I've been a complete and total wreck lately. The fact that my poor kitten seems like he can't breathe in this heat isn't helping at all. He has a vet appointment Friday morning because he's been panting off and on the past couple days. In an attempt to save what's left of my sanity, I decided to do some listmaking. It is better than watching the ( Read more... )

I haven't updated since around my birthday, I know. My life has been a big mess, and I didn't quite feel up to documenting it via livejournal for all the world to see. But for some reason I'm here today and I'm updating for the first time in over six months. So what's been going on with me that I actually feel like writing about? Nothing that ( Read more... )

I am taking this idea from a video that Lizz made, only I'm doing it in blog-form because I don't have cool things like a video camera or video-editing knowledge. I tend to get kind of depressed around the new year, and because it's so close to my birthday, which also depresses me, I tend to feel sad through most of December and January. I thought ( Read more... )

I uploaded my 75-page piece-o-crap script to the NaPlWriMo site today. I technically finished writing on Tuesday, but I was hoping to do a few quick rewrites to particularly bad parts before uploading. Then I realized that the whole thing is in such dire need of help that I couldn't do much with it in the limited time I have, so I decided to take a ( Read more... )

I sent the following email to Jack yesterday and was told it would make a fun blog post, so here you are. I just changed the second person to third person so it would make sense. Some background info, Dan is the big manager at work, and Jack takes over on days when Dan is out. Dan was out on Monday, and the dream I mentioned happened Monday night. ( Read more... )

My profile page looks different now. It's a little weird and will take some getting used to.

My play update: as of yesterday (November 12) I am officially at the halfway point! 37.5 pages. It's a little crazy... I've never written close to 40 pages so quickly before. Tuesday was hard because I was feeling kind of sad about everything and pushing ( Read more... )

I decided to go for it and attempt NaPlWriMo. Even though I've been scrambling to finish the reading for class as it is and even though my big presentation for class will be coming up in early December. A 75 page play is an average of less than three pages per day, and I can at least attempt to pull it off. I'll definitely have to do more than that ( Read more... )

I have a few things to update/think about... first, most people have heard this already, but my most recent entry, in which I complained about how I seem to get sick when I stress out, caught the attention of someone at ABC News who must have been searching out blogs for a story they were doing on stress and illness. Someone sent me my first-ever ( Read more... )

I'm not feeling good today. When I get really stressed out it is not uncommon for that to result in my getting sick. See, for example, the week I took my GREs. I was so stressed out between studying for that test and lots of problems going on at home that I ended up with a really bad cold during the exam that I'm pretty sure was at least part of ( Read more... )

This is a pretty busy week for me. Work is busy because it's Dan's annual week off while Neuron is getting it's big issues that it sends to the Society for Neuroscience conference in October put together, and we also have a Dev. Cell deadline this week too. I also spent a lot of this weekend (I was in Somerville) helping my mother edit and organize ( Read more... )