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holiday weekend
it's been so long since i posted i forgot i had this page.
anyway, this has been the busiest weekend ever. luckily it has been a fun busy.
thursday after work, went to bar 35 with kea, lianne, KS and T for $3 drinks until 8. had lychee sodas (one too sweet, the next not sweet enough. darn inconsistent bartenders!) and framboise. then to aloha tower ( Read more... ) -
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spending the weekend in kamuela was awesome. i don't know, i think i had trouble adjusting to honolulu, like driving in traffic, searching for parking, and that sort of thing. the place i am housesitting kind of stresses me out too. like i like having somewhere that is our own to stay but i hate living out of suitcases. plus it is in town so there ( Read more... ) -
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on sunday i flew from atlanta to detroit and my advisor happened to be on the same flight. the flight ended up delayed a couple hours or so because of a fuel spill. i was scheduled to fly from detroit to honolulu on tuesday so i told her that i hoped this meant i would have good airport karma banked. she offered another possibility: that bad things ( Read more... ) -
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i have had a pretty productive day. i have this presentation to give on monday. it is part of the fellowship that gives me a fat sack of money. i did three interviews. yay. um... putting a presentation together is something i can do without "resting" every twenty minutes. i didn't even read any magazines while studying at the bookstore. i think ( Read more... ) -
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Spring makes me want to eat burgers and listen to reggae. Even when it is not really warm yet. This is a sane reaction to "spring," not like wearing shorts when it is still 30 degrees out. -
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By way of: cyberhoosier ( Read more... ) -
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went to an awesome job talk yesterday. things i'm thinking about:- i need to be less critical. i think there's a part of (grad) school that teaches you that you always need to be critical, but it's also important to speak well of other scholars, talk about how their work enables your work, rather then saying how they have this shortcoming that you ( Read more... )
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crazy dreams
i dreamt about my day ( Read more... ) -
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making good progress on my exam. yay! my cohort gives me great feedback. i think i am lazy and i try to get away with shit, and they're like, um, you need to make this argument. and i'm like *sigh* i was afraid of that. but you know, it is not as hard as i thought it would be. i mean... making this big argument justifying your work... it sounds ( Read more... )