It's been a while since my last post. So much has happened in the last few weeks. My brother graduated from Columbia! Kudos to the kid. It's interesting how Columbia has played such a large role in my family's life and education..my father taught there, a cousin got a Masters, I have a Bachelors in the Arts, and now my brother too! I'm sure some day if I ever have kids I would encourage them to apply, of course, no pressure whatsoever. So the lucky kid will be in Germany for the next half year or so trying to beef up his Deutsche Sprache. I sure wish I had such experiences. Its a lot harder when you're doing experimental science to travel around like that. I can't just lug around my couple hundred pound dilution fridge everywhere I go. Still, I can always plan for a postdoc in either Europe or Japan. Actually that's my goal..go and get to know some hot Japanese or Euro chicks eh? But back to reality here, need to finish the PhD first. One step at a time yo.