Just a quick note to inform you that I changed my journal location and will no longer be using this site. Given that I have not felt compelled to write in this particular journal for some time, I think this is not a surprising move. If you wish to have the new address, I will happily provide it. If not, then we will amicably part ways. I shall ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, then there is that whole "defending" thing. Forgot about that part. There is no way I will have my thesis written, defended, rewritten, and approved by March 29th, not even under incredible motivation, which until Robbie reminded me and I clarified the sequencing and timing of events with the unofficial graduate adviser I had. I am ( Read more... )

Small, but it packs a punch: My thesis is due, in completed and approved format at the latest by March 29th. A full month earlier than I was anticipating. I knew it was early, after all they have a lot to read through, approve, and send back revisions before the end of the school year. But March is a bit much. Terrifying actually. I can't give ( Read more... )

Man, working hard right up until the end of the year. And here I thought school ended once finals were finished. I've been ordered around by someone who should have no control over me, particularly over winter break. If it were one of The Men, that would be a different story, I expect to be at their demand even when they are on the other coast ( Read more... )

Know what would be awesome? Someone to actually listen to me when I have a problem. Not someone to gloss over what I say because they are busy flirting with a boy over IM, not someone who asks but doesn't listen so much as focus on any key word that will enable them to relate the conversation back to themselves, not someone who pretends to be ( Read more... )

Well looks like my wish came true. I officially get to spend Christmas and New Years here in CA. Alone. Did I mention that part? Oh yeah, because everyone and their brother gets to leave and go anywhere else and I will be stuck in the place that I do not like and need NEED a reprieve from instead of finally getting to see my family and my friends ( Read more... )

a stiff drink, a couple tears, a few beers, a bowl of chowder, another book about archaeological theory, entertaining friends, and most importantly TO LAUGH ( Read more... )

I've had a billion songs in my head. I think that is my defense mechanism against brain meltdown. Now that project hell is almost over maybe it will get better. Not that I mind a billion songs running through my head, I like music and I like to sing, much to the chagrin of everyone I know. :-) But hey, belting out possibly the worst version of a ( Read more... )

And if I weren't a procrastinator, this research paper would be over. But as we all know, I am not, therefore the paper is not. More is the pity as I have a lot of TL work to do in the lab tomorrow and so I shall be up all night writing yet again. You would think that by graduate school I would have learned my lesson about procrastination. I ( Read more... )

I went to a memorial service on Friday. I'm not sure what to think about it. It seems so stupid and perhaps stereotypical but it made me really feel young. As I listened to the eulogies, I thought, what do I have to compare to this? I'm twenty-three. Not in a bad way, I actually felt kind of good about it and where I am in life. Age-wise I guess, ( Read more... )