So a guy in my group was offered a chance to go to Antarctica. A complication: he's getting married this month and his wife is moving to Providence to start their new life together (they've been doing the long-distance thing for a year while she finishes college). She doesn't want to move to a brand new town where she doesn't know anyone and find a new job if at the end of October he's just going to up and go to Antarctica for 2-3 months. In fact, she went so far as to say that if he went to Antarctica, she might not be there when he got back.

Before I add my opinion on this matter, what do you guys think?

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GAHHH! There are fruit flies EVERYWHERE!! I've killed about 25+ today. Why can't I move back to Colorado where there is no life!!

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In other news, today is the third day of my new "regime". My friend needed a bunch of people to be subjects in her "experiment", so I volunteered. After all, the point of the experiment is to make positive changes in my life, so why not, eh? Well I'll tell you why not... because granola bars without chocolate in them are NASTY, and cucumber and tomato sandwichs, while delicious, are not filling, and drinking two liters of water per day makes only one difference that I can see and that is having to get up to go to the bathroom ALL the TIME.

But surely the effect of my increased positive speak and visualization and exercise and the like has been a great increase in my productivity? If you count looking through pictures of hot guys on Facebook and staring blankly into space as "being productive", then I've been very productive today. :P

But surely the effect of my new regime has been to increase my happiness and energy?

If happiness is defined by a light-headed, hazy feeling with occasional headache, chest aches, and soul-consuming depression combined with lethargy, then I am the happiest person I have ever known. Though this all might have a little more to do with going back to work after an awesome 2-week vacation and having to finish my Mars paper. As you all know from how I complained about my Mercury paper, I find the very end part of a paper (revisions, revisions, revisions) to be the absolute WORST part of the whole endeavor.

DAMMIT! I just encountered a spider that crawled out from under my papers, and I was going to mercilessly kill it, but the Welshman never lets me kill spiders, plus there's the possibility that it could build a web and catch fruit flies. So instead of killing it I put it in my poinsettia. Now it keeps repelling down the side of the poinsettia leaves and flailing its disgusting legs in an unseemly manner and distracting me from my WORK. Which is clearly not getting done. And it's 4:20.... I should just call it a day and take a nap, which I'm apparently not supposed to do according to my regime.

In other news, Thalweg and G-bird both have LYME DISEASE! One of G-bird's lymph-nodes is swollen like a tangerine!

**NAP ON DESK DOESN'T COUNT AS NAP!**

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Me: Yes, I'm in graduate school for geology, my little sister is in school in Wyoming for graphic design, and my older sister is married now, she's living in Fort Collins and working as a teacher.
KM: Ahh, you sister is married. Do you have plans for marriage soon?
Me: Uh... no.
KM: Why not?
Me: Well... uh... I guess I have to find someone first.
KM: I am getting worried for my daugther Hoo-Chung [who is 24], that she will never find someone to marry her.
Me: Uh, well, I'll probably wait a while to get married... maybe til I'm 35 [Trying to buy you some time, Hoo-Chung!].
KM: ????? What about your sister?
Me: My sister is 26.
KM: Your sister is a good daughter.
Me: :(

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Well, I saw a lot of famous and impressive sights.

I ate a lot of very strange and wonderful foods.

Now it is time to start the long, long journey home.

And of all the things that I have seen or food that I have tasted, the best part of the trip was by far all the old friends (and new ones!) that I met along the way.

Seoul, 05.06.09

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Staying with your ex-boyfriend for a few days and hanging out with a bunch of his friends and his new girlfriend can be somewhat awkward, but it gets more awkward when he accidentally calls her by your name when they're saying goodbye.

And now for my next trick... a tour of Seoul!


Ex-boyfriend, seeing that his Japanese student has a pencil case covered in marijuana leaf designs: Do you know what that is?

Japanese Student: Yeah of course. Canada!

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Today I got up er-ry and went to the seben ereben and spent about eight dorrars. At filst I fert bad fol spending so much money, but when I rearized that I was spending dorrars instead ov dollars, I fert bettel. Today Toku and I wirr go to the parace.

see you ratel!

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