“is developing a plan.”

—

Core 103: The Process of Change in Science (Dappen)

Required Reading
Bartusiak, Marcia. Through a Universe Darkly. New York: Avon (1995).
Brockman, John. The Third Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster (Touchstone Books) (1996).
Gleick, James. Chaos. New York: Penguin (1988).
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam (1988).
Kane, Gordon. The Particle Garden. Addison-Wesley (Helix Books) (1995).
Lindley, David. Where Does The Weirdness Go? Harper Collins (Basic Books) (1996).

&#8220;There&#8217;s really no hope for me<br/> And that three second rule<br/> Somethin gets dropped<br/> And still I&#8217;m the slowest damn fool<br/> Slow to realize what&#8217;s really going on<br/> Slow to know in a moment<br/> Who or what has gone wrong&#8221;

— Lag Time, Ani DiFranco

Mmmmmm. Jalapeño kolaches.

Pool was open. 1300 yards were swum.

I've been up since 2. I think it's time to try and go to the gym. Maybe the pool will be open?

I CAN HAS EELECKTREESEETEEEEEE!!!!11!!

Not my best night. Blisters on both hands, a head full of singed hair, 2 good burns on my stomach &amp; right forearm. I must be distracted.

I should SO not be allowed to drive a car like this one. heeheeheehee

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-tall24-2008sep24,0,6136387.story?track=rss

She liked me. I could feel that. The way you feel when the cards are falling right for you, with a nice little pile of blue and yellow chips in the middle of the table. Only what I didn’t know then was that I wasn’t playing her. She was playing me, with a deck of marked cards and the stakes weren’t any blue and yellow chips. They were dynamite.

http://www.muscleandfitnesshers.com/training/100?page=1

M&F Hers: 5 EPOC ideas

http://www.muscleandfitnesshers.com/quads_glutes_plyometrics/training/119

M&F Hers: Lower Body Boot Camp

For now I see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

http://www.2magazine.com/2008/09/sexinpublic/index.php

I may never feel the same way about IKEA again...

I think that your body is something I understand I think that I'm happy I think that I'm blessed -- Ani DiFranco, Swandive

&#8220;<p>cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand<br/> feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest<br/> i think that your body is something i understand<br/> i think that i&#8217;m happy, i think that i&#8217;m blessed</p> <p>i&#8217;ve got a lack of inhibition<br/> i&#8217;ve got a loss of perspective<br/> i&#8217;ve had a little bit to drink<br/> and it&#8217;s making me think<br/> that i can jump ship and swim<br/> that the ocean will hold me<br/> that there&#8217;s got to be more<br/> than this boat i&#8217;m in</p> <p>&#8216;cuz they can call me crazy if i fail<br/> all the chance that i need<br/> is one-in-a-million<br/> and they can call me brilliant<br/> if i succeed<br/> gravity is nothing to me, moving at the speed of sound<br/> i&#8217;m just going to get my feet wet<br/> until i drown</p> <p>and i teeter between tired<br/> and really, really tired<br/> im wiped and im wired but i guess its just as well<br/> because i built my own empire<br/> out of car tires and chicken wire<br/> and i&#8217;m queen of my own compost heap<br/> and i&#8217;m getting used to the smell</p> <p>and i&#8217;ve got a lack of information<br/> but i got a little revelation<br/> and i&#8217;m climbing up on the railing<br/> trying not to look down<br/> i&#8217;m going to do my best swan dive<br/> in the shark-infested waters<br/> i&#8217;m gonna pull out my tampon <br/> and start splashing around</p> <p>&#8216;cuz i don&#8217;t care if they eat me alive<br/> i&#8217;ve got better things to do than survive<br/> i&#8217;ve got a memory of your warm skin in my hand<br/> and i&#8217;ve got a vision of blue sky and dry land</p> <p>i&#8217;m cradling the hardest, heaviest part of me in my hand<br/> the ship is pitching and heaving, my limbs are bobbing and weaving<br/> and i think this is what i understand<br/> i just need a little vaccination for my far-away vacation<br/> i&#8217;m going to go ahead and go boldly because a little bird told me<br/> the jumping is easy, the falling is fun<br/> up until you hit the sidewalk, shivering, stunned</p> <p>and they can call me crazy if i fail<br/> all the chance that i need<br/> is one-in-a-million<br/> and they can call me brilliant<br/> if i succeed<br/> gravity is nothing to me<br/> moving at the speed of sound<br/> i&#8217;m just gonna get my feet wet<br/> until i drown&#8230;</p>&#8221;

— Swandive, Ani DiFranco

&quot;the jumping is easy, the falling is fun, up until you hit the sidewalk, shivering, stunned&quot; -- Ani DiFranco, Swandive

Why does it fell hotter now (3 am) than it did when I first went to bed (11 pm)? Also, why am I up at 3 am?

TWELVE DAYS with no power. 12.

If you love me, buy me books.

• 
  The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson


• 
  To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf


• 
  The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton


• 
  White Teeth, Zadie Smith


• 
  The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende


• 
  Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion


• 
  Excellent Women, Barbara Pym


• 
  The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath


• 
  Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys


• 
  The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri


• 
  Beloved, Toni Morrison


• 
  Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert


• 
  Like Life, Lorrie Moore


• 
  Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen


• 
  Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë


• 
  The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin


• 
  A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley


• 
  A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor


• 
  The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx


• 
  You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker


• 
  Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston


• 
  To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee


• 
  Fear of Flying, Erica Jong


• 
  Earthly Paradise, Colette


• 
  Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt


• 
  Property, Valerie Martin


• 
  Middlemarch, George Eliot


• 
  Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid


• 
  The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir


• 
  Runaway, Alice Munro


• 
  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers


• 
  The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston


• 
  Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë


• 
  You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates


• 
  Little Women, Louisa May Alcott


• 
  Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill


• 
  The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr


• 
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou


• 
  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith


• 
  And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie


• 
  Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison


• 
  The Secret History, Donna Tartt


• 
  The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley


• 
  The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker


• 
  The Group, Mary McCarthy


• 
  Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi


• 
  The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing


• 
  The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank


• 
  Frankenstein, Mary Shelley


• 
  Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag


• 
  In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez


• 
  The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck


• 
  Fun Home, Alison Bechdel


• 
  Three Junes, Julia Glass


• 
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft


• 
  Sophie’s Choice, William Styron


• 
  Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann


• 
  Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford


• 
  Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell


• 
  The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin


• 
  The Red Tent, Anita Diamant


• 
  The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera


• 
  The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn


• 
  My Antonia, Willa Cather


• 
  Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez


• 
  The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West


• 
  Spending, Mary Gordon


• 
  The Lover, Marguerite Duras


• 
  The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy


• 
  Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen


• 
  Nightwood, Djuna Barnes


• 
  Three Lives, Gertrude Stein


• 
  Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons


• 
  I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith


• Possession, A.S. Byatt

The car I'm driving? I bought it.

The car I'm driving? I bought it.

The car I'm driving? I bought it.

Resorting to childhood method of temp regulation in attempt to cool off enough to sleep: apply wet towel to entire body & pray for breeze

Books by candlelight not withstanding, I'd love to get my electricity back sooner rather than later. "Sometime after Monday!"

It's early enough that I could go for a run, but somehow reading a non-fiction mystery set in Venice by candlelight just seems right.

I am the calm after the storm, and the calm before.

is attempting to sort herself out--alone--for the first time in 6-ish years.

second movie in as many days. can i please have my power back now?

Is this what I want? Am I happy? DID I JUST MAKE THE BIGGEST FUCKING MISTAKE OF MY LIFE?

Is this what I want? Am I happy? DID I JUST MAKE THE BIGGEST FUCKING MISTAKE OF MY LIFE?

Sitting on the rooftop patio of some guy I don't know, drinking his beer. Soon I'll go steal his AC.

War zone.

Early morning recon mission to Galveston.

http://charlesandmarie.com/index.php

Charles & Marie

http://lifehacker.com/399407/how-to-sync-any-desktop-calendar-with-google-calendar

NB: How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google Calendar

First day back after two weeks of vacation followed by an additional week of hurrication. Culture shock expected.

Made it to work in the as-yet-unnamed new car. On time. One piece. Success!!

Doghouse Tavern. Drinking the pain away.

http://twitpic.com/c5a0 I'm so jumping up and down right now.

Stopped disinfecting hurricane fridge to go pick up new car.

Ran through airport Got on early flight. Land in Houston at 430.

Didn't implement "Reverse Bel Air" as such, end result the same.

Flying back to TX tomorrow. Worried about the good Pinot...

Ike update: House is fine, cept no power. No water. Office open Tuesday if it's safe to get there. Don't think I'm going back for a few.

Fleeing another night in Queens for the family house in Philly. No flights into Houston today.

Made it to NYC. not optimistic about getting back to houston any time soon.

Waiting to board the plane in Rome to New York. Anxious about tomorrow's flight from New York to Houston. News of Ike hyperbole?

Threw sleeping bags down on a mountaintop pasture. Woke at sunrise. Now on to the Veneto.

Lunch on the shore of Lago di Bolsena. Watching a little girl feed the ducks.

Wandering aimlessly in Siena. Gorgeous! Waiting for our Enoteca of choice to open for dinner. Italians eat much later than Americans!

Climbed the Duomo in Florence today. On to Siena tomorrow. Birre at the Joshua Tree pub right now. Trust my boyf to find the American bar...

Getting ready to leave Rome I'm the morning. On to Florence.

Getting ready to leave Rome I'm the morning. On to Florence.