May 11 Well, my first full day in Korea I decided to be extremely tourist-y. But hey, I was a tourists. I rode the subway to the heart of Seoul and walked around until I found a palace. I was able to join an English tour group and a lovely Korean lady guided us around the maze of ornate buildings, briefly explaining the necessity of each. Cool. I then paid 10,000 won (don't worry-- that's like $9) to ride the enchanting Seoul City Tour bus. It was actually n...

Sooo, it literally took forever to get to Korea. I suppose that is the price to you to get a relatively cheap ticket to fly to the other side of the world. I started in Lexington, which was fine; it's a small airport-- nothing could go wrong. Then I had a lovely layover in Chicago. No problem. Then I went to San Francisco. Where I had to stay overnight. I can sleep just about anywhere but I was hungry and everything closed at like 10, and I arrived later than tha...

Well, last summer I went to France and did some research. Cool, right? The ACS Conference ment it was reunion time with Tim and Alma! We decided we would all share a hotel room which to be honest, I never thought Tim would agree to after the hell I put him through in France. Speaking of the hell I put him through in France, we obviously ran into other people from the REU program that went to other places. The two people from Toulouse told Tim and I that our pho...

Alright, so my lovely and dear friend Kaci had a internship with a Senator (how cool is that?) for the spring semester last year. So, of course, if any of my friends live anywhere that is interesting I am going to visit them. So that's exactly what I did! I stayed for a few days and used frequent flier miles to get there so it was an awesomely cheap trip! Unfortunately Kaci had to work during the day, but I am quite good at entertaining myself. She did take ...

So, time to play catch up! My first trip, most graduation (graduation that I didn't attend...ha) was to Colorado. My now ex-coworker, Alison coridally invited me out and back to her hometown area. Our other co-worker Justin C. and I flew out together and met Alison and her husband Joe. We then had a fun filled week of beer drinking (I mean, it is Colorado, after all).... I'm trying to think of highlights. I think doing this blog "real-time" will be much more ...