I finished my thesis last week, next week I defend (1pm Friday the 13th in Life Science South room 163 TLC 122 if anyone is interested). While I do not want to jinx it, I expect my thesis and defense will be satisfactory enough to allow me to finish my degree. That means my time […]
Well, it’s crunch time for me. I have to get this thesis done in a few weeks so I can defend before the end of the semester. I finally got the damn numbers to work, so it’s making figures and conclusions. I have quite a bit of work already done, so it is a matter […]
I drove back to Moscow today. There was a break in the snow storms that have been pounding the NW, so I decided to slip through.
I have made that drive so many times I have lost count. I am a little peeved that I still have to make that drive at all.
Writing at the parent’s […]
I am not sure if it is the stress of writing (even while writing in the minimally stressful setting of Medford) or sleeping in a drafty basement but I caught something.
Off to the “Urgent Care” in the strip mall for a throat swab. I paid out of pocket $140. I gave them the information for […]
I have plenty of gripes with Adobe. Overpriced software (yes, I am a sucker and actually pay for software), bloated programs, expensive upgrades, pointless upgrades, buying up all the competition (except for Quark and Corel, but they do not need help from Adobe to go belly up). However, PDF makes my life easier. Most journal […]
I have been banging my head trying to write a background chapter for my thesis. I knew it wasn’t going to be trivial (in terms of word count and references, it will be the largest part of my thesis). However each time I would start I would get a few hundred words into it and […]
It has been some time since I have worked in the library. When I was an undergrad I was here several times a week. Somewhere along the line I stopped using the library… having a lab to work in and most of my material available as PDF files cut down on my need for it.
Still, […]
What a terrible day! Everything I wrote was crap.
Nothing sounds good, I can’t remember my sources, ideas are not making it to the page– I feel kinda stuck. An utterly complete waste of a day.
Damn writers block.
Tomorrow I’ll take my laptop and go to the library to write. Perhaps a change of scenery is what […]