That plan I had? Go to graduate school in a field where it's likely I could get paid/reimbursed for going to school? Not happening, apparently ( Read more... )

Working on my first CV ever... I need a good editor.

InterestsJewelry design ( Read more... )

Put together a fairly good statistical analysis for a problem at work today; luckily, it came out in our favor, if I have not done something colossally stupid like set the wrong null hypothesis. I am under the impression that H0 should always assume no intervention, no change, the commonsense default assumption... but doubts creep in, when the no- ( Read more... )

Upon reading my email ( Read more... )

I'm learning more about database implementation from Wikipedia than my quarter-long databases class. To say nothing of the MySQL docs.

In other news, it is FREAKING GORGEOUS out there under the daystar. I feel silly drawing angstwhiney ink sketches when the sky is this bright and the air smells like nectar.

The ongoing dilemma: writing good* documentation is going to be the most lengthy and difficult task on this list, so I should budget the most time for it, but half the other things on said list haven't been properly implemented yet, so I should do that first... fuuuuuck, why do we have a total of three people on four projects ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm now signed up for "Access to Space" (experimental rocketry for dummies) and INFO 490. ESS is a second-string class compared to what I really was hoping for; I still want to see if I can weasel into History of Body Adornment instead of ESS 205, but I don't think it'll quite work.

plus side: will not actually have ( Read more... )

so, I leave it up to LJ Brain Trust ( Read more... )

First mistake: thinking I should aspire to be anything other than a useless fuck.

Second mistake: showing up to GENOME thinking that GSP and sufficient early-ness would help me get in. (no prerequisites or college-level biology or any of THOSE details in hand, oh no.) Master PlanTM did not account for Mongolian horde of slightly-better-appointed ( Read more... )

human subjects application: NOT. DONE. YET. and I had spent Saturday working on it, instead of painting and hanging out with qazwsxmko, just for that satisfying taste of completion. Grrr.

in other, slightly more satisfying news, I have finished all my extant knitting, and must now be bodily restrained from ordering yarn for another lace project from Fuzzy ( Read more... )