Main Entry: bor·bo·ryg·mus
Pronunciation: "bor-b&-'rig-m&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural bor·bo·ryg·mi
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek borborygmos, from borboryzein to rumble
Date: circa 1796
: intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas

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I go to sleep for 17 hours and the whole world changes! Well, not that much. The Marlins win the World Series, daylight savings occurs, what's next? So maybe that's a bit of over-reacting, but 17 hours seems excessive to me. In all my years of perfecting the all-nighter I've always just waned myself off the sleeplessness with a gradual acceptance ( Read more... )

I have just finished printing the "sendable" version of the NSF grant proposal. Although technically, it's not sendable yet, there're lots of errors, but it's in closed form. From here on out it's just "fine tuning", not demolishing. This morning was one of the worst post-all-nighter humps I ever had to get over. Completely fidgety because if I ( Read more... )

Check. That's one more under the belt for safekeeping. I have officially pulled another all-nighter. First one in about 2 or 3 years. It does not feel good. While attempting to write this very sentence, I had about 4 microsleep sessions. It was amazing. I think it's because the keyboard is so sticky and takes so much effort to use. Did I mention ( Read more... )

I hate public computer labs. Maybe I'm being a hypochondriac, but who knows what kind of evil viruses are lurking. Just sit and listen. Between every little chit chat about some intro class gibberish there's always a hack, a cough, a sneeze, a belch, a silent fart, another hacking cough, another sniffle, drip from a runny nose. This place is giving ( Read more... )

I am so drunk my eyes hurt and my breath is hot. I kicked some ass at Eucre so severely today that somone might have mistaken me for a midwesterner. I have never shut out another team until today. Anyway, I never knew leopold's was the happening place to be on a thursday night. I am so insanely drunk right now, my eyelids hurt. I ate at a new ( Read more... )

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