Calling anyone graphic-artsy:

I wanna make tee-shirts, etc. and need a graphic.  Is anyone interested in helping me?

I am looking for the word "Outlier," preferably in some neat font arranged in an up-an-over bell curve shape.  If you make me a graphic and I end up doing the shirts, I promise to send you one! 

We are having a silly controversy over here.  Let's see if you can help me out -

How old do you think I look?  Many of you have seen me in person (recently and not so recently), and you have all seen my online pictures (last night's entry, etc.) - based on that, if you didn't know how old I actually am, what would you guess?

Okay, in my quest to make my life better by making my environment better (only ask if you care to here me rant), I reorganized my jewelry.  And, very sadly, I have three necklaces in need of repair and two broken silver chains.  (I also had a wooden bracelet that needed to be restrung, but I just did that ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I went out to coffee with a friend of 
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I took The Golden Compass daemon matching test.  My results?

"Your profile reveals that you are: Softly spoken, shy, passive, flexible, depdendable.  You are therefore matched with the Aeschylus Daemon. Your Deamon Aschylus is one of 5197 crow Daemons within the total Deamon popiation of 126699. Aeschylus is a male Daemon, as human and Daemon pairs ( Read more... )

Just got a letter from the third member of my thesis committee - his letter of recommendation to the new program to which I am applying was submitted this morning. This means two of the three are in - my advisor is the only holdout, again, but promises to have it in by the end of the week ( Read more... )

I am going to NYC at the end of the month. Mel and I are conspiring to see a Broadway show, and she says I get to pick.  There are many to choose from, all listed here.

Out of the choices, I have seen Rent (in Eugene, OR), Grease (Anchorage, AK), Phantom of the Opera (Seattle, WA), Blue Man Group (Chicago, IL), and Stomp (Anchorage, AK).

Any ( Read more... )

I have just been told that I am "the best little person to sit at [this] desk ever."  Is there a compliment in there somewhere or am I justified in my desire to bombard her with pads of sticky notes? (I am sitting at the department's front office working on my laptop, she is a first year graduate student in another division).

I have a VERY IMPORTANT question ( Read more... )