So, I'm moving to North Carolina in 2 1/2 weeks ( Read more... )

First all-nighter of grad school. Go me?

Staying up all night is a lot more fun when there's magic and mayhem and debauchery involved. Paper writing, less so.

Shit, it's going to be a looooong day.

*stumbles off to shower*

This quarter is hard. Harder than I expected, much harder than I want it to be ( Read more... )

I've got a few minutes to actually sit down at a computer, so I thought I'd make an update ( Read more... )

There is no way I can say all the goodbyes I'd like to. I have eight years of memories built up over Santa Cruz. This was the place where I began to get a sense of myself, and the place I came back to when I'd lost my path and needed to find a new one.

There will always be unfinished business. That's what life is, and so as long as I'm living it ( Read more... )

This brightened my day:

hee!

This weekend I have acquired: one mild sunburn, a skinned knee, several sore muscles, the beginning of an understanding of stiltwalking, a strand of beads thrown by a badass dyke in a wheelchair, and a number of twigs that found their way into my hair ( Read more... )

"While we are rarely in a position to offer financial support upon entrance to the program, we are pleased to offer you a Graduate Teaching Fellowship (GTF) for 2008-2009 due to your outstanding record and the excellent match with your interests and the research interests of our program."

Rock.

So I've been on alternate status with UO for the last month, basically waiting to see if one of their three first coices declined and trying to decide whether I actually wanted to go there if I did get in, or if I wanted to wait a year and try again at Berkeley and UNC. During the road trip to Seattle I stopped in at the campus and talked to the ( Read more... )

Homemade lavender lemon curd, irish butter, and fresh biscuits still warm enough to melt the butter make for a fine sunday morning. It's still absurdly beautiful today, and I spent much of yesterday inside cooking, so I think today is dedicated to playing outside. Still waiting to hear if there's any space on Lee's boat, but it looks like not, so I ( Read more... )