Today was a full day. Early morning brought on the local Turkey Trot. Expecting a course flat like Madison tends to be, when I arched up my first loop of the two-loop course, there was a hill. Not just a little tiny, "this is kind of hard hill", but a big whopping monster of a hill. Its my own fault though, I've been to busy avoiding training on hills for the Seattle half-marathon to actually just buckle down and run up a darn hill. After finishing right where I wanted to (not the last one!!), I was basking in my awesome day off, when I was asked to cover teaching a 75 minute spin class. How can I say no to teaching? I can't. It was a great class, and I rocked it.
Now, full from two burritos, I'm sitting at home gearing up for the upcoming week at school. I have three interviews this week for my science journalism class, but if all goes as planned, I'll have topics and quotes for the rest of my stories by Friday. Hopefully I can start on my huge research project tomorrow or Tuesday, and be in tip top shape to make a graceful exit to Seattle at the end of the month.
Yesterday was EYH (expanding your horizons) at the college. There were over 300 middle school girls that came together to learn about science and math. I taught a great program (with some awesome help), where we looked at color distribution in bags of M&Ms. Back in the day when I looked at color percentages in bags of these color full candies, there were 40% brown. These days, of the 1000+ candies samples, green was the most common color (with about 24% of the totals). I feel so old.
Friday, I left school pretty earl (around 4:30), and met John at home. The long run this week was 8 miles, which isn't that bad, aside from the fact the sun goes down at 4:45 these days. Anyway, we trucked on in the dark, dashing over sticks and levels. The real highlight of the night though, was the fact that before we left we ordered pizza online, and had it delivered within 15 minutes of coming home. Nothing tastes so great. Okay, many things do, but nothing that is super cheap, requires little to no work, and can be enjoyed right after a run (aside from chocolate milk)
Aside from a great weekend full of activities, and a really busy upcoming week, the one thing that i HAVE to to before Friday is make hashbrowns. Santa came to me early, delivering a great Willow Blue kitchen aid, and I recently received the grinder set (thanks Dad). Anyway, the one thing that is really needed to break in this grinder, are some nice large potatoes to make crispy awesome hashbrowns.
Bring on this week!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
the multi-verse
I have a paper due in my science journalism class tomorrow, and I've been having a hard time making the words flow, and not digress into a choppy science-themes mess. I figured it was time to update the old blog (sorry mom).
Classes haven't been to stressful, its just all this lab stuff. Its not like I have a project with a set amount of work to do. If that was the case, I'd be stressed I wasn't working enough. My project isn't like that. Nor is it a never ending amount of molecular biology lab work in my future. Instead, its a carefully crafted mix of waiting for bacteria to grow (blast you desulfuromonas), making media, reading scientific papers (which I really should do more), and feeling like I should be doing more.
I go into the office every morning between 7:00 and 8:30 AM, and rarely leave before 4:30. I know I do things, but there is still this overwhelming sense that I'm not going to graduate as soon as everyone else, and that if I was diligent, like many of the other graduate students, I would be gearing up to defend come May, not August. Not that it really matters in the scheme of things: I don't think three or four months really makes a difference. I'm still young, I have time.
In the meantime, I'm sitting in my office, thinking about stories for science journalism, getting ready for seminar in two hours and a meeting with my adviser, listening to radiolab, and being hungry.
I would really like to start the full-on run of my Masters project early next week. Like Monday, that would be great, and get me on track to starting the isotope chem come December....we'll see.
Classes haven't been to stressful, its just all this lab stuff. Its not like I have a project with a set amount of work to do. If that was the case, I'd be stressed I wasn't working enough. My project isn't like that. Nor is it a never ending amount of molecular biology lab work in my future. Instead, its a carefully crafted mix of waiting for bacteria to grow (blast you desulfuromonas), making media, reading scientific papers (which I really should do more), and feeling like I should be doing more.
I go into the office every morning between 7:00 and 8:30 AM, and rarely leave before 4:30. I know I do things, but there is still this overwhelming sense that I'm not going to graduate as soon as everyone else, and that if I was diligent, like many of the other graduate students, I would be gearing up to defend come May, not August. Not that it really matters in the scheme of things: I don't think three or four months really makes a difference. I'm still young, I have time.
In the meantime, I'm sitting in my office, thinking about stories for science journalism, getting ready for seminar in two hours and a meeting with my adviser, listening to radiolab, and being hungry.
I would really like to start the full-on run of my Masters project early next week. Like Monday, that would be great, and get me on track to starting the isotope chem come December....we'll see.
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