Things I Love Thursday

• Jelly beans, specifically Starburst Tropical jelly beans.
• My primary care physician at the University's health center. He's just a really kind, rather soft-spoken, knowledgeable, caring, helpful doctor.
• My hair cutter. If you live in UrPaign and need a good haircut, go see Terra at H2O in Urbana.
• Reproducible data. It's not perfect, but it's way better than it was!
• The American Physical Society. I got my copy of the Proceedings of Shock Compression of Condensed Matter-2011 today, and it just makes me happy.
• The prospect of getting a job. Nothing set in stone, no firm offers, BUT the last email I got from my hopeful future PI said (in response to my sending him an updated CV for my fellowship package): "You're awesome. Can't wait until you're working with us." So, yeah, I'm excited.

A Day in Haiku; Part I: mostly some data; and wasting the day

Morning

Cough, cough, spit, cough, spit.
Tia, please don't eat that sock.
Time to go to work.

Morning II

That cannot go there.
Throw out damaged lenses now.
Organization.

Morning III

Data, data, dat-
a, data, data, data.
FROZEN COMPUTER!

Morning IV

Wrestle with data
Beat me into submission
Question life choices

Afternoon I

I deserve to eat.
J. Gumbo's for Jean Lafitte
and some good reading

Afternoon II

I just remembered
easy data procedure.
Wasted the morning.

Afternoon III

Compare Day Camp to
Menudo; yes, I am a
spicy latin boy.

Afternoon IV

Amazing lecture!
I learned some biology
and stayed wide awake!

Afternoon V

Writing some haikus
until my bus picks me up.
Data tomorrow.