I'm surfing since I'm on night 5 of 7 on the mountain and am taking exposures long enough to surf, but not long enough to have me working on thesis revisions. . .

What have I found but pretty expensive dresses. Dear god if I had a reason to wear this mermaid dress or this floaty number or this white and blue floaty number, I'd shoot my wad so ( Read more... )

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So of course the next two weeks or so are a minefield of crazy with observing runs (both by myself and my advisor) and job applications due Nov 4th. . . . yet I'm still trying to get paper #3 of the dissertation ready to submit by the end of the month. Just one last bit of analysis, the conclusions and discussion to write and then some tweaking of ( Read more... )

So I'm trying to write weekly-ish updates ( Read more... )

Though I've spent the last few weeks cursing at poor documentation and a software package that was evidently never tested before being set wild, I finally have paper numero dos of my dissertation out in the journal ( Read more... )

It snowed on Charlottesville on Saturday ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in weeks, but am safely in Charlottesville. Everything and everyone made it here in mostly one piece (except the Audi didn't fare well with it's alternator dying, needing a new battery and tire issues that makes me wish someone would just get rid of that POS and buy a quality Japanese car but whatever ( Read more... )

just trying to work hard and stay motivated. On the work hard front I have 3 papers in various states of drafts and two of them are depending upon me finishing the first one up. Yay for needing to reference your own previous analysis because no one else has been bothered ( Read more... )

Surgery on Friday went fine-ish. I did in fact have a reason for my "monthly friend" to be hellish and hopefully we got that all cut out. I only got two incisions- one in the belly button and one near my left hip. The gas was hell on Friday and made me hurt near screaming level (since it was laparoscopic and they pump you full of gas to bloat you ( Read more... )

so advisor says I just need to work on/finish the two papers I have in the works right now and I could be finito as a graduate student. That is to say I can be insufferable and demand everyone refer to me as Doctor Ryan ( Read more... )