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When it’s all said and done…

When it’s all said and done,
It’s real and it’s been fun,
But was it all real fun?

–Greenday

It was fun, for the most part. Most labs spend a lot of time together. Not many of them cohabitate for the better part of a semester. It could have been awful, but it was mostly rockin’. Thanks guys, and so long St.Louis. I finally saw the arch today, from afar.

I should probably write a longer post about this later. Off to bed.

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Buffy hanging out at edge of solar system

This article details a new finding of an object just outside the solar system. It has a very odd orbit. Read the article for details.

Also, the object is named Buffy, after the vampire slayer of the same name. Yeah, I know.

Personally, I think it’s the Alien Observation Craft, sent by a sentient race to keep an eye on us and make sure we don’t leave the solar system. Kind of a cosmic trip wire. Or maybe it’s just a chunk of rock that got lost. It remains to be seen.

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Journal Articles for the Week of 2005-12-05

Here are the articles that I added to my Cite-U-Like Queue this week. They generally pertain to myocardial ischemia and infarction, but there are some others mixed in as well.

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So much food

I dished out some leftover thai peanut tofu for myself. Then I thought, wow, that’s a lot of leftovers.

I am so, SO full. Ow.

At least it was tasty. Today was exhausting, but very academically interesting. There are days when I just grind at boring details, days when I’ve had to deal with annoying students as a TA, and days when I just can’t concentrate for people bugging me all of the time.

And then, there are days where I find out just how much really cool stuff is going on in the field, and in scientific research in general. Heavy though my eyelids may be, today was one of those days. I feel like I’m getting close to some kind of critical mass.

hah. Classes will probably set me back two semesters on getting there. But at least I know it’s out there.

Off to Bedfordshire.

ADDENDUM: I did not sleep well on a full stomach… uuughhh.

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Sometimes it’s good to take your own advice

I’m staying out of the whole Save Tulane Engineering thing for the duration of the issue. It’s clear to me that I was fighting against forces that I could never hope to have any influence on — which is exactly what I allege is happening in the Save Tulane Engineering movement.

These things just need to play themselves out. I’ll continue doing my own work and trying to keep the remaining bits of the E-school up and running.

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