Last night I was having dinner with a guy I've been friends with for a long time. We're both in grad school and his big plan for life is to write a book and sell it for millions so he can laze around on some island for the rest of his life. Basically, we've got being slackers down to a science. While we were discussing this matter over ( Read more... )

Ok, so I never did post anything during my European vacation. I feel stupid writing a long post telling you everywhere I went, everyone I saw, and everything I did, so I'll just let stories trickle in here as needed ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I leave on my trip!! I am flying to Washington DC to meet the rest of the people going to the conference I am going to, and then Friday night we take an overnight flight to Germany. I am going to a conference in Lindau to meet all the Nobel Laureates in physics and chemistry and then I'm taking a little vacation time to travel. I should ( Read more... )

Social interaction as we know it would come to a screeching halt without alcohol.

My Ph.D. candidacy exam is in 14 days. As I have been preparing, many other thing - housekeeping, laundry, cooking, being organized, social activities, all other work, etc. - have been put off until after June 15th. My apartment has gradually deteirorated to the point that it's almost unliveable now. Tonight, I found my power bill in my gym bag ( Read more... )

The following conversation took place at a book reading and signing by Augusten Burroughs. The event was sponsored by Outwrite Books, a store known to some as the center of Atlanta’s gay culture. I went with my friend who we’ll call R ( Read more... )

PERL is the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. It rocks my world. Just thought yall should know.

Guess who's going to Germany the last week of June to hang out with all the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry? Oh yes, that would be me.

I have spent the last two days trying to open a bottle of BBQ sauce. Obviously, I have not worked on this project continuously for the last two days, but ever since I discovered on Sautrday night that I couldn't open this particular bottle, it has been sitting on my kitchen counter and every time I'm in there I try to open it. And it won't budge ( Read more... )

Since I bitch about how I hate Atlanta so much, here's a nice thing ( Read more... )