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...

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Re: My dad liked...

[happychemist.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Hahaha! Yeah, I wasn't completely aware most kids didn't know Carpenters until I was in a store one day and unwittingly began singing along. My friends all turned me and looked at me like I'd grown antlers.

Back then, I was insecure enough to stop and not want to sing anymore in my life.

Given what I know now, I think I would have kept on singing :p