oh wait also there was this thing where i ran a marathon ( Read more... )

i was in philadelphia this weekend! most of the time i was eating or sleeping or walking around, but i spent a little more than four hours running also.


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i had a research meeting with jiri, garth, and randy bryant today, the latter two of whom are the former's co-advisors (with garth being my sole advisor). i am entertained at the notion of having a "step-advisor ( Read more... )

sitting on the corner of walnut and negley before a run in the heavy fog of a cold morning is a fitting setting for contemplating upset. this week has been one huge mood swing after another ( Read more... )

as much as i can stress about not getting any research done or having too many other projects to be able to work on my research, when i do manage to start working on it, i rest in the confidence that no matter how many other "urgent" things i have, there will always be time for them later ( Read more... )

just arrived home in boston for a few days.

the vivid blue of the flowers out front, the distinctive smell of the house, the dog's unbridled friendliness, thoughts of canoeing on the lake out back...

not to mention free food and good company.

it was the house's smell that really drove the point home, though, that actually stopped me in my tracks

there are few pleasures quite like the breeze of a summer night during a bike ride. maybe it's personal associations, maybe it's an inherent quality of the air, maybe both ( Read more... )

today i am feeling rambly! i don't need to have a central point in everything i post so there.

there is this sort of process of learning to be okay with doing whatever i feel like doing at the time instead of what i imagine i should do given history or experience or whatever. example: if i am super grateful to masqueradestar for inviting me along to a great sushi ( Read more... )

- the cool summer night air - may as well have been hanging laundry among the herb garden and orange trees in los altos at that very moment ( Read more... )

on the plus side, we are finally starting to move along at high speed on our compilers project, so that is becoming slightly easier to reassure myself about.

i managed to pick up another threatening thing to worry uselessly about today.

i remember two years ago when knightofstarz told me "yeah, don't think about it too much." i was mystified. but of course there ( Read more... )