July 21, 2010

Yesterday was the second meeting for Science Club for Girls. For those of you who don't know, I lead the 1st grade club at a chinese school in downtown Boston. Yesterday our lesson plan was centered on bubbles! We learned about the colors in bubbles, the shape of bubbles, the differences between big and little bubbles and the elasticity of bubbles. The girls had a lot of fun!

I had less fun. The club was bookended by two difficult events. The first was the late arrival of one little girls who was in tears! She was inconsolable for the first few minutes following her arrival. Luckily, you may not be surprised to learn, bubbles go a long way in consoling a six year old girl! The second memorable event launched when one of the girls wet her pants, leaving a large puddle of pee on the classroom floor. I had the honor of taking her to the bathroom to help her clean up. I think I handled it fairly well considering I was trying not to gag while cleaning up her pee...ugh. I washed my hands a lot!

Here are some pictures of us playing with bubbles!

July 12, 2010 part b

Last night I dreamt that I moved back to California to work at JPL. The lab had the same layout, but all the equipment had been updated. Also, Governor Schwarzenegger was there to welcome me back (we were pals, apparently). Everyone else was there, too! Adam, Liana, Margie, George, Amy! Ken!

I also dreamt that I had really dry skin. To combat this, I used butter as a moisturizer. Go figure.

july 12, 2010

I am a jealous person, maybe I should use the word envious...does that sound better?

Currently, I am envious of people who blog regularly and whose blogs are interesting enough that they have followers; well, followers that are unknown to me.

I am envious of people who play games well. I play WoW (among other things), and I do alright, but I know other people who are phenomenal at games! I look up to these people, in a sad, pathetic sort of way.

I am envious of people who have swimming pools. I don't swim a lot, but I do like to lay by the pool and get a tan. It's no fun to lay out in the sun without a significant (read "pool sized or larger") body of water near by.

I am envious of people who have 9-5 jobs. This is not to say that I work longer hours, just that i know that i ought to. I would like to keep my same schedule without feeling so guilty about it.

I get really jealous (this word works here) of guest stars on the Supernumberone podcast! I wanna do it!

There're a lot of other things. These are the things I am thinking of now.

kisses!

May 17, 2010

In last night's dream I was in an old house with my co-workers Ashleigh and Heather. The house had recently been flooded and we were trying to assess the damage to figure out if we could use the space for a lab. As we were walking up the stairs from the basement, and alligator came out of nowhere and began attacking Ashleigh (she complained that "it tickled")! I used something sharp to cut off the gator's tail, which startled it enough that the three of us were able to make it to the top of the stairs where we quickly shut the door. The gator was small, though, and managed to wriggle under the door. I opened the door and kicked it back down the stairs and stuffed some jeans in the gap, hoping that would keep the gator contained. Nope, the alligator chewed through the jeans and started coming under the door, again! I had to kick it and fight with it. The gator's blood was bright orange with black specks (like pepper) in it...it was gross; it made me vomit...my vomit was bright pink like Pepto Bismol.

We won the fight, but what the heck?

I also dreamt that Steven came home in the middle of the night with a new picnic table, which I had to go back to the store to pay for the next day.

April 23, 2010

The other day I had a weird dream about taking a standardized text. It wasn't a normal test like the SAT or GRE, the questions were a bit more abstract. For example, I remember the first question was about an ancient Greek goddess:


The Goddess of Justice is perpetually plagued with the thought that her punishments are, in fact, unjust. She is currently waging an underwater battle with an unjust god. In light of the goddess's fears, which of the following scenarios would be the most ironic:


I then had four scenarios to choose from. I was not prepared to do well on this test.

March 17, 2010

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I am about to go to a group meeting. Given by a woman who has ~60 slides. Kill me!

March 3, 2010

Tonight is WoW night. Tonight is the night I play WoW. If it is ever a Wednesday night and you are thinking to yourself, "what is April doing," I am probably playing WoW.

WoW = World of Warcraft. I have been playing regularly since December 2008. Wednesday's I play with Kevin and Andrew. Join us on Thunderlord if you subscribe...Wednesday nights at 8pm eastern, 7pm central (5pm pacific? if you are home from work?).