last thursday night was the start of "rookie week," this being the last week of the fall season. after practice we went to jessica's house where the veteran girls ( Read more... )

Article is actually called, Monkey Math Machinery is Like Humans’ and it starts like this ( Read more... )

Dear Self ( Read more... )

went to charleston over the weekend, because the neurolinguistics prof was giving us extra credit to participate in a neuroimaging study. you'd be surprised how difficult it is to remember the past tense of "cast" when you're under time constraints and your head is packed into a noisy fMRI machine ( Read more... )

i find writing term papers comparable to throwing up:

when it's unavoidable, it's practically effortless, but given the choice i'll avoid it at all costs.

have i mentioned that constantly hearing/seeing all these trains skimming by my apartment building at all hours of the day and night makes me antsy to ride one? it's cheap enough to buy a ticket to boston, but alas for me the ride is 17 hours at its briefest. tallahassee is closer, but the sunset line has been down for months, because of all the ( Read more... )

one of our props (strong, lifty rugby girls) broke a rib the other night at practice, and the coach made me stand in for her. translation: i spent the better part of an hour repeatedly hoisting kat (our other hooker, and incidentally a contestant in the miss south carolina pageant)into the air by her shorts ( Read more... )

so i was walking to work and the stupid engineering kids were selling t-shirts that read, "Friends don't let friends become Liberal Arts majors."

semester winding down, and all the kids whose deadlines are approaching want me to edit their papers rightthisminute ohmygod! it's hard not to get stressed out when i'm meeting with one of them and ( Read more... )

last weekend was fall break. i drove to tallahassee and saw piscesgrrl17 and dr. g and other tallahassee folks and did other tallahassee things (indian breakfast, pitaria, club down below, etc.) and generally had a wonderful time ( Read more... )

saturday was our first rugby game. we won ( Read more... )