InaDWriMo: in my dreams
I am woefully behind on my InaDWriMo goal. To be fair, I've been working hard at this paper. 3298 words of IDL scripts, and a whole pile of pretty pictures. And picture is worth 1K words, right? I've...
View ArticleNot December Scientiae
I had fully intended to write a post for the December Scientiae, especially since I love reading Isis the Goddess'shoe science blog. This month's topic was "My Science is Way Hotter Than Dr. Isis'...
View ArticleHere comes the sun
I've been awful negative lately in my posts, and it occurred to me that I ought to try to lighten things up a bit.So instead of agonizing over how much I need to get done before my trip tomorrow, I'm...
View Article5 things meme
I'm a little late on this meme, but here goes anyway:5 Things I was doing 10 years ago1. Getting married.2. Not talking to my father because I was living "in sin." Until the day of the wedding. Then he...
View ArticleStill looking for the sun
Made it to California just fine.The weather was good about half the flight over, which was cool because I love watching the land change below when I fly cross country. I find the regular grids imposed...
View ArticleQuack quack
There are ducks swimming in the hotel pool right now.For some reason, this strikes me as really funny.
View ArticleJFOS day 1
They keep us pretty busy at this meeting. They bussed us over to the conference center at 8:30 this morning, and bussed us back after dinner at around 8pm. And there's some kind of informal interaction...
View ArticleJFOS day 1 addendum
My favorite comment from dinner last night: "This meeting is a lot like reading an issue of Science cover-to-cover, regardless of subject."
View ArticleJFOS day 2
One of yesterday's talk was talking about cell sheets and their medical uses. One of the slides compared cell sheets to traditional grafts with an illustration of shabu-shabu versus a hunk of steak....
View ArticleSoul-searching
Ever get the feeling that the universe is trying to tell you something?Lately, it's been telling me the following:You don't have to keeping doing what you've been doing.You don't have to follow the...
View ArticleI should stop taking everything so personally, I know
Today, the universe is telling me I can't print anything. Or maybe the printers just hate me. Okay, to be fair, they seem to hate everyone in the lab today.Perhaps today's message is one of...
View ArticleBlogoversary Bye Bye
One year ago today, I started this blog. I subsequently moved it elsewhere, for a number of reasons, but then moved it back here for a number of different reasons. If you managed to follow me this far,...
View ArticleNew Digs
This is to officially announce my new blogging gig:The Women in Astronomy blog, part of the CSWA's efforts to bring itself into the 21st century. Come on by!
View ArticleThe truth about the truth
*testing* *testing*Boy, this place is dusty with disuse!I've come back here because I keep constructing blog entries in my head, but they aren't really appropriate for the Women in Astrnomy blog, but I...
View ArticleBlogging for Choice
It's the 37th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, so it's Blog for Choice Day. I wrote the following on the Women in Astronomy blog last year, and I think it's worth repeating today:Reproductive freedom, up to...
View ArticleRumor mongering
What is your opinion of the astrophysics jobs rumor mill?a) Nothing good ever comes of reading the rumor mill.b) The rumor mill is totally addictive and I check it multiple times a day.c) a &...
View ArticleThe Ides of March
I spent last week in Boston and Philly. Before I left, there were still a few sad piles of snow left from our snowstorms back in February (aka "Snowmaggedon"), enough that finding a clear parking space...
View ArticleJudging
I'm judging a high school science fair this weekend. You would not believe the amount of Imposter Syndrome symptoms this has triggered in me. Okay, maybe you would. Still, it's stressing me out more...
View ArticleJudged
Last weekend, I judged a science fair. It was my first time being on this side of a science fair, although honestly, the only time I entered in a science fair was in 7th grade with a project on...
View ArticleWhy I Wasn't One of the 275 at the NPA Meeting
So, YoungFemaleScientistremarked on the perceived low turnout at the National Postdoctoral Association's 2010 Annual Meeting, and Isis the Scientist responded with, "well, duh, they need to serve...
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