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Got my first mail addressed to “Dr.” today — well, first not counting junk magazines that assume I’m “Dr.” because they heard I exist. (Actually it’s very nice of them to do that; good way to weed them out automatically.)
Science post of the week: Haven’t done much in the lab to talk about; [...]

Went to seminar this morning. A physics seminar, that apparently was almost all theory (along the lines of “these simulations show that really cool would happen if we do such-and-such to a mix of gas with just the right properties at just the right density… no, we haven’t identified any suitable gases yet…”). [...]

2100 miles, for “you wound up coming all this way for lunch and a movie?” That’s right. I did also see my dear doting auntie, and her auntie as well. And had a nice trip up through WVa after picking up my practically-brother from his vacation.
Just a bit of car trouble (ok, [...]

Goin’ out of town this week, so no “science post” this week.  (I’m trying to do at least one science post and one personal post a week.  Or at least it’s a long-term goal.)  Top priority:  Talking Cathy into playing hooky after lunch Thursday afternoon.  Not sure it’ll happen, though; she took yesterday off to [...]

Today was about the last seminar of spring — the department’s seminar series packs up over the summer. Dr. Andreas Manz of the Insitute for Analytical Sciences described his group’s work over the past dozen years or so on miniaturizing analytical techniques, including the (now common stuff like) electrophoresis, but also much more interesting [...]

Now that all the thesis stuff is over and done with, it turns out that having a certificate saying I’ve got a PhD (it’s even got a gold star!) doesn’t really change life much at all. Not that I was expecting it to. And so it’s back to normal Friday night stuff — [...]