by Pamela | Dec 20, 2007 | Personal
It’s nearly Christmas. Everyday my email is getting blasted with messages from Amazon, Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware reminding me exactly how long I have to order if I want gifts to arrive by Christmas. The neighborhood houses have grown luminous fur...
by Pamela | Dec 19, 2007 | Personal
It is just a few short weeks until the Astronomy Cast crew (that would be Fraser, Rebecca and I) as well as the Bad Astronomer (that would be Phil) all head down to Austin, Texas for this year’s winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It should be a...
by Pamela | Dec 14, 2007 | Personal
While it started yesterday, it’s not too late to enjoy this week’s space carnival over at Universe Today.
by Pamela | Dec 11, 2007 | Personal
It’s final week here. This means faculty are wondering around, hyped up on caffeine and glee that the semester is almost over while the giggle while writing exams and cry while grading them (okay, maybe that’s just me). Writing finals is almost a religious...
by Pamela | Nov 23, 2007 | Personal
This blog started to slowly blossom into existence (admittedly on another URL) about this time last year. It was a staggered start, and I didn’t really start to pay regular attention to it until January. Still, a year into this personal experiment in public...
by Pamela | Nov 20, 2007 | Astronomy, Galaxies, Personal, Podcasting
One of the joys, frustrations, most loved, and most hated parts of being a professor is attempting to do research. I say attempting because sometimes the data just doesn’t want to produce anything useful. There are good times. For instance, in about three months...
