Just wanted to let you know that the latest contact lenses that I got yesterday from Dr. Brown are painless, sitting not only comfortably in my eyes but also in the proper location so that I can see clearly with them (whoo hoo!). The last four pairs that I had tried all kept spinning and feeling pretty scratchy in my eyes. I guess I was starting to feel pretty hopeless about the whole thing, so I am especially thrilled that these are working so well. I am so ecstatic about it that I had to email you all and share my joy! *
Today at the 1st year physics/astronomy grad student seminar, I learned about nanotechnology, of which I previously had very little knowledge. This professor is using nanotechnology to research chemically-functional electronics. In other words, using nanotubes as detectors instead of as transistors, which is what industry spends most time and money researching. Dr. Phil Collins (yes, that really is his name and he is not the British singer) builds single molecule chemical nano circuits to "see" what is happening during a chemical reaction at the atom level, which has not previously been visible. As you can probably tell, I found it very fascinating.**
On the Monday Memorial Day holiday, I will be going with Danielle (the emerging technologies librarian) to the LA Union train station to go on Disney's A Christmas Carol promo traveling train museum (does that sound crazy, or what?). http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/christmascaroltraintour/#/tour/ if you are curious. ***
Notes/Updates:
* That was contact pair #5. Now I am on pair #6 and I can't get them out of my eyes. You are supposed to be able to wear them for a week before taking them out. It is just something that I have never done before. And lately, at the end of the day, I've just been wanting to take them out. Today is the fifth day of having them in eyes with no nighttime relief. Aloha was nice enough to send me a link with instructions on how to remove "stuck" soft contact lenses. I'll try it out tonight.
** I gave my own library-related presentation to these students on June 5th. I think I did okay but I know now how to fine tune it and make it more relevant to them, and hopefully more lively.
*** Danielle and I waited 3 hours in a long slow-moving line for this tour! Phew! It was tiring and hot in the sun. Despite this, I didn't mind because Danielle is fun to hang out with (we played word search to pass the time). This really prepped us for our day at Disneyland (her birthday), where the longest we waited in a line was maybe 30 minutes (love the fast passes!).
