FOR SCIENCE!
1. Our orientation was at the SETI Institute. I shook Jill Tarter’s haaaand it was greeeeat it felt so normal and commonplace and I was sitting there thinking to myself “WAIT I TOTALLY JUST MET ONE OF MY HEROES. I SHOULD BE FREAKING OUT.” But no, it was just, like, part and parcel of the job??
2. Primary worksite! In the interest of prudence I doubt I will be taking any pictures inside the lab—I will ask my PI about it when I get to know him better, but I’m expecting a ‘no,’ so.
Also I find it hilarious that the first question I was asked when I walked into the lab was:
“Hey, so do you know how to sauter?”
1. Home sweet home!
2. I haven’t been to a baseball game in like ten years.
3. Getting a talk from Jill Tarter later today. no big deal.
1. Ducky is adorable as always. She was being such a little shit last night though!
2. That is a lot of luggage! Except how it isn’t. Except how it kind of is. In my defense, I have a bike helmet and other bulky accoutrements in there.
3. Traveler’s breakfast! I LOVE YOGURT BARS.
Today in the McNair study room.
There won’t be much here ‘til next month when research starts!
Totally willing to answer questions about research and stuff though, if anybody has them!
I’m a zoologist by degree (although also double majoring in English Lit!), a marine biologist by training, and I dabble in a lot of different things, from astronomy to rhetoric.
This summer will likely involve testing the viability of organic compounds in space and nearspace atmospheres. It’s astrobiology, baby!
