PhysicsChic's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=PhysicsChic2003-02-07T02:09:20ZFebruary 6, 2003 (thing)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/February+6%252C+2003PhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2003-02-07T02:09:20Z2003-02-07T02:09:20Z<p><a href="/title/Happy+birthday">Happy birthday</a> to MEEEE!!! I am 23 years old today.</p>
<p>Things that happened in the past year:<br>
Graduated from <a href="/title/university">university</a><br>
Got into <a href="/title/grad+school">grad school</a><br>
Went to Switzerland to the particle physics lab in Geneva<br>
Lived all by myself far away from my family and friends and dealt with how much that actually sucks<br>
Got engaged<br>
Nearly flunked out of grad school<br>
Got rabidly hooked on <a href="/title/Firefly">Firefly</a><br>
A fairly decent year, all in all. 'Cept for that almost flunking out bit.</p>
<p>To do before I turn 24:<br>
DO NOT FLUNK OUT<br>
Go hiking more<br>
Get married<br>
Learn French (again)
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<p>Someone asked me if I had made any resolutions for the next year. I hadn't thought about it, but now I am. Here it is: I AM NOT GOING TO SWEAR SO <a href="/title/FUCKING">FUCKING</a> MUCH ANYMORE.</p>
Swinging on a Star (thing)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/Swinging+on+a+StarPhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2002-11-20T04:21:32Z2002-11-20T04:21:32Z<p>This song was originally performed by <a href="/title/Bing+Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> in the movie <a href="/title/Going+My+Way">Going My Way</a> (I think... it's a little out of my time frame!) It won an academy award in 1944 for Best Original Song. It was written by <a href="/title/Johnny+Burke">Johnny Burke</a> and <a href="/title/Jimmy+Van+Heusen">Jimmy Van Heusen</a>. </p>
<p><blockquote>
<em>Would you like to swing on a <a href="/title/star">star</a><br>
Carry <a href="/title/moonbeams">moonbeams</a> home in a jar<br>
And be better off than you are<br>
Or would you rather be a mule?<br>
<br></em>
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<p>My <a href="/title/grandpa">grandpa</a> used to sing this song to me all the time when I was younger. It's funny how I never really thought about it until my grandpa started to get sick... I had always thought we would dance to this song at my wedding, but now he's on an oxygen tank and doesn't get around too well. The song will always remind me of him, even if we don't get that dance at my wedding.</p>
<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>Turkey Soup (thing)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/Turkey+SoupPhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2002-10-24T04:17:31Z2002-10-24T04:17:31Z<p>Mmm, mmm, <a href="/title/home+cookin%2527">home cookin'</a>! I haven't added a new recipe in a LONG time so I thought I would.</p>
<p>My mom visited me in <a href="/title/Victoria">Victoria</a> this past weekend and we had <a href="/title/Thanksgiving">Thanksgiving</a> dinner (a little late for us Canadians, but much too early for the Americans). I had said that I missed turkey soup so after dinner was done she got me started on my very first <a href="/title/turkey">turkey</a> soup! After every holiday, my family usually fights (lovingly, but still fights) over the turkey carcass so we can make soup!</p>
<p>After you're done eating the turkey, boil the carcass until all the little attached meat bits are pretty much falling off. A slow boil or simmer is acceptable for this task, but definitely not a full roiling boil. Put some <a href="/title/salt+%2526+pepper">salt & pepper</a>, <a href="/title/OXO+cubes">OXO cubes</a> (or other chicken <a href="/title/how+the+hell+do+you+spell+this%253F">bouillion</a>), <a href="/title/bay">bay</a>, <a href="/title/parsley">parsley</a>, and my grandmother told me to add pickling spices for "<a href="/title/zing">zing</a>" but I don't know what those are and she told me I probably didn't have any anyways, so I skipped those. Take the<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…August 16, 2002 (idea)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/August+16%252C+2002PhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2002-08-16T06:05:44Z2002-08-16T06:05:44Z<p>Stress, stress, stress. I leave for <a href="/title/CERN">CERN</a> in fourteen and a half hours. I'm mostly packed, double checked my <a href="/title/passport">passport</a> and my <a href="/title/flight">flight</a> tickets. What else am I forgetting? I have this horrible, horrible feeling that I am not remembering something vitally important. I still need to get my health plan info from my mom and print of my hostel reservation (the CERN hostels, despite being called hostels, are apparently closer to hotels). Send my itenary to my mom, what else, what else, what else?</p>
<p>I should be getting really, really excited right now. This is like a childhood (well, teenagehood, I didn't know what physics was in childhood) <a href="/title/dream+come+true">dream come true</a>. I am going to <a href="/title/CERN">CERN</a>, and not just to be a tourist or something (can you even get in as a tourist?) I am going to "help" with the Hadronic Endcap Calorimeter / Electromagnetic Endcap Calorimeter (HEC-EMEC) Testbeam period. Make sure everything works before they turn the <a href="/title/LHC">big machine</a> on. I say "help" because I have just begun my<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…June 27, 2002 (idea)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/June+27%252C+2002PhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2002-06-27T04:19:32Z2002-06-27T04:19:32Z<p>Alright, I know how much you <i><a href="/title/hate">love</a></i> this, but if you don't like rants, why the hell are you reading <a href="/title/my+secrets">daylogs</a>?</p>
<p>I have had the <a href="/title/I%2527m+in+hell">worst couple of days</a> and I need to just get it off my chest. Talking about things always makes me feel better, but a big part of the problem is that no one I know wants to listen. My boyfriend and I barely talk anymore (at least not about <a href="/title/I+miss+being+in+love">deep things</a>), and even my mother brushed me off tonight.</p>
<p>My aunt has been visiting the last couple of days. I don't like having someone in my apartment -- I'm an <a href="/title/earlybird">earlybird</a> and I usually get up around six a.m. This doesn't work very well when someone is sleeping on your couch and you have to tiptoe around your place. I've been late for work the last two days. It really doesn't matter, my boss is in France for god's sake, but I still hate being late. It wastes the most productive part of my day. Then I lost my bus pass yesterday, dammit. Plus with my aunt<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…May 25, 2002 (idea)http://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic/writeups/May+25%252C+2002PhysicsChichttp://everything2.com/user/PhysicsChic2002-05-25T18:47:28Z2002-05-25T18:47:28Z<p>Well, it's been a long time since I've really been here. Stopped by, checked my messages, corrected a few things here and there... Today I find myself reading sad stories of people who, through some fault of their own, lost <a href="/title/someone+they+loved">someone they loved</a>.</p>
<p>I love these stories and I don't know why... Well, I suppose I do know why. I've been struggling for so long with my own <a href="/title/failing">failing</a> relationship, and I don't think there's anything I can do now. <a href="/title/He+fell+out+of+love+a+long+time+ago">He fell out of love a long time ago</a>.</p>
<p>I really wonder why he never ended it. Sometimes I think I'm just waiting for him to end it. Not giving up hope because he at least won't do that, yet. Even though I haven't admitted it, we've both just been hanging on for some reason. <a href="/title/Do+you+love+me+or+are+you+in+love%253F">Do you love me or are you in love?</a> I read that node today and it just about made me cry. I know he's not in love, but does he still love me? Is that worth hanging on to?</p>
<p>It's so hard being so far away... He's never been one for idle conversation, and now, with<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…