I've had a busy week this week, with another on on the way. I half-woke up this morning and was half-awake for awhile, around 9:30 or so, but I still felt tired and decided that I was Going to Sleep In, so I dozed off and had this CRAZY dream that featured Catherine Tate ( Read more... )

Travelling home for Christmas! In a slightly more roundabout way than usual. There were weather-related issues with the plane coming into Salt Lake City that would be my connection, so I have to stay overnight there and then go through Minneapolis before ending up in Charlotte tomorrow. How Minneapolis is any less likely to be snowed in, I don't ( Read more... )

I was rinsing out the teapot I got in Japan and I dropped it in the sink and it BROKE. It was a clay one; they're supposed to be more neutral so as not to affect the taste. It broke into two perfect pieces, so it should be repairable with epoxy, but online sources say it will no longer be foodsafe. It wasn't that expensive, only about 20 or 30 ( Read more... )

Well, the Llama House is coming to an end; it is too expensive to maintain, and my landlady is working on selling it. I've found a wonderful new place to live, with its own advantages and disadvantages, so I'm working on moving gradually over, since I'm taking care of the animals for a few weeks yet. Got a thesis proposal draft in (yay!), and have ( Read more... )

Almost the end of the semester! Then I can really get going on my thesis again. Also things have just been busy helping with others' thesis projects, and fun random social things. Still, life is pretty good ( Read more... )

This kind of happens every time I see a really cool new superhero movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed Avengers. I was a little worried because my expectations were pretty high, but the movie exceeded them. This is also why I am not a movie critic, despite really liking  to deconstruct movies; most critics enjoyed the movie but strove to find quibbles ( Read more... )

 I haven't had class for the past couple of weeks, which means I've been spending every minute of every day chipping away at my mountains of work.

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APRIL FOOLS!

Yeeeeah, not a lot schoolwise has gotten done. However, I did start practicing on a borrowed banjo this past weekend, and I cleaned my room last weekend. I also cleaned the house and made ( Read more... )

So a million things are happening this week, but the pressure has momentarily slackened. A tiny bit.

I turned in my final edits after 2 hours of sleep. I just hit this block on them earlier this week, and couldn't seem to progress. I would pull papers, but then get overwhelmed about where to take it next. The breakthrough I had yesterday would have ( Read more... )

Weeeeeeell everything is happening at once. AGAIN ( Read more... )

OH MAN. I've been working on woodcarving all weekend with the rest of the banjo class to learn how to carve the banjo heels, and it looks like my nautilus design is actually doable. There were some adjustments, but it's going to look really cool. Now I just have to practice and practice and practice, so that I don't mess up on the actual neck ( Read more... )