Nico

My new kitty. She is a stray who I fed Sunday night and stayed outside meowing all night. The next day I decided to keep her. Took her to the vet on Tuesday and we've been living together happily since.

She's got a broken tooth and one of her ears is a bit ragged, but aside from that she's fine. She loves food and attention and that's about it. Not so into playing. She only catches things to survive. She's a doll.

what happens when your boss becomes famous

For me at least, it's involved getting emails from strangers who found my email on our lab website. They're usually harmless. The frequency has gone through the roof lately because my advisor recently published a first page science article on generation of oxygen using inexpensive materials (one side of the water-splitting cell).

hi Emily,

I write to you after visiting the Nocera Team website and finding your name as
the responsible party for Birthdays.

I teach in the music department at our local college, and I know absolutely
NOTHING about chemistry. I did read with interest the recent article in
Science magazine about Prof. Nocera's work with catalysts in electrolysis.
What I don't understand is why our country isn't having, like, a national Toga
Party in celebration of an economically viable method for getting hydrogen out
of water. I don't understand why anyone would still talk of opening new lands
to drilling or building nuclear power plants.

Seriously, am I overestimating the value of the Nocera Team accomplishment?

T. R. Phillips
Shreveport, LA

I am look in pages of MIT. I like the information. In my graduation in chemistry, we used the physical chemistry materials in the pages for the MIT. The material is very good.

what the lines the work? theoric or experimental inorganic chemistry?

Thank you!!

Marcio Douvel/From Brazil.

let sleeping dogs lie

I shouldn't have bothered, but when you have a really important exam, getting yourself worked up about anything else is worth it. I went to my ex's myspace page, I went to the girl who I never thought he was dating because her profile had said she was in a relationship for too long, I read her blog from last June and I realized he got away with it for three months. THREE MONTHS. I know I wasn't in superb condition, I know I dated guys in that time too, but how does he date the same person and keep hooking up with me and get away with it? How can she know and not care... worse, know and still be with him? She is way more his type than me though. I have to admit. He can't date anyone he doesn't work with. He'd never see them otherwise.

Highlights of my day:

Having one of the nurses at the hospital drool over my boyfriend
The janitor lady I see from time to time remarking "you're so pretty" in her thick slavic accent
Eating delicious avocado
Skateboarding to lab in a t-shirt

Things that make me happy

nothing like wasting an hour on facebook to make you realize how out of touch you've become

I thought I was immune to it. A lot of my friends had friends who had gotten married, maybe had babies, but I didn't know anyone. Really, I just didn't know that old friends had gone down that path. It's nice to find pictures of the guy you made out with, was too drunk to remember, and when you told him, he said he was engaged. It's nice to find pictures of his wife and know you are prettier than her. It's weird to see people who were slutty in high school pregnant, let me rephrase, married and pregnant. And that guy in high school who looked like he was 12 still looks like he's 12, but he's married now too.

I continue down the intellectual growth path; I'll be here for a couple more years. But I can't help but feel I'm missing out on the other part, the social growth, the growing up. I'll be 27 going on 22 when I'm done.

Funny things google tells me

Are you craving cupcakes? - www.honda.com - Whatever you're craving, the Crave Reader can guess. Try it out.

Jack Nye - jacknye.com - Jack Nye is a graduate of MIT living and working in Massachusetts

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101 Cookbooks - Amazing Black Bean Brownies - Mar 17

MIT - Can you get in? - www.go4college.com - Get your percentage chance of admission. Accuracy guaranteed.

Fool.com: The Motley Fool - Shoe Carnival Retraces Its Steps - 22 hours ago

Dictionary.com Word of the Day - myriad: consisting of a very great but indefinite number; also, a very great many.

Easy Money

Forget this PhD shit. I am going to make money one of the worst ways ever; by reselling. I can go out, buy used clothes at goodwill and salvation army and sell them at "vintage" or trendy stores for more money. Same with records. And guess what, I love shopping for both of them. I don't have that many expenses. I think I could live that way for a while. Probably not forever though. Seriously, I'll see how much money I can make when I invest 3 or 4 hours in it a week.