cme_1976 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cme_1976) wrote,@ 2008-02-26 22:55:00 |
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Small Planet
So I'm in Nebraska City, NE this week for a Missouri River conference. I'm presenting the last talk on the last day (Thursday). We'll see if there is anyone there. The conference is at the lovely Lied Lodge run by the Arbor Day foundation. Too bad it is cold and snowy and I've been sick, so checking out the trails is kind of out of the picture this week. I just came frome the evening social and ran into Tyler H. from USU (saw him here last year too). He's in Montana working with sturgeon on the upper Missouri. Had a nice "good old grad school days" chat. He and his wife are doing well in MT and say hello to all.
A's been sick with the flu and then I got sick the end of last week. The three day weekend we had a huge swim meet in town again this winter and I got to see 2 world records broken and lots of very fast swims by very fast olympians- dozens of them. I really enjoyed watching it- especially seeing Dara Torres swim- she's 40 and currently holds the american record in the 50 free. She swam in the 1984 olympics and is swimming against people who weren't even born in 1984. How cool is that to see someone come back that big that old (for swimming at least). I'm excited to see them all swim on TV in Bejing this summer.
This weekend is quite possibly one of the most exciting weekends of the year in Columbia (for us at least) or at least the weekend we spend the cold dark winter looking forward to- the True False Film fest. A and I have passes and tickets to lots and lots of movies for a crazy documentary film bender weekend once again. I can't wait.
So I'm in Nebraska City, NE this week for a Missouri River conference. I'm presenting the last talk on the last day (Thursday). We'll see if there is anyone there. The conference is at the lovely Lied Lodge run by the Arbor Day foundation. Too bad it is cold and snowy and I've been sick, so checking out the trails is kind of out of the picture this week. I just came frome the evening social and ran into Tyler H. from USU (saw him here last year too). He's in Montana working with sturgeon on the upper Missouri. Had a nice "good old grad school days" chat. He and his wife are doing well in MT and say hello to all.
A's been sick with the flu and then I got sick the end of last week. The three day weekend we had a huge swim meet in town again this winter and I got to see 2 world records broken and lots of very fast swims by very fast olympians- dozens of them. I really enjoyed watching it- especially seeing Dara Torres swim- she's 40 and currently holds the american record in the 50 free. She swam in the 1984 olympics and is swimming against people who weren't even born in 1984. How cool is that to see someone come back that big that old (for swimming at least). I'm excited to see them all swim on TV in Bejing this summer.
This weekend is quite possibly one of the most exciting weekends of the year in Columbia (for us at least) or at least the weekend we spend the cold dark winter looking forward to- the True False Film fest. A and I have passes and tickets to lots and lots of movies for a crazy documentary film bender weekend once again. I can't wait.
