blog belonging to Tarka Wilcox, geology grad student.
Monday, January 12, 2009
slidey-snow
The semester has officially begun, to the tune of 6 inches of fresh snow that fell overnight. I opted to drive in, and had one small bump with another car around a blind corner in the parking lot of the coffee shop I'm sitting in now. People all over town are driving like morons (this particular person slid into me, but we just barely kissed bumpers) so I'm hiding in the coffee shop across from campus that has comfy leather chairs and a fireplace. Thankfully there are no undergrads clogging the chairs, mostly because they don't have any work yet... but I can see that everyone in here is likely a graduate student or professor.
Distracting me from the sounds of two people next to me yammering on about something, is the Crystal Castles album that I just got turned onto... check them out:
At the moment (and for the forseeable future) I'm a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I'm working towards a PhD in Active Tectonics, researching the structural kinematics of the central western Hsueshan Range and coastal foreland in Taiwan. When I'm not trying to pin down the kinematic history of faults and basins, I'm usually out riding one of my bikes or drinking a beer with my friends. I love the outdoors and I love to cook, so I thank my mother for teaching me most of what I know about food and wine and my father for instilling in me a deep respect for the natural world. Travel has always been special to me, and I've been traveling to countries all around the world since the age of two.
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