No really, 2006 was always in the future - how did it magically become the past? What with interviews, grad school decisions, Ditch Day, graduation, wedding, and Cambridge it's definitely been one of the most memorable years in my life - and is likely to remain so. But somehow, it's all passed by in the blink of an eye and vanished into memory-land ( Read more... )

Ahh, vacation. The long lazy lounging days of having nothing in particular to worry about or feel like you should be doing. Too bad my brain doesn't entirely work that way...

( Not overly coherent ramblings... )

(ok, so maybe I cheated a bit...)

Subject & first sentence from the first blog entry in each month in the past year:

January: Wee!
The Last Application has been submitted! (that still makes me feel fuzzy inside)

February: and we're off ( Read more... )

PhD comics become scarier and scarier with every passing month...
My life in a sad, pathetic nutshell

There are no palm trees in Cambridge. This makes it very difficult to judge wind speed by the view from the window. At least until I go outside, get on my bike, and try keeping balanced. It's blowing quite a bit right now and there's a crack in our windows somewhere that's whistling ominously ( Read more... )

... the fact that you can decide on one boring Friday afternoon at work, "Hey, let's go someplace cool next weekend and make Mallowlark exist, passport-wise." And then you go and take a look on the good 'ole Ryanair website and get yourself a return ticket to Luxembourg for about $30. And, voila! We spent this past weekend in Luxembourg. It was ( Read more... )

We went to Formal Hall at Corpus Christi tonight with Meghan & Becky & her sister. Corpus is one of the older colleges - and thus of course far more Cambridgean-feeling than Churchill generally gets. In particular, it suddenly struck me (as it has a couple times in the past few months) how Cambridge in many ways retains an atmosphere of olden times ( Read more... )

"When does it stop being CPR and become necrophilia?" - Joss Whedon ( Read more... )

Went to London again today, this time with for an outing with the Churchill scholars group. We went into the Churchill Museum / Cabinet War Rooms first, which was actually really interesting. They took us into the actual main meeting room and map room (the other tourists had to look in through the windows) and showed us some of the equipment they ( Read more... )

Haven't posted for a while, so heres some random stuff ( Read more... )