They keep saying it is going to rain, but it is not raining, and I never want to eat anything that is not frozen again ( Read more... )

I went to the grocery store today with bleaknimue and suibhne_geilt, and I found (well, okay, suibhne_geilt found, mostly) low-carb cranberry juice that is only 16 calories per servingDo you know how amazing that is? I guess it's because cranberries have very little sugar in them anyway, so they can just sweeten it with Splenda and not have to worry about getting fructose OUT like ( Read more... )

I really, really, really do not want to work on my article ( Read more... )

Am trying to make sun tea on the porch, but it keeps clouding over ( Read more... )

Thesis edits continue--I did all the little rewrites suggested by my second committee member yesterday and today, but she also had an ASSLOAD of citations she wanted me to add, so I searched high and low for them yesterday and then emailed her about the ones that continued to elude me. No response yet; I'm starting to worry she might be out of ( Read more... )

Hopefully, I'll go into more detail later, but for the time being, here are some of my personal highlights from WisCon 29:

• Finishing the hat I was working on and making a whole SECOND hat in a similar style (ruffly brim, feathery trim), with lots of compliments and crafty commiseration from various other con attendees.
• Getting Robin of Sherwood on ( Read more... )

Just to let you all know, I passed my thesis defense.

Madison people: we're meeting at the Memorial Union Terrace at 4:30 for celebratory beer. Feel free to come by!

I just dropped $400 registering for two conferences for the summer. It's not actually as bad as it sounds, as one of those registrations ($235) covers five days' worth of accomodations and food. Plus my friend Teddy from the department is going, too, so I was able to put her down as my preferred roommate (that's the rate for a student double ( Read more... )

One of the cats just knocked a frying pan off the top of the microwave. There is a cabinet RIGHT ABOVE the microwave; I really don't know how he (I suspect Bart) managed it. Maybe the handle was sticking out, I guess ( Read more... )

Worked on the thesis today--I still don't have any feedback on my draft, other than the lit review, which I've already revised--but I worked in a bunch of stuff from last week's ethnographic interviews, and did some basic editing. I finally packed it in with about 10-15 pages left, the draft having grown to 103 pages, because I wasn't really ( Read more... )