i'm supposed to take comps starting nov 9, and i'm getting a little bit terrified ( Read more... )

"...a sanguine temper, though forever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again." ~Jane Austen, Emma ( Read more... )

i have this systems neuroscience test tomorrow, and i have been freaking out about it hardcore ( Read more... )

I went to the doctor for my sinus infection and she gave me antibiotics, but she told me I should really take sudafed as much as I can stand to (not exceeding the maximum dose of course). Thing is, it seems to be really difficult to be a student taking sudafed. I feel all distant and weird, like I'm looking at the world through a window. And ( Read more... )

note to self: ankle socks are not appropriate for trudging through a foot of snow ( Read more... )

celeste and i got lost on the way to the department picnic. well, i say lost, but actually, we just went to entirely the wrong place. i don't think we could have gone any more in the wrong direction. then we picnicked and it was pretty fun considering what an icky day i was and how i was thinking i would just skip out. the food, however, was ( Read more... )

it seems to be running a program that i have no conscious control over. but you know what... i kind of like the program... it makes me think of happy things... it doesn't make me very productive though. but i've got like an hour and a half still to be productive today, and i guess i even could again once i get home ( Read more... )

OK so today I took my car in to get its 10,000-mile checkup, and I was waiting for a long time. They didn't have Cosmo or even Glamour magazines, in fact the sluttiest thing they had was People which I just don't find that interesting. There was a TV and a couple people were watching American Pie 2. So I picked up a Rolling Stone and read about ( Read more... )

Well, I am back from the vision conference in Florida, and as most of you have heard, it was pretty sweet. I am not really sure what I'll say in my lab meeting on Monday when we talk about what we got out of/learned from the conference... I feel like I just heard about a lot of cool experiments, and I think that I'll be reminded of those things ( Read more... )