I have returned from apartment hunting in Tempe; by tomorrow, I hope to have made my decision and started the paperwork.

Meanwhile, grading forever and forever!

Lest I forget a life-truth, my Despair.com calendar for December reminds me:


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I worked all day Tuesday. Yesterday. Went to sleep at 1am. This morning. 3 hours ago. Need to be up for work at 7:30 at the latest. Class and office hours all day until late afternoon. A whole chapter due on Monday that I will continue to work on tomorrow night.

So why am I on lj at 4 in the morning?

2:15. AS wakes me up bodily for the second time ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning AS and I got new stuff for Ernestine. She seems not to have noticed any difference; we had a good time, though :) . Here are some recent pictures that I might turn into turtle macros...

I iz pozing

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There is a term that sounds (as is often the case) much more poetic when literally translated than in the original language: "流水帳".

A "flowing water account" is a long and trivial description, usually generated to nominally satisfy an external authority. It is often characterized by frequent use of the word "then," forms of the verb "to be," and the ( Read more... )

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Didn't sleep well last night and too tired to wonder why. Too tired, too, to make an original post, esp. since I have three long meetings today, each of which requires significant focus. So I shall pass on some internet quizzes that I've enjoyed for those who like the same, and tell those who want to know how I am tomorrow what happened today.

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Just realized that I missed the deadline for applying to campus parking by 3 days. I love public transport, but not when it comes so seldom and when I will have big bags of books to carry. Why oh why couldn't I have remembered last week?!

Also unhappy because my roommate's moving in with her boyfriend, which means I need to find a new roommate. Of ( Read more... )

I decided to reward myself for my productive morning by buying myself a more-self-indulgent-than-usual lunch. Half a block after I exited the store with my burrito and chips, I passed a homeless man. Two steps later I turned and asked him whether he wanted my chips.

Man: Thank you!

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