Monday, June 23, 2008

Met a boy


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on Friday night. He's pretty jolly. He has his arm around me. I don't totally love that he smokes a pipe.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Things I love about physics:

There was a plan at one time to make something called a Superconducting Super Collider. What was it supposed to do? I don't know. But it has two "supers" in its name. And that's always a good idea, I think.

The physicists have plans for something called a Large Hadron Collider, and then more plans for a Super Large Hadron Collider.
Hadrons have something to do with quarks, which have something to do with particles. All of this, not so interesting...although quarks have nice names: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom are all "flavors" of quarks. I also like the words quarkonia and strangelet.

Tshirts about physics to come! Yay!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Did I tell you


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that my sister is a Very Important Person? Honored by her school's PTA, because she is so cool and a good teacher and nice and kind to all the animals. This is not a great picture of us. But she is the super coolest person I know...and that's saying a lot--because I also know myself.

ha. i kill me. ha. metaphorically.

Monday, June 09, 2008

I don't know what you are doing this summer...
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but Farmer Gail's might be the greatest place I'm going! As Bea said yesterday, Gail and Joe's yard is "full of delightful nooks and crannies."
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a lot of nice flowers are planted or planting

this is part of a sequence of pictures involving me, Shannon, Katie, and some swans.
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No, that's not the glare of the sun. We're really that pasty.
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Also, we saw the horseshoe crabs mating:
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There were dozens of them. It was super weird to see them all swimming towards us in the water. In all honesty, I have never seen a live one, much less so many live ones. They came near us, hovering, like sea roombas.
And then, we sat for a while and hung out, listening to the Indigo Girls and the B52s for free while some suckers paid for the tickets...heh heh
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