Oy, help me not to panic ( Read more... )

So the following was mostly written the other day, where I didn't have an internet connection, but I had a lot of time with the laptop. So here's a lovely cut n' paste. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a little while, sorry about that. First, I needed a few days off after classes officially ended. And that was good, I hung out with my mom and some colleagues and took a little breather from school stuff. And tried to not stress about the research ( Read more... )

So, I actually just ran some numbers and it seems that the assistantship hours aren't quite as impossible as I thought they'd be. The question will be how exactly I will bang them out -- get a lot done upfront and finish sooner, or spread it out. If I spread it out, I only have to do about 30 hours a week until the beginning of July, and then I'm ( Read more... )

Wow, Neil and I have been working so hard all weekend, attached to our laptops and typing away furiously. He had his last final exam to write, I have three things going on at once. One I really need to wrap up for a class this week, the other two are PhD projects that I started on last fall (one being the drum research I've written about a bit ( Read more... )

Wow, so get this ( Read more... )

No idea what to call this one... "Revving the Engines" maybe ( Read more... )

So I was making breakfast yesterday morning, and as I look out my kitchen, out the windows of our sunroom, I see some brown critter rolling around. What the heck is that? I go to my desk in the sunroom and grab the binoculars (I've kept them there for when I'm studying and I happen to see a cool bird or other critter and want a good look)... and I ( Read more... )

So. Another night testing subjects for my research.

I get here, and the same first preggo subject is here waiting for me -- I was a little late. But a colleague had helped me bring my shit over here from the GA office, so I wasn't quite as scattered as I could have been. In fact, this colleague had asked, as we left the GA office, "so you have ( Read more... )

Okay, time for that outrageous email I mentioned before ( Read more... )