update with lots of pictures

Wow. It's been such a fun week. I've just got several random stories, so bear with me. I was very glad yesterday when my adviser came up to me at wine and cheese and told me how proud he is of my progress in my research! Yesterday I broke a piece of the meteorite! It was awful. I had a thin section (a very very tiny sliver of the meteorite adhered to a glass slide) and I was mounting it on a metal stub so I could load it into the EVO. I started scanning it and I couldn't figure out what was wrong... well I had glued the stub onto the rock rather than onto the glass (upside down) and it pulled out a large chunk of the sample when I pulled the stub away. I showed the ruined section to Denton and he just kept saying "Shit. Shit. Shit. Don't worry, it's an easy mistake to make. Shit. Shit. Shit." And needless to say, that didn't help me feel much better about it.

I've been slowly but surely tinkering away on this EVO program and I've pretty much got it down now, German and all. It's funny because yesterday the tech came in to install a new part for the EVO and I was giving him pointers about the program that I have deciphered because I knew more about it than he did. It was a nice feeling.

I was rushing through the fifth floor hall of the museum trying to make it to the microscopy lab for my 9am appointment when I almost barreled over a triceratops skull! It was scary. I was coming around the corner just as the caravan of wagons and people pushing them very slowing began to emerge in front of me and I skidded to a halt. I narrowly escaped. Everyone just stared at me like I had just given them all individual heart attacks. There was a triceratops skull on a pedestal in the middle of a very large white wagon like cart followed closely but another cart carrying a cast of this skull. It was a really cool thing to behold... I'm pretty sure most the bones on display are casts, at least for the most part. But this was definitely a real skull. Sorry, no pictures, it was far too awkward to ask them to stop so I could take a snap shot. Just take my word for how strange of an incident it is to almost knock over something like that.

The fourth of July was spent in Brooklyn on the promenade watching the Macy's fireworks over the river. It was a good show, but it don't got nothin' on Thunder over Louisville. We walked across the Brooklyn bridge and it was tons of fun. The following pictures are from the Fourth and walking over the bridge as well as some various views of Brooklyn. It's a very nice place and I really like it.
Plus a meteorite picture and one of the thin sections (that I did not mame).