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Hello internet!  I am not yet dead!  Sadly, I have nothing particularly interesting to report because my life has been subsumed in finishing my course and writing the most intensive fucking undergraduate dissertation of all time.  My acknowledgements include the phrase "...who kept my spirits up when all looked bleak".  Still, nearly over, and ( Read more... )

It appears to have just hit that I've decided to be an immigrant for the foreseeable future.

Lucky I have all this work to distract me from wanting to just lie down and not move, think, or exist for a good long while...

Apparently they won't be clobbering the post-study work visa.  Which means a) Britain does not have to know what a World Without Post-Grads is like and b) I have two years to find a permanent job here :)  It doesn't count towards residency, but I'm still gleeful ( Read more... )

...or else I've fully cracked.  It is reading week, and the lack of lectures or set lab times shouldn't be nearly as pleasant and productive as it is, but there you go ( Read more... )

Well, my life currently sucks hairy donkey balls.  The best part is when I can fall into my work, and lose myself in restoring order to old chain mail, or cleaning some old knitted textile.  Mostly, I'm distant, trying to stay away from myself, and how exhausted I am, and how this feels like it might be for nothing, since it may soon be impossible ( Read more... )

Well, I managed almost 90 minutes of Outcasts!  I actually might have watched it even without The Bamber, since I'm on an SF roll.  So consider this fair warning: I've got a head full* of colorful, sexy, funny, horrifying Farscape right now all mixed with the intellectual sheer mathematical beauty of Cryptonomicon.  So I'm in a certain place, ( Read more... )

...because when I'm not doing coursework, I'm watching Farscape, which an interesting life, sadly, does not make ( Read more... )

crap, I really went this long without updating this?  Ooops.

Well, if the snow holds off long enough, I'll be flying back to the UK tomorrow.  I am ready to go; not looking forward to the forthcoming semester, but it's only five more months that I have to survive, and then I'll be okay.

Round-up of the trip home...would really take way too long.  ( Read more... )

I think I might be the only human being who will fly out as normal tomorrow.  Cross your fingers that BA keeps its long-haul flights going, and Heathrow remember how to deal with frozen water ( Read more... )