So it's been a good week: the semester is formally over, and I've managed to keep up with grading despite my co-TA having to leave town for a family funeral, leaving me to manage the final exam (and associated make-ups, special testing arrangements, and inevitable student oversleepings) single-handed. But that's all done. So is the revised thesis ( Read more... )

So I realize I haven't updated this for a long time. There are a lot of reasons for that---I've been quite busy with thesising and coursework and teaching. My social focus has shifted more toward State College after a year and a half of living here. And my life has taken a few unexpected twists and turns, which I'm only now coming to grips with ( Read more... )

i has a alive.

kthxbye

The sun was setting in the west
The birds were singing on every tree
All of nature seemed inclined for to rest
But still there was no rest for meYou'd think that by now I'd be used to packing up and moving my life--I've lived in a different place each year for the past seven years, not to mention more than a few summers back in Salt Lake--but it ( Read more... )

Today's accomplishments ( Read more... )

Bought the macbook. Now to play with it. (And finish packing, and move my desktop to my office, and figure out how to move my furniture, and finish meeting with faculty, and buy a new tire, and get on the road, and hope that this will somehow all come together.)

Packing sucks. But it will be worth it, in time.

I've known for a while that I'd be in the market for a laptop this summer--not only will it free me from the clutches of our moronic departmental sysadmin and the computer labs under his care, but I'll need to have something to transcribe data into while I'm doing archival work in SLC this summer. It's only in the past week or two, however, that I ( Read more... )

They actually published this...

Too much to do ( Read more... )

Good news: finally got tax refund(s), along with payday. Was briefly rich ( Read more... )