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Hard
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Real milestone
Today is my daughter's first birthday. A year ago today I gave her a big push out into this world. She is quite the little firecracker, my wee redhead, therefore, I am too tired to write much.
Here, this ought to give you an idea of my lil'one's personality:
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Dubious milestone
Today, I had my first "OMG my kid ate something stupid and is going to DIE" moment, followed by my first phone call to the poison control hotline ( Read more... ) -
Holidays
We have started our holidays and it has (so far) been quite nice. We opened presents with Elsie's special Uncle last weekend while he was here and Elsie was as appreciative as an 11 month old can be of such things. We got packages from his folks and my parents last week, and opened those this weekend for Yule. I am happy to say that my parents sent ( Read more... ) -
Better
Elsie is teething. I had to finish my grades. I felt insane yesterday, but I am done with my grading, and am officially taking a break from all things school until after the holidays (don't tell my advisor.) So today is better than yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Ugh.
Today is very hard.
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Proposed
My meeting went well. My committee was awesome. The only issues they had were actually ones I had brought up with my advisor, who thought they weren't a big deal. HA HA HA, thank all relevant deities that I have folks on my committee who know more about this stuff than I do, and than my advisor. This is because my dissertation really straddles the ( Read more... ) -
Today, at 3pm EST
I will be defending my dissertation proposal ( Read more... ) -
Huh. Haven't used this icon in a looooooooong time.
This is a interesting test of how well you recognize familiar tunes, and whethe or not you can tell if they are played correctly. The mistakes were really glaring to me, but then, even though I can't say that I'm a professional musician now I do have extensive musical training since early childhood ( Read more... )
