hopefully I can work that out this afternoon. The date will be in July sometime, that will give me enought time to delay it if something happens and still make the August 15th deadline for Cambridge... I will get my hood in May though, sadly enough I don't think Nick can give to me, it will have to Andrew, which is good too, but somehow strange. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2006|03:22 pm] |
I need to sleep more, I don't know why I don't. THere is not really much to do here, except watch TV and stuff.
I have been exercising more, that helps to feel better. Swimming, Yoga and going to the gym. Robyn and I went two times now and it was fun both times, it is nice to go with someone and the Fermilab gym is very not-scary. No big muscles anywhere to be seen. Mostly pasty white middle-aged guys who are friendly and use about the same amount of weights that we use. They even stair-step more slowly than us, which is pretty motivating.
I am applying for financial aid at Cambridge, I hope to get some, so I don't have to spend that much money for living. My work is getting more and more boring and pointless, since i know that I am not going to go on in it anymore. I am getting more excited about Cambridge too, especially after I found a website of a trampoline club there and they look like they will take complete beginners:) (ALthoguh diving should give me a bit of an idea on what to do. I love being upside down and in the air)
It snowed huge wet fluffy flakes today here, but they melted immediately.
I am excited to go back to Boulder in about 10 days, it will be nice to see Tom and Maya and go to Steamboat Springs.
I need new socks, first of all I always lose the buddy sock of every pair I buy, but in addition to that they all have holes, I think I have two or three complete pairs of socks. It is ok to wear different colored ones sometimes, but when I try to look nice or wear a skirt, they really should be the same color.
Transamerica was a good movie! So was Crash and Brokeback rules! Ok, I like movies, but these three were exceptionally good I thought. I haven't seen Good Night and Good Luck, but I want to, then I can make a judgement about the Oscar movies I guess. |
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[Jan. 12th, 2006|10:46 am] |
I am in DC right now, at a AAS conference, which is pretty much 3000 astronomers thrown into 2 hotels and let loose. It is like Meredith said " Adult nerd camp with less action". Although last night at the party some people were getting something, I don't know:)
Anyways, I gave my talk yesterday and it was scary to speak in front of more than a hundred people, but it went ok. I even got some good comments afterwards. It was kind of sad though that most of them were: Good job, nice work, I am excited to see what you do with it in the future. I just had t think to myself..sorry I am not doing any of that, some other grad student will, while I go and learn to be a doctor.
It has been nice to hang out with Brian and Meredith, two other grad students at COlorado. They are very bitter about their job prospects, but it is funny.
Tom is coming to visit me in Chicago next week, so that will be fun too. I have already found a lot of restaurants that I want to take him to.
I finally saw Ralph and Ayeh again, I hdn't seen them since Tim and Molly's wedding. We went to some interesting restaurants and played a game called "citadels" which was a lot of fun, even htough I was not planning and strategizing enough I think.
People in DC wear suits a lot. In the subway we are always very underdressed and even at bars or so some people are still in suits. After being a student for so long it looks strange to me, but I guess it is normal in the business world. |
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