i'm about to begin the second full week of my second year of grad school. i've only dropped one class (of my three) so far. one new guy moved into our office and two moved out. i've started to have a LITTLE bit more responsibility on my research. it feels good to be able to give helpful insight to my adviser now. i'm starting to feel like this is ( Read more... )

i've been living on the cheap for the past couple weeks. and i'll still be living on the cheap even though i'm getting paid tomorrow. my goal is to save up enough so i don't have to borrow money from my parents again to pay fees for the spring semester. we'll see how that works out. hopefully textbooks won't be too expensive this semester. and ( Read more... )

i've never had a sickness that caused me to ache. last night my back ached in bed so much that i couldn't get to sleep. perhaps the back ache was due to hard sneezing throughout the day -- i've heard of this happening before. i ended up taking some tylenol and taking a warm bath in hopes that one of the two would help me out. about an hour later i ( Read more... )

so i'm a happy livejournal user now. apparently blogspot smells, or so a pretty girl once told me. it takes me a while to figure things out. hopefully using lj will further distract me from my lack of work. it does seem better than lj in a few ways. i can keep up with friends (and they can keep up with me) more easily ( Read more... )