1. Make "I write like..."
2. ????
3. Lulz!!

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While there are some people that can find what they want to do in grad school while managing TA work, I don't appear to number among that group.

No, not the tropical depression off the coast... not exactly. Tomorrow, the graduate program starts kicking in, leaving me now to await how schedules are going to be shuffled for TAs covering sections. 20 hours a week ( Read more... )

There's a lineage of spiders that's lived in my windowsill, just between the actual window and the storm window, for many years now. Apparently, its latest scion has become so successful in snagging the insects that get between those two windows that a cardinal spotted said spider, and made a few frustrated pecks at the arachnid's position. ( Read more... )

Folks, never do full situps. Crunches, yes, but never full situps. You'll end up paying for it even after you think the mistake has been corrected.

So, after getting out of bed, I turn on the TV. It's on the Weather Channel. It reports that there are wildfires in northern Myrtle Beach, and that 5000 acres have been burned thus far.

By the way, that's where I applied to grad school. FFFFFFFFF...

Still Waiting: CSU Fullerton

GREAT SUCCESS!: Coastal Carolina Univeristy

Still waiting on MS programs. PhD programs, predictably enough, had better candidates to admit ( Read more... )

In during Darwin Day. May a selection pressure correct errors in the cells of your tissues.