It was the 100th anniversary of J Robert Oppenheimer's birth yesterday. Berkeley organized a conference, which also included a lecture and some exhibits. We went to the lecture last night. The speaker was a professor at Yale, a well-versed historian of science and technology. The topic was 'Scientist, Weapons and the State'. It was quite interesting. I think Charlie liked it too. There were authors, historians and scientists who are the experts in matters of JRO. I don't know how Charlie really felt, but it must have been a little strange, sitting in the audience in the back of the room, listening to people talk about the importance of your grandfather in world history. He went back for the conference today, which focuses more on Oppenheimer's life as a scientific intellectual. We'll see what he has to say about that.

Ah...I finally heard back from the graduate public health programs I applied to! And I got accepted to my first choice, Berkeley!! Yay!! Now I have to deal with the question to go or not to go. It will be tough one especially when I only have a few weeks to decide.

In other news, I got a couple weeks of consulting work coming up. It's been a while! Yea, I don't really consider snowboard instruction as real work, that's fun work. Consulting is work for money. My minimum wage pay at Alpine only sometimes cover the gas. I can't say I am psyched to take on the consulting gig but at least that will give me some spending money and if i do a lot of work this summer, maybe it will pay for grad school!