First of all, I might be switching over to BlogSpot. I've got the account set up, as you'll see from the link, but I'll probably continue to keep this one as a clone of the content.

Second of all, life's been crazy lately. I'm in Florida with the family, trying to stay out of the sun and catch up on rest. I say "trying" because I'm running around ( Read more... )

Since my work is largely self-scheduled right now, I spent the whole week throwing off my sleep cycle so that I'd be able to start reading at midnight and stay up, and coherent, until I finished. I went to bed at 3:00 on Thursday night (i.e., Friday morning) and woke up at 10:30, then took a nap from 16:30 to 19:45. I went to the bookstore at 23:00 ( Read more... )

What's up is that I'm enjoying the end of my time in Montreal. I've begun to feel a bit melancholy about leaving. That feeling rarely strikes me before the last weeks prior to my departure. Perhaps it's a coping strategy; I'm used to moving, and the idea of being "settled down" in one place seems strange to me. I suppose I might like it one day, ( Read more... )

Funny, because most Sorting Hat quizzes (shut up, like you never waste time and geek out) put me in Ravenclaw. But something has suggested otherwise - let me show you my results.

Your Score: Lion Warning Cat

65 % Affection, 68 % Excitability , 26 % Hunger


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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! So it's been ages since I update, but the news is this - I FINISHED MY THESIS! The albatross is no longer around my neck. Right now I'm vacillating between being reasonably satisfied with it and thinking it's the worst piece of garbage ever written. I'll probably have a bit more perspective in a few months. There ( Read more... )

Wow, I haven't updated in ages! Bad me! But I'm back from the dead. Here's the overview:

I had a great time in New Jersey/New York, last month. While I was there, I caught a respiratory infection nasty enough that I couldn't get to the gym for three weeks, and I missed Mass on Palm Sunday. I'm better now (fingers crossed, thanking heaven), but I'm ( Read more... )

I'm back from a weekend visiting family in the New York area, and now I'm all nice and sick. Mom and I seem to have caught the same upper respiratory infection from one of my cousins. Right now I'm just on a self-prescribed regime of rest, cough medicine, and vitamin C. If it degenerates into bronchitis, I'll go to the doctor. Otherwise, they'll ( Read more... )

I got into Durham! Hooray!

Now I just have a series of difficult choices and mountains of paperwork no matter which ones I make.

Happy St Patrick's Day, everyone.

Life slogs along as usual. MORE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE ON EVERYTHING!!!! ARGH!!! Post-it note to self: do some of that today, dang it.

There aren't a whole lot of interesting things to report from my actual life. Recent reading has included a self-mandated refresher course on the bioanthropology and microevolution classes of yore, in the form of ( Read more... )