Down in Texas visiting my dad and looking for an apartment for when I move.  It'll be a nice vacation, fun stuff and relaxing planned.  The drive down, on the other hand, was....kinda like the game Oregon Trail.  First, had to stop because a member of the party was injured.  Athena somehow managed to tear off a claw down to the quick....so ( Read more... )

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I'm officially finished with the literature review chapter of my thesis.  Hooray!  Even better, my professor said it is exactly what a literature review chapter should be, and he wants to use it as an example of an exemplary thesis.  Well alright then, double hooray!  Now I am to the point of doing the actual interviews, so if anyone knows of ( Read more... )

I have in my hand a 91-year old first-edition book.  The last return date stamp in it is from the 1940s.  The nerd in me is enormously happy.  And in awe.

~K

edited for bad math

I finished the exhibit at the Davis Mansion that I've spent several weeks working on now.  The first few cases were already designed (although I don't think she looked at the actual cases when she made the layout) but I had to rearrange and change a few things to make it work.  The last case I designed (and am very pleased with).  Made all the ( Read more... )

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I absolutely MUST eat at this restaurant.  At least once in my life.  It is imperative ( Read more... )

old laptop near dead
found a new one for cheap-ish
must last through grad school

~K

It's gonna be a busy semester, but it's my LAST and at least I got my schedule sorted out 3 weeks in this time instead of 12.  My sleep schedule is even on track...it's weird naturally waking up at 7 a.m. every day, but it's making things much easier.  Good thing too, or I would've been really pissed at the 7 a.m. phone call from my boss asking if ( Read more... )

So I just got the schedule for the conference I'll be presenting my thesis paper at in April, and it suddenly became real....I'm an UNDERGRADUATE student presenting a paper at a PROFESSIONAL  conference.  *deep breath*  I can do this.

~K