For one thing, I don't use this blog much anymore. I am more inspired by nutrition than I am by my personal life...which should give you an idea of how dry and boring graduate school really is while reflecting on the last 15 months or so. (If you're super interested in my more-or-less day-to-day activities as a neurotic foodie and graduate student ( Read more... )

So as it turns out, I'm about 80% over the fence and onto the road to doing a PhD here at UW. At this point, I've tried my best to predict the future, and where I'm going to go with a PhD (in construction engineering?) and where it might take me. The hardest part for me to accept is that I just plain cannot figure out where that is going to be and ( Read more... )

Did you see the pigs flying? Because it happened somewhere in the world, over the weekend. I played a video game, and here is proof!http://bp1.blogger.com/_X4reSK0hb4k/R-tKTQn_HkI/AAAAAAAAAHg/zXB3lbn5szc/s1600-h/

Well, apparently I didn't get that job after all - I'm too expensive for the company. That's ok. They did not even counter-offer, which means I was probably right to ask for as much as I did, such that they didn't want to insult me with something lower than they know I was worth. It would have been a good experience; I'm slightly bummed. But on the ( Read more... )

Doo doo doo, HUGE raise, doo doo doo, weeeeeeeeee!

I've been pretty much unavailable for this "life" thing since school. Part of the reason is probably due to the fact that I've been pouring a boatload of lot of time into "teaching" and helping my students with their homework (among the other not-so-wonderful things like grading 60 papers every week, dealing with cheaters, an interesting professor ( Read more... )

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So, if all politics is about race, gender and partisanship, who does Condoleezza Rice vote for?

Okay, uber fast entry here ( Read more... )

Found this group thanks to Facebook friends...one of the best a cappella groups I've seen lately. *Sigh* I so love men's singing voices! *Swoon*

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And this is another group with a different rendition of the same song...I definitely like the addition of this beat box guy. He gets an E for Enthusiasm.

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I actually had Christmas down in Phoenix, if you ( Read more... )