October 31st

Attended the Wednesday night science lecture, it was a geologist speaking about glaciers. He seems to believe that in the next 200 hundred years, the climate will change as much as it has changed in the last 18 million years. If everyone started living ultra-green tomorrow, the changes would take 500 years instead of 200 years. He also talked about being able to date rocks based on what they found inside the rocks. He had these pictures of little microscopic things that were only around during certain time periods, so if he finds one in a rock, he knows what era the rock is from. He talked a lot about the ANdrill project. (ANdrill stands for Antarctic drilling, they are drilling out big cores to study and learn about climate history, etc.)

We have this big blue zamboni looking machine that we sometimes use to sweep the floor of hallways, it doesn't work any better than a broom, but they have us use it sometimes nonetheless. A drunken woman jumped onto and rode the machine for a good 30 seconds while I was cleaning the floor this evening. I smiled back.

My boss told the story of how her ex-husband married her brother's ex-wife, which means that her children are step-siblings with their cousins.

And my biggest excitement of the day was seeing a puddle - a puddle of water, melted snow - it was outside, in the sun. Summer is on it's way.