Hey all! It's Tuesday night and time for the DIDS, short for "Damn, I Did Something." It's a chance for all of us to offer up the cool and awesome things we have DONE in the past week.
I haven't made an appearance here for quite some time (I'll blame full-time school-teaching plus full-time momhood for that), but tonight the task of DIDSing up some stuff that's been done falls to me.
On my mind: The Nobel Prizes. All last week, I'd hear the prizes being announced as I drove to work. Each morning, as I turned off Eastfield Drive onto Alexanderana, I'd hear NPR announce another recent Laureate. I enjoyed the daily dose of accomplishment, even though I'd never heard of any of the various scientists and thinkers being acknowledged. I liked hearing of their discoveries and advances and theories--it makes me feel smart and a smidge more informed to learn about what's going on in the labs and university offices of the world.
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