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things are GRE-at

// November 10th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

so yeah, im taking the GRE….Graduate Record Examination…tomorrow and I feel oddly relaxed. I’ve studied my butt off and taken a few test practices, but I feel like I should be a little nervous, but the fact is that things are okay; things are good.

What do you say when you have a group of outstanding coworkers and children/teacher/chaperones? I say you live it up! Although busy, this past week has been very good for me in the fact that I am more confident in my teaching, not to mention that I was evaluated by my bosses last week…which went super great. I feel validated and also like my work has been paying off! This time last year, I would not consider myself a competent teacher.

I think a lot of people should consider teaching and it’s rewards, especially those who might be a little timid, but where do I want to go???!!! In my life, that is….

Well the other night i was talking to one of my friends/coworkers (thanks Cheryl) on things I could do in the future and she thought I should be a professor!! It’s kinda funny she said that because I actually have never entertained that idea before, but it makes sense. I will be around a bunch of idealistic people, be able to talk all of the time, while doing research on cool things, and also being able to write grants and help others! Who could ask for more, right? Well, I definitely feel like I am moving and starting to shake the coconuts out of the tree.

The GRE will be a great starting point for me to align myself and think about 4 to 10 more years of education. Phew….could I overcome that hurdle? I get distracted by so many different areas of knowledge.

times are busy: this weekend I will be taking the GRE, then next weekend I will be in cambridge, ma for a job interview, then the following weekend I will be turning 27 along with some turkey lovin.

times fly by!

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an…

// September 29th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (21% permissive) You are best described as a: Strong Democrat Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Chomsky at West Point

// August 23rd, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

Although this is somewhat of an old video, i thought it expressed some points on how military institutions truncate or censor someone’s message when it exposes a relatively unknown (in the general public) negative aspect of U.S. history or news. Now I may be taking it out of context when, at the end of this video, the gentleman interrupts Chomsky and say’s they ‘are constrained to military time’, but it does seem ironic.

Muggles learn to make invisibility cloak without magic!

// June 10th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

Apparently, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have found a way to manipulate the electromagentic spectrum to cloak objects , using ‘metamaterials’.

It’s actually quite fascinating! And although it’s hard to imagine the implications, technology like this could expose the Wizarding world!!

Electromagnetic waves would flow around an object hidden inside the metamaterial cloak just as water in a river flows virtually undisturbed around a smooth rock

- Dr. Smith

here is the link for the news story:
http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/cloaking.html

// June 5th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it wi…

// June 5th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)

Love for Science!

// May 17th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

After a solid 3 weeks of teaching gradeschool children about coastal ecology, I can honestly say I feel closer to our environment and more excited about science that I’ve been since I was little!! This sentiment has also afforded me a lot of new knowledge about whales, sharks, beaches, saltwater marshes, and succession. The main reason I took leave of science is because I got burned out of trying to become a doctor, which is a bottleneck field and very competitive.

Health is fascinating, interesting, and totally saves lives, but the pressure, responsibility, and expectation started to become overwhelming.

I chose to involve myself completely with computers and digital technology:
: Textbooks are free online — there are so many how-tos
: It still satisfies my logic and analytical predisposition
: You can still help others through digital means

Now, it seems, I am torn between the two with my new profession:

All this nature has led me to a new level of romantic where I am looking inward and upward more, but truely feeling nature nurture and ground my life in a way that gives me peace. I used to get this nervous tick when I wasn’t near a computer for an extended period of time, but now I can enjoy and appreciate being ‘unplugged’ for a stint.

I can definitely see how your stereotypical ‘hippi’ can be so mellow and see how things are so related. From chaos theory to an emotion, there is an echoing movement of consciousness or some harmonic that oscillates truth. . .

The beach is nice. I am lucky. I love science!

Marriage in the Air! (not me)

// May 7th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

So recently I found out two of my very good friends in Charleston will be getting married! And they want me to be their best man!!!!

Darren and Kim Cumbie? It has a nice ring to it! It truely is going to be an honor to be in your wedding!

Kim and Darren both enjoy the vintage/beachy atmosphere of Charleston, SC.

Kim is an Editor/Statistician and Darren is an IT analyst.

It’s another wonderful excuse to travel to Charleston too

So congrats you guys!!! And thanks for all the help you provided me when I was living down there. I couldn’t ask for better friends…and now you will be Married!!

Your own radio station!

// April 29th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

Blogging beyond the web! Make your own media/podcasts! It’s truely exciting stuff!

Recently I inquired about recieving a fm transmitter from “Broadcast Your Podcast” via Audioactivism.org so that I could possibly give a platform for friends and community to say something about their country, recent happenings, or their own music. I really am excited about the potential for use and the empowerment of creating your own broadcasts from your computer and bringing them to people driving by tuning in!

How it basically works is you get this FM transmitter that you attach to your computer and tune it to a specific frequency…(an unused one, I imagine, at the top or bottom of your of the spectrum like 89.1 or 106.7) then you just start playing your media! Whomever tunes their radio station to your preset frequency will be able to hear what you have to say.

After I have tinker with it and learn how to make them on my own, I hope to provide them for free to anyone who wants one and will use it. When I recieve mine (via the generosity of Lotte Meijer of Broadcast Your Podcast), I will be posting more on how I use it, the range, etc.

Your own radio station!

// April 29th, 2006 // Comments Off // Everything Else

Blogging beyond the web! Make your own media/podcasts! It’s truely exciting stuff!

Recently I inquired about recieving a fm transmitter from “Broadcast Your Podcast” via Audioactivism.org so that I could possibly give a platform for friends and community to say something about their country, recent happenings, or their own music. I really am excited about the potential for use and the empowerment of creating your own broadcasts from your computer and bringing them to people driving by tuning in!

How it basically works is you get this FM transmitter that you attach to your computer and tune it to a specific frequency…(an unused one, I imagine, at the top or bottom of your of the spectrum like 89.1 or 106.7) then you just start playing your media! Whomever tunes their radio station to your preset frequency will be able to hear what you have to say.

After I have tinker with it and learn how to make them on my own, I hope to provide them for free to anyone who wants one and will use it. When I recieve mine (via the generosity of Lotte Meijer of Broadcast Your Podcast), I will be posting more on how I use it, the range, etc.