Ouch! I cut myself with a razorblade today. I make epoxy mounts in these tiny plastic molds, and you need to cut them open to get the mount out of them. Needless to say, I slipped. You can barely see it, but it's about 1-2 mm deep. You can see it when you pull the skin apart, but that makes it bleed more. I'm gonna go find a band-aid now.

So Kelly and I went to the dollar store tonight. It's called "Everything's a Dollar". There are signs everywhere in the store saying "Really, everything's a dollar!". So anyway, there was this big fat white guy behind me in line at the register. He was standing right behind me, and he was chewing gum with his mouth open. I could even smell the flavor of the gum (mint). He was buying a mop, which he would stick right next to me. This guy was really annoying, and I had to try hard not to turn and say something rude to him. But here's the kicker. When I finished checking out, the dumbass immediately put his mop on the counter and asked, "How much is this?"...IT'S A FUCKING DOLLAR, DUMBASS!!! That's why they call it a dollar store!

I just want to remember some recent funny Strong Bad emails from Homestar Runner.

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I'm nervous now. My Science paper got sent out for peer review. This means that the editor thought it was "Science-worthy". They could still reject my paper if the reviewers hate it, so that's what I'm worried about. I don't know how long that will take. But if they do like it, then I'll have a paper in Science! But I can't let myself get excited yet.

Here's the website of the co-creator of Uglydolls.

Joe and I are organizing mock orals for people this year, but people are slackers. Orals start soon, and so far 1 person has done mocks, 2 people haven't told us when they want to do mocks, 1 person just decided to do mocks, and 1 person decided to take their chances. I wanted to get these things all organized last week, and now I have to worry about last minute preparations. Why can't people just get their shit together? Mocks take 3-4 hours each, so I'm giving up alot of my time to do this.

This is what happens when an ocean oil-drilling platform gets moved 70 miles by a hurricane.

I just saw a talk by Paul Knauth that I call "How many planetary scientists can I piss off?" It was pretty funny. People were actually angry at him. And of course Knauth can be very patronizing when he wants to be.

His talk was about the claim of standing water on Mars. This deposit has cross beds, iron spherules, mineral casts, salts and jarosite. The Mars rover people interpres these as ripple marks, iron concretions, gypsum casts, and evaporites (respectively), leading them to conclude there was a lake on Mars. Knauth says all of these observations can be explained by a base surge deposit from and impact. Base surges can be cross beds and lapilli, which can be later oxidized to hematite. Because Mars has subsurface ice and brine, that is the source of the gypsum and salts. The jarosite formed later, like in iron mine tailings in Arizona.

So, I've worked 26 hours this week and it's only Tuesday. It sounds like a crazy schedule - but I love it! I've been out in Buckeye for the last two days performing aquifer tests and collecting zonal samples and documenting water levels. It's been fun and everybody that I've met on the drilling side of well construction has been nice. They like geologists but hate engineers! *snicker snicker* And they tell the funniest stories. I love my job! :cD

Through neglect or on purpose, Kelly's brother and dad let Ed chew up Kelly's favorite cap. It hurts me too, because Kelly wore that hat alot when we were falling in love. She's wearing that hat in the first picture I took of her.

When I was a kid, I would do things for fun or to be funny that would end up wrecking something. When somebody else got upset or angry over it, I would realize that the piece of crap that I ruined had sentimental value for someone else. This taught me (over many years) to only be reckless with my own things. If I ever saw the dog chewing something that I knew wasn't his toy, I would take it away from him. Only assholes don't think about how other people feel about their belongings.

Kelly often says I'm an asshole for being careless or doing something stupid. I always tell her that's not being an asshole. If I did something that I knew would make her upset, then I'd be an asshole. That's what Jace and Dean did with Kelly's hat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Japanese energy drink commercial. (requires QuickTime)

Kelly and I went camping in the Chiricahua Mountains this holiday weekend. It is one of the coolest places in Arizona! We went to the National Monument there and also found a shitload of galena at an abandoned mine! Ask me about it and I'll tell you how to find it.

I'm feeling better now. I don't feel sick anymore, but I still have some residuals. My throat is phlegmmy and my nose is bone dry. But I'll survive. And I get to go camping this weekend with Kelly! Yay!

I finally submitted my paper to Science! If they hate it, I'll find out in about two weeks. I'm a little nervous about it.

Aaaahh. Reminding me why I'm in grad school.

Here are a couple of movies my brother sent me of people who weren't quite good enough to get into the Olympics...

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I'm feeling a bit under the weather today. My throat tickles and my head is cloudy. I'm not sick yet, but I could be by tomorrow. Hopefully not, since I need to start writing an AGU abstract this week, and I want to go camping this weekend.