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I dyed my hair purple! I totally love it. I doubt it's hot enough to put me up to SG status and I definitely didn't do it for that! I've always wanted to have purple hair. I've also always wanted to dress up like a space vixen with purple hair. I'm going to go to Walmart and buy some shiny 7of9 type of material to...
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Ok, so I hate driving 45 miles to visit a guy. I hate being told he doesn't have time for me tonight because he's too busy playing with his xbox. ARGH! At least he could invite me to play too. Yea, I could kick his ass but that should be a turn on! Stupid wimpy insecure dork.

I've been cooking in the lab lately. My committee told me I need to learn chemistry if I'm going to be a chemist. So... I'm trying some synthesis now. I made nanosize Cobalt Sulfide nanospheres with a platinum particle in them. The synthesis requires using dioctacarbonyl cobalt... which is rather dangerous and causes cyanosis (whatever that is) and reacts violently with water. Needless to say...
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Sorry I've been gone for a while!! I've been busy doing high pressure experiments using a diamond anvil cell on hollow nanospheres! I broke my first diamond during a very intense work week! I took a 500 micron culet (hugely expensive diamond) up to 20 GPa. It didn't shatter until I went down in pressure. I think we've discovered something unusual but I won't fully...
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For Thanksgiving, my girlfriends and I drove all the way down to the Hearst Castle and mingled with the tourists. I've always wanted to go there. It was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortnuately my Casio battery died and I lost the charger (think I left it at my psycho-friend's house so it's probably been thrown away by now) so no pictures. *sigh* I also dragged my mountain...
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Halo 2 has FINALLY arrived!!!! I should be saving Earth from Convenant forces rather than spending the evening updating this... Master Chief is so shiney in the game... My thesis research is going to come to a grinding halt now that Halo has online capability. Wohoo!

I bought a cake for my best friend's birthday and drove two hours to deliver it to him. He wasn't home so I left it on his doorstop. He said he threw it away! I guess cake isn't Atkins friendly. Oops!

Up late compiling Unix programs... and these few lines in the ./configure stage caught my eye:

checking for blumfrub... no
checking for buckets_of_erogenous_nym... no
checking for buttox... no

Some programmer somewhere has quite the sense of humor. Sad to see that my Unix box has now buckets of erogenous nym though.

From www.m-w.com . It's today's word of the day....

The Word of the Day for October 13 is:

obdurate \AHB-duh-rut\ adjective
1 a : stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing b : hardened in
feelings
*2 : resistant to persuasion or softening influences

Example sentence:
Although Kristie tried hard to persuade Bob to attend the
party, he remained obdurate in his refusal to go.

Did you know?...
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The mars rover site http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html has the silliest cartoon flash of the exploration rovers. Doesn't it make you wonder who's getting paid to do that?

My boyfriend hasn't spoken to me in a week. What does that mean?