I am reminded...

[happychemist]

...of the long ten-hour car trips my family would take together to Maryland to visit our relatives there. "Close to You" by The Carpenters came on the radio and I was reminded of my parents' love for soft rock.

Imagine my eight-year-old brother and I (a very mature nine years old) singing along...:p

Anyhow, I gave a seminar to my department on Friday. I went out my mind with nerves in preparing, and I was almost positive I was going to burn someone's eye out with the laser pointer with stray gesturing, but after about five minutes, I achieved "lecture" zen and stayed relatively all right.

It went surprisingly well and I really can't talk about it without feeling a little embarrassed; my mental picture of how it went never quite accurately reflects how it *really* went. Anyhow, it's cool because my friends and colleagues know what I've been working on, and people enjoyed it, and I think that in time I will admit that I enjoyed it and benefited from the experience.

Today was extremely lazy. I didn't get up until noon and I spent this afternoon/evening/night reading wendybarron's Every Arrear of Civility...well done, Wendy!

But as I didn't get up until noon, kit is now 1:30 am and I can't fall asleep quite yet...methinks it's time to hammer out the rest of chapter 3 of Emma Experiments...

Comments

Re: The Carpenters!

[happychemist.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe! I'll never be able to hear that song without thinking about that.

For me, it used to be the Pledge of Allegiance. Instead of "and to the republic for which it stands" it came out "and to the republic of witches' dance"

Re: The Carpenters!

[the-marchioness.livejournal.com]

I used to say witches too! That's what comes of being taught how to say the Pledge of Allegiance before one could read and without really being taught the meaning of the pledge, only how to say it. When I finally say the words, it was another one of those epiphany moments of Ohhhhh. ;P