I'm back!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for! JM wrote a blog post. Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!

So, I'm not one of those bloggers that is always counting comments or looking at traffic or begging people to "vote" for them for some pointless blog award or something. I like having a blog, but I'll be the first to admit that I sometimes abandon it for stretches of 6 months. I'm not concerned with "losing followers" and so far no one has complained about my lack of posts for... what, the whole summer? (Probably because I have no followers...) But now that it's fall and school is back in session, I might start posting again. I've been busy! I could probably think of a lot to write about. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for stopping by. :)

I love the Ocean

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

--Isak Dinesen

Don't drink the water

I don't have time to write a long post, but you can read this: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5geDUvZfc7dzGJd8oa6hV7msLnuEwD9FEDQR80

MA issued a boil-water order for drinking water in 30 communities, which include 2 million people in 700,000 households. Crazy. In a nutshell, a pipe that supplied water broke. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was is drawing "emergency" water from various reservoirs for bathing, flushing and fire protection. But that water isn't treated for drinking, so the state issued the boil-water order. One of the places they are getting water from is the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. It's right by my house and I walk down there all the time and sometimes go running around it. Sometimes I see turtles swimming in the water. Aww, turtle water! :P

Good thing I have tons of emergency water in my "water storage" (tons of 2-liter bottles filled with water and a couple drops of bleach that we store in the back bottom shelves in the pantry). I never thought I'd actually have to use it. Crazy. But I'm glad we have it so I don't have to worry about boiling all my water, drinking turtle water, or the fact that most of the grocery stores are sold out of bottled water.

Countdown

Many of my friends are engaged and counting down to their wedding. I on the other hand have a much more mundane life and am counting down to something less exciting (but more stressful): comps. Yay. 10 more days until the biggest exam of my life. I hope I pass.

Last night I fell asleep studying and had dreams about the IMF (interplanetary magnetic field). Actually they were more like nightmares. It was peachy.

Well, I need to get back to studying. After I finish comps I have a goal to once again post somewhat regularly on here, for your reading enjoyment.

Update

Well, it has been over 2 months since my last post. I'm way too busy to write on a blog, I guess. However, I anticipate things slowing down a bit soon. (As soon as I finish my comprehensive exams which I have spent all my free time studying for, because if I fail I get kicked out of my graduate program and I don't get a second chance or anything, and I'm not exaggerating about this despite what some of my "friends" may think...)

The only big news I can think of off the top of my head is that I got awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship, which was awesome and totally unexpected. So assuming I pass comps, I'm home free for the next 3 years because I will be funded by the NSF. No more TAing and no more stressing about if my advisor has the funding to pay me. Yay!!! :)

Now, back to studying. I'll post an update after comps. Maybe from Europe or somewhere.

"I'm bored..."

Lately I have been getting really annoyed when I hear people whine and complain that they are "bored." Seriously? You're bored? Are you 5 years old?

I don't even remember what it feels like to be bored. When sleep is a luxury--and one that you don't often get to enjoy--boredom isn't really an issue, I guess.

JM uncut :D

I'm famous!!!!

http://uncuts.blogspot.com/2009/11/troels-og-pede-uncut-we-made-ruling.html

I finally made the blog. whoo hoo.