Want to know what is better after you have successfully defended your master's thesis?
EVERYTHING!
Monday, July 21, 2008
kesley hair: word ruiner
Usually the closer I get to any sort of intense culmination of work, the more nervous I get. And I don't want to jinx myself into a panic attack tomorrow morning but I am actually feeling okay about tomorrow. I don't know if it was the thai food, under-baked brownie, or the nap but I just feel ready to go rock this thing and be done with it. Yay for late-night confidence boosts!
On a totally unrelated note, I have a new hobby that I am really quite good at. My ears are finely tuned to recognize when people use the words gyped, jipped, gyp, etc. Why do so many professional media outlets insist on saying that? You got "gyped" out of a beer? No! You went to a bar where a bartender gave you a poorly-poured beer. I don't mean to go all lexicographer on you or anything but for the record, the cool kids don't use those words anymore. The cool kids decided genocide wasn't as funny, well, once they realized they were talking about genocide. Don't worry, you are good people, you just need a little vocab update and then you will be as good as new. I have plenty of other words I can ruin for you some other time.
On a totally unrelated note, I have a new hobby that I am really quite good at. My ears are finely tuned to recognize when people use the words gyped, jipped, gyp, etc. Why do so many professional media outlets insist on saying that? You got "gyped" out of a beer? No! You went to a bar where a bartender gave you a poorly-poured beer. I don't mean to go all lexicographer on you or anything but for the record, the cool kids don't use those words anymore. The cool kids decided genocide wasn't as funny, well, once they realized they were talking about genocide. Don't worry, you are good people, you just need a little vocab update and then you will be as good as new. I have plenty of other words I can ruin for you some other time.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
so close
In a mere 25 hours I defend my thesis. I have been waiting for this day for what feels like eternity and now all I can think of it how badly I want it to be over. On a scale of 1 to "uh oh"
anxiety levels are at an "oh shit."
anxiety levels are at an "oh shit."
Thursday, July 10, 2008
pure bliss
I was determined to kayak today despite it being overcast all morning. The water was so still and calm - it was perfect kayaking. Then the clouds got darker, it began to mist, then sprinkle, and eventually I was in a downpour. At first I was a little fearful that I would die from a lightning strike but it was actually kind of nice to just accept that I was going to be soaked and to take my time. By the time I got back to the cabin the clouds had moved on and now we have the most perfect weather ever. I kayaked a while longer and now I'm laying on the end of the dock listening to the water hit the shore and my ipod in the background. I know I have a bunch of edits waiting to be finished inside but I just cannot bear to go inside right now.
I love blogging but boy oh boy do I love blogging from the end of a dock when I am this insanely happy and relaxed.
Go on AT&T, do your thing...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
from the dock
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lake days
Believe it or not I have actually gotten a fair amount of work done while on vacation. Right now I'm laying on the dock soaking up my fair share of cancerous sunrays while my ipod sings me to sleep. Maybe I will go kayaking later, maybe I won't. That's the beauty of vacation - I can do anything I want. I am so stress free right now I don't even care that AT&T forces me to have a goofy signature.
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Friday, July 4, 2008
updates
1. I did not, I repeat, did not win a Wii. Oddly enough, I am okay with it. If I am going to have something insanely unlikely (yet insanely good) happen to me I think I will hold out for cash money or a dissertation.
2. Arrested Development might be one of the best shows I have ever watched. My sincere apologies for not watching it sooner.
3. This Hulu thing does not impress me in the least. There is all this talk about it being the next Youtube but it has not been as good to me as it has been to others. Although it has been my sole source for the first season of Arrested Development, it is slower than slow and stutters.
4. This vlog is the best combination of awkwardness and awesomeness I have seen since Hanson.
2. Arrested Development might be one of the best shows I have ever watched. My sincere apologies for not watching it sooner.
3. This Hulu thing does not impress me in the least. There is all this talk about it being the next Youtube but it has not been as good to me as it has been to others. Although it has been my sole source for the first season of Arrested Development, it is slower than slow and stutters.
4. This vlog is the best combination of awkwardness and awesomeness I have seen since Hanson.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
blogging in bed
The novelty of a mucked up sleeping schedule has worn off. I miss the days where getting into bed was followed by sleep. I even miss the days where I woke up in the middle of the night a lot because by definition that meant I was sleeping at least part of the time during the night. Most of all I miss waking up not feeling like a city bus had been parked on me all night. Ugh.
I am not old enough for this sort of stuff. I swear yesterday I was 19 and most concerned with the daily dilemma of classes that met at the same time my favorite tv show was on. I can't even bear to label this post "disappointment."
On a more positive note, not sleeping has allowed me to be nearly finished packing for vacation AND to clean up around home a little. Coming home to a messy place always makes the sting of vacation ending that much worse. I am spending a week at the Minnesota cabin I spent all my childhood summers. Maybe what this sleepy woman needs is some good Minnesota air and a little mosquito poison in her bloodstream.
Okay, take 72 on this sleeping deal - don't let the bed blogs bite!
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I am not old enough for this sort of stuff. I swear yesterday I was 19 and most concerned with the daily dilemma of classes that met at the same time my favorite tv show was on. I can't even bear to label this post "disappointment."
On a more positive note, not sleeping has allowed me to be nearly finished packing for vacation AND to clean up around home a little. Coming home to a messy place always makes the sting of vacation ending that much worse. I am spending a week at the Minnesota cabin I spent all my childhood summers. Maybe what this sleepy woman needs is some good Minnesota air and a little mosquito poison in her bloodstream.
Okay, take 72 on this sleeping deal - don't let the bed blogs bite!
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life goals 1, artistic ability 0
I know that I said if this project of mine didn't turn out well that I was going to delete all evidence of the idea. However, now that I actually managed to do something with all the pieces that had been camped out on my table for weeks now, I feel like I should get credit for not giving up before I started. I am also not convinced that it looks like something done by someone over the age of 7 (which is sad given it is tassels up through an M.A.). So I need a little help to figure out what to do with it to make it better. FYI I tried the whole white matte behind the tassel thing and it just looked really odd.
I forgot to take any pictures while I was actually making this trainwreck because I was too busy cursing and measuring without any real measuring device. Here it is right after I finished it:
After it sat just like that, on that very table for a few days, I finally got motivated to hang it on the wall, even though I will probably change it. I figure the wall is a good place to start storing things so that I can put different junk on the tables. Yea for fitting more junk in this tiny apartment! So here it is on the wall:
What you have probably noticed by now is that despite being from the same school, the black tassel is actually significantly shorter than the gold one. The idea was to leave space for the fourth tassel and to have an empty hook/pin for it. (I was thinking this would be good motivation, as if I would finish a Ph.D. just to avoid repositioning the tassels in a shadow box I will probably lose in the move anyways.) There is an empty pin but the pins are so small you cannot really see the empty pin unless you are up close. So now it just looks like I am horrible at evenly spacing. The small pins are nice because they don't really show from behind the tassels. I'm lost. Help.
I never knew how much disappointment was in my life until I started blogging.
I forgot to take any pictures while I was actually making this trainwreck because I was too busy cursing and measuring without any real measuring device. Here it is right after I finished it:
After it sat just like that, on that very table for a few days, I finally got motivated to hang it on the wall, even though I will probably change it. I figure the wall is a good place to start storing things so that I can put different junk on the tables. Yea for fitting more junk in this tiny apartment! So here it is on the wall:
What you have probably noticed by now is that despite being from the same school, the black tassel is actually significantly shorter than the gold one. The idea was to leave space for the fourth tassel and to have an empty hook/pin for it. (I was thinking this would be good motivation, as if I would finish a Ph.D. just to avoid repositioning the tassels in a shadow box I will probably lose in the move anyways.) There is an empty pin but the pins are so small you cannot really see the empty pin unless you are up close. So now it just looks like I am horrible at evenly spacing. The small pins are nice because they don't really show from behind the tassels. I'm lost. Help.
I never knew how much disappointment was in my life until I started blogging.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
vlogging gives me heartburn
either that or staying up late drinking caffeine does. If I were a bettin' woman, which I am, I would bet on the vlogging.
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