Comments | entropydevice: Realizations

entropydevice

Realizations

Apr 04, 2009 13:27

Today, going to lunch, I discovered yet another undercarriage-destroying speed bump. This is a rather minor event, especially in Charlotte, but it just really got to me today. I'm trying to get work done right now, but I don't think it'll happen to I post a little bit of a rant ( Read more... )

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ultranurd April 4 2009, 21:48:48 UTC

Let me know if you want to interview at BBN :oP.

entropydevice April 5 2009, 00:36:13 UTC

I'll likely visit Boston for a couple days this summer sometime.

stephenbyerley April 5 2009, 06:00:26 UTC

ps- let me know when you're up in New England, if you wanna stop off and visit/crash, or see the robot I work on...

magaidhbhan April 6 2009, 22:13:56 UTC

if it's in August, we should get drinks or something. I'll be gone in June and July (Icelandic immersion course followed by fieldwork in Scotland), but I'll be back around July 27th-28th.

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stephenbyerley April 5 2009, 05:57:14 UTC

My problems aren't quite the same, but they're similar enough (unhappy with my social life, unhappy and uncertain about my professional life) that I feel compelled to chime in...misery loves company, or something. Obviously, I don't have the answers, but maybe it helps to know you're not the only one feeling displaced. Grad school is teh suxxors, and I suspect there's a post-Swarthmore effect, too.

I've got a Winston Churchill quote up on the whiteboard next to my desk at home, right above the deadlines I keep missing: "If you're going through hell...keep going."

entropydevice April 7 2009, 12:44:52 UTC

Thanks. Especially since I don't entirely know if this is just my annual anti-grad school reaction, or really a reaction against Charlotte. I'm not even entirely giving the city a fair chance, given that I live in the (relative) boonies, and if I didn't, I would still not have much time to spend enjoying the city. Just frustrating.

I want a life, but every aspect of it is thwarted in some way or another by school. I am *so* ready to graduate, so I guess it really is time to get to work on that dissertation (once I know what exactly I'm going to have to do for my second round of quals... guh. i was so happy to be essentially done with them at Wash U).

Hugs! teenymel April 6 2009, 02:21:30 UTC

Hang in there. If you need an ear...you know how to reach me. We miss ya!

Re: Hugs! entropydevice April 7 2009, 12:46:27 UTC

Thanks. Sorry I've been rather out of touch!

Re: Hugs! teenymel April 7 2009, 12:57:45 UTC

No worries. We have been too.