*This Bristol conference is driving me maaaaaaad. I'm emailing with my advisor about it, and she's all, "why are you being so crazy about this?" and I have no response to that, except that I'm, well, nuts. Woe ( Read more... )

So, I had to leave for work at 7:30am-ish. (This is slightly worse when you consider that I don't get back until 8:30pm-ish, so that's a LONG ass day ( Read more... )

It is only a couple of weeks into the semester, and I'm already completely exhausted and I DON'T WANT TO GO ANYMORE. I hate teaching. (Question: Why am I putting in all this effort to get a job doing something I hate? And for which, the market isn't exactly hopping, so I might not even get that? On the other hand, can I think of something I would ( Read more... )

Rest in peace, Teddy Kennedy.

I don't know why... but this death made me really sad. I know the world can't stop, nor should it. Change is good. Or at least inevitable. And it should be met with grace. But I am so tired of death. And... there's an American mythform that is just a bit poorer today. It was a myth I was fond of ( Read more... )

Thank you all for your words of encouragement! I am feeling a bit better, and slightly less like an extremely angsty seventeen. Which is good. I don't know how teenagers make it through adolescence without killing themselves or being killed by others. I appreciate it muchly, and will endeavor to be a little less classic lj-whiny in future - but I ( Read more... )

So, I just had to make a quick [read 3 hours] dash to the New College Which Must Not Be Named. (I may need a new fandom-specific name for this one: thoughts? Prydonian Academy will not do, as I fear it will not be all happy, happy, joy, joy.) It was frantic because I'd not read the email closely, and I was just checking it to make sure I was ( Read more... )

As part of the Dr. Who methadone program*, I watched my very first episode of Red Dwarf the other day. [Honestly, I wasn't that enthused. But I have an oddly unticklish sense of humour. I also don't get the Monty Python thing, which I concede to be blasphemous. I'm not proud of it or anything. They just don't make me laugh.] However, when watching ( Read more... )

i know that i should deeply appreciate being employed. with the job market the way it is, making 7 bucks an hour, tax free, is not to be sneezed at ( Read more... )

i feel like i'm in kindergarten. they've got me tracing maps of new york state. i have drafting tape, sharpened pencils, enormous sheets of tracing paper. it's kind of nice of them to have me doing arts and crafts to fill up the empty spaces of time at work, rather than, say, dusting ( Read more... )