Dr. Yuasa, my advisor, gave me a book in Japanese to read so I can start getting ideas for my Master's Thesis and I've been putting off reading it for a week now. Tonight, I thought I'd glance through it for some light reading before sleep and I flipped through the table of contents. One of the chapter subheadings was 名詞のアクセント (the accent of ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when it's late and my legs are kicking tirelessly beneath my body on the elliptical trainer, when the right song pours into my ears, when it's dark enough outside and my reflection is just faint enough to let me redraw it with my eyes, I change shape. The creaking, aching joint of my right knee is replaced by oiled titanium. Muscles ( Read more... )

There are so many ways I want to start this entry ( Read more... )

The power went out along my grid, around midday, while I was eating my lunch at home. It was on long enough for me to check my email, but it cut out before I was able to check the location of the Dissertation Preparation Workshop I had pre-registered to attend this afternoon. My laptop has a battery, of course, but the internet doesn't work ( Read more... )

All the grad students in my department got together last night for what is supposedly some of the best Chinese food in Columbus, at a hole in the floor called Joy's Village. It was tucked away in a sketchy underground mall. Was stuck all day getting an Ohio title and tags for my car, which took about 5 hours, so I ended up being half an hour late ( Read more... )

Today didn't feel like "Hump" Day. It felt like "Humped" Day.

Was dicking around on the OSU library homepage, hoping to find a book in Japanese that I can read at least part of for my next essay, when I came across the OSU Cartoon Research Library homepage. This school has given cartooning, in all its forms, its own library. Well, now I know where I'll be spending the rest of my existence ( Read more... )

Messy splashy heavy drops on my lower windows last night. Hidden by the screech and hum of traffic enough that you wonder if maybe it isn't rain after all. I pretended and willed it to be rain and forced my glasses onto my face to find out and found lovely water spilling and pounding across and against the glass outside. It was lovely and has ( Read more... )

I had this nice post I was working on, about how much I love grad school--aside from the daily beatings--and about how much I'm learning and how great it is here. I was talking about how much I love Columbus (much to my dismay? surprise? I dunno) in spite of my expectations ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, school spirit and all that, but is it really necessary to play a tuba at 2 o'clock in the morning?