personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
My faithful companion has died. My Powershot A85 is no more. Actually, it’s just fallen once too many times, and now it can’t adjust the zoom. It *is* stuck on the wide end rather than the tele end, at least, so it’s not totally hopeless. And in particular it makes me far more open to [...]
Nov 29th 2004General
Apparently it’s the birthday of C. S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Madeleine L’Engle, all at once. At least
Sep 8th 2004heart & nerd alert
Just a day. The experiment this morning (that I spent all of yester– okay, the half of yesterday that I actually
Aug 20th 2004heart
It’s my sister’s birthday today… she’s turning old. Not as old as I am, though — all these
Jul 27th 2004heart
This week my parents and sister are traveling up from Florida to Virginia to visit assorted distant relatives. Dreamed about this last night. Funny how telling – or even remembering? – a dream can reshape it… I changed bits around very slightly to make it slightly more linear, and now I actually remember it that [...]
Apr 24th 2004General & heart & nerd alert
Good: Rough draft of my abstract for FACSS is done. Bad: End of the semester, Cathy’s leaving. Not that I really