For three years, I have volunteered to host prospective graduate students during the department's annual Visitation Day.  I was rejected twice (don't know why, but I can sympathize with those eHarmony rejects all over the TV), but this year they were desperate enough to take me up on the offer.  But they did wait to confirm that until I only had ( Read more... )

We have now moved in just about every weather condition possible.  Last summer we ended up moving
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Top o' the, um, evening?  I can't tell what time it is anymore.

Last time I talked to
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OK, a quick one, 'cause it's late and I'm supa dupa tired.  
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Travel update: 
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Hmm, where is rdchino today?  Ooh, I know!  I'm crashing at abigor60's and cheshire_monkey's place!  I've been in Sacramento since Saturday.  First I was helping stinky_monky get packed and on the road, and now that she's gone I'm hanging out at the State Archives working my way through 23 boxes of documents from the California Air Resources Board ( Read more... )

Those of you who have read Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency may remember the bit where Richard, one of the main characters, managed to get a sofa stuck in a bend in his stairwell and wrote a computer program to simulate and analyze all the possibilities for removing it.  The program concluded that the sofa could not be moved ( Read more... )

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It's taken about a week and a half, but I'm just about done moving.  Probably one more trip tonight.  And I found a couple people who are interested in taking over my apartment (although I won't hold my breath until they turn in their applications).  I'm so freaking tired of moving.

I have to grade sixty midterm exams by Monday.  Insert frowny face ( Read more... )

Well, the hardest part of the move (saying goodbye to stinky_monky at the airport) is over, and I'm back in Columbus permanently (well, as permanently as I ever get).  I'll be back in Sacramento for a couple weeks when the quarter ends in December.  Until then, you suckas are on your own.

As an experiment, I came back to Ohio on a red-eye flight with a ( Read more... )