It was... a semester. And now it's over. *flop ( Read more... )

TAing is over!
Now, back to my own pile of responsibilities. O.o

I have to put together a research proposal, precursor to my doctoral thesis proposal, for fellowship funding applications I'm trying to get together ASAP. For a while now, I'd been meaning to post here an overview of my new research program but hadn't gotten around to it yet. So, what better opportunity than head-on-the-chopping-block to throw ( Read more... )

Conversation during staff meeting today took a bit of an ugly turn. This was my emailed follow-up:

Hey, .

For future reference, please note that your implied threat that the department might retaliate by refusing continued TAship opportunities if I helped a student with a documented disability file an appeal is in fact illegal to carry out and ( Read more... )

Dead? In a coma? No! He's teaching undergrads!

Yeah, I'm TAing again. Couldn't get my act together enough over the summer to find no-strings-attached bridge funding (if such a thing could be found) and didn't make enough progress to sign a new advisor yet (assuming they even had money), so I had to dip into the pool of less-than-desirable options. I ( Read more... )

I survived. o.o;

paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaperrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......... x_x

I think I figured out why I've not been cooking real food nearly as much as I used to. Back when I was still taking classes, it was a lot clearer what I had to do, how to do it, and when I'd done "enough". So, I could freely commit a Saturday evening or suchlike to cooking something for the week. Now, since I'm doing fuzzily-structured research ( Read more... )

conference. make. dead. x_x

This just in my inbox:

Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:55:29 -0400
From:
To:
Subject:

Your paper got in. Congratulations.

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AAAUGH! My thesis won't die!!!