my brain has officially stopped. i have just less than half the paper i need to hand in tomorrow done, so the alarm is set to go off at 5:15, and with any luck everything will be flowing much better by then ( Read more... )

the following footnote appears in this particular incarnation of my paper. i think it's probaby a bad idea, but i totally don't know how else to say it.
( see under the cut for mel's idiot moment )

the relation between memory and the animal is untheorizable in the next two days the paper falls to pieces & the grad student follows.

is it really bad that particle physics is making more sense than paper?

my new favorite video...for sheer random weirdness:

happy new year to all & may the memories of 2006 fade quickly

because i'm *willingly* listening to holiday music. not, mind you the canned, retail, sacarine version, but choral classics with not mention of santa clause or family or presents or mistletoe. (i've discovered this site that lets you customize radio stations/music streaming. (because of licencing stuff, they require a us zip code, if you want ( Read more... )

found, while she performed the semi-annual purging of the purse: an artifact from the saskatoon conference two-and-a-half months ago ( Read more... )

for the first time in a week i'm calm...striving for an equilibrium & coming close, although my upstairs neighbours are threatening that equilibrium with endless renditions of various christmas carols. i become an annual anti-clause, a fact made worse by a strain of insanity....famblies....and papers that must still be finished ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

bribery: movies tomorrow night, or a bubble bath & the bottle of wine i have in my fridge. anything. just must finish term paper today.

& must stop deleting everything i write due to a shocking degree of inadequacy.