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| Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | | 7:52 am |
| | Saturday, May 6th, 2006 | | 3:58 pm |
Apologies to those I told I would be free by about now. I started feeling really badly last night while writing a paper. I decided to sleep but was unable to do so because of the discomfort, and while awake and upright, I made little progress on the paper for the same reason. When I tried to eat something early in the morning, I retched. So I emailed my professor, said I had food poisoning and that I wasn't going to produce a worthwhile paper by 3:00 without time to recover, rest, and find something to eat, and she said I could turn it in monday. I still have to work on this paper. On the plus side, I just slept for over 4 hours, and I'm starting to get some food into me without feeling sick (even if it is just bread and butter at the moment), and assuming eat enough to stop feeling a little dizzy, I'll be fine shortly. I'll be done when I'm done, but I'm not yet. Any plans we had before monday may have to go on hold. | | Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 | | 8:31 am |
My senior voice recital is on Monday, April 24th at 8 pm. I'll be singing: From Le nozze di Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Bravo, signor ... Se vuol ballare Tutto è disposto ... Aprite un po’ quegli occhi Minnelied Johannes Brahms Die Mainacht Von ewiger Liebe Poème d’un Jour Gabriel Fauré Rencontre Toujours Adieu Let Us Garlands Bring Gerald Finzi Come away, come away, death Who is Silvia? Fear no more the heat o’ the sun O Mistress Mine It was a lover and his lass It's the culmination of four years of voice lessons, and they're all fun songs, so you should come and listen! | | Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 | | 9:46 am |
thesis = done. That is all. | | Friday, February 24th, 2006 | | 11:40 pm |
Yesterday I was embarrassed to be doing Anchorsplash tomorrow with Phi Mu Alpha. Today I couldn't be more proud. You guys are my heroes. Hail Sinfonia! | | Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 | | 11:04 pm |
I said I wouldn't. But I am. So you should all buy your tickets in advance to see me help Phi Mu Alpha defend the Anchorsplash title a week from saturday! | | Saturday, February 11th, 2006 | | 3:59 pm |
Simply because Carolyn put me down as least likely to respond:
1. What is your current occupation? student 2. What color is your underwear? green with white and blue stripes 3. What are you listening to right now? the buzz of my computer 4. What was the last thing you ate? boneless chicken wings with sweet BBQ sauce 5. Do you wish on stars? from time to time 6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? some deep shade of blue 7. How is the weather right now? snowy and grey 8. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Dave Friday! 9. Do you like the person who sent this to you? She's one of my closest friends in the world 10. How old are you today? 21 11. Favorite drink? Nothing can really beat ice cold water when I'm thirsty 12. Favorite sport to watch? hockey or football 13. Have you ever dyed your hair? no 14. Do you wear contacts or glasses? glasses, and occasionally contacts 15. Pets? Gimli the ferret 16. Favorite months? May, for my birthday and many important other dates and the freshness of spring, and December for the freshness of winter 17. Favorite food? bread with various stuffings cooked into it 18. What was the last movie you watched? I'm not really sure 19. Favorite day of the year? Any day that I spend in the company of close friends and don't have to worry about getting things done. 20. What do you do to vent anger? rant at somebody, generally not who I'm angry at 21. What was your favorite toy as a child? must have been my gameboy 22. Fall or Spring? spring, but of course it's winter currently so I'm biased 23. Hugs or kisses? Hugs are always great; kisses can be better but only in certain occasions 24. Cherry or Blueberry? cherry 25. Do you want your friends to post? I'd like that; but don't feel the need 26. Who is most likely to respond? It's been so long since I've posted a meme that I have no idea 27. Who is least likely to respond? Chris, from Ann Arbor 28. When was the last time you cried? Over winter break 29. What's at the bottom of your closet? some shoes and empty cardboard boxes from moving in 30. What is under your bed? dirty clothes, clean sheets, and detergent 31. Who is the friend you have had the longest? Chris, from Ann Arbor 32. What did you do last night? hung out with MSU physics grad students, went to a comedy club, then back to the hotel and lazed around bored for a while before bed. 33. Favorite smell? cookies in the oven (to echo carolyn), but also girl. You know, that smell that girls have when it's been a few hours since they've showered, so they're still clean but don't smell like soap anymore? Particularly right near their necks? Yeah, that smell. 34. What inspires you? music, my close friends 35. What are you afraid of? heights, loneliness 36. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese 37. Favorite car? right now, mine, because it's pretty, it gets good mileage, and it's mine. 38. Favorite dog breed? Not really sure. I prefer the less jumpy ones though. 39. Number of keys on your key ring? 9 40. How long have you been at your job? well, if you count my job as student at college, since august 2002 41. Favorite day of the week? friday. I'm done with the week and don't feel the next one approaching yet. 42. How many states have you lived in? 2 43. How many cities have you lived in? 3 So it's been forever since I posted, I know. Some aspects of my life have been exciting, others haven't. The most important events that have happened recently, I don't feel like putting out there for everyone to see, or even anyone to see unless I talk to you personally about them. But, I'm back in school for my last semester, enjoying the return to my close friends here. I've applied to grad schools and just returned from my first visit/interview, at MSU. I'm trying to write up my work from last semester into a senior thesis and am already behind, and I'm going to be putting on a recital on April 24th. I feel like I never get quite enough done or get enough sleep, but a lot of the reasons for that are worth it (midnight massage/silliness party on wednesday ^_^ ). If you want to know more, I'd love to talk with you in person. | | Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 | | 1:15 pm |
Nothing is simple anymore. | | Monday, November 21st, 2005 | | 8:54 pm |
An update!
So, many of you probably wonder what I've been doing down in TN for the whole semester. I just had to write an abstract (it may not be quite in it's final form, but it's close) describing just that, so I thought I'd post it and get you up to date. Last names have been dropped to protect probably nobody. But I did it anyway. The Chicane Node in the ORBIT Injection UpgradeDaniel -
Albion College, Albion MI
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships/Oak Ridge Science Semester
Sarah -, Mentor
Accelerator Systems Division
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryABSTRACTThe accumulator ring in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) will accumulate up to 10^14 protons at a time from a 1 GeV linear accelerator to produce neutrons by spallation. In order to satisfy radiation hazard requirements, no more than 0.01% of the beam in the SNS ring may be lost by collisions with the beam pipe. Since most accelerators lose 1-2% of their beam, the SNS must be far more effective in beam loss control than any previous high-intensity accelerator. This requires very precise understanding of the mechanisms which contribute to beam loss. One of the main sources of loss in the accelerator is in the injection area of the ring, where H- particles are converted to protons by passing through a thin foil that strips off the electrons. Some of the H- particles are not fully stripped, and live for a short time as H0 particles in excited quantum states before decaying in the ring magnetic fields. If the magnetic fields are not optimized, particles that decay may be deflected from the paths intended for either H- or protons and become lost in the accelerator. The SNS project will upgrade the beam power in the year 2010, and this will require a redesign of the injection region of the ring. Testing of new design schemes will be done primarily with the Objective Ring Beam Injection and Tracking Code (ORBIT), a modular simulation package designed at SNS specifically for modeling high intensity rings. In this project, the ORBIT code was upgraded to allow precise simulations of the injection region of the ring. This work included installing code that performs detailed tracking of all three relevant states of hydrogen through the dipole magnetic fields in the injection region, and determines on each step which neutral particles decay into protons. The physical configuration of the chicane is customizable, allowing particle positions to be compared to the real location of the beam pipe and losses to be determined. The code is configured to allow parallel runs on multiple machines to accommodate computationally intensive tests. Results from this code were benchmarked with previous studies of excited-state decay done by Danilov and Galambos et al, and showed excellent agreement. Future modifications to the ORBIT injection region code may include a foil heating routine and propagation through higher-order magnetic fields. The updated ORBIT code will provide an important tool for optimizing the new injection region design. In other news, I'll be in A2 for the long thanksgiving weekend, and then again for many weeks starting Dec 10. If you'll be in the area, I'd love to hang out. | | Thursday, June 30th, 2005 | | 10:43 am |
Thunderstorms are cool. In part because they make it cool. | | Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 | | 8:44 am |
Finally got my Oak Ridge placement for the fall. Division: Spallation Neutron Source, Accelerator Systems Project Description: Analyze beam dynamics data from linear accelerator commissioning. The project will include some programming. Doesn't sound like the most exciting thing I've ever done, but at very least it will add to my experience and look good on a resume. And you never know, the project could be more interesting than the two sentence blurb makes it sound. | | Friday, April 29th, 2005 | | 7:31 pm |
A Meme
Your Birthdate: May 25 |
Your birth on the 25th day of the month (7 energy) modifies your life path by giving you some special interest in technical, scientific, or other complex and often hard to understand subjects.
You may become something of a perfectionist and a stickler for details.
Your thinking is logical and intuitive, rational and responsible.
Your feelings may run deep, but you are not very likely to let them show.
This birthday makes you a more private person, more introspective and perhaps more inflexible.
In friendships you are very cautious and reserved.
You are probably inventive, and given to unique approaches and solutions. |
Just thought it was interesting because a fair amount of this describes me well, and who knows how often that happens. I'm going to study now, I swear. | | Monday, March 28th, 2005 | | 6:57 pm |
Everybody else is doing it...
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 82% Expert! | You did so extremely well, even I
can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon
intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You
have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
| | | My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 73% on Beginner | | You scored higher than 33% on Intermediate | | You scored higher than 22% on Advanced | | You scored higher than 87% on Expert |
| | | Sunday, March 27th, 2005 | | 9:07 pm |
Easter: a new entry
Wow, it has been incredibly long since I last posted, especially anything of substance. But I had a good weekend, and I thought I'd fill people in on it. Got home friday, fairly early in the afternoon. It would have been really nice to have friday off completely (I mean, it was good friday. Not that I'm Christian, but days off from school get a thumbs up from me) and get back thursday, but as it was all classes ended at noon, giving me (whee!) one less hour on campus than a regular friday. Oh well. But yeah, got home and rested a bit before Lauren came over and we hung out for a while. Had dinner with my parents out at Cottage Inn (the restaurant than inspired the pizza chain, not just a pizza place) which was nice. I really like how well my parents get along with my girlfriend. Anyway, we came back and Lauren and I watched An American Tale since Lauren decided that if I didn't really remember it from whenever I saw it as a kid then I had to watch it again (plus I had forgotten to bring home any Farscape episodes to watch). It was enjoyable, and I kinda understand the sentiment. I mean, I was flabbergasted that she had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy when we first started dating. We fixed that pretty quickly. But yeah, finished watching the movie and then played Pinochle with my parents (something we've taken to doing as the four of us) and then when they went to bed, Lauren and I went over to her apartment and followed suit. It's just nice to be there with her, and get to fall asleep and wake up beside her, holding her in my arms. ♥ So, next morning we woke up, cuddled for far longer than we meant to (what a surprise) and then I left for a few hours so she could get some work done. I, of course, hung out with Chris instead. So we played Smash Bros. (original, not Melee, it's much better) and chess, as usual. Of course, I was due at Lauren's mom's house (since I had been invited over for dinner and cards) at 6 so I tried to rush through the chess game. Bad idea. I played awfully and we still had to copy it down to a piece of paper to finish later. So yeah, over to Lauren's mom's house for a wonderful dinner and then cards with her mom and her boyfriend, and then the grandparents. It amused me: three generations of women, and their men. The card game is called Shanghai and it's a lot of fun. This weekend was only my second time playing it. It's kind of like rummy in that you put down runs or books to try to get rid of all of your cards and not get stuck with points at the end of a hand. It's played with multiple decks though, and there are a lot of different rules also. But I won 3 of the 6 hands in the first game we played and still managed to come in second to last, and then almost got second the second time (with only one win) until the last hand when I got bumped far into third. Lauren's grandfather was just too lucky that time. Today was kind of more of the same. Got up late, dealt with some stuff at home. Went over to Lauren's to play cards again (same game, but with more of the extended family this time). However, the first hand (usually one of the shortest) took a long time, and then we realized that the reason everyone had a lot of face cards was because a pinochle deck had gotten shuffled in. At that point, I decided that I really couldn't stay around for the whole game, so I went home and (surprise!) hung out with Chris. Finished that chess game, which I not surprisingly lost, but I beat him in the rematch. He had dinner with my family, our Easter traditional calzonies (made with bread dough shaped into a pocket and then baked with spinach and cheese inside them). And now I'm back here. About to head off to what I think is my final eboard meeting ever for Phi Mu Alpha, since we just had elections and are transitioning this week. Good stuff. And of course I got no homework done all weekend. So yeah. Sorry for the long play-by-play since I know that can get annoying and you probably don't care all that much. But I suppose I just really enjoyed my weekend, and I wanted everyone who still reads this after the long period of inactivity to know that I'm still alive, and in general am happy. So, I suppose in summary for those of you who I don't keep in contact with as much as I should: I've been dating an amazing lady for almost 10 months, and she enjoys spending time with my family and I do with hers. I have tickets to see Wicked with her in Chicago for our one-year. I still get to see my other friends. School is going as well as school can go, and the summer is coming. I'm going on a 9-day choir tour of England after school gets out (remind anyone of 4 years ago?) and then will be doing research here at Albion for the summer. Then for the fall I'm heading down to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to do more, different research (and again get paid, but also get class credit). And then... who knows. One more semester here and off to grad school somewhere. | | Monday, February 7th, 2005 | | 9:58 am |
Be it so resolved
Whereas I am very behind in homework; and Whereas I am in the throws of a slight video game addiction; and Whereas I have a lot of important things due in the next week; Be it so resolved that I shall not turn on my computer this week except where necessary for getting said work done, and so all email and livejournal checks shall be performed in brief from public computers such as this one. | | Sunday, November 7th, 2004 | | 11:53 pm |
So, i just haven't felt like posting recently ... and you aren't going to get much here. Life is going well. Classes are going fairly well, work doesn't totally get on my nerves, I have a new little in Phi Mu Alpha, and I love Lauren. That last one especially. And I found a fun meme.  Entish To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by Quizilla | | Thursday, October 7th, 2004 | | 1:27 pm |
| | Monday, September 20th, 2004 | | 5:47 pm |
| | 12:41 am |
Just because I said I'd do it...
1. Who are you? 2. Are we friends? 3. When and how did we meet? 4. Do you have a crush on me? 5. Would you kiss me? 6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. 7. Describe me in one word. 8. What was your first impression? 9. Do you still think that way about me now? 10. What reminds you of me? 11. If you could give me anything what would it be? 12. How well do you know me? 13. When's the last time you saw me? 14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't? 15. Are you going to put this on your blog and see what I say about you? | | 12:25 am |
Now it's time for Weekend Update
Quite a fun weekend. I got to spend all of it with Lauren. *does a little dance* She came up friday afternoon and stayed until this afternoon, and we: had pizza with some friends here, went to see the comedian in the stack (she was quite funny), hung out at the FMA/SAI/KKY bonfire for a while, explored the playground near here, played chess, watched farscape, made a poor attempt at studying while laying out on the quad, and just in general spent the weekend together. It was great! Tonight i got almost nothing done. I fooled around on the computer, watched TV (it was kinda interesting, because someone I vaguely remember from high school was on 'The Search for the New Partridge Family'), ate at the eat shop since I didn't feel like dealing with Balwin. But it's all good, since I got to see Lauren earlier. Oh yeah, and I forgot to go to e-board tonight. Just plain out forgot. I was sitting in here kinda looking at my homework at the time and getting none of it done. Sorry guys. But did I mention I got to see Lauren? |
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