It's been over a month since I've posted.  I think I've been super busy.  I finished a presentation for a conference that was this past week.  I didn't go and I didn't present it (and I didn't want to do either anyway because of the craziness of classes right now).  But I hope it went well ( Read more... )

I half-watched a bit of the Vice-Presidential debates last night.  I'm not really into politics, but Sarah and Luis were watching, so I sat down and half-payed attention while reading Fruits Basket.  Now I kind of like Sarah Palin.  There are things I don't agree with her on, and I think her interview skills need tons of work, but...I'm a bit ( Read more... )

I'm afraid my "thesis project" might be crashing down around my head.  I'm feeling a bit numb and nauseous.  My collaborator in Forestry returned home to Korea months ago and no one told me.  No wonder he never replied to my emails.  I'd like to blame someone but I'm afraid it's my fault for not figuring this out sooner.  We'll see if I actually ( Read more... )

So the City of Lansing is after me.  I am officially a tax evader...and seem to have been so for the past two years.  City taxes?  Cities charge taxes too?  Aren't federal and state taxes enough?  I wonder if they deal with this all of the time.  In order to rectify the situation (because I am really a good citizen and didn't mean to evade my taxes ( Read more... )

I need a nap.  I need a vacation.  I think that getting a good night's sleep would be fairly wonderful.  I think that perhaps I am waaay too busy.  Sometimes I wish I could use Grad School as an excuse to not do ministry...but I seem to be incapable of living without serving God.  And I really don't think that once I'm done with Grad School I'll be ( Read more... )

Doesn't the subject sound like the title of a movie?  :)  The Curse of CAFI - Part 3.  :D

Actually CAFI (Consortium for Applied Fundamentals and Innovation - funny how the title tells you nothing about what we're doing) is a research project I'm working on.  There have been CAFI 1 (corn stover) and CAFI 2 (poplar) projects so far and this is the ( Read more... )

I've been waiting on different things to happen in order to do work for three of my projects.  All at once, within days, I have (almost) everything for all three and have so much to do.  I'm wondering what is going on with project 4.  I'm waiting on biomass for that and don't know what's going on...considering that that's the project that is ( Read more... )

Five years ago I would have never thought I'd be here now.  Five years ago I thought that by now I'd be married to my best friend with a couple of really adorable kids.  (This was not a dream...he really existed and really was my best friend).  Stay-at-home mom or something.  But five years later I'm still in school.  I have no kids because I'm ( Read more... )

I still don't have my car back.  :(  It is hard to get around, but I have lots of wonderful people who've given me rides this week.  This morning, Sarah went home to Montana for a few weeks and left me her car.  I took it to go pick up my medication from Kroger and it proceeded to bite my middle finger.  I guess it wanted to show me who's boss...it ( Read more... )

So on Wednesday I found out that the transmission on my car was shot.  The lady at the car dealership freaked me out by saying something like, "It's your transmission.  For parts, labor and taxes to install a rebuilt transmission will be three-seven-five-zero-nine-five.  A used one will be two-nine-nine-zero-nine-five".  Because of the way she said ( Read more... )