Crazy week.. more updates and lots of pics when life slows down.

When did life lose the magic?

Light a pumpkin spice candle, plug in the LED Christmas lights, turn up some music, and chill.  My name means Christmas for a reason.  It is, after all, my December.

On Thursday I got together with the other engineering grad girls and decorated cookies (SO much fun, and way relaxing).  One of my cookies won the "best decorated" award and I brought it home on a plate, along with a couple others to munch on before the holidays.  Well, this morning I woke up and found the plate of cookies on the floor with teeth marks in the plastic wrap... and my favorite cookie was a room away, the frosting chewed off and smeared into the carpet.  Somehow my cat knew which cookie I liked most, and destroyed it, leaving the rest untouched.........

I saw something yesterday that you would have liked.  Someone had the license plate RBLSCUM and a giant "Long live the empire" Star Wars sticker on their car.. too funny.

The hardest part will be unlearning when I see things I want to tell you about.

Life is a bit like the climate models I work with.  If you narrow down your point of view to a day, or week, or month, what you discover is mostly noise, and you become lost in the nonsense and meaninglessness.  But, if you extend your point of view and see beyond to years.. or lifetimes.. there, the true meaning exists.

Watched the first part of Planet Earth this afternoon.. way relaxing, and some of it is hilarious, like this segment on birds of paradise.  If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth the 2 minutes......

When I need a break from studying, I browse youtube.. here are 3 completely random things everyone should see.


Christian the lion

I saw the full story on this once on Animal Planet, it's really incredible.  Wish they'd picked a less cheesy song for the vid though.



Carl Sagan explains the 4th dimension

If you have 7 minutes to kill and you want your mind blown, this is completely worth the watch.



And to lighten things up..

Britney Spears Womanizer parody

Don't want an Aragorn, I want a young Gandalf the Grey  *giggle*

I did my best; I have no regrets. We shall see if it was good enough.

Random thoughts.

Realizing that you have limits is humbling; realizing that you've reached them is terrifying.

The weather lately has been cloudy, in stark contrast to the cobalt-blue skies of Arizona that I'm used to. I've never equated sunny weather with happiness (I'm pretty fond of storms); rather, to me sunny weather represents clarity of purpose (which could be described as happiness itself, don't you think?). The overcast skies these days seem to mirror my state of mind.