I'm having two computer issues which I, embarassingly, can't resolve on my own and must instead seek the assistence of my lovely blog-reading public.

1)  Does anyone know of a good free (or relatively inexpensive) database-type program?  I'm trying to organize information about my bead research into a lovely, coherant format.  Excel sort of works ( Read more... )

Last semester, in an informal "introduction to graduate school" class, a professor told us that when he was a student, he considered learning to be his own responsibility, but once he began teaching, he increasingly considered it the job of the professor to ensure that students were understanding and properly comprehending the material.

I quote this ( Read more... )

Everyone should check out photos from my recent trip to the City Museum in St Louis on picasa.  (http://picasaweb.google.com/larsonkate18/CityMuseum - I went to all the trouble of putting captions in and everything.)  And then you should go yourselves, because it's amazing.

Getting close to finishing the first year of graduate school.  Overall, I ( Read more... )

The  Cat pissed on my bed.

Words do not describe the depth of my anger.

(Sorry 'bout the ad, but it's worth getting through.) 

There are days when I profoundly miss the intellectual challenge, stimulation, and dynamism of Macalester.  Heck, even high school, for that matter.  I really can't remember the last time I sat through classes and thought "by gum, I'm definately intellectually superior to just about everyone else here."  It's an unfortunate bridge to cross in ( Read more... )

The news saavy among you may have heard that Kiryat Shemona was hit by a couple katouche rockets from Lebanon a couple days ago.  I'm fine, of coruse, and everything here is relatively calm.  We're wrapping up final reports and packing before leaving for J-town tomorrow morning.  Unfortunately, it does seem as if we're leaving the country at a ( Read more... )

So, I'm in Israel. I could write a lot right now about miscellaneous things including the lack of cool stuff in my square(s) and the accompanying archaeological and intellectual boredom and disappointment, or about how I'm climbing out on an emotional limb and am generally freaked about it because the short-medium term future doesn't look nearly ( Read more... )

This livejournal entry is courtesy of my NEW COMPUTER ( Read more... )

I will be in Israel in less than 3 weeks. I'm having a hard time thinking about much else. I cannot even enumerate the number of reasons I'm excited to go, and how lucky I feel to be able to do so. I've only been looking forward to this for 11 months now ( Read more... )