Thursday: did not sleep after wednesday so I drove to the airport at 3:30 am, where my flight was delayed for an hour.  i sat and caught up with the internet after just one evening away while i waited for my parents flight to arrive.  then we drove to g'ville.  the evening that followed included the first of many graduation type ceremonies, dinner ( Read more... )

Ok, so I have somehow scheduled myself into a nightmare.  I have a final project due for one of my classes next Wednesday.  Between now and then i have to a) work ~20 hours/week, b) go to my sisters graduation in Florida from Thursday-Sunday c) figure out how to revive my grasp of the spanish language before i have an oral proficiency test next ( Read more... )

Let's see...where to start. 

• Oh right - forms of doom:  Finished.  Printed.  Rock, rock on.
• Interview (not to get the job, but as part of the job process) of doom: scheduled for two weeks from now.  is it just me or does this seem REALLY FAST?  Especially when you consider it's the government, and they actually wanted to get me in next friday, but I ( Read more... )

i finally turned in my masters paper draft.  30 pages of actual text.  14 pages of appendices (including bibliography - this kind of kills me).  3 pages of preliminaries.  just under 10,000 words.  Good lord ( Read more... )

Ladies (and gentleman), I know what I want for my birthday - it's not for four months, but sitll.  This. is. awesome.

A masters paper update: I've got 24 pages of actual paper, and 3 pages of that were written today.  Plus, I've finally gotten a lot of my statistics into the actual paper, and I've found that that helps with writing about what the ( Read more... )

I'm posting about Dancing with the Stars, and really, I can't help myself ( Read more... )

good: waking up and finding that i got tickets to the duke game.  finding out that almost all my friends got tickets for the game as well.  it is an embarrassment of riches ( Read more... )

Ok boy and girls...two VERY good pieces of news today:

1) My IRB was approved.  YES!  And I quote, "Thanks for your careful and thorough resubmission of your study."  Meaning, I sent in about 3 different versions of the revisions.  And I'm awesome.

I guess this means I have to start my study.  Crap.

2) I posted fic.  But apparently eljay sucks with ( Read more... )

1) I am not dead from alcohol poisoning (hurrah), although my sister was in pretty bad shape when i left the state, and she had to fly and THEN drive. poor kid. :/

I know some of you are interested in how the weekend went, and others are not. Some of you I have said things to, and really...it's a very long story, so here is an email that I sent ( Read more... )

So...remember when you decided you wanted to be a librarian?  What was it that drew you initially?  Some people are organizers, and that's where you get catalogers.  Some people like finding the answers to questions, and those are the reference librarians (a little bit of me).  And then there are the people who love books because the books need to ( Read more... )