It's pouring outside. I'm at work, and it's a pleasant temperature. Been sipping hot chocolate and reading the papers online. I started doing some GRE practice tests, but my brain is not currently functioning, so I think it'll have to wait. I intended to actually do some "work" work today, but the weather has put me off of it. Just going with ( Read more... )

Skimming through the past week of friends pages. Back at work from vacation. Tired a little. Hope all is well out there.

Zombie quiz from potch1214: ( behind the cut )

I'm trying to remain calm, as the graduate admissions office continues to ignore me. Might have to chalk this one up to Friday. Hope people decide to work next week...my application is done; I just need someone over there to let me submit it!

Public service message for the kids: Don't procrastinate. You can save yourself a lot of panicked running around down the line if you just do whatever it is you need to do in a timely fashion ( Read more... )

Just had lunch with a former roommate, Steve. I lived with Steve and this other guy Chris during the strange transitional period between living in Davis and living in Michigan. Steve is a grad student in some complicated molecular biology field, and a really great, if somewhat passive-aggressive, guy who is into lesbian folk music. Chris was a ( Read more... )

So one of the baby mantids didn't make it, but at least the other ones left it alone (it still had a head when I checked ( Read more... )

If my behavior in raising baby mantids is any indication, I would be such an anxious mom. Of course, as I understand it, most of the time you don't spend half the time worrying that your babies will eat each other, which is currently my major concern ( Read more... )

So my strategy of being in denial about being sick was working until yesterday, when I briefly considered being dead as an attractive alternative. I am okay enough to be at work today (hooray), but seeing as how I only work for 3 hours on Tuesdays, that's not saying a lot ( Read more... )

Girl and I were in Sunnyvale yesterday, where the weather report predicted a high of 88 for today. Good god! I just checked weather.com for my work zip (94305), and it's supposed to get up to 84. Even up in the city it might get to 80. Laurie's going to melt ( Read more... )

Politically tinged blah blah blah ahead...( Read more... )