I woke up this morning to the phone ringing. The message on the machine was from the nonprofit I interviewed at last week for the GIS position, telling me to call back. I left messages for both the GIS people there, and haven't received a response... so I don't know if I got the job. On the one hand, they called me, but on the other, they haven' ( Read more... )

School's almost over. I finally have (almost) all the data for my GIS project, though I'm missing orthophotos and keep having random technical difficulties. My other course-- the nebulous, poorly-taught one-- is in poorer shape. I have a research paper that has undefined extra requirements to it that will only be divulged to me if I meet with ( Read more... )

The Loreena McKennit concert was fantastic. I started listening to her music in 1994 or so, so it was a major part of the soundtrack of my adolescence. I fondly remember sitting reading in Maine or at Hollypoint with one of her albums on the stereo. She played a of her older stuff, including some of my favorites. The backup musicians were a lot ( Read more... )

sammka wrote a fantastic entry about a discussion on single-sex education that sums up a lot about what was wrong with our all-girls highschool. Her conclusion, which really resonates with me, is that single-sex education doesn't really work for people who don't relate well to people of their assigned gender. I really like her notion of being "gendered ( Read more... )

Ack, I haven't written in forever. researcher and I were talking the other day about how Livejournal projects a skewed vision of how people really are doing, as people seem more likely to journal extensively when they're upset about something. I've been doing well, therefore I haven't been writing here ( Read more... )

While I was working on a GIS assignment today (I had to get the park system of Baltimore back where it belonged... it was showing up as being somewhere off the coast of Rhode Island), my teacher from the intro course wandered into the lab. She seemed pleased that I was taking the practicum, as I'd done well in the other course, and people who take ( Read more... )

I just got a major windfall of the bureaucratic variety. If I'm understanding correctly, I will be allowed to graduate if I complete the two courses I'm currently in. Which is... wow. I didn't realize the geology department wanted me gone that badly, but it works. Going to the dean seems to have been a good decision. The meeting itself was ( Read more... )

It came to my attention about a week ago that I can graduate in December if I can manage to pull off a field project this fall (which I failed to do over the summer). So I've contacted all the professors I can think of in the geology department, asking for help coming up with a project. One's on sabbatical, and I heard back from two more today, ( Read more... )

Michael was listening to Tom Waits last night, who I'm not very familiar with. The nonsensical weirdness of the music got me thinking about Leonard Cohen, so I put on the album of his that I used to listen to while going to sleep when I was in elementary school. It's really hard to introduce someone to music that has that much personal resonance ( Read more... )

I've done a lot more traveling this summer than I'd anticipated... I look forward to going home on Monday, though the drive is sure to be penitential. I left Burlington a week ago Wednesday, and for the last week I've been in North Carolina. The beach was quite nice-- lots of reading and walking on the sand daydreaming. Good southern food... I ( Read more... )