loving fake lies...

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie
Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum.
- Goethe

My dear Friend, all Theory is grey
and Life's golden tree alone is green.

i used to think that i was a theory-minded person. and maybe for some things i still am, but in general i have moved on to actually doing things. comes with age, one would suppose. and not just doing things, but experiencing. and not just experiencing, but accompanied by contemplation and reflection. i have concluded that it is not such a bad thing to grow older.

as it were, my program is physics. theory, theory, theory. and the practical portion interests me about as much as digging a pit into someone else's sandbox. and if you're familiar with my misgivings about digging up other people's sandboxes, you'll have a pretty good idea of what i think of physics labs and the subsequent write-ups.

o irony, why hast thou bereft me of a practical passion?