I think is a absolute torture when less than perfect doesn't count. Being hyper-conscious with my efforts to improve, taking care to carefully craft my phrasing, forcing a pleasing intonation-- none of these work unless executed perfectly every time and, well I don't even for how long. And, wow, it is incredibly frustrating. Life was easier when I ( Read more... )

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Perhaps I am moving out of the livejournal phase of my life. I think it is because I don't spend a lot of time at home sitting around preferring instead to do my sitting at more exotic locations (i.e. the library and ERC ( Read more... )

I was just testing my vocab at http://freerice.com. It is one of those sites that makes a donation to a cause when you visit, except that this only gives rice (to the hungry) if you correctly select the meanings of words and thus increases one's word power. I am very interested in improving my ( Read more... )

Was I ever in a funk this morning! I was ready to call everything quits. There is so much that I have to do that seems completely undoable and the only thing that can convince me otherwise is just a little bit of extra knowledge or extra help or occasionally extra time. I really cannot figure things out on my own. Somehow, despite adding more to my ( Read more... )

I just went to the men's restroom! Allow me to start at the beginning. I was walking and eating delicious roasted cauliflower when I dripped some tasty tasty yellow-colored oil (I used turmeric) on my pants. To rectify this I went to the bathroom and dabbed at the spots with soap and then a damp paper towel(the result of this is that now I have ( Read more... )

 Item 1: People
On Monday I was waiting for a class to start (because I forgot it had been canceled) when a girl said, as she walked past me in hallway, something to the effect of "Have they locked you out of your office now?" I was not in the best mood (because of my poor school skills) and I gave a quick forced smile (which I guess she didn't see ( Read more... )

My theory is that I am feeling overwhelmed by my assignments. I am not very good at science, especially chemistry and I am very bad at reading and understanding scientific papers. Anyway. That is not important. I can't remember when I've been less motivated-- oh, except for when I took organic chemistry. That was a similar disaster.

Uck, I have ( Read more... )

Today didn't seem like a bad day at all. In fact it was a lot like most of my days with the addition of four hours in a freezing cold room sucking up various acids into a pipette and depositing them into my columns. But then as I was coming home I couldn't bring myself to think about my day without being on the verge of tears. It was very odd. ( Read more... )

I found this list on a post-it note at a computer desk in the Urbana Free Library:

calendar
coconut oil
envelopes
journal
"AA" batteries
hat, mitten + scarf
picture of you

I really like it. A lot. I'm not sure why.