I've had a couple new friends find this blog, which has reminded me to post a note.

I'm  - check this out - *actually blogging* occasionally over on Dreamwidth: http://kaseido.dreamwidth.org/

I picked up an account there to support synecdochic 's work there: I've gotten so much pleasure from her fic ( Read more... )

Yes, it's semester crunch time, that semi-annual couple weeks.... when I spend more time being distracted than during the whole rest of the year combined.

I've finally decided it's not entirely perversity, that I'm actually background-processing writing my papers while I'm doing something as far removed from schoolwork as possible. When I actually ( Read more... )

Good news: my semester's scheduled to end next Friday, and I've got a full month till the next semester starts ( Read more... )

(x-posted to complex88 )

I'm coming back to LJ after running silent for most of the year - but, I'm moving the show from complex88 back over to kaseido .  I've imported all my entries from complex88 , and I'll be picking up where I left off back there. Here's a little FAQ on the whole process.

• WTF?  Well, it's like this...
• Why are you going back to "Kaseido?" It's been my handle, ( Read more... )

It's 5pm and I just woke up, after 8 hours or so at three different veterinary clinics, and a nap that started when we finally got home at noon ( Read more... )

It looks like my academic career is officially launched.  Sunday night I got back from my first conference in the field, and last night I got to explain what I do to a group of a dozen skeptical senior faculty for three hours.

I rocked. It was good times.

The conference was great: I learned a lot, met a few people, landed an internship with a group ( Read more... )

I'm at my first grad-studenty virtual worlds conference, and it's been a great week.  I got in last night, and the hotel desk clerk apologetically explained there's been a mistake with my room... they'd had to upgrade me to one with its own in-room jacuzzi.  I generously didn't pitch a fit - but did soak well into prunehood.

I met with the director ( Read more... )

I just got word that I've been accepted into the new PhD program!

I'm incredibly psyched! I'm moving toward something that I think is going to be an ideal fit for me, and out of a program that *really* hasn't been. Only catch is, the new program doesn't have any money, and the old one is rolling in it. Hopefully, we'll be able to sort that -

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I've spent 5 hours avoiding an assignment, and it's almost time to give up and do it.

Two page, single spaced essay due tomorrow: "how climate change can be reframed as a carbon cycle management challenge."

I'm doing laundry instead.  Spin cycle, I'm down with.  Carbon cycle, no clue.

Nobody told me there'd be days like this...  :P

The good stuff continues ( Read more... )