Apr. 16th, 2014 02:47 pm
Jun. 12th, 2008 10:52 am
in which i come back!
Hey! I'm back! I'm officially returning from my lj hiatus. I'm pretty sure that I've been gone long enough that most people have forgotten me, but that's ok. Because I'm back!
It's summer here, so although I'm working and doing research, I have lots of downtime, which means that I will finally be able to get back into the lj way of things. Reading other people's entries, writing my own (hopefully), and finally doing all of those memes that Alex tagged me for three months ago.
I'm currently in Baltimore for the summer (yeaahhhh?) doing research for one of my old professors. I'm working under a post doc who's very nice and very pregnant and also not so good with english. We're making zinc oxide nanowires. Everyone kind of looks at me like I'm crazy when I tell them this, but to be honest, it's a lot of fun and incredibly interesting. I could go on more about what we do, but then everyone would realize just how incredibly dorky that I am. Unfortunately, my post doc doesn't always know what to do with me and since I've already read over 20 scientific papers on zinc oxide nanowires and nanostructures, this means that I've come into an overabundance of free time.
For the first time in over a year, I've not had to do homework so my evenings have been remarkably free. I've gotten back into cooking, which I had forgotten how much I loved. One of my roommates last year made horrible messes in the kitchen, such as making a cake with a toffee sauce on top and then leaving everything unwashed and uncovered lying about, and after first semester I refused to clean up for her. Sadly that meant that I didn't get to cook very much. But now that she's not here, I've dug out my barefoot contessa cookbook and been cooking like mad. If anyone has fun summer recipes they'd recommend, I'd love suggestions! I think that next weekend, my friend and I are going to host a creole themed dinner.
On the drama front, I've become obsessed with Legend--I've watched 18 episodes in less than a week. I don't think I've mainlined a drama the way that I'm watching Legend since my beginning days with HYD and jdramas. The Legend is so incredibly fantastic. I almost didn't watch it because when![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bitofpixiedust was pimping it to me and told me it was a korean historical piece, I immediately backed away. Korean dramas tend to be a bit more angsty and melodramatic than I enjoy and I've never really gotten into Asian historical dramas. But she continued to push it and described the first few episodes and she made it sound so interesting that I couldn't help but watch it. I was not at all let down --I can't get over the visuals, the awesome plot, or the amazing characters. It really impressed me.
It's summer here, so although I'm working and doing research, I have lots of downtime, which means that I will finally be able to get back into the lj way of things. Reading other people's entries, writing my own (hopefully), and finally doing all of those memes that Alex tagged me for three months ago.
I'm currently in Baltimore for the summer (yeaahhhh?) doing research for one of my old professors. I'm working under a post doc who's very nice and very pregnant and also not so good with english. We're making zinc oxide nanowires. Everyone kind of looks at me like I'm crazy when I tell them this, but to be honest, it's a lot of fun and incredibly interesting. I could go on more about what we do, but then everyone would realize just how incredibly dorky that I am. Unfortunately, my post doc doesn't always know what to do with me and since I've already read over 20 scientific papers on zinc oxide nanowires and nanostructures, this means that I've come into an overabundance of free time.
For the first time in over a year, I've not had to do homework so my evenings have been remarkably free. I've gotten back into cooking, which I had forgotten how much I loved. One of my roommates last year made horrible messes in the kitchen, such as making a cake with a toffee sauce on top and then leaving everything unwashed and uncovered lying about, and after first semester I refused to clean up for her. Sadly that meant that I didn't get to cook very much. But now that she's not here, I've dug out my barefoot contessa cookbook and been cooking like mad. If anyone has fun summer recipes they'd recommend, I'd love suggestions! I think that next weekend, my friend and I are going to host a creole themed dinner.
On the drama front, I've become obsessed with Legend--I've watched 18 episodes in less than a week. I don't think I've mainlined a drama the way that I'm watching Legend since my beginning days with HYD and jdramas. The Legend is so incredibly fantastic. I almost didn't watch it because when
bitofpixiedust was pimping it to me and told me it was a korean historical piece, I immediately backed away. Korean dramas tend to be a bit more angsty and melodramatic than I enjoy and I've never really gotten into Asian historical dramas. But she continued to push it and described the first few episodes and she made it sound so interesting that I couldn't help but watch it. I was not at all let down --I can't get over the visuals, the awesome plot, or the amazing characters. It really impressed me.
