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Crappy day. Tired at work, in a funk, dozed for a while. Not good. I realize that if I don't bike to work, I'm just going to be in a bad mood, so it's probably smart to suck it up and just wear rain pants because I'll feel better later.

Went to an Iraq war vigil last night. The best part, I thought, was when some people shared their stories of people they know who are over there. Two people had friends who had joined the Marines, two others had relatives over there. Kids aren't going to school. Families are finding their homes completely looted. These kinds of direct human costs are the ones that are so easily forgotten.

Jane, a second-year, asked me how to calculate the differential decay rate for polarized neutron beta decay to show parity violation. I was really stumped. Brian and I tried to help her out for awhile, but we were really getting nowhere. It's a pretty fundamental problem, so I ought to understand it.

McCall matched at Stanford ortho! What a dude!