42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Searching for the question to the answer of 42.

Foolishness and mayhem

It’s hard to be motivated to work on homework when you stayed up until 3:30 to do the last round.
It’s hard to be motivated when you’re entering the final week of the quarter and you’re overwhelmed. Sometimes it’s just easier to crawl back into bed.
Too bad that I dreamed about research when I finally did [...]

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Is school worth it?

On occasion, I wondered whether it was a good idea to return to school. Anyone who has let me blather for more than 30 seconds at them knows that I’m hanging in there, but barely. I’ve been very busy this quarter.
I don’t mind the work but I do mind never having any free time and [...]

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Reality: people are jerks

I can’t get into details. If my mother had heard of the internet, I could’ve said: Momma said, never put anything on the interwebz you don’t want to be thrown up in your face later.
Let’s just say I’m annoyed with people.
I’m annoyed with know-it-alls who don’t actually contribute anything positive to a discussion, and in [...]

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Finally starting to make some sense

I’ve been in Sacramento since late May 2009. For quite a while, I felt unconnected and lost. I still look up directions to many places, sometimes even to places I’ve already been.
But it finally is starting to make sense, and it’s starting to feel like home.
When I came here, I had a little bit of [...]

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Beyond stress to crazyland

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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Reflections on a former life

I was in the middle of editing a PDF slideshow for a school project when it hit me: I will never do this work again. Not exactly, anyway.
Some of my pages were pretty awesome. You don’t keep copies of the humdrum days, of which there were many. But those knockout days made me realize how [...]

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Apologies

As you may have notice, my blog posts have become more and more irregular. Much of the blathering I’ve done over the last five years on this blog has been relegated to Twitter or Facebook.
I’m also absolutely swamped with school right now. I have many words of advice to LIS grad students trying to take [...]

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