It's in the dater
One of my profs is from Manchester, England, and with his dialect he says "dater" for "data". I just finished preparing my Pro Seminar proposal for him. Now the fun part begins - collecting the "dater" for analysis.
My earlier post was actually written on Monday at Bizarro's family home. I just cut and pasted. Yesterday was a fair drive home - no rain and not cold. We pulled into Athens with only a bit of time left before my appointment with the ENT guy. He thinks I have allergies (DUH) and I'll be tested for them next month. Plus he's doing a hearing test because of the problems I've had in my right ear.
But the sad news from yesterday is that the last remaining fishie was face-down in the gravel when we got in. I think I starved it to death. Even though I put one of those "weekend feeder" pellets in, it didn't really do the job. Anyway the lil' fish was pretty elderly and had been swimming funny of late. Poor dear. Well, I said a prayer and gave it its toilet-side funeral. Om mani padme hung.
Now all that remains is for me to calculate my class' grades (with Bizarro's help) and turn that in on Friday. Woo hoo!! A little late but not beyond the deadline.
Saturday night I'm hopefully going to a dinner party with some international student friends of mine. Tomorrow if all goes well we will hang out with our friends who now live in DC (she graduated from my program last spring). Friday night is open - perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Club will want to see Ocean's Twelve.
"Party time fun time yeah yeah yeah!!" Can anyone name that quote?
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Missing In Action
It's been a couple weeks since my last entry. Finals and extreme stress resulted in
my usual once-a-quarter melt down. Went to the doc's and was treated for a sinus infection after being in searing pain for a week. I'm pretty damned sure that I have been suffering from allergies these past few months. I'm going to see an Ear/Nose/Throat guy on Tuesday to try to get this under control. Anyway, enough of my health report.
Started counseling again last week,too. Just sort of cleaning up residual ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES. Seriously, I realized a great deal of my stress was due to feeling anxious about getting a job next year. Not JUST getting a job, but getting the right job, in the right city, and also in a place where Bizarro can go to school and get his career game on. Anyway, so that's all under construction right now but it's good.
At present I'm watching Dr. Who with Bizarro. Man, I hadn't realized how low-budget
these shows actually were. We've been here in Cleveland since Friday night. Drove up in the rain on Friday, survived my first Filipino wedding on Saturday, bummed around yesterday and got some grading done. still have a lot more to do, not to mention my pro sem revision. Yipes.
My head is splitting after going to the eye doctor's and getting all kinds of fucked up drops. My eyes are fine and my prescription isn't much changed. Mr. and Mrs. Bizarro will get us new glasses in the Philippines when they go later this week. Imagine! Bizarro won't have big-lensed 80s glasses! I can't wait. I'm very psyched to get new glasses with sunglass shades that attach.
Well anyway, just wanted to write something instead of nothing. I'll write more later I guess. AFter the Dr. Who marathon and the earlyThanksgiving dinner we're having tonight. I've made gramma's cranberry relish. Mmmm.
It's been a couple weeks since my last entry. Finals and extreme stress resulted in
my usual once-a-quarter melt down. Went to the doc's and was treated for a sinus infection after being in searing pain for a week. I'm pretty damned sure that I have been suffering from allergies these past few months. I'm going to see an Ear/Nose/Throat guy on Tuesday to try to get this under control. Anyway, enough of my health report.
Started counseling again last week,too. Just sort of cleaning up residual ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES. Seriously, I realized a great deal of my stress was due to feeling anxious about getting a job next year. Not JUST getting a job, but getting the right job, in the right city, and also in a place where Bizarro can go to school and get his career game on. Anyway, so that's all under construction right now but it's good.
At present I'm watching Dr. Who with Bizarro. Man, I hadn't realized how low-budget
these shows actually were. We've been here in Cleveland since Friday night. Drove up in the rain on Friday, survived my first Filipino wedding on Saturday, bummed around yesterday and got some grading done. still have a lot more to do, not to mention my pro sem revision. Yipes.
My head is splitting after going to the eye doctor's and getting all kinds of fucked up drops. My eyes are fine and my prescription isn't much changed. Mr. and Mrs. Bizarro will get us new glasses in the Philippines when they go later this week. Imagine! Bizarro won't have big-lensed 80s glasses! I can't wait. I'm very psyched to get new glasses with sunglass shades that attach.
Well anyway, just wanted to write something instead of nothing. I'll write more later I guess. AFter the Dr. Who marathon and the earlyThanksgiving dinner we're having tonight. I've made gramma's cranberry relish. Mmmm.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
My first time...
...to buy something on ebay! Last week I started looking on line for a SCSI zip drive for my ancient G3 PowerMac at home. I found a site that had a bunch going for $7 with a 30-day warrenty. So I got paid this week and decided to go back there and snatch one up. Except that I can't find the site anywhere! After looking around for close to an hour, I finally settled on looking at all the crap on ebay, which I usually avoid because it's overwhelming to me.
I found what I'm %99.9 sure is the zip drive I need, and it was going for $2.95. Since I didn't have an ebay account I had to set one up - with about 13 minutes left in the auction! So I managed to do that despite the fact that fucking hotmail wasn't loading pages and I had to hit the refresh buttom a million times to see each and every page. By the time I finished my ebay registration there was less than 2 minutes in the auction. I won by bidding a whopping $5.50. With S&H it's still less than $15 for the zip drive. Even if it's not the right thing that I needed, I'm only out $15.00.
One more step into the 21st century!
This kind of cheers me up after the election, I suppose. At this point we just have to make the best of what we've got, right? I've got a lot good in my life, even though my future in teaching ESL will be questionable under Dubbya's reign. *sigh* Here's to the 2008 election!
...to buy something on ebay! Last week I started looking on line for a SCSI zip drive for my ancient G3 PowerMac at home. I found a site that had a bunch going for $7 with a 30-day warrenty. So I got paid this week and decided to go back there and snatch one up. Except that I can't find the site anywhere! After looking around for close to an hour, I finally settled on looking at all the crap on ebay, which I usually avoid because it's overwhelming to me.
I found what I'm %99.9 sure is the zip drive I need, and it was going for $2.95. Since I didn't have an ebay account I had to set one up - with about 13 minutes left in the auction! So I managed to do that despite the fact that fucking hotmail wasn't loading pages and I had to hit the refresh buttom a million times to see each and every page. By the time I finished my ebay registration there was less than 2 minutes in the auction. I won by bidding a whopping $5.50. With S&H it's still less than $15 for the zip drive. Even if it's not the right thing that I needed, I'm only out $15.00.
One more step into the 21st century!
This kind of cheers me up after the election, I suppose. At this point we just have to make the best of what we've got, right? I've got a lot good in my life, even though my future in teaching ESL will be questionable under Dubbya's reign. *sigh* Here's to the 2008 election!
A sad day
I've been moping around all day because of the election results - particularly the smegging Ohio votes that aren't being counted. There's sort of a dark cloud around the Linguistics department today. It's like everyone is in mourning. In a way I guess we are. Mourning for the future of our country.
Not that I thought JK was great. He was, in my eyes, the lesser of two evils. Ah well. As Bizarro reminded me this morning, our lives are still good, and we are together. Together we'll make our futures, no matter who's president.
I've been moping around all day because of the election results - particularly the smegging Ohio votes that aren't being counted. There's sort of a dark cloud around the Linguistics department today. It's like everyone is in mourning. In a way I guess we are. Mourning for the future of our country.
Not that I thought JK was great. He was, in my eyes, the lesser of two evils. Ah well. As Bizarro reminded me this morning, our lives are still good, and we are together. Together we'll make our futures, no matter who's president.
Monday, November 01, 2004
Happy Birthday, Mr. Spock
On this day, 52 years ago, my brother was born. He used to pretend like he was a Vulcan, with no emotions. What a crock. Anyway, he got over himself. He's a great older brother, even if he is a bit long-winded. And a Libertarian. But he's still my big bro and I love him dearly. He's a great cook, a natural landscaper, a bigger sci fi geek than me (I learned it from watching him!), and he's hilarious. I miss him (he's in Boston so I never see him). Ah well, happy birthday Mr. Spock.
On this day, 52 years ago, my brother was born. He used to pretend like he was a Vulcan, with no emotions. What a crock. Anyway, he got over himself. He's a great older brother, even if he is a bit long-winded. And a Libertarian. But he's still my big bro and I love him dearly. He's a great cook, a natural landscaper, a bigger sci fi geek than me (I learned it from watching him!), and he's hilarious. I miss him (he's in Boston so I never see him). Ah well, happy birthday Mr. Spock.
Happy All Souls Day
I always got confused between All Souls Day and All Saints Day. I know that the RCC created them to assimilate all the pagans who celebrated Samhain (prononced " 'sow win"), which was Oct. 31 - the day were the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead was thinnest. Anyway, I remember going to Mass when I was a kid on All Saints or Souls Day or whatever, and realizing even back then that it was a thinly disguised attempt at "holifying" Halloween. heh. Smart kid.
Saturday I worked on that shoot, and in the evening I sat on my patio with candles lit, watching the Halloween partiers go by in all their costumed glory. It was fun. Very warm evening. After Bizarro came home we went to Mr. Club's and watched Night of the Living Dead (the original, that is). What a disturbing film. But it was nice to hang out with Mr. Club and Catwoman. Bizarro made the mistake of wearing his Chicago tshirt so we made lots of jokes at his exense. Heh. After that we just went home and went to bed.
I was feeling crummy yesterday due to unmentionable circumstances so I just stayed home and studied Chinese. Speaking which, I really did bomb that quiz on Friday (66). That's okay, she drops the lowest quiz grade. I just have to keep it together for one more quiz and a final exam. I think I can manage, but I'm unfortunately not going to be taking Chinese next quarter. It's too much on top of pro sem and teaching (and my other class, which is an internship). I'm still wrangling the schedule for next quarter, though, and I'm a little peeved at the internship director (let's call him Mr. Bean). If I do a 4 credit internship that's like 12 hours a week, and Bean wants me to keep a "journal" to recount exactly how I'm spending those 12 hours. Smeg head.
Anyway, it's been a prett good day for a Monday. Just about time to head home and get some dinner. This morning I finished my IRB form and delivered it to the Research Compliance office. Yay me.
welp I guess that's it for my exciting life, for now.
I always got confused between All Souls Day and All Saints Day. I know that the RCC created them to assimilate all the pagans who celebrated Samhain (prononced " 'sow win"), which was Oct. 31 - the day were the veil between the world of the living and the world of the dead was thinnest. Anyway, I remember going to Mass when I was a kid on All Saints or Souls Day or whatever, and realizing even back then that it was a thinly disguised attempt at "holifying" Halloween. heh. Smart kid.
Saturday I worked on that shoot, and in the evening I sat on my patio with candles lit, watching the Halloween partiers go by in all their costumed glory. It was fun. Very warm evening. After Bizarro came home we went to Mr. Club's and watched Night of the Living Dead (the original, that is). What a disturbing film. But it was nice to hang out with Mr. Club and Catwoman. Bizarro made the mistake of wearing his Chicago tshirt so we made lots of jokes at his exense. Heh. After that we just went home and went to bed.
I was feeling crummy yesterday due to unmentionable circumstances so I just stayed home and studied Chinese. Speaking which, I really did bomb that quiz on Friday (66). That's okay, she drops the lowest quiz grade. I just have to keep it together for one more quiz and a final exam. I think I can manage, but I'm unfortunately not going to be taking Chinese next quarter. It's too much on top of pro sem and teaching (and my other class, which is an internship). I'm still wrangling the schedule for next quarter, though, and I'm a little peeved at the internship director (let's call him Mr. Bean). If I do a 4 credit internship that's like 12 hours a week, and Bean wants me to keep a "journal" to recount exactly how I'm spending those 12 hours. Smeg head.
Anyway, it's been a prett good day for a Monday. Just about time to head home and get some dinner. This morning I finished my IRB form and delivered it to the Research Compliance office. Yay me.
welp I guess that's it for my exciting life, for now.
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