String Theory and Piano Karaoke
Yesterday was wildly fun. After lunch with Nick, I worked through my talk with James. James gets the gold star. Talking to him brought my anxiety levels down about three notches and helped me better organize what I want to say. Then, for shits and giggles, Nick and I accompanied James to Mina's String Theory for Math People class. SAUSAGE PARTY. Of the 30+ people in the overflowing classroom in Evans Hall, there were about three women including myself. We were outnumbered by gray haired math professors. Mina lectured on basic path integral formulation of quantum field theory and fielded strange questions on unitarity, hilbert spaces, manifolds and the measure. She did a fabulous job. After lecture James was surrounded by a bunch of confused students asking him questions.
Here is a photo of me pretending to be very interested in what James is saying.
After class, Nick and I went and saw House of Flying Daggers. It was delicious eye candy-- beautiful scenery, beautiful actors and actresses. The plot was gooey and cheesy. The martial arts was lovely to watch, elaborately choreographed. My favorite part took place in a lush green bamboo forest.
Then I hopped in BART and met up with Rupa and Scott.
We wanted to attend a pre-showing at Yerba Buena gardens in SF but when we discovered that it wasn't free we changed out minds and went back to the East Bay. We ended up at The Alley in Oakland with Mike.
The Alley is a fabulous piano karaoke bar full of locals. Sitting around the piano were young women and old men, laughing, singing, and having fun together.
Mike is a fabulous singer and worked his way through a number of classic Sinatra songs that night. Rupa, Scott and I also joined in and sang a few ourselves.
One Sinatra song, Fly Me to the Moon was the theme music to an anime I had seen a few years before. In that series, monsters attack Tokyo, detroying large portions of the city.
The Japanese government builds giant robots to fight them and trains children to operate them. The children end up killed, maimed, and emotionally damaged.
I found singing along to a piano and saxaphone to be much more challenging that the karaoke I usually do at Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square.
Does anything strike you about this picture?
Here is a photo of me pretending to be very interested in what James is saying.
After class, Nick and I went and saw House of Flying Daggers. It was delicious eye candy-- beautiful scenery, beautiful actors and actresses. The plot was gooey and cheesy. The martial arts was lovely to watch, elaborately choreographed. My favorite part took place in a lush green bamboo forest.
Then I hopped in BART and met up with Rupa and Scott.
We wanted to attend a pre-showing at Yerba Buena gardens in SF but when we discovered that it wasn't free we changed out minds and went back to the East Bay. We ended up at The Alley in Oakland with Mike.
The Alley is a fabulous piano karaoke bar full of locals. Sitting around the piano were young women and old men, laughing, singing, and having fun together.
Mike is a fabulous singer and worked his way through a number of classic Sinatra songs that night. Rupa, Scott and I also joined in and sang a few ourselves.
One Sinatra song, Fly Me to the Moon was the theme music to an anime I had seen a few years before. In that series, monsters attack Tokyo, detroying large portions of the city.
The Japanese government builds giant robots to fight them and trains children to operate them. The children end up killed, maimed, and emotionally damaged.
I found singing along to a piano and saxaphone to be much more challenging that the karaoke I usually do at Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square.
Does anything strike you about this picture?
posted by Michelle at 4:49 p.m.
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