I've worked my ass off for weeks. First I was just trying to complete my chapter revisions that my advisors had given me, but that took so long it bled into the yearly review. My advisors told me to go ahead and submit the chapter for the yearly review, even though it was a lot longer than what was required. Hell if I had any time to work on ( Read more... )

The song "I Try" was just running through my head, and I was replaying it in my usual way - "I blow bubbles when you are not here". Then I thought - wait - that can't be what it says, dur. So I looked it up....sure enough, "My world crumbles when you are not near". Doh. That song's been out since, like, '09 and I just now figured it out, lol. ( Read more... )

I have to admit I was wrong about the kava. Apparently it just took a little while to build up. It doesn't give an ecstatic feeling, but....a very *chill, all is good kind* of thing. I was supposed to turn in my chapter Monday. Still haven't gotten it done. But hey, it's all good ( Read more... )

Kava does absolutely nothing for me. I've tried it several times, and have never experienced any noticeable change whatsoever - no increased sense of happiness or relaxation, no mellow zoned-out kind of thing....just nothing at all. Won't waste my money on that again.

From someone wanting me to buy their program on freelance writing ( Read more... )

I don't understand why other countries are so upset about Brexit, especially non-European countries, like the US. Apparently there's a ton of butt-hurt over there about it, judging from fb posts, which seems weird to me. If a country doesn't want to stay in the EU....who cares? Let them leave. Not anybody else's business, as I see it.

After reading a lot of articles and watching video clips, I was totally convinced that Melania Trump DID steal Michelle Obama's speech, blantantly and outrageously. However, after actually looking at the speeches side by side, I don't think she did. There seemed to be soooo many cases of identical word usage, but when you look at both speeches in ( Read more... )

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Friends on my facebook have read some about this, and I don't want to go into some long story about it here, but this crazy person is stalking my family over a comment my brother made to her kid. He was at a children's museum with his little girl, when a couple of boys started taking her toys and being mean to her. He asked them to stop, but they ( Read more... )

Despite all my earlier stressing about it, it now looks like whatever direction I go after this degree, things will work out fine. Chris is perfectly willing to relocate to the U.K. temporarily while I finish up a ph.d. here, if I choose to do that. He's willing to move around wherever in the U.S. I need to go, too. So that was really the big ( Read more... )