This is the weekend where some candidates for admission to the doc program get wined and dined by the college. I wrote about this when I was a prospective student, then again last year when I participated as a current graduate student. Today my new little buddy asked me how I am feeling about it this year, but I have to say now I just feel like it' ( Read more... )

The dog just walked over to where I am sitting on the couch and licked the bottom of my slipper.

Oliver soaked up some rays on this gorgeous 45 degree afternoon.

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I panned on letting myself sleep in this morning, but woke up at 8:40 anyway. So I figured I'd lie in bed with my laptop for a few hours instead. In some ways sleeping in always sounds like such a nice thing to do. But really, what's the point? I never feel all that much more rested (unless I'm sick) and I've missed much of the day. I guess it's ( Read more... )

I think I've been out the last 5 nights in a row, and have a dinner thing tonight as well. I'm not complaining, and actually feel very lucky to have a lot of wonderful people to hang out with. However, I am tired and discombobulated and the house is a mess ( Read more... )

This morning The Little Red Haired Girl woke me up with the news that it had snowed last night. Ever skeptical about "snow" here in Nashville, I just nodded and smiled. Undeterred, she told me it was still on the ground, and Oliver was playing in it. She had that look on her face and that tone in her voice that people do sometimes when they talk ( Read more... )

Yes, that is the current time. Yes, I'm in bed. I figure if I'm this tired, it's my body trying to tell me something. I'm going to listen to it.
An alternative is just that I've become extremely lazy.
I'll risk it.
Maybe I'll just lie here and blog until a more respectable time to go to sleep (45 minutes or so).

I just discovered the two-fingered scroll and two-fingered right-click in OSX. Holy shit. It changes my life. I don't know why I never tried it before, but yesterday afternoon I went into my system preferences for some reason, and apparently for the first time looked at the options for trackpad settings. Now I no longer have to drag the cursor over ( Read more... )

I just went to observe a high school math class for a course that I'm taking. This happened to me last spring too, but jeeze, I really do miss being in the classroom.

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