Destroyer Minis

Getting back on top
  --27 September, 2008, 12:54:11

I've been back in Seattle about a week now. You know those arse hats who travel internationally whilst sick turning local influenza outbreaks into pandemics? Well it was my turn to don that hat and I brought home a nasty case of sniffles to share with my friends.

School has started and looks to be fun as ever. It's the start of a new year so there are bright, shiny and new freshmen all over the place. I needed some easy credits so I'm taking a 101 class. It's full of freshmen. The first day was spent lecturing us on how difficult this class is going to be. It's Drama 101. Somehow I don't believe them.

Let's see cool stuff...I saw a hornet fly into a spider's web to steal a fly out of it. On the bus yesterday, a crazy guy's voices were giving him a hard time and he threatened to blow me up if I didn't get out of his way. I was't in his way, but did decide not to get into it, so that ended without further excitement.

On the subject of cool stuff, I'm trying to get caught up from this summer's website neglect. So here are a bunch of new mini pics.

Today France, tomorrow Italy
  --14 September, 2008, 0:04:42

The internship at Belfast is complete. As part of our project we showed that various grinds of iron do not effect the date that is calculated for our samples. Woo! It was very neat, we PV'd those nRTs and I only spilled liquid nitrogen on myself twice.

On Thursday we flew to France. Nice was nice. From there we drove to Lyon. Along the way there were flamingos! Soon, after I get home, so not too soon I guess--there will be pictures! Andrew has taken over six hundred and my father has taken quite a few as well.

A big thanks to Jérémie for showing us around the kraken studio, and for giving us tour guide directions. : )

But now, my flight to Rome is about to leave. I don't expect internet access much in Rome either, so I'm afraid email responses will have to wait.

Pond hopping
  --3 September, 2008, 6:18:06

I'm in Belfast learning how my parents' particle accelerator works. We have expanded gas, and compressed it just like in thermodynamics. Speaking of which, grades are in, and despite doing way the heck too much this summer, I got straight A's. Even in thermo--and the A's in entomology were both of the 4.0 variety. : )

Unfortunately the network here will not allow me to access the backside of my site. The firewall is protecting me from myself, which means that I won't be able to add pictures or check email until I find an internet cafe. Before I left, I uploaded a carabid beetle I painted. Hooray for remembering URLs.