Musings

On Friday afternoon during lunch I had a great conversation with Ken, Kevan, and Loren (all older HVO employees) about life, marriage, kids, and being ready to make big decisions. Ken offered a really wise statement, which was "The only difference between energy that drains you and energy that invigorates you is your own attitude." It was really great listening to those guys, both for feeling part of the HVO community as well as hearing life advice from men rather than women. It was interesting to get a different point of view. It seemed like both Kevan and Loren weren't ready for kids, especially since Kevan isn't ready for a second dog, and Loren was weighing kids versus waxing his surfboard. Funny guys.

Also, during work I was logging articles into the HVO's huge abstract database, and I came across an article from EARTH journal about the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain and the possibility of hotspot movement (the topic of my senior thesis at Carleton). It quoted Anthony (my advisor from last summer at OSU), and mentioned that he was going back to the Louisville seamount chain to get more data. If I choose to work with him next year in graduate school - which he really wants, apparently - then I'd be going on that data cruise, too, most likely. I thought that was pretty exciting. The project is definitely on the forefront of marine geology!

One final exciting find - I was thinking about entering my AGU abstract from last fall into the database because it relates to the Hawaiian seamount chain, but when I searched for it in the database it was already there! Anyone want an autograph?