Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Beginning

     The story behind the name is this:  One random evening, me and my friends Brian and Danielle Sparr were in the car heading to, most likely, Steak n Shake.  I'm pretty sure I was joining them as a break from schoolwork, still working on my masters degree at the time.  I don't remember who asked the question initially, but eventually, I was explaining to Brian the different areas of chemistry and which one my research applied to.  (and likely doing a horrible job, as I have since discovered I am HORRID at breaking chemistry into laymen terms)  We had finally gotten over the hurdle of how in the world there can be any other area other than Organic and Inorganic.  At this point, I suspected he was being deliberately obtuse.  I then said, "So anyway, I'm studying Physical Chemistry, which is another one."  Brian:  "Physical Chemistry?" "Yeah, it studies kinetics and thermodynamics and stuff" "Kinetic Chemistry?!  Is that like getting hit by a bus?"
".........what?"

     He broke my brain with that question.  Don't know that it's ever quite recovered.

     Anyway, I decided to go with that for the name because I intend to this blog to be my outlet for all of the crazy changes that have happened/are still happening in the last few years.  (it's also possible that I named it because I was trying to come up with a chemistry based name and that story popped into my head and WOULDN'T LEAVE.)  Since that story I have received my master's degree involving writing and defending a thesis. I've gotten married to a wonderful man, who any of you readers will likely have to deal with me being sappy about.  Moved, twice, to locations ranging from 1-4 hours away from where we were and started two different jobs.  It's been a whirlwind and I've realized that all of the changes haven't completely been processed.  So, I figured I should probably be writing some of this down for posterity.  If anyone is reading this, I hope you will enjoy the randomness.  (and it will likely be VERY random at times.  I'm fairly certain many entries will be written with a glass of Merlot next to me.)  :)



My Muse

9 comments:

  1. For the record, KinetoChemist sounds like a bitchin' DJ name.

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  2. See what I did there? A comment about a DJ name that started with "For the record..."

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  3. I'm not drinking any F*%&@%g Merlot!

    OKay, not really, I totally will.

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  4. I'm going to enjoy catching up on your life since we have this huge geographical, and therefore, social gap between us.

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  5. I love the tag line, and I'm going to love being able to keep up with what's going on with you! You're a great writer and this will be fantastic.

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  6. How many brains has he broken that way?

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  7. Too many to count Cam...too many to count.

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  8. i'm loving this as i drink pinot on a thursday. I DON'T EVEN LIKE PINOT!!!

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