First Post!!

Well, this is new and all. I realize that nobody probably reads this yet at this point. but. I have moved to a new city and need something to do with my time. The name of this blog, trite as it is, sort of reflects the double plans that I have here-chemistry, and adjusting to living in the cold of Minneapolis, MN. There will be some of both.
I should probably start with a bit about me. I'm a chemistry PhD, pretty serious geek. It fascinated me to hear about protons neutrons and electrons in 3rd grade, and the inherent coolness stuck with me to grad school. I'm now looking for ways to keep doing chemistry for money. Most of what I've done is inorganic chemistry. I've never gotten into carbon enough to really love organic chemistry, and analytical. I do like analysis. I have taught, and that made me realize that I just don't have it in me to be the one that motivates a bunch of Chem 101 students at 8 am. I have nothing but respect for all my professors and my high school teacher. Go Mr. Crumm. but I just can't do it.
I am also going to write about adjustment. I moved up to Minnesota to be near the man I love. This is great. But it is also not a very interesting live in and of itself. So. Better living comes in a variety of formats.
1. Friends. I do know some people up here through college, but he's closer to them. I need to figure out how to have my own relationships and life.
2. Hobbies. I do love dancing. some I do with the man, some I do alone. I want to perform. I do love that. I do near eastern dance and Irish dance. I would love to get into performance troops for both, or maybe just Irish. but Irish is partnered, which means there needs to be more men. I also knit and am trying to learn how to sew.
3. Job. see above.
4. cold tolerance. I swear I moved here in the coldest week of the year. It was about 5 degrees for a week after I got here. It has gotten warmer since, but I still hate it.
So that's me. This will mostly be a pretty personal blog. I'm considering a bunch of posts that really do address "better living through chemistry" take a chemical and explain what it has done for the world. I think that will be fun.
There will also be posts about feminism from time to time. It's important. Everyone who says that it isn't is lying. I really believe it's that simple. It's flat out b.s. that women make 77 cents on the dollar to men doing the same work, and way less if they're mothers. since this will be a chemistry blog and chemistry is my work, a lot of the feminism posts will be work related, I'm thinking. Not to say that other topics aren't important or will never come up.
so that's who I am, and what I'm doing right now.