Ever have that feeling where you're broke and have way too much work to do (either or both will be fine)? Man...feeling it at the moment. Where is all my money going? Not that the burrito gig brings in the dough or anything. More hours are required at least. Every time I make a burrito or ask someone "want chips and queso with that?" I feel the ( Read more... )

So since Saturday I've spent like 40 hours in the lab. I have at least 8 more to do tomorrow. This is ridiculous.

I'm going to remember this next time I want to achieve stuff...

 So Gary Gygax died yesterday. D&D geeks around the world feel a great emptiness in their souls for this creator of magic and adventure. He hasn't had much to do with the game in a while, but I'll drink to him.

Damn right bitches. PhD for the win.

Right. So I visited Loyola University this weekend. Everything went well, except for the airport losing my bag thing, but they found it and the interview went well so it's all cool.

I got to see
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Oh the impatience! I'm waiting to hear back from gradschools, I'm waiting to hear about jobs, waiting waiting waiting. What happened to being laid back? I know I used to be.

Right, enough whining.

I get a whole week with 
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So, one semester to go. I finished my last grad school applications Christmas night. I applied to: Harvard, University of Chicago, Berkeley, Loyola, MIT, University of Illinois-Urbana, and Northwestern. Cost me about $600 total. Wasn't expecting that so I became very broke. Anywho, it's finally finished. Now all I have to do is wait until February ( Read more... )

Lots of things happening in Knife World these days.

First, the semester is over at last. It took me a week to recover enough to admit it was the truth. Anywho, it went ok, but it is high time to get the hell out of here.

Another reason it took me so long to gloat about the end of the semester is that
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RANDOM!

So I'm having some trouble sleeping. It is the strangest thing. I feel like I'm wasting time by trying to sleep...but it's 2:30 in the morning. Is it because I have a lot of stuff to do? Maybe, but that's the norm so it doesn't fly here. Maybe I feel like I didn't do enough today. I suppose that's reasonable. I could always have done more.

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