After my bold words last night, I ran across some technical issues that kept me from starting my thesis. (All the more reason for me to hurry up and install LINUX on the new laptop!) Anyway, rest assured, I started it today! I have written one paragraph, and edited the easy stuff, like my name and my advisor's name, etc. :-)

I felt productive today, but then I realized it was because I was doing things other people were supposed to have done for me ( Read more... )

I've had quite the flying experience lately! My flight back from Colorado was plagued with delays and I ended up having to stay overnight (on United's dime) in Chicago. The hotel just happened to be next door (quite literally) to the arena where the Grateful Dead had played that night, so my hotel was full of dead heads in various stages of ( Read more... )

I've had so much going on! I feel the need to update (probably because I have a lot of work to do) so I will do it in bullet points.

Stuff that's been on my mind:

• The Swine Flu - Sometimes I wish I'd never read Stephen King's The Stand. Because I'm traveling this weekend, I am a little paranoid about catching it. A bunch of us are traveling to ( Read more... )

I am having a technological meltdown! I think the tech-meltdown field is in the immediate vicinity of my apartment and my own self. Keep your iPhones and gadgetry far from me ( Read more... )

During my Wednesday night racquetball game, I re-sprained my left ankle. It's not a bad sprain, and already feels pretty good today. I went to a physical therapist, as recommended by the student health center, and she gave me some strengthening exercises to do. She also asked me to come back in two weeks so that she can see if there is something ( Read more... )

You guys, I didn't know you couldn't go further back than 240 entries on your flist. Is this true, or is LJ just messing with me? I haven't checked my flist since the day after Christmas or so, and sat down today with the "no communities" filter on. I think I am caught up enough, but if something major happened between the 25th and 27th of ( Read more... )

Well, I got some exciting news today! My friend's experiment is in Holland, and she needs some extra help during her beam time in February and March. Since I've been marginally involved in her advisor's research before, he's familiar with me and said I could come along and help for a couple of weeks! My advisor agreed to it this morning, so now ( Read more... )

• Netflix! My friend referred me so I got a free month and she got a free rental. I started it last Saturday, and got my first movies on Tuesday (they were shipped Monday). Apparently there's a shipping site in Raleigh, so we get stuff really fast. I sent one movie back yesterday and they received it today and shipped out my next one, which will ( Read more... )

I had The Conversation with my advisor yesterday and he thinks I can defend my thesis by December 2009!!!! As anxious as I was to know what he thought, now I'm kind of freaking out. I think it can be done, but I have a lot of work to do.