I’ve had a rough couple of weeks as I hurtled toward completing three lengthy projects for my second quarter of grad school. I daresay that I’ve been hard to live with, and I know I wasn’t that nice one day at work last week. I haven’t been able to cook much, and every waking minute [...]
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I’m struggling with the dregs of my final assignment. All other unpleasantness is behind me. Just one thing stands between me and freedom for a week or two: about 1,800 more words and a critical analysis of the last month of research. Ouch.
I can taste the freedom, in the warm breeze that floats in through [...]
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Halfway through my second quarter of grad school, I feel like an old hand. A tired, old, old hand.
I briefly contemplated the idea of going home between quarters in late March and eventually ruled it out because:
I’m underemployed and therefore broke.
I am so stressed it would be nice to sit on my butt for a [...]
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I was heartbroken when I learned that Douglas Adams had died in 2001. No more Hitchhiker’s books. I was sad, too, when I read the fragment of a a Dirk Gently book in The Salmon of Doubt, and thought, this is all there is. I want to know how it will end. And I can’t.
I [...]
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Today is the first day of class. My first on-campus class begins tomorrow, but I can already look at syllabuses for all three of my classes and start thinking about freaking out when I read guidelines for APA style. (Freak, freak!)
My online class starts today. It’s asynchronous, meaning that I don’t meet at a specific [...]
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I need help. I’ve been hoping beyond hope that I will eventually be able to find a terrible pawn shop commercial I remember seeing in Michiana. I keep looking for it on YouTube, but so far, no luck. It featured a leprechaun squeaking “money money money” while sitting miniaturized on different things in the pawn [...]
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I love Doctor Who and to a lesser extent, Star Trek. Fun to watch them collide.
Here’s the second part in a parody mashup of Doctor Who meeting Star Trek. Guess the third part will come out at Christmas.
I blogged about the first part here, and you can find the direct YouTube link here.
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