The remainder of SEG in Denver

Our second night of shenanigans in Denver involved meeting up with an old friend of mine from high school.  She brought her cousin along, who was a total fox, to this food and wine place called Sketch Food and Wine.  I'm guessing the name comes from all the art and photos on the wall, a great place indeed.  Great sandwiches and cheap wine.  So we sat with my friend and her cousin and laughed and talked the night away with 2 dollar glasses of box wine, classy.  I pushed my chair away from the table to adjust my seat and ran it into the woman behind me, little did I know, this was when the night was going to get alot better, as if it could.  Turns out this woman was the owner of a medicinal marijuana dispensary in Denver and the woman she was with worked there also.  We started talking and laughing with these women also and Sudershan and I were having a blast.  I mean what two guys wouldn't have a great time with 4 beautiful women??  The girl who worked for this women was gorgeous, and all over me when I gave her a hug.  Anyways, the night winded down and we cabbed it back to the hotel to find Dr. Moysey still working hard.  Thursday was full of meetings and talks, then onto the plane and back to Clemson around 1am.  If I go back to Denver tomorrow, it will not be too soon.  Cheers to you Denver, and cheers to you Marybeth, Molly, Shawna, and Ashleigh, it was a great night.

SEG Day One

We got in to Denver late on Monday due to flight delays in Atlanta. The hotel had a problem with our room so I coerced the beuatiful concierge to send us up some beers on the house. After some revisions to my presentation, I tried to sleep but I was so nervous about getting to the conference that I was awake every hour or so checking the clock. Needless to say, my presentation went very well and got a barrage of questions at the end. Some of them coming from very respectable names in the community. After some congratulations from friends, I sat down and listened to the remainder of the talks in my session. To my surprise, I am better at public speaking than most professionals. Roaming around the exhibitors floor was great, lots of booth babes and free swag. After the conference was a near surface geophysics reception where we ate food and drank lots of beer then Sudershan and I escaped to play pool and get away from the science conversations. We ran into a crowd of people from the conference, our advisor being one of them, and followed them to a pub where I played a practical joke on my advisor. It could have went better as the amount of laughs was scarce. At this pub Sudershan and I talked with some girls and had some laughs, a great night all in all. Now its morning and Denver is smiling at me, and I'm smiling back, when I leave it will be too soon.

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Misleading

To believe in a personified being, omnipotent, omniscient, etc. is irrational.  To learn from the stories of this being is moral.  Please, do not confuse the two.  When religion clouds your mind, it's hard to understand other people who are also jaded, or lucid.  Please, for your sake and for the worlds sake, be yourself.

Get back to it

Good morning blog.  Last night, I dreamed that I had moved back to Buffalo from Clemson, and started working at the Lexington Co Op again.  So I guess you could say I kinda miss that place.  The only reason I left that place was because my new manager Matt was a total jerk.  He was only concerned about numbers and couldn't find the time to talk to you as a person, it was just "hey, here's some work for you, do it".  But this was never a problem for me, I always worked hard and got my stuff done and had time to chat with people and be their friend.

Anyways, regarding the title of this post, back in June/August I was exercising regularly and watching what I eat and it worked out great, I lost around 15lbs.  However, I fell off the wagon and stopped both of those things.  I keep telling myself to get back on it, even if I only run a couple days out of the week, it's better than not at all.  I've just been so damn busy lately with this presentation for SEG and this paper for IJG, I don't have any motivation.  I guess if I end up at 250lbs by the end of grad school I'll have some motivation.

Also, I just found out that I will not be attending AGU this fall in San Francisco.  It's my fault though, I was so busy that I forgot to submit a proposal to get money to go out there.  Well, this gives me time to get ahead on my research I guess.  I keep thinking about graduating and defending, whether it be in August or December of 2011.  I haven't told my advisor yet, but I just don't see myself staying for my PhD at this moment.  I really want to get out of school for a while and make some money.  I mean if I could live for this long on less than $15,000 a year, imagine what I could do with $40-60,000.

Fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream. -311

Chopping away at this thing called school

Well, it's a week from the day I'll be presenting at the SEG conference in Denver and I just made some revisions to my presentation for my adviser to look over.  I'll be glad when this is over and I can mosey around the meeting and pick up a bunch of free stuff and drink some good western beer.  Can't stop there though, final draft of a journal paper to the International Journal of Geophysics is due November 1.  Oh man....why do I agree to these things.  On a lighter note, once that is over, I may be tripping down to ATL to catch a show, immediately followed by tripping to Asheville to catch a show by the same group, yeah....I dig them.  Speaking of digging, I'm hoping this girl digs me.....cuz I dig her.  We'll see how it goes.  After the relax hits me after those shows, it's back to work on the research and hopefully start writing my thesis.

Changing gears momentarily, why do people have to be so ignorant about things?  Carl Paladino, a republican guebernatorial candidate for NY made some horrible remarks about homosexuals.  What's the big deal?  Who cares if some dude likes another dude in that way, or if some girl likes another girl in that way.  Let them be.  It's just that simple.  Yeah, they can't have kids naturally, but I think I stand with many when I say the world could use a few less humans.  But that's an entirely different blog, maybe someday I'll rant about overpopulation.  All I have to say is "Idiocracy"...watch it.

Well, I'm off to a shower, then meeting with the adviser about the presentation.

PS. Started watching Dexter, good show, bad for productivity.

Great weekend!

My weekend began on Thursday night with a show down at 356 in Clemson.  A great band from Boone, NC by the name of Do It To Julia played and rocked the house.  What a great band, it's easy to forget how music can make you forget about day to day stuff.  It's incredible, the power that music has over people.  I really think it has the ability to bring people together from different walks of life and dance and appreciate things that songs are made of.
Onward with the weekend, Friday night brought some celebratory drinks with some great people, one in particular, for a birthday bash.  Tequila shots for the special lady.  Many smiles were had, along with some good food.  After that, a great friend came to visit and we continued the celebration into the night, which included a party on the roof and decorated cookies.
Saturday consisted of a tour of Clemson, the Geology Museum and the Lake, followed by some BBQ and Fall for Greenville.  Then on to the best part of the weekend, Zach Deputy at The Handlebar.
I had mentioned about music making people happy and lightfooted, I have never laughed and danced so much at a show as I did last night.

How does music make you feel?
Does it help you when you need it?
Take a listen to Zach Deputy and find yourself tapping your foot.

Peace and Love
Adam

Oh Man!!! A blog.....

Well, just in case some people are interested in what I have to say about somethings, I've decided to start a blog....I doubt anyone will view this other than myself.  We'll see where this goes, maybe some people will appreciate my opinions.

Talk to Ya'll real soon
Adam