this post brought to you courtesy of a conference paper deadline in two hours. i am trying not to doze off while my advisor does some final edits so that we can submit it and i can go sleep. i've been meaning to make a post for awhile because this summer has been crazy (i just wrote "hella crazy" and then judged myself for it...sigh). anyways ( Read more... )

hello from california! erika and i don't have internet yet but we realized we can poach wireless from our porch so here i am. our new apartment (which george will also be living in come july) is quite spacious, surprisingly well furnished, three blocks from the cs building, four blocks from bubble tea, and has a nice view of the bay (and the ( Read more... )

at this point i should just stay up all night probably. so i will take a break and write an update to stay awake, and also because significant things have been happening recently ( Read more... )

So, this is mainly for my own benefit like three weeks from now when I have to look back objectively, but... (just in case anyone is out of the loop, I've been accepted to a couple of graduate schools and am using spring break to go visit them. The last two days I was at Princeton, wednesday and thursday I'll be at UCSD, and friday to monday I'll ( Read more... )

well i'm back at home after the most stressful semester so far. the highlight of the trip home was cville public radio playing the veronica mars theme song... chris and i were seriously rocking out. that show makes me unreasonably happy, even when certain characters do silly things (i'm looking at you season 3 episode 6, omg ( Read more... )

yay! now there is nothing to keep me from blowing my hard earned savings on frivolous drinks etc. (or perhaps letting other people buy them for me...yes). also, time to stop aging? this weekend i took the GREs, saw joe (recently back frm china), and went out to dinner with my family...i got to have wine even though my birthday wasn't until ( Read more... )

some notes ( Read more... )

well, another semester down the drain! there really aren't too many left ( Read more... )

wow, yesterday was a really good day for our apartment! my day inspired me to to update, but i forgot to before bed. and ryan had an especially good/fortuitous day too, i know. actually i haven't even talked with ted yet, though i saw his post. somehow everything yesterday went right ( Read more... )

Hello, so things are looking good planningwise... some clubbing ride details need to be worked out ( Read more... )