018.

Saturday, Michelle and I bought 14 donuts, and then took the metro to downtown LA, which was surprisingly dead on a Saturday. Checked out the exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art and got heckled by every single male that we happened to walk by. Ate a delicious dinner at the neighbors, and then went back to Club BANG in Hollywood that night, where the heckling ensued. Today I got my hair colored, and naturally it's the complete opposite of what I asked for. Came home and was lazy for the rest of the day. Back to work tomorrow.

017.

Today sucked. A lot.

016.

K-band's being difficult. OH lines don't match up... try again tomorrow. H2 shouldn't be so far to the right...

Division 32 welcome reception today. JPL is past, present, and future. And overwhelming. And wonderful.

015.

Mirror Images

Space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the left of each shuttle are the open rotating service structures with the payload changeout rooms revealed. The rotating service structures provide protection for weather and access to the shuttle.

For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming STS-125 mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The missions is slated to launch Oct. 10.

After Endeavour is cleared from its duty as a rescue spacecraft, it will be moved to Launch Pad 39A for its STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. That flight is targeted for launch Nov. 12.

014.

EXTRACTED STAR & NEBULAR SPECTRA TODAY.

WURRRRRRRRRRRRRRD.

013.

I got sent home early today so that I don't infect/annoy people with my coughing. We're going to try reducing and calibrating with REDSPEC in IDL instead of the useless IRAF procedures I've been working on the past couple of weeks.

I just want it to be the weekend so that I can dance.

012.

I am a sickly baby.

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Pictures from last weekend:

me & Michelle at Club BANG