Good news / bad news game
This week has been one of those good news / bad news weeks.
Monday:
So monday I went to see harry potter, even though I should have been doing work. The movie was good actually, they trimmed my favorite character, but my second got a fair amount of screentime. Anyway, that's not the interesting part. I got home and found out that 2 of my professors had e-mailed me. It was the two professors who I had applied here to work with, and both were offering me a research assistanceship for next year.
So that night I met with Dr. Lester, who's the one I had started my research with, and we also talked a little about my qualifier which needs to be finished in a few months.
Tuesday:
Tuesday morning, i met with the other professor, Dr. Young. The downside to the date of the two e-mails is that I basically had until tuesday afternoon to decide. So I met with him, heard about the project, and spent the rest of the morning freaking out about the decision. I had PT afterwards, it was with a different therapist than I had been going to, and felt surprisingly short. I ended up sending in the e-mails around 3. After alot of thinking, Dr. Lester is offering me a little more flexibility. Dr. Young is giving me 1 project, and while its interesting, its all i'd work on. Dr. lester basically puts his students on all his grants, which means I have to *work* on all of them, but i'm also not limited to one. This also gives me a bit more freedom in designing my thesis topic. I decided that was worth it, and both topics were really interesting.
After sending that off, went to play Mage. Mage was a long session this week, but it was really interesting. I'm only about half done with the character journal. It was only supposed to go until 9 or so, but I didn't get home till 2. Oops.
Tuesday was also Lauren's b-day. Luckily I was mostly too busy to think bout her, but the day did not pass without thought. The business with my other friend is more painful atm anyway.
Wednesday:
Wednesday was my spending spree. I went with Kim to All Fun & Games, where I ordered 2 WoD books (for use in the game I'm putting together), bought 2 novels and a set of dice, then took her to the chocolate bean. I usualy go for their hot chocolate, but decided on the italian soda today. They blend flavors, as usual everything is tasted. I dunno what they do different, but I can always taste everything there, i love it. After that was D&D. I was trying to do a little better, but Maxx was being bitchy and the whole night kinda made me question a bit my skills as a DM. Part of the problem is I set my goals too high, and it spread the campaign out longer than it should have. I should have just set the final boss as the Lich and I could have told pretty much the whole story in teh time its taken us to finish the first part of 5. Anyway, food for thought I suppose. The WoD game I'm running is a bit more flexible with respect to timing, and I would feel less bad about just dumping random XP. We will finish the first segment, and I'm going to trim it a bit.
Thursday:
Yesterday isn't sticking in my mind. Got myself mostly set up for the RAship, member of the mailing list and afs access... have the info to start designing a website. Spent the day trying to get through this paper and having it not working.
Which brings us to today. Went to drop off my netflix, and got jehovas witnessed on the way back. Apparently the end of the world is coming, and if i don't follow gods instructions i'm going to die. Oh wellz.
The only other thing of note is that cooking has made me really depressed lately. It's seriously pissing me off. I've tried a couple different random recipies, and even ones I know. I've just been feeling worse and worse about it. I got Rai to suggest some cooking shows...the one has been really hard to watch cuz there's been like 1 episode in 12 where she doesn't use alchohol. I'm sure the food is good and all, and I know it cooks off, i just can't deal with that very well. At least sushimustwrite has been cheering me up a little.
Monday:
So monday I went to see harry potter, even though I should have been doing work. The movie was good actually, they trimmed my favorite character, but my second got a fair amount of screentime. Anyway, that's not the interesting part. I got home and found out that 2 of my professors had e-mailed me. It was the two professors who I had applied here to work with, and both were offering me a research assistanceship for next year.
So that night I met with Dr. Lester, who's the one I had started my research with, and we also talked a little about my qualifier which needs to be finished in a few months.
Tuesday:
Tuesday morning, i met with the other professor, Dr. Young. The downside to the date of the two e-mails is that I basically had until tuesday afternoon to decide. So I met with him, heard about the project, and spent the rest of the morning freaking out about the decision. I had PT afterwards, it was with a different therapist than I had been going to, and felt surprisingly short. I ended up sending in the e-mails around 3. After alot of thinking, Dr. Lester is offering me a little more flexibility. Dr. Young is giving me 1 project, and while its interesting, its all i'd work on. Dr. lester basically puts his students on all his grants, which means I have to *work* on all of them, but i'm also not limited to one. This also gives me a bit more freedom in designing my thesis topic. I decided that was worth it, and both topics were really interesting.
After sending that off, went to play Mage. Mage was a long session this week, but it was really interesting. I'm only about half done with the character journal. It was only supposed to go until 9 or so, but I didn't get home till 2. Oops.
Tuesday was also Lauren's b-day. Luckily I was mostly too busy to think bout her, but the day did not pass without thought. The business with my other friend is more painful atm anyway.
Wednesday:
Wednesday was my spending spree. I went with Kim to All Fun & Games, where I ordered 2 WoD books (for use in the game I'm putting together), bought 2 novels and a set of dice, then took her to the chocolate bean. I usualy go for their hot chocolate, but decided on the italian soda today. They blend flavors, as usual everything is tasted. I dunno what they do different, but I can always taste everything there, i love it. After that was D&D. I was trying to do a little better, but Maxx was being bitchy and the whole night kinda made me question a bit my skills as a DM. Part of the problem is I set my goals too high, and it spread the campaign out longer than it should have. I should have just set the final boss as the Lich and I could have told pretty much the whole story in teh time its taken us to finish the first part of 5. Anyway, food for thought I suppose. The WoD game I'm running is a bit more flexible with respect to timing, and I would feel less bad about just dumping random XP. We will finish the first segment, and I'm going to trim it a bit.
Thursday:
Yesterday isn't sticking in my mind. Got myself mostly set up for the RAship, member of the mailing list and afs access... have the info to start designing a website. Spent the day trying to get through this paper and having it not working.
Which brings us to today. Went to drop off my netflix, and got jehovas witnessed on the way back. Apparently the end of the world is coming, and if i don't follow gods instructions i'm going to die. Oh wellz.
The only other thing of note is that cooking has made me really depressed lately. It's seriously pissing me off. I've tried a couple different random recipies, and even ones I know. I've just been feeling worse and worse about it. I got Rai to suggest some cooking shows...the one has been really hard to watch cuz there's been like 1 episode in 12 where she doesn't use alchohol. I'm sure the food is good and all, and I know it cooks off, i just can't deal with that very well. At least sushimustwrite has been cheering me up a little.