Quote of the Day

"Boo yah!! I'm going on a McFlurry run in a tornado, pray for me."
-Text from Eric Geier, aka "FatEric

Arizona Yo!

It's hot! And IN THE DESERT. And did I mention it's hot?

More to come later. This may be the most useless blog post I've ever made. I have lots of photos to show you, but forgot my connecting cable, so will post them later! :)

Picture This...

As is usually (always) the case, here comes a long, much-overdue update on things. I'm too lazy to type, so here are lots of photos for you! :)

Ok, in the most chronological order I can think of...

Infrared Cards! Our astronomy club intramural soccer team. (Not to be overshadowed by the Infrared Sox softball team...)

Chris and I played in the All-Campus Band concert! Sarah and her family came to see it :)

Went to an SPS (Society of Physics Students) zone meeting in Morehead, KY. They have 21m radio telescope!

Fiesta Friday Dinner! Me, Jenny, Chris, Alec and Brian (Elaine is taking the photo)

Graduation party for Chris, Eric and Jenny. Look at all our delicious food and YES, that's right- a CHAMPAGNE TOWER. We're that classy, folks.

My cocktail dress. But aren't we just so charming? :)

The gang. Top: Eric, Tess his girlfriend, Chris and me. Bottom: Elaine, Jenny and Charity.

The late-night party crew. Jenny, Me, Chris, Jeff, Con (astro prof) and Elaine. This photo is priceless.

The graduates. :)

Hats off!

Words later, sometime! :) 

All Growed Up

Today I went to a laundromat alone for the first time in my life. I have been before, but never to actually do my own laundry. This year, I have done my laundry at friends' places who have machines (free!), at home, and once in a dorm basement. I avoid laundromats at every cost because:

a) They can be dirty
b) Sometimes they cost a lot
c) I'm extremely paranoid someone will steal my clothes
d) I don't want strangers to see my bras and undies

Today marks a monumental point in my life when I finally overcame my irrational fear of laundromats (out of necessity- I had one pair of (clean) underwear left).

Anyways. I've been neglecting the blog lately. Here are some recent updates from my life that I should have posted about loooong ago:

-Went ice climbing in Wisconsin (did I say this already? Oh well). It was TONS of fun.
-All in one day my car ran out of gas, the battery died, and a (already worn out) brake pad FELL out of my wheel. Did I mention this was during spring break, so I couldn't go anywhere?
-My car died again thiNM, NSO, Astronomy,s weekend. Did I mention it was in Lafayette? At least I got to see Naomi!
-Organized and ran the Physics Club "pi a professor day". I'm going mad with all this power.
-Presented a poster at a research symposium.
-Taking the physics GRE this saturday morning... KILL ME NOW
-And some other stuff I'm sure.
-Band concert in a couple weeks! :)

And the biggest news in my life recently is that I got accepted in the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) REU internship for this summer!!! Back to Arizona I go, but Tucson this time. It's way hotter :( I'm really excited though! I'll be working with a research scientist named Dara Norman. I spoke with her on the phone and she sounds great. My project looks really exciting too. I'm going to be looking at the distribution of x-ray AGN (active galactic nuclei... galaxies with blackholes at their centers!) in galaxy clusters. The bulk of my work will be reducing spectra, which is less exciting, but I'm sure will be informative. There's nothing like doing the behind-the-scenes work to truly understand what's really going on.

Until the next time I get a few free moments to update!!! Here's me exacting revenge on my professor during the pi a professor day.

Just pie'd my EM (electromagnetism) prof in the face...
Can you say F?

Me? Bitter? Never.

At least a cat always loves me unconditionally.