This week, for the first time in several years, I stayed up until 3 A.M. reading a book. A fiction book, at that! It used to be a pretty regular occurrence, a way of life while I was in high school and the early years of college. For the past few years, though, I’ve just [...]
You know, if they were to make an action figure of me. Because my karate chopping action would be weaksauce. So, I’ve decided to have a self-imposed lock-in this weekend. Friday-Saturday-Sunday, no leaving the house except to walk the dog. Paper is due on Thursday the 15th, so this is seriously necessary. But, I have [...]
((Written on June 26th, while phdead.net was under construction)) Contrary to the evidence presented by this blog, my first year of graduate school did NOT kill me. Ph.Dead went on hiatus for a lot of reasons. Not only did finals week creep up on me, but Mr. Dead and I (for some unknown, insane reason) [...]
Well. That didn’t go as well as I had hoped. Remember that nice mantra I was repeating about not getting sick? Apparently my meditative powers failed me, because I spent all but two days of spring break coughing up vital organs all over the couch. There was a pretty hefty to-do list for spring break, [...]
Ah, spring break. The time of warm beaches, scantily-clad coeds, relaxation, and fun. Only not. I’m pretty sure spring break was invented for two reasons.– To give grad students time to catch up on grading/reading/research/eating/etc.– To be a form of punishment for grad students, to break their spirits even further so they become willing slaves [...]
I was having a good day, too. The terrible Economy has finally taken out its deeply repressed mommy problems on my little family. Sure, we’d gotten smacked around a little in the past; it took my husband six months to find a job that didn’t involve espresso after I moved us to this forsaken little [...]
I am not my most efficient when working on the living room couch. This seems like an obvious, dumbass fact, but it’s something that’s been bogging me down for months now. When we first moved to this town in June, we did a pretty good job of unpacking and setting things to right. We even [...]
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