25 feb 2006
flying into snowstorms with a sunburn
Since i last posted, i went to less & less actual conference and more & more... you know, laziness time. Hiked, swam, shopped. {Shit, sarah==bad scientist!} But this, my friends, is what they ALL do. i ran into many others hiking, swimming, shopping.
One of the other interns even ran into his scientist at 1:00 a.m.--both, "Where you going? Hotel? Oh! Well, then, good night!"
So in REAL EXCITINGNESS! i did go to (but one) session Friday, on the Southern Ocean and its margins ("Sediment Archives and Dynamics of Environmental Change and Varibility") in which some very similar work to my boss' was talked about--AND--and the Princeton guys had very old dates from southern ocean forams ~23,000 bp too. i got real excited about this, Liz got real excited about this, they're going to write a paper together (using my data, not that i'll be a coauthor or anything) and so on. Then my scientist took me tshirt shopping. Have i mentioned the world of bizarreness i live in??
"Sarah, you can't go to Hawai'i without buying an obnoxious tshirt. Since you're a broke undergrad, I'll get one for you."
i love my boss!
The conference overall was overwhelming--i can now understand why people specialize so early in their careers. The eighteen [funded together] undergraduates were bizarrely cliquey--gossipy even--to which i said, look, half of these people we'll never see again & the other half we have to work with the rest of our lives-so calm it down, troops. They went drinking again instead [Christi to Greg; "You people!"].
My roommate for the week was awesome, we spent all night Thursday talking on the beach and on our 31st floor balconey overlooking Honolulu--she's crazy microbes & health stuff, currently studying abroad in Vienna, generally fine character kind of girl--about every subject imaginable except gaming; and then i realized i hadn't talked about WoW all week, or normal boy stuff for that matter either [except for the fratty boys, but they were all around entertainment not to be taken seriously anyway] and you know i love my Madison things, but it is boy land for the most part. So that was good.
i schmoozed with just about every big-wig-mucky-muck from Lamont-Doherty, Scripps, Washington, Texas A&M, Oregon, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Alaska, etc. that was there, and do not remember a single name. Go me! But that's okay. The best was Thursday, trying to find the guy from Washington (me with my sunburn, him with the red-on-pineapples shirt) in the dark [so friday, "Don't change! Don't ever change! No... literally."].
View of Honolulu from Diamondhead
The winning grill!
Me, (another) Rachel R. & Jackie on Diamondhead
Same, about 5 feet from last photo...
4,000 oceanographers in one conference centre
Phil's photo of Rachel R., Jackie & i at Diamondhead
Night view of Honolulu, from the beach where we all got lost/ate/got lost/drank/talked with beggers/and got lost some more
Phil & me on top of Diamondhead
The houses are eating the mountains!! Ahck!
View from the hotel [except myne would have been higher]
Oahu, penisula of, from D.
Christi, me, Andrew, at dinner in the dark
and now i'm back in Madison, homework homework homework.
so much more happened, but i am tired of typing.
"I would give up my tyrannical reign if anyone else knew where we were going."--Phil on finding Diamond Head--
"Island bears only eat the beautiful--Phil, you will be sacrificed to us."--Rachel on... stuff--
"That is too much dance for one room!"--me on the Japanese dance squad outside of the bar 'Rumors'--
"Yes, 'Scuba Team Dies in Forest Fire.' And I'm first-aid trained too!"--(roomie) Liz on former part time jobs & newspaper headlines-- ¶ 17:13
Since i last posted, i went to less & less actual conference and more & more... you know, laziness time. Hiked, swam, shopped. {Shit, sarah==bad scientist!} But this, my friends, is what they ALL do. i ran into many others hiking, swimming, shopping.
One of the other interns even ran into his scientist at 1:00 a.m.--both, "Where you going? Hotel? Oh! Well, then, good night!"
So in REAL EXCITINGNESS! i did go to (but one) session Friday, on the Southern Ocean and its margins ("Sediment Archives and Dynamics of Environmental Change and Varibility") in which some very similar work to my boss' was talked about--AND--and the Princeton guys had very old dates from southern ocean forams ~23,000 bp too. i got real excited about this, Liz got real excited about this, they're going to write a paper together (using my data, not that i'll be a coauthor or anything) and so on. Then my scientist took me tshirt shopping. Have i mentioned the world of bizarreness i live in??
"Sarah, you can't go to Hawai'i without buying an obnoxious tshirt. Since you're a broke undergrad, I'll get one for you."
i love my boss!
The conference overall was overwhelming--i can now understand why people specialize so early in their careers. The eighteen [funded together] undergraduates were bizarrely cliquey--gossipy even--to which i said, look, half of these people we'll never see again & the other half we have to work with the rest of our lives-so calm it down, troops. They went drinking again instead [Christi to Greg; "You people!"].
My roommate for the week was awesome, we spent all night Thursday talking on the beach and on our 31st floor balconey overlooking Honolulu--she's crazy microbes & health stuff, currently studying abroad in Vienna, generally fine character kind of girl--about every subject imaginable except gaming; and then i realized i hadn't talked about WoW all week, or normal boy stuff for that matter either [except for the fratty boys, but they were all around entertainment not to be taken seriously anyway] and you know i love my Madison things, but it is boy land for the most part. So that was good.
i schmoozed with just about every big-wig-mucky-muck from Lamont-Doherty, Scripps, Washington, Texas A&M, Oregon, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Alaska, etc. that was there, and do not remember a single name. Go me! But that's okay. The best was Thursday, trying to find the guy from Washington (me with my sunburn, him with the red-on-pineapples shirt) in the dark [so friday, "Don't change! Don't ever change! No... literally."].
View of Honolulu from Diamondhead
The winning grill!
Me, (another) Rachel R. & Jackie on Diamondhead
Same, about 5 feet from last photo...
4,000 oceanographers in one conference centre
Phil's photo of Rachel R., Jackie & i at Diamondhead
Night view of Honolulu, from the beach where we all got lost/ate/got lost/drank/talked with beggers/and got lost some more
Phil & me on top of Diamondhead
The houses are eating the mountains!! Ahck!
View from the hotel [except myne would have been higher]
Oahu, penisula of, from D.
Christi, me, Andrew, at dinner in the dark
and now i'm back in Madison, homework homework homework.
so much more happened, but i am tired of typing.
"I would give up my tyrannical reign if anyone else knew where we were going."--Phil on finding Diamond Head--
"Island bears only eat the beautiful--Phil, you will be sacrificed to us."--Rachel on... stuff--
"That is too much dance for one room!"--me on the Japanese dance squad outside of the bar 'Rumors'--
"Yes, 'Scuba Team Dies in Forest Fire.' And I'm first-aid trained too!"--(roomie) Liz on former part time jobs & newspaper headlines-- ¶ 17:13
