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decisions and transitions and strong quads
Interviewed at 10 grad schools. Loved all of them: research was amazing, people were amazing, talking to scientists day in and day out confirmed that this is exactly what I want to do. Some of them made me feel more at home than others, a few (read: all the West Coast schools) filled me with …
my future-daydreams never reached past 2012
To celebrate the New Year I went camping in Huntsville State Park, part of the Sam Houston National Forest. Highlights of the drive from Austin-College Station-Huntsville: 1) silo with a smiley face 2) sign for “Old Potato Road” 3) stretch of freeway covered in stripes, called “Highway Paint Test Site” 4) this song was playing when …
Best Coast, my neighbors’ cats, and graduate school applications
I am drowning in graduate school applications and analytical chemistry lab reports. Every weekend is devoted to writing and working, and I feel guilty when I do anything else. I went on a trip to Fort Davis & McDonald Observatory a few weeks ago. It’s an almost 8 hour drive from Austin, so I …
Quick Projects
My mom’s birthday was on Saturday, so I decided a couple days beforehand to knit her a scarf. I’d also gotten her a pair of earrings painted with smiling suns while I was in Prague, but she’s long expressed a desire for a hand-knitted scarf. I made the scarf with a simple seed stitch pattern; …
walking is underrated
My soft cast was taken off today, my stitches were removed, and I had a hard walking-cast put on! My wound is healing cleanly, though my foot is currently sporting a lovely mix of green, yellow, and black bruises. I was expecting an L-shaped scar (that’s what the internet said was common for a ligament …
Old Sweaters, begone
I have spent the past few days watching Harry Potter movies and working on the scarf I started on the plane to England a couple months ago. It’s coming along nicely: I’m looking forward to colder weather when I can actually wear knitted things again. The hot summer weather of Austin is really wearing …
a few lazy rambles.
I’ve been back in the States for a couple weeks now, and yet I’ve written about neither knitting nor traveling (nor anything else at all). What, one might wonder, could be keeping me so busy? If you answered "absolutely nothing," you’d be spot on. My days have consisted mostly of sleeping (especially since I had …
Goodbye, Cambridge. Hello, Rome, Prague, Dublin?
A short little summary of my last day in Cambridge: We explored the botanical gardens on our last day in Cambridge. It was beautiful and a lot of fun. Perhaps we should not’ve gotten so close to the giant leaves; they might’ve EATEN US. There were several wonderful trees that demanded climbing. We had …
Last Week In Cambridge
good tidings: –I no longer have pink eye –I am going to Rome, Prague, and Dublin next week –I only have one day left of biotransport –I have returned from my blogging hiatus, sort of bad ones: –I still have not written up entries about my trips to Amsterdam, Barcelona, or Paris (though I have …
One Day in London
At last, a travel entry, brought to you by procrastination and exhaustion! Last weekend we went to London and I went to Amsterdam; here’s the short version of my Friday in London: 1–survived confusing train mix-up, saw beautiful fields of flowers, made it to London 2–stopped briefly in the British Library and imagined I saw …
