I’m in St. Paul, enjoying a lovely business trip for a NISEnet workshop! NISEnet is a network of museum professionals and scientists coming up with ways to present nanotechnology to the public. This has been very informative and fun thus far. It’s always a wonderful experience talking to other museum professionals, of course.

The Science Museum of Minnesota is really awesome, too. They have a SPIFFY bunch of calculus exhibits. I tell you, if calculus were presented to me this way in college I would have enjoyed it better. Also, I tested enzymes in the cell lab… enzymes FROM MY SALIVA! Also saw The Science of Star Wars, which needs to come to the SLSC because it’s fun. I like the videos of the different creative people talking about how they made George Lucas’s outlandish visions for the film a reality. However, seeing how creative they had to be for the original films vs. the way that creativity lagged in the prequels was depressing. Now I want to watch the original Star Wars films back to back. The way they got the sound effects was especially fun.

At the bottom of the museum (you enter at the top) is the outdoor learning area, a great place with sand and water exhibits and a mini golf course. I want water exhibits now. They appeal to my inner five year old.

Anyway, fantastic museum, fantastic workshop, and don’t even get me started on how fantastic the food is.

I’ll post pictures when I get back to STL. A cold is ruining my life and I need to take some meds and sleep so I can be refreshed for tomorrow!

Like workplace issues. If you pray, pray for me Monday. Cause I have to go in for some annoying meetings about a very annoying and persistent problem. I’m pretty sure that I’m going in with the right people helping me out, but it’s going to be awkward and I don’t want to needlessly irritate people. So… yeah, that’s all I can say.

In better news, the new exhibit thing about the highway construction was put up today. It was cool watching it get put together. I put my sweet awesome content up for the electronic text panel and will get to see all the lovely things I wrote and/or edited for this project as they get put out in the building for all to see. Makes me feel moderately important.

I’m casually looking at online degree programs. Very casually. I don’t know yet what I want, but this may be a cool option for me.

I have plans for the site. Plans, I say! I’m going to make more static pages again, kind of like before but more awesome and more connected to the blog where I keep all my current ramblings and such. I’d also like to start writing things in some semblance of a series, like a series of music reviews or a series of things I’m trying to do to help the environment.