42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

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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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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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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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 [...]

Read the rest of Beyond stress to crazyland

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 [...]

Read the rest of Reflections on a former life

What am I learning with my fancy, expensive edumacashion?
Lots of things, it turns out.

I don’t know anything.
Statistics will be very helpful to me, no matter how much I complain. All I can hope is that I will have someone else to do the dirty work.
I can write a paper to save my life.
I can control [...]

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You don’t realize how much you rely on technology, even something as basic as having electricity, until you don’t have it.
Yesterday, there was a huge storm here and elsewhere. Wind and rain battered the house for much of the day. Drains clogged. Trees fell. It looked more like a storm from the midwest. We got [...]

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