so, it is now september 13th. according to what i'd written over the summer and such in here, i should be able, at this point, to write an introductory account of what graduate studies in the ivy league are like. however, i can't ( Read more... )

i should do work but i'm not. i have two days and a half hour left as a penn traffic summer temporary employee, and i assume that i'll accomplish tremendously little in that last bit of time ( Read more... )

so, as i drove home yesterday after watching a movie, i started thinking about my dad. i think of my dad quite often, which is an incredibly positive thing. my dad is my hero. he finally finished chemo and radiation last week, and so he is now fully on the road to recovery (we hope). i realized that i should have a picture of him up on here. ( Read more... )

i'm updating again - sound the trumpets. i'm sitting at work; i have next to no productivity. i feel like i did when i was interning a couple of months ago - i can't seem to focus and i can't seem to do work. i feel bad about it a bit, but not entirely. i do need to get more to do though, i need to be useful and i need for it to make sense for ( Read more... )

so, at work, jen hits me and then demands an apology. for what? i asked her. she has no real reason for a need for an apology. the girl that sits between us at work is at the dentist, and so jen is bored down in the corner, i guess. she's quite hyper today ( Read more... )

i don't ever update, but i am doing so, very quickly, right now. summer time is in full swing - the weather lately has been beyond summery for central new york - we had a few days in the mid nineties, which set records. it is set to cool down soon. i'm working at penn traffic during a normal office work schedule, and that is going relatively ( Read more... )

dc is good for the science nerd kid in me. the zoo and the natural history museum rock for that reason. for example, check these out:


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let me preface with i'm in a better mood than yesterday, although i would be in an even better mood had my plans for the evening not dissolved, but, eh, that type of crap happens ( Read more... )

so, i saw this quiz in someone's lj, and took it. i'm kind of surprised, as i did not expect to have this much intellectual balance. it doesn't, of course, mean that i'm just about average in the strenghts of these intelligences, but still. interesting.

Your brain: 80% interpersonal, 120% visual, 120% verbal, and 80% mathematical!

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