I think my childhood might have left me with some issues.

Of course, everyone's does. In my case, my parent's total lack of monetary sense, combined with a healthy helping of bad luck and a little sprinkling of depression meant that I grew up in poverty. We were always on the verge of losing the house, or getting evicting, or not being able to pay ( Read more... )

It's master's paper crunch time here, that, combined with job-hunting, is starting to slowly crush my spirits. To counter that, here's a list of things that made me happy this week:

• The weather was absolutely perfect.
• Yesterday, I ran into a band of roving acappella singers on campus.
• Today I took my car in for an oil change and inspection. At 275k ( Read more... )

I am officially graduating tomorrow ( Read more... )

Just got back from Star Trek, which was awesome as far as dialog and dramatic development, but a total failure as far as physics*. Truly cool though, and worth a viewing. We got out, though, and discovered Dad had left the lights on in the rental car, and the battery was dead. Luckily, we were rescued by a very nice horse insurance salesman, so we ( Read more... )