Defense
October 4, 2009
First, a little news. I changed jobs, but stayed here in Los Alamos. I'm currently learning about laser guided chemical vapor deposition technologies and helping figure out ways to make high quality gold micro and nanotubes.
I also defended my dissertation. I the presentation went great and I passed, but with a stipulation. There are two chapters in my dissertation that I've been asked to develop and polish and turn into submittable papers. Until I do that, I don't graduate. So I'm trying to spend some time each night developing and polishing. For the rest,- Lily has been singing "I am a child of God" to her dollies in a very gentle voice,
- Elsie has been batting her eyes to charm her way out of reprimands,
- Timmy took making our bed over from Elsie and cheerfully did the dishes this week,
- Abby took all the green tomatoes, wrapped them in paper, put them in a box, and taped it shut for storage,
- Kate scored a goal against the toughest soccer team she's faced (they still lost 3-4),
- Gina was overheard explaining, "we do not use the toothbrush for our toes."
October 4, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Hey Doug. Way to go on the dissertation completion! Hope the polishing up of those chapters into papers goes well. I still don’t know how you have so many hours in your day.
And I must say I agree with Gina. Toothbrushes are most definitely not for our toes.