I have achieved the Grad Student Holy Grail.

I HAVE A LIBRARY CARREL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somebody else didn't pick up their key, I was the first person on the waiting list, AND NOW I HAVE A TINY LITTLE ROOM WITH A HUGE DESK AND SHELVES AND A LOCK ON THE DOOR. I WILL HOARD ALL THE BOOKS. Tomorrow I'm going to bring in some ( Read more... )

You ever have one of those days where you're like "dangit, my writing's gotten so repetitive I just bored the heck out of myself trying to edit it," and then you read stuff by other people that's so good you can't even comprehend how they wrote such awesome shit, you just know you've never written anything close to that?

...and then you remember ( Read more... )

( I just had a terrifically awesome sneeze. )