Just thought that everyone would like to know that I am still alive and kicking in San Diego. I'm thinking about leaving for a while this weekend (school canceled until Monday at the earliest), and I will post updates here if I get a chance. Let me tell you kids, this fire is bad news. Some indicators of the bad news-ness ( Read more... )

There are two out of control wild land fires in San Diego county as I type this. I have lived in Southern California long enough to know that people who do what the authorities say don't die in brush fires here. Usually, they can even save a car load of family heirlooms. I have live in Southern California long enough to know that I don't live ( Read more... )

Broken dishes hurt! In fact, they draw blood, which I learned tonight when I (somehow, I don't know how) tipped over my dish rack, causing much noise, several broken dishes and two cuts. I'm declaring myself done for the night. I think that this is a sign: go to bed, and contemplate trying again tomorrow.

I thought I should make some announcement. I passed the qualifying exams I took! I now have only one left, and not until next spring ( Read more... )

I surfaced from qual-studying, and made the mistake of looking at the news. I am incredibly angry at the paternalistic attitudes of five justices of the Supreme Court. Abortion is painful and awful, and I really do think that we have more of them in this nation than is a good thing. That said, I'm not convinced that legal restriction is the way ( Read more... )

I hate this studying for quals thing. It sucks. I hate the person I turn into under all of this stress. Make it stop, please?

It seems that we cannot manage a conversation in this society about the War in Iraq without accusing the other side of being unpatriotic, or even treasonous. Despite all of the tragedy that has flowed from this war (and, whatever your viewpoint on the worth of the war, it's hard to argue about the tragedy of so much death), I am most appalled at ( Read more... )

I made chicken soup a while ago. Then, I had to do something with the chicken, so I made chicken pie, and put it in the freezer. Today, I took it out and baked it. I had used my grandmother's chicken pie recipe. It turned out well, and it's got me thinking about my extended family, and going to family events at my mom's parents. I really miss ( Read more... )

This is it. Not to sound alarmist, but well, I believe that there is genuine cause for alarm. Eleven score and ten years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. In order to become such a nation, we have also proudly been a nation " ( Read more... )

Ok, in a little under 50 hours I will take a qualifying exam in real analysis. Right now, I feel like a jumpy, jittery, unable to even focus on reading internet newpapers, ball of doom ( Read more... )