Indeed. It can be crazy. I'm spending two weeks this semester teaching a lab where the students are doing nothing but measuring the circumference and diameter of cylindrical objects and taking the ratio of the two to get pi. I expect wildly varying results, because that's the nature of measurement.

I can usually drink, but I can't really eat. Drinking something, even if it's just a glass of orange juice, will keep my blood sugar from crashing (I have to watch for that) without forcing me to eat.

I just can't eat right away after getting up. My body just wants nothing to do with it. Now I have issues with low blood sugar, so sometimes I have to drink something just to keep myself stable, but food? Meh.

This, this, a thousand times this. This is why we make our physics lab students take repeated measurements and get a handle on their uncertainty.

You don't know my department ;)

I love that this little white puffball's name is "Ivan the Terrible". Brilliant.

That just made my day. :)

I think it's a fun name. And you know what, if a candy bar company actually had enough wits about them to go, "Hey, we should get in on this", more power to them.

I'm doing pretty much the same, trying to upload assignments and course information and trying to get a lecture written.

Yeaaaaah, you'll regret that later (says the college prof who isn't ready for tomorrow yet). Procrastination ftw.

Awesome!!! Hi!!! Always good to meet another member of the Crazy Awesome Physics Brigade! :D

Awesome! Exactly what I need on a scrambly oh-hell-classes-start-tomorrow kind of day. :)

Can I come? I need coffee and friendly people too. :)

At least until I open the box, and collapse the wavefunction. I don't want to be responsible for that. ;)

I got pretty much the same schooling from a Catholic priest, in my college Old Testament class. My mentor at the school I work at now is a Bible professor, and she blows people's minds on a daily basis.

Yeah....that made me squirm a little bit too.

I'll second that as a Christian and as a scientist.

Thanks for this. Really. :) I'm a physicist and a college professor, at a religious school. And honestly, the Bible professors are the ones, shaking up people's religious beliefs, not the science professors.

Right, because people NEVER change their minds about anything, ever.

If I already have a reputation for being the crazy cat lady of the Physics Department, does that mean I win?