A goal to aim for: the Crazylegs Classic.

A start: 20 minutes of jogging, 6:30am, 2/28/07.

Now I just need to follow through.  It's good to have a goal.

Hopefully, this will also result in my losing a little weight before my friends' wedding on April 22nd.  That would definitely be nice.

I turn 28 today. I've been thinking of myself as 28 for the past month or so, so today doesn't feel like it marks anything in particular... but it's still good to take a moment to think about life so far.

I once worked with a guy who warned me about being 27.  27 tried to kill him, he said, and it managed to kill his greatest idol, Jim Morrison.

In ( Read more... )

Yes, you've probably seen this already, but I think it's pretty cool. There's also a Human Space Invaders out there.

http://www.break.com/index/human_pong_recreation.html

I gave notice here at Beloit. It didn't really surprise anyone but my students, who seem kind of bummed about it. The set designer's a bit bummed too.

This isn't a new plan for me - I've been planning to leave after my nine-month contract since shortly after arriving in Beloit. All the same, it's a little spooky to walk away from steady work, and ( Read more... )

Cirque du Soleil just emailed me.

"Bonjour Kate,

A job opening matching your profile for a position of Head Carpenter - Corteo-SHO05151 has just been posted in the "Join Cirque" section of our website."

Huh.

Today I gave my dog away.  It isn't permanent - just for the next couple of weeks - but it is a drastic measure.  I gave her to some friends of my family who live about 45 minutes away.  I think they'll take good care of her.  I've done this to improve my own safety - this way, I no longer have to go on walks through this neighborhood after dark.  ( Read more... )

So I'm in Wisconsin.  Lowell's sitting next to me; we both just managed to get onto the college's wireless connection (after much gnashing of teeth).  I have a new email address - my last name at beloit.edu.  I love having an uncommon name, if only because it makes usernames awfully easy to remember.

The drive up went well enough.  We stopped off ( Read more... )

I hate movers.  If knew last week what I know now, I would have surrendered my deposit to the moving company and just rented a Uhaul trailer.  Argh.

So Beloit has given me a chunk of money to help me move to Wisconsin.  At $2000, it seemed like more than enough to get the job done professionally.  Sure enough, when I called various companies, I got ( Read more... )

It worked.  They're going to let me graduate, I think.  As reward for having pushed through grad school, I'm now at a point where I get to hear more about my advisors' personal lives than I really wanted to.  Well, hooray, I guess ( Read more... )

Thesis defense today.  I'm hoping for beer immediately after.