7.12.07. 12.15am.
babies.
i had meeting today with a woman who had two kids, a three year old and a baby, maybe 7 months. and i noticed that while i'm around kids all the time now, i don't really see babies any more. i used to get to spent several hours a week playing with babies, and that was awesome. three year olds are great, and i love 'em, but i forgot how completely engrossing infants are. they're just doing it, man. they've got no filter, they're not trying to look cool, they're just experiencing everything. i love 'em.
in other news, i just heard about the stanta fe institute, which is apparantly where you go when you're a brilliant scientist, and you want to hang out somewhere gorgeous and trade wacky ideas with other brilliant scientists. their faculty have specialties like "coupled human-natural systems" and "ecoinformatics" and "theoretical biology" and "evolutionary innovation." their crown prince is murray gell-mann, who, in addition to discovering the quark, has done absolutely everything there is for a human to do. and according to amelia, it's absolutely gorgeous and everyone leaves their doors open all the time and animals wander the halls and smart people talk about interesting things that everyone wants to hear about.
is it me, or is this just, like, a wet dream of awesome? i wonder if they want to build a preschool for me to work at.