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Hungover + last night’s make up + hair that still smells faintly of beer = mildly unpleasant 4.5 hour drive home to East Texas.
Dear Blogosphere,
It would be really cool if one of you who live in Texas bought Pokemon HeartGold and then came to see me in College Station so I could catch ‘em all.
Thanks,
Rach
6/5/25-12/3/12. Rest in peace, Papaw.
You were the greatest grandpa anyone could have asked for.
Dear Sunday:
You have started off kind of crazy. My grandfather is in the hospital 6 hours away, my first final is in two days, and I have a Skype interview in 30 minutes with casting directors in California to possibly be on a TV show to tell my dad’s story. I’m not prepared for any of this, so if you could just calm down a little bit that would be awesome.
Thanks,
Rachael
In Other News…
How did anyone think it was a good idea to elect Ralph Hall as chairman of the House “Committee on Science, Space, and Technology”? Nice addition of “space” to the title by the way Ralph, that isn’t redundant at all. It almost feels like a joke; this guy is an 87-year-old lawyer from Texas with nonexistent scientific training or experience—and his job is to oversee NASA.
Plus, he’s old enough to have been alive when Albert Einstein got the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (which kick-started the quantum revolution) and probably knows less about technology than most teenagers. He was a toddler when Heisenberg and Schrodinger formulated quantum mechanics, a little kid when Hubble realized the universe was expanding and Lemaitre proposed the Big Bang Theory. At the time, these innovations were dismissed as esoteric nonsense by most people outside of the scientific community and combined with your traditional Southern Methodist upbringing he’s probably spent his whole life thinking science was just that.
Yeah, good move America.
What I’ve Accomplished This Week
I’ve celebrated every 4:20 (de la manana y de la tarde) for the past 3 days straight.
This is my life right now. Did I mention I have a lab practical in an hour and a half?
Coming soon: “What I Should Have Done This Week” featuring the inevitable frenzied panic associated with indulging in dangerous degrees of apathy and indolence.
Finally.
I didn’t know what college I wanted to go to at the beginning of my senior year of high school. I got accepted into a number of schools, but my dad was pulling his alma mater: Texas A&M University.
On March 14th, 2009—a few months before I graduated—he suddenly passed away of a heart attack. As a tribute to him and everything he did for me, I confirmed my acceptance into Texas A&M University. I would do this for him, his last wish of me. A few months later I was moving away from the place I’d just spent the past 18 years of my life and to the place my dad said he spent the best years of his. I took his Aggie ring with me as a reminder of what, and who, I was there for.
On November 9th, 2012—the day of my dad’s birthday—I received my own Aggie ring. He would have been 54 years old. I can’t help but stare at this ring on my hand in wonder at its powerfully symbolic culmination of so much hard work and effort. Looking back on everything I’ve experienced, accomplished, endured.. There have been a lot of good times and a lot of hard times. Really, really hard times. When I began my time at this university, I was a child. I wish he could see the young woman I’ve become today.
I know you would have been proud of me today, Dad. Happy belated birthday.
