Science, vacations, corpse flowers?

Now that you are SUPER EXCITED about my research, I must say that things are slowing down 'round here. Basically we are just wrapping everything up, doing data analysis, and cleaning. ALSO, Dr. Miller is actually wrapping up selling his old house, and moving into his new house, so he wasn't in today, nor will he be in tomorrow. So after running some spectra today, my weekend started at noon today :D (also payday tomorrow :DDD). So I'm taking this long (paid) weekend to actually look at graduate schools, with some help from Dr. Science. I'm looking for, like I said, a school with good organometallic programs. So far, I've looked at Stanford and UW Madison and there are a couple of projects that I find interesting so far. For example, one research group from UW Mad (lead by Dr. Berry) is interested in studying methods of adding N and O to relatively unreactive organic molecules using Ruthenium/Nitrogen complexes as a catalyst http://www.chem.wisc.edu/users/berry. The search will continue of course.

That's not to say that my life outside chemistry isn't exciting, Kiki (my GF for people who didn't know that is doing an internship at the Childrens Theatre at Minneapolis!!!!! (http://youwiththewords.blogspot.com/) but I might miss the performances that she is helping to put together. So if you are in the cities in August and you wanna see some musicals at the Children's Theatre, support my GF (cuz I prolly can't :*(

The reason I might miss her performances is that this may be the last summer I get to go on vacations with my family. In early August, I will be going to the Klun Family Reunion in Madison for a couple of days. The next week we will be going to California to see the Monterrey, San Francisco, Sequoia National Forest, and wine country!!

Lastly, the corpse flower at Gustavus is going to flower soon!!!!!!! check it out, on campus or on line, I know I did...

Anyhow, the search for grad school continues, dinner's coming up (DCMcD is making meatballs) and I'm out of stuff to talk about today. Until next time...

Stay Classy,

Matt