Ahh, blessed short-lived relief

I’m wallowing in that brief respite between having finished The Outline That Would Not Die and the amping-up of anxiety that will precede The Advisor Meeting at Which All My Inadequacies Are Revealed. Or I should say, I’m catching up on all the crap I’ve been keeping myself from doing while trying to kill [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, your Supreme Court!

*this post has been edited for clarity since I’ve apparently forgotten how to write.
Sure they’re highly edu-ma-cated, and the honors on their resume are as numerous as the stars. But (excepting Ginsburg, and three amigos Breyer, Stevens, and Souter) what a bunch of tools.So this woman worked as a supervisor at Goodyear for almost [...]

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Zero credit card debt

Somebody organize a parade….I made the last payment on the last credit card this morning. While this was done in a robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul sort of way, it can only be called an objective good. I took out a loan to pay for my three-month sojourn to Ireland, and was reimbursed by a grant for [...]

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All that training has paid off

And by “training” of course I mean “working out on the treadmill regularly so I can run in public without being embarrassed about the heavy breathing and beet-red face.” Not that working out regularly on the treadmill has significantly reduced either one of these, but it’s safe to say I am now acclimated enough [...]

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Can’t I just move on to the writing?

Have I mentioned how I hate outlining? Just in case you forgot, I really really hate it. It saps my will to write, nay, to live. I’ve tried three different options now for organizing this mess of notes and tangle of ideas I most optimistically call my dissertation, and I don’t like [...]

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The sweet stink of failure

I guess it was inevitable I wouldn’t get through the whole list. Especially that part about finishing the f-ing outline. It’s in a much more complete state than it was yesterday, but it’s still like pulling teeth to get anything that seems sensible and professional and fancy-pants scholarly. I’m fairly sure the [...]

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To do (now with live update!)

Finish this f-ing outline
Make the back bathroom a little less scary before company comes for Lost finale
Do the treadmill thing, preferably before it gets up to 90 outside
Ruminate on whether we need to upgrade internet to DSL, or whether that would result in my farting around on the internet rather than using it for work, [...]

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Back to the Bend

It was a perfectly lovely weekend in Louisville–great weather, lots of food, family, and friends. Then more food, then a wedding, and then more food. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I just kept eating. And then bitched about how tubby I am, because that’s how I roll. So [...]

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Damn, it’s cold

Turning the furnace off was a bad idea. It meant that I woke up this morning searching for the remnants of heat left on spouse’s side of the bed and mentally searching through the house for my bathrobe to minimize the amount of time actually spent searching for it. And cursing my lack [...]

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And then eventually I’ll have frog legs

Took the bike out for a test ride… The first thing you need to know is that if you’ve been dealing with a crappy bike for years, you may seriously overestimate the grip force it takes to brake. I nearly threw myself off just braking while rolling down the gentle slope of our [...]

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