Without getting too much into it, February is a tough month to get through for me right now.  It's not just the cold and my weekend classes going straight from now until May, but it's missing my students and having to start aaaaall over again and waiting on tenterhooks for grad schools and other job applications and just kind of losing my mind ( Read more... )

Most days, I manage to hold on until 10 o'clock before I conk out.  My falling-asleep routine is a little messed up right now; some days I'll watch a sitcom on my computer until I fall asleep, or more often I'll just shut off the lights and hope I don't think too hard.  Last night, however, I was so googly-eyed that I figured around 8:30 that if I  ( Read more... )

So, yes, back from vacation and 2 more interviews: one tomorrow, one Wednesday, and scheduling emergency cert. tests and I woke up this morning to firetrucks putting out a fire on a house at the end of my block.  1 trip to the library and Kinko's later, 2 trips to walk a dog I'm sitting for and I'm kind of stunned at how little time I will have for ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, would you throw my gum away for me?  There's totally no flavor any more.  Sorry it's so sticky ( Read more... )

-I carry a taser ( Read more... )

Because that's just how I roll.

• Did anyone notice my new layout(s)? Y/y? So exciting!
• Got a ( maybe tmi. )

I am currently making a spreadsheet of potential grad programs that I will be applying to this fall and I am F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G  O-U-T.

( This is me, going crazy. )

If you've got some time to waste, I'd recommend wasting it on these:

Notice, a photograph by David Shrigley
Heeheehee.

Wikipedia's List of Unusual Deaths
I like Hypatia's best, myself.  I mean, not best.  But it's the most interesting to me, theoretically.

Extreme Sheep LED Art
Holy shit, you guys, AWESOME.  With sheep!!  Could YOU do that??  I think not ( Read more... )

Storytime, yay!  Or maybe I should term this "rambling time"...

My uncle's birthday was, apparently, a few weeks ago - don't look at me like that.  This is not the half of the family I keep in touch with.  At all.  Ever.  And they, in generous reciprocation, have had uber-minimal contact with my little nuclear family since I was probably 9.  I'm a ( Read more... )