I've finished the second draft of the paper proposal.  Why is it that we learn how to write papers, but never proposals?  The proposal is absolutely essential to getting accepted to write/present papers!!!!!   I've been feeling a bit at a loss--I know there's a whole rhetoric to writing a proposal because one must appear confident in the project, ( Read more... )

Packing is only 75% done, mostly because I've been watching Friday Night Lights instead of focusing on folding and organizing and packing ( Read more... )

So many posts lately have been about frustration or exhaustion. But really, even in the midst of those two emotions, I'm happy. I feel like I'm learning fascinating things, my friends are wonderful, and there is always something to do ( Read more... )

Apparently I DIDN'T finish Lost.  I thought I had, but there is a second part that, mysteriously, I missed!!!

omg!!!

This is like Christmas come early.

edit to say: j/k.  I was just confused.  And itunes sucks right now anyway, so even if I was so lucky to have an extra Lost episode I probably wouldn't be able to download it. 

Yesterday was registration.  It was stressful, as always, though slightly less so because I am a) not abroad and b)not a science major, or a science studies major.

However, I either horribly misread the schedule the two times I went through and detailed out my class plans, or the list changed.  This means that the nearly perfect class schedule I had ( Read more... )

I discovered a couple of weeks ago that the UW library has several television shows on DVD.  I've watched a large amount of West Wing, a fair amount of Alias and now, all of the first season of Six Feet Under ( Read more... )

Although I will not be here in the fall, I am not happy with a situation I have recently been apprised of ( Read more... )