Post-script to a Blog

December 31, 2005

I've been asked to pick my three favorite blogs from this year, and by looking over all the posts I wrote this year I'm realizing a few things:  the first is that I like my writing better when I'm angry or stressed out about something, and the second is that I must have been angrier and more stressed about things in the beginning of the year rather than the end of the year.  I think my favorite blog is Extraordinary Committements of Time and Energy, which is in response to Lawrence Summer's absurd remarks made at the beginning of the year about why there were so few women in the top positions in academia in the physical sciences. 

However, I would rather my year of blogging be summarized by telling the physics and juggling act that is my life.  So with that in mind, if somone were to only read three blogs of this entire year, they would be

1.  the very beginning of the run of the MINOS experiment, or the birth of a beamline.

2.  The transition from being on a running experiment to starting to plan a newer one to take the next step in the field of neutrino physics, Simulataneous Balancing Acts.

3.  My attempt to summarize Life at Fermilab in 15 Minutes (including the nifty video link from Fermilab's Visual Media Services).

I am grateful for the opportunity to use Quantum Diaries and a soapbox and at times a therapist, and I am especially grateful to all of you folks out there who are interested in learning more about physics and the lives of physicists.