Goodness people, 2010 is almost over. It is amazing, how time accelerates the older one gets, is it not? I've spent a couple of days trying to skim through your journals before I started posting again. It feels somewhat self-centered of me to do it the other way 'round. If nothing else, reading your journals is a grounding experience. It ( Read more... )

My mother has been an absolute saint these past couple of years. She brought me home and helped me get back on my feet emotionally. She's still helping me out in the financial department, something I'd never hoped to burden her with again. Still, she's done so without complaint. She's wonderful. I learned today, however, that if things don't ( Read more... )

I had a brief conversation with someone at work today. I told him about the developments on the grad school front, particularly with The Prof. He was, as always, very supportive. In addition to that regard, I took something very important from that conversation. He said--and I'll paraphrase because I don't remember the exact adjectives he used ( Read more... )

I think I'm actually going to get some work done today. One of the challenges I face, however, is not having a place where I can work and, occasionally, indulge myself with a cigarette or two. Normally, I would not have a problem. However, when one's mother is sensitive to scents and particulates in the air to the point where building a clean ( Read more... )

I arrived back at my apartment after a nice walk with Loki, and within five minutes, receive my first knock on the door as a resident of the apartment. My first instinct was that it was a mistake. My confusion quickly evaporated, as my mother was sending someone down to help me put together my bookshelves ( Read more... )

So far, I have eight appointments to view apartments. I've got four or so to schedule yet, and and trying to decide whether or not that's enough. I've blocked out a week for this, so I want to use as much of it as I can if possible. On the other hand, I've got my mom with me, and I don't necessarily want to drag her all over the place. In the ( Read more... )

My stint at MI draws to a close, probably ending next Monday. Initially our team, like everyone else in our room, qualified to score six questions. Mainly it's because of how good our team was that eventually had us responsible for twice that number. In my case, I and another team member are the highest producers and also had the highest level ( Read more... )

It never seems to stop, all of the running around. Lately, my time spent when not working has been rather unproductive, or at least it feels like it. A lot of it is taken up in speculative activities. Preeminent among those is, of course, looking for an apartment. The last few evenings I've looked over the same sites and seen the same prices. ( Read more... )

These past few weeks have been murder on my ability to work on my fall course. At first it was because I was waiting for the contract issue to get decided, next it was probably because I was trying to see if I would be getting the laptop soon. I have no idea what I was smoking with the latter. Overall, however, the real problem has been energy,I ( Read more... )

I received the new form of the contract on Saturday, and now it definitely shows "Master Syllabus" as the service provided. I spoke with the Dean also, who told me that there's really no way that they could stop me from using the syllabus someplace else, and echoed my argument that a syllabus is easily constructed and copied from any source, given ( Read more... )