watching paint dry whilst my eardrums die

turns out a lot of my research ends up being watching epoxy dry, furances heat up and cook shit, watching furances cool down, waiting for lengthy tests to complete over a few hours...of course most of these things don't require much maintenance in the process. now i COULD use the time wisely to possibly do a few experiments at a time...but unfortunately i've tried that and fucked up either one or both of them ona few occassions so i stopped doing that for the most part.

then i made my FIRST trip to the library! the excitement was short lived (if you don't remember, i used to pride myself in how long i could go without stepping foot in Butler at Columbia, i think i went a semester and a half-across summer). i borrowed four books, THREE of which had never been borrowed before. that was another small step into geekdome. oh well. for a while i was reading through these books while waiting for shit to dry or heat up or cook or cool...but now i surf the internet. haha.

in other news, i'm going to start playing guitar a lot more. because i'll have more time to myself *sigh*.

also, i emailed a buncha' people about it but there's a huge tournament here called the kaimana klassik that's celebrating its 20th aniversary next february on president's weekend, here's the website from last year:
http://www.hawaiiultimate.com/kk/kk19/index.html

amazing tourney, and oh yeah, it's in hawaii. hit me up if you're interested. a few people have expressed interest already and are going to see if they can save up for it :) would be awesome to see you guys again.

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