Interviews are over. It’s been an exhausting month. And now I rank and wait, wait wait. My choices are all different and I feel as if I should be ranking based on what I want to do with my future. The problem is that I’m not so much sure what I want to do with my future. The other problem is that I don’t really even have a choice. I pretend ( Read more... )

Ack. The internship process begins. Six of my twelve applications are due November 1st, meaning that unless I want to pay the USPS to overnight them, I need to start working a little harder than I have been. According to this lovely book entitled, Internships in Psychology: The APAGS Workbook, I am in a maladaptive mindset and need to make a ( Read more... )

Prelims have reduced me to wandering aimlessly about on the internets.

This has been my favorite lately.  Be sure to check out the four easy steps!

It reminds me of the time machine Uncle Rico orders in Napoleon Dynamite.

A rather wordy account of my first few days in Kiev, Ukraine ( Read more... )

Hi friends,

I wanted to let you know that my cousins and are I traveling to Ukraine in August as volunteers with the nonprofit organization UCARE ( http://www.ucareinc.org/).  We are working as counselors at a camp that pulls kids out of orphanages for a few weeks during the summer and takes them to Crimea (the southernmost part of Ukraine).  We ( Read more... )

This is me complaining about school.

Advisor communication:

Wednesday June 7th, 2pm:

“I have literally been a "reading machine" and just completed a review and feedback for my 4th dissertation or thesis.  Yours is next up.  In fact, I have read over half of it (REALLY GOOD SO FAR) and should be done by tomorrow.”

Feeling happy.

Thursday, ( Read more... )

Apparently Wal-Mart will be selling “organic” food now.  Lovely.

“Beginning later this year, Wal-Mart plans to roll out a complete selection of organic foods - food certified by the U.S.D.A. to have been grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers - in its nearly 4,000 stores. Just as significant, the company says it will price all this ( Read more... )

add to the list of broken electronic toys ( Read more... )

26.2 miles!

Weather: High of 92, not a cloud in the sky and ridiculously humid.

Historical average high for May 28th: 74.

Average for the month of May: 69.

Bottom line - it was hot.

While preparing for the marathon, countless people warned us about taking it out too fast, “the mistake so many people make is getting too excited at the ( Read more... )

We’re less than 24 hours from the start of the marathon and concern is starting to set in. 
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