It's official: finally graduating in May. Staying in Carbondale for the next year (largely due to the minuscule cost of living). Hoping to work as the assistant director of the Writing Center. Probably living with my friend Mel. We'll see how that goes.

Thesis is currently clocking in at about 90 pages... trimmed down from about 140. Work is constant and ongoing. Life is boring. I will have a life again after Nov. 13. That is all.

I'm really fucking tired of hearing news outlets and celebrities talk about Michael Jackson as if he 1.) Released a decent album in the last 15 years or 2.) has been culturally relevant in the last 15 years. Everyone seems to blithely gloss over the fact that he was responsible for whoring out the Beatles catalog in commercials and film in order to ( Read more... )

An "inland hurricane" hit Carbondale a couple weeks ago. The trees sitting on my house are really fucking up my summer. Still working on my thesis. Hoping to graduate in December instead of August. Hoping funding comes through for the fall. Reapplying to Ph.D. programs after retaking the GRE to improve my scores. Looking for a new roommate after ( Read more... )

Complete. Total. Fucking Failure.

This is what happens when I try to be a decent person.
Money wasted. Time wasted. Opportunity wasted.
Fuck this. I'm done.

Finals are finally done. Deep sigh of relief before the inevitable ruination of my perfect GPA and the onslaught of data analysis for my thesis. I am at once incredibly relieved and incredibly angry.

Giving up on the female gender; please wake me when robot wives are cheap and effective.

I've decided to induce insanity. It seems like the safest and most assured of all current courses of action. Social Cognitive Theory currently dictates that it would clearly be more beneficial personally, socially, financially and academically than current options or previous experience(s). Psychology is usually about as useless as philosophy, but ( Read more... )

The entire month of August pretty much exemplified everything I hate. It's hot, school is starting, I and everyone else is insanely busy, and it's generally just shitty all-'round. Thankfully Patton Oswalt is still hilarious.

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