It must be some kind of manifestation of Murphy's Law that I never have the right kind of comfort food on hand when I really need it. Anyway, I just sent off another draft of the Paper of Doom! to my colleague. It's a colorful array of comments and tracked changes and I just hope it's better than the last version. At any rate, I feel I deserve a ( Read more... )

I realize looking for good fanfiction at The Pit of Voles is a bit of a contradiction in itself, but hey, quite often every once in a while, I'm desperate enough to try anyway. However, it is a bit frustrating that ninety percent of the stories there already fail to have a decent enough summary to stir any further interest. And I don't even ask for ( Read more... )

Blast MS Word, blast me, blast being distracted for only a second, because damnit! I want to kill something right now. I was finally, finally getting somewhere with that part of my dissertation which has been giving me headaches for weeks, resulting in much procrastination and not much working. And then I had to accidentally hit a key, and then ( Read more... )

Spent the morning stuck in a traffic jam on the highway with no water, no food and not enough gas to keep the engine and thus the air conditionning running. Fun times. At least today, it was only 30 degrees Celcius, as opposed to the 37° C we've had the past three weeks. I never would have thought I'd say this, being the summer person that I am, ( Read more... )