I'm getting more and more frustrated with the other hippo hacker. I just sorted through three pages of typed, single-spaced notes, most of which was mostly incoherent. An example: "At the posterior edge of the tendon the muscle is thicker than further anteriorly and is about five cm thick for half of the distance posterior to the posterior edge ( Read more... )

The real problem here is that he just won't shut up and listen to me ( Read more... )

...maybe just myself ( Read more... )

Friday I had a dissertation committee meeting. It could have gone a lot worse. As it is, they scrapped a good chunk of what I had planned, and wrote me a new plan. There is now no way in hell I'll finish by the end of the semester, though decent odds I'll finish by the end of the summer ( Read more... )

The hippo’s not getting done this summer. I’m a little annoyed about that. But we’ve got one publication nearly done, and another one might be done by the end of the summer. Then I’ll have a third one that is about half written up already, I just need to figure out the rest of what the auditory tube (connecting the ear to the throat, formerly ( Read more... )

Except that apparently it's not really a migraine. Not that the doc has any better suggestion, he's just kinda thinking it's viral, and it'll go away on its own ( Read more... )

I’m a bit cranky with Commerce Bank at the moment. This is the second time that I’ve been told that I’d get overdraft protection, only to find out that I didn’t. The problem is that they have no service remotely resembling a simple pull-it-from-your-savings-account, like what would make sense. No, what they’ll do is issue you a line of credit ( Read more... )

So I got chewed out by my advisor this morning. The class had a lecture exam this past Wednesday, and they came into lab that afternoon bitching about the essay question. I have to back them up in saying that the prof didn't spend enough time on the material in question in lecture to justify doing an essay question on it. So pretty much the ( Read more... )

Praise Bob and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I passed ( Read more... )

For whatever reason, I never seem to sleep well the night before the first day of classes. It pisses me off, because I'm not nervous or anything. Oh well.

I've now got my orals rescheduled for next Thursday, the 25th, with the party afterwards again. Once again, if you're interested, let me know.