I've been posting to a new blog recently:

http://sehti.com/blog/35

I just spent a really fun morning reformatting all of my data! Actually, I am really lucky that this fixed the problems that were happening in my program, but I am a little bit pissed that I spent most of the day doing this stupid thing that I thought would take a few minutes.

The third draft of my paper is due tomorrow by midnight, but I still have 100 pages of harry potter to finish. I am really in a bind here. All I can do is read. I have no self control, really, but this is not fair.

My summer would be fantastic if it weren't for my advisers. Everyone else's advisers pretty much leave them alone, being in touch about once a week and praising their progress on their research. Mine send me between 5 and 12 emails each day with tiny details about how I should be doing my research, or questions that they've already asked three ( Read more... )

Did anyone else read this article about the racist tintin book ( Read more... )

A quote from NYTimes article entitled "Schools Move Toward Following Students’ Yearly Progress on Tests" 7/13/07 ( Read more... )

oooh, yesterday I got my star trek dudes. I have lots of them--the only main character I'm missing is Data (which bums me out cause I like him), and I have lots of random guys, like Geordi when he turned into one of those invisible shy aliens, and that blue dude who needed a little metal thing in front of his mouth giving off gas he needed to ( Read more... )

I absolutely hate those dvds with an eight-second clip of intro music that plays itself over and over again in the menu phase until you either hit play, turn it off, or smash the whole damn dvd player with a bat. You can't get up to go to the bathroom or grab a beer without having to hear the clip fifteen times. This is idiotic. No one wants to ( Read more... )

Here is the current debate in my house ( Read more... )

motivation ( Read more... )