The only good thing about today is that I didn't spend a whole lot of money on the gift I was planning on getting for Tim since the end of last year. I guess there's a few things to be thankful for in this world, and that's one of them. It's too bad, it would have been a good gift. At least I think so ( Read more... )

I think I've got myself back on track with the whole dissertation thing. I've come to grips with the fact that I didn't get the results I wanted. I did find some things, so it's not a total loss. And now I can write about why my results are screwy, and maybe that'll add some more pages to the darn thing. Writing the discussion section will be the ( Read more... )

My mother just called. She wanted to let me know that the triplets plus one that were so annoying on the way down to Naples graced themselves at the airport, and were about to board the same plane as my parents. All the boys in the same red striped shirts they wore on the way down. I understand that some parents like to dress their multiples the ( Read more... )

Parking myself in a chair at the airport for 4 hours requires the purchase of internet time. So far, so good, although I still have a couple hours until my flight, and my desire to get work done is starting to flag. Hence the journal entry ( Read more... )

I don't know how to think just about me.

I finally e-mailed Tim all the things I wanted to tell him. We even spent a couple minutes on the phone. I was crying the entire time on the phone, but I wasn't upset the whole time, so that's a start. It's still not what I want, though.

I went over to my neighbor's place this afternoon for a few minutes. During my time there, two of her three cats came down the stairs. One of them laid down by us, and the other (who was recently fixed and declawed) went and hid in a corner. The one by us began making a low groaning noise, which soon progressed into hissing. This turned into all- ( Read more... )

Yesterday was another decently good day for me. It was exhausting, as I was out of my apartment doing things starting at 7 am and going all the way to 8 pm. After several weeks of feeling drained after a one-hour trip somewhere, I was surprised I was able to make it all day ( Read more... )

Something relatively small (and, really, insignificant), set me off yesterday. I ended up sitting on the phone crying to my mother for probably an hour. And with a friend for another bit of time too. I'm a little numb to it now, so I'm not going into uncontrolled hysterics anymore ( Read more... )

If yesterday was the worst day ever, today was 100 times better. I stopped dwelling (as much) on the things that are confusing me, and tried instead to be normal. I got a bunch done for my dissertation. I'm like 4 steps closer to asking all of you to take my survey, and have your friends take it, and their friends... until I've got some ridiculous ( Read more... )