...were probably the hardest months I've endured in quite a while. It's a lot better now. Here's what it took ( Read more... )

I turned 27 roughly 10 minutes ago (3:44 am). I've been up nearly 90 minutes. This isn't how I pictured it when I went to bed four hours ago ( Read more... )

Grad school is a marathon. I used to pull >50 h weeks in undergrad, once working 90 h in 6 days. I could do things like that because it was temporary. I would always have enough time to sleep off the exhaustion and catch up with friends and family the next day ( Read more... )

Every year during Lent, I give up/change between 3-6 things. That way, at the end of Lent, 1-3 of them stick ( Read more... )

LSU seems to have this underground war with women's fashion. This isn't "popular women's fashion", or even "fashion of the season". It's "clothes that young college girls wear for seemingly no reason ( Read more... )

I happened upon this youtube page yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/user/RetromercialBillyRead more... )

What is it about Wednesday that gets me working? Wednesday through Friday have been very productive days since December ( Read more... )

My advisor asked for my help with an entry-level engineering course tomorrow. In an effort to ensure the students are moving the pile of graded homework around the room, I am to "bop them in the head" if they fail to pass the pile. I asked if I could use my dart blaster.

He said yes.

The phrase "Maybe it will be different with me" is indicative of inviting chaos into my life. Because it won't be different and that person probably won't magically change. I give up.

I saw a picture of us today. It's from last June. I remember seeing you shortly after landing and thinking "Finally! Someone who can wait!". Four months later you'd prove that wrong. As part of getting you out of my life I destroyed the pictures, but every so often I'd find that I forgot one, or someone else found it and sent it my way. Any time I ( Read more... )