Had a conversation with a student today where we identified a source of confusion: that “protonated” and “deprotonated” are used as both adjectives and verbs. Before that: Abbott and Costello level comedy.

Seeing three student performances of The Nutcracker today. Is there a parenting merit badge for this?

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f... I wanted to send a link to this out in the last-faculty-meeting-of-the-semester announcement but my colleague talked me out of it.

Me: It’s so great to have a few quiet days to catch up. Also me: Let me just spend 30 minutes trying to calculate what percent of the carbon in tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feast I could exhale as CO2…

Heard from a student from a few years back who was just accepted into their dream grad program. I love it so much when former students reach out to share good news. Total mood boost!

Increasing the dog/cat post ratio for @rdavbritt.bsky.social …Polly feels she’s overdue for attention.

Thanks @zekrec.bsky.social for the bracelet!!