Plans for thesis have been heavily disrupted. I wanted to prep this semester, go home over the summer to collect data, write it during the summer, and hand it in in August. The guy I want to supervise me (and really, the only faculty member who's qualified to) will be in the Yukon all summer, though, so he won't be able to physically look over a ( Read more... )

Atm I'm lying on my duvet cover from Oslo (which I haven't been using here, not having a duvet to cover), on a grassy hill with dandelions and little blue flowers and daisies, soaking up the sun and the 21˚C. Spring has most definitely sprung, and for the last couple days it's been feeling like June back home. Since this is the start of "vacation ( Read more... )

I had to go back and read my last entries to see where I left off. Never a good sign. Let's see ( Read more... )

I've had this song stuck in my head for a WEEK AND A HALF. I finally bought it on iTunes because I've been so frequently not connected to the internet while working on my essays that I can't listen to it whenever I want to. Problem solved. Now here's hoping it'll go away XD ( Read more... )

Something about this song, and this version in particular (from Grace) just brings me to a standstill physically and mentally. Whatever I was doing before, whatever was on my mind, I just stop for a moment of calm and clarity ( Read more... )

In my attempts to prep for my Geographic Thought and Methodology exam (or rather, my completely tangental trains of thought to avoid doing so), two things have occurred to me about where I am now ( Read more... )

I am avoiding work. By telling you about my week ( Read more... )

FIRST there's no B natural in my octatonic set. Rewrite. THEN there's no F# in my whole tone series. Rewrite. THEN there ARE C#s and D#s. Rewrite. THEN, to top it all off, it's NOT EVEN WHOLE TONE! It's whole tone with an extra note and two semitones, thus NOT WHOLE TONE and NOT OF LIMITED TRANSPOSITION. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. I FAIL at ( Read more... )

I think I'm mostly making this post as a sort of justification to myself and the world... My first Thursday class of the term is just ending, and my second starts in an hour and a half, but I'm not there. I have tightness and pain in my left hip, it started this morning in the shower, I have no idea why. I have taken ibuprofen to try to take away ( Read more... )

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