Tuesday, October 28, 2003
issues!!!!
okay so i'm dead tired, right, just like exhausted, and i get up at 11 thinking oh no it's 11, i have class in an hour and a half. then uh i do all this stuff i have to do and bust ass to get here, then i ask someone what time is it when i get here (because my watch broke into a zillion pieces yesterday) and she's all like oh it's 12:30. then i freak out and go to the classroom, which is full of people talking about bone density. it's like a bad dream, right? then i realize, oh dumbass, your class is at 1:30!! i could have slept for like another hour. i mean how long have i been going to this stupid class? i think my brain just totally quit working. or maybe it's so full of information about NEURONS and RETINAS and other interesting things that it can no longer hold regular-people knowledge like WHEN TO GO TO SCHOOL! okay, i'm extremely frustrated with myself. yuck!!
oh well at least i brought homework to read (i always do).
p.s. liz, grant writing is destroying me, too. what about those stupid #14 and #15?? i'm going to email you. xo
okay so i'm dead tired, right, just like exhausted, and i get up at 11 thinking oh no it's 11, i have class in an hour and a half. then uh i do all this stuff i have to do and bust ass to get here, then i ask someone what time is it when i get here (because my watch broke into a zillion pieces yesterday) and she's all like oh it's 12:30. then i freak out and go to the classroom, which is full of people talking about bone density. it's like a bad dream, right? then i realize, oh dumbass, your class is at 1:30!! i could have slept for like another hour. i mean how long have i been going to this stupid class? i think my brain just totally quit working. or maybe it's so full of information about NEURONS and RETINAS and other interesting things that it can no longer hold regular-people knowledge like WHEN TO GO TO SCHOOL! okay, i'm extremely frustrated with myself. yuck!!
oh well at least i brought homework to read (i always do).
p.s. liz, grant writing is destroying me, too. what about those stupid #14 and #15?? i'm going to email you. xo
Sunday, October 26, 2003
and, now: the moment you've ALLLLLLLLLL been (not) waiting for:
THE PHOTOBLOG IS UPDATED! WOO! CHECK IT OUT! ROCK ON! ROCK N ROLLLLLLLL!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!! YEEEEEHAWWWW!!!!!! TO THE EXTRRRREEEEME!
etc.
i went to a pumpkincarving party tonight and everyone else used stencils and made pretty pictures on their pumpkins but i just did the standard triangle eyes and smile and everybody tried to be real nice but i knew my pumpkin was the suckiest one and then i realized, i had done the whole thing upside-down. that's right. upside-down. how many PhD-candidates does it take to carve a pumpkin? blech.
THE PHOTOBLOG IS UPDATED! WOO! CHECK IT OUT! ROCK ON! ROCK N ROLLLLLLLL!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!! YEEEEEHAWWWW!!!!!! TO THE EXTRRRREEEEME!
etc.
i went to a pumpkincarving party tonight and everyone else used stencils and made pretty pictures on their pumpkins but i just did the standard triangle eyes and smile and everybody tried to be real nice but i knew my pumpkin was the suckiest one and then i realized, i had done the whole thing upside-down. that's right. upside-down. how many PhD-candidates does it take to carve a pumpkin? blech.
angelfire hates me.
upon attempting to add new files to my angelfire site, which is where i get the photos for my ever-popular yet oft-maligned photoblog, i received a message from angelfire stating that i had been conducting illegal activities from my website and they they had canceled my page. thanks a lot, chuckleheads. so right now, instead of studying like a lunatic, i'm trying to set up a new site on the university's page so that i can link to there. i don't know if it will work, but i'll let you all know when new photos will be available on my photoblog. hopefully tonight if it all goes well.
xo
upon attempting to add new files to my angelfire site, which is where i get the photos for my ever-popular yet oft-maligned photoblog, i received a message from angelfire stating that i had been conducting illegal activities from my website and they they had canceled my page. thanks a lot, chuckleheads. so right now, instead of studying like a lunatic, i'm trying to set up a new site on the university's page so that i can link to there. i don't know if it will work, but i'll let you all know when new photos will be available on my photoblog. hopefully tonight if it all goes well.
xo
Thursday, October 23, 2003
four announcements
1.) please look at this link. i got it from liz. it's really really funny.
2.) after posting a snotty note mike had left me after an argument, it came to my attention (from myself) that it might be fair to post a nice note he had left me when i returned home from chicago:
"Hi Raedy,
Welcome home.! hope you
had a good trip. I'll see you
soon. Dont worry I'll do
the dishes when I get home.
See you soon!
love
Michael
P.S. Snickers says:
LET MEE
OWT!!"
so maybe i'll stop posting my personal information on here. probably not, though.
3.) mike and i got erroneously evicted yesterday, and we found out that our landlord's name is "joctor". yeah, joctor. anyway we're still living here and the point of the story is that our rental company is controlled by lunatics.
4.) rabbits can scream.
1.) please look at this link. i got it from liz. it's really really funny.
2.) after posting a snotty note mike had left me after an argument, it came to my attention (from myself) that it might be fair to post a nice note he had left me when i returned home from chicago:
"Hi Raedy,
Welcome home.! hope you
had a good trip. I'll see you
soon. Dont worry I'll do
the dishes when I get home.
See you soon!
love
Michael
P.S. Snickers says:
LET MEE
OWT!!"
so maybe i'll stop posting my personal information on here. probably not, though.
3.) mike and i got erroneously evicted yesterday, and we found out that our landlord's name is "joctor". yeah, joctor. anyway we're still living here and the point of the story is that our rental company is controlled by lunatics.
4.) rabbits can scream.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
i'm sorry i've neglected you, my dear sweet blog
well i guess i'm too busy/lame-feeling, etc. to update my blog ever. i just feel blah like i don't have anything to write...i guess i'll just say what's happened to me recently. i don't have enough motivation to use sentences, though.
-went to bloomington and parents house this weekend
-saw melissa brian brent ronnie etc. was fun
-ate lunch with emiko (she says hi liz)
-went to my parents, saw my family
-had family portrait taken
-attempted to drive back to chicago, but my car wouldn't start after stopping at wolcott rest area
-attempted to get car to start, as did others at said rest stop
-called tow truck
-called michael to come pick me up
-tow truck man arrived, got car to start one more time
-called michael to not come pick me up
-returned home (i never thought i would be so happy to see south chicago)
-wrote research proposal for scary grant application
-studied for test
that was my weekend. then yesterday i took the test and it was easy. then i um did other work and stuff. grad school is hard. but i think i'm okay at it. today i got a note from mike, it said
"Raedy,
you GoT Me ALL figured out,
dont you?
CONGRATULATIONS,
GENIUS
-later,
Mike"
okay that looks like it was written by a psychopath. now before you start worrying, mike has never been clinically diagnosed as a psychopath. but i did piss him off and he decided to "go for a little drive". but eventually he came back and i think it's okay now. i'm a brat. :P but anyway then i went out to a bar with some other students and i had a good time doing something that wasn't school/rabbit/boyfriend-angering related. so that was nice. anyways i'm going to sleep now. xo
look for photos sometime...i promise!!!
well i guess i'm too busy/lame-feeling, etc. to update my blog ever. i just feel blah like i don't have anything to write...i guess i'll just say what's happened to me recently. i don't have enough motivation to use sentences, though.
-went to bloomington and parents house this weekend
-saw melissa brian brent ronnie etc. was fun
-ate lunch with emiko (she says hi liz)
-went to my parents, saw my family
-had family portrait taken
-attempted to drive back to chicago, but my car wouldn't start after stopping at wolcott rest area
-attempted to get car to start, as did others at said rest stop
-called tow truck
-called michael to come pick me up
-tow truck man arrived, got car to start one more time
-called michael to not come pick me up
-returned home (i never thought i would be so happy to see south chicago)
-wrote research proposal for scary grant application
-studied for test
that was my weekend. then yesterday i took the test and it was easy. then i um did other work and stuff. grad school is hard. but i think i'm okay at it. today i got a note from mike, it said
"Raedy,
you GoT Me ALL figured out,
dont you?
CONGRATULATIONS,
GENIUS
-later,
Mike"
okay that looks like it was written by a psychopath. now before you start worrying, mike has never been clinically diagnosed as a psychopath. but i did piss him off and he decided to "go for a little drive". but eventually he came back and i think it's okay now. i'm a brat. :P but anyway then i went out to a bar with some other students and i had a good time doing something that wasn't school/rabbit/boyfriend-angering related. so that was nice. anyways i'm going to sleep now. xo
look for photos sometime...i promise!!!
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Sorry i still haven't updated my photoblog for ever. i do have photos i'm just kind of busy; i don't really have time to edit them and post them etc. well i may have the time but if i were doing that i would probably feel guilty and feel like oh i should be studying.
anyways school is going well; i have definitely been studying LOTS but it's very interesting and i enjoy it (because i'm a total and complete nerd and dork). the bunny is doing fine and so is mike, thanks for asking. :)
here are some photos of me if you're DYING for them. this is the website for my lab and if you click on the picture of the grad students, at the bottom, you can read about my research interests. if any of you were wondering what in the hell i'm doing here (as i often find myself doing), you can read about it there.
well i'm going to go and study now so i'll write more later.
xoxo
anyways school is going well; i have definitely been studying LOTS but it's very interesting and i enjoy it (because i'm a total and complete nerd and dork). the bunny is doing fine and so is mike, thanks for asking. :)
here are some photos of me if you're DYING for them. this is the website for my lab and if you click on the picture of the grad students, at the bottom, you can read about my research interests. if any of you were wondering what in the hell i'm doing here (as i often find myself doing), you can read about it there.
well i'm going to go and study now so i'll write more later.
xoxo
Monday, October 06, 2003
can it, gwyneth!
okay, so there is a movie being filmed here at the u of c that is going to include gwyneth paltrow and jake gyllenhaal (or something like that). and it's annoying. there are tons of dirty movie people walking around, smellily grilling bratwurst and stuff like that and being obnoxiously in my way. gwyneth, don't you know that SOME of us have a real life where we have to go in buildings and do stuff? sheesh.
besides that, i also left my key card that allows me to get into my building in the building (obviously not helpful). so i have to go home now and loiter outside of my own building until someone else enters/exits it and then sneak in. this is NOT the first time i have had to do that.
for those of you that don't already know, mike and i took snickers to the vet on saturday, and it turns out that snickers is a girl bunny! for some ridiculous reason, we had assumed it was a boy. so now we have to get used to say she and her etc. i'm doing better than mike is. now he's afraid i'm going to buy tons of pink hello kitty rabbit accessories (and i would). hmm.
okay, so there is a movie being filmed here at the u of c that is going to include gwyneth paltrow and jake gyllenhaal (or something like that). and it's annoying. there are tons of dirty movie people walking around, smellily grilling bratwurst and stuff like that and being obnoxiously in my way. gwyneth, don't you know that SOME of us have a real life where we have to go in buildings and do stuff? sheesh.
besides that, i also left my key card that allows me to get into my building in the building (obviously not helpful). so i have to go home now and loiter outside of my own building until someone else enters/exits it and then sneak in. this is NOT the first time i have had to do that.
for those of you that don't already know, mike and i took snickers to the vet on saturday, and it turns out that snickers is a girl bunny! for some ridiculous reason, we had assumed it was a boy. so now we have to get used to say she and her etc. i'm doing better than mike is. now he's afraid i'm going to buy tons of pink hello kitty rabbit accessories (and i would). hmm.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
sooo....only one day left in my first week of grad school. here are some things i have learned:
*even the toughest, thuggiest-looking guys on the south side of chicago cannot help but be polite to a little white girl on an old blue bicycle, should aforementioned girl simply smile at them on her way by.
*this leads the girl to be happier, therefore smiling at more strangers, causing them to be polite, etc. etc.
*gangs of smaller birds will, in fact, gang up on a giant pigeon and force him to drop the french fry he was eating.
*bunnies can, and will, get under the couch and chew on your phone cord if given the chance. even if you repeatedly try new things to keep them from getting under there.
*thus, rabbits are smarter than people.
*my siblings are the most adorable things ever. EVER.
*should you make a big deposit, say the stipend check on which you were planning to live for the next several months, to your checking account, the bank may take up to 5 business days to process it. leaving you unable to purchase absolutely anything. even groceries.
*mike, if left to his own devices, would eat boca burgers every day until he died.
*i am a much better, creative cook than i thought.
*a spring sticking out of your bike seat that stabs you in the ass makes life, let's say, a bit uncomfortable.
*the human brain produces way more synapses than it needs, then, should you not use them, they die. so use it or lose it!
*my landlord apparently was given a guitar because "well, let's just put it this way, somebody owed [him] some money".
*when you move, it takes a while to make the transition from feeling like a visitor to feeling like a resident. for me, that time period is approximately two months, and it is accompanied by a vague, unnameable-yet-persistent feeling of homesickness which manifests itself as a feeling of disorientation.
*clubs, when trying to recruit new members, often offer very fancy food at their meetings here. go even if you're not interested in joining, because, hey, why not!
okay that's it for today kiddies, i hope you learned a lot. see ya next time.
*even the toughest, thuggiest-looking guys on the south side of chicago cannot help but be polite to a little white girl on an old blue bicycle, should aforementioned girl simply smile at them on her way by.
*this leads the girl to be happier, therefore smiling at more strangers, causing them to be polite, etc. etc.
*gangs of smaller birds will, in fact, gang up on a giant pigeon and force him to drop the french fry he was eating.
*bunnies can, and will, get under the couch and chew on your phone cord if given the chance. even if you repeatedly try new things to keep them from getting under there.
*thus, rabbits are smarter than people.
*my siblings are the most adorable things ever. EVER.
*should you make a big deposit, say the stipend check on which you were planning to live for the next several months, to your checking account, the bank may take up to 5 business days to process it. leaving you unable to purchase absolutely anything. even groceries.
*mike, if left to his own devices, would eat boca burgers every day until he died.
*i am a much better, creative cook than i thought.
*a spring sticking out of your bike seat that stabs you in the ass makes life, let's say, a bit uncomfortable.
*the human brain produces way more synapses than it needs, then, should you not use them, they die. so use it or lose it!
*my landlord apparently was given a guitar because "well, let's just put it this way, somebody owed [him] some money".
*when you move, it takes a while to make the transition from feeling like a visitor to feeling like a resident. for me, that time period is approximately two months, and it is accompanied by a vague, unnameable-yet-persistent feeling of homesickness which manifests itself as a feeling of disorientation.
*clubs, when trying to recruit new members, often offer very fancy food at their meetings here. go even if you're not interested in joining, because, hey, why not!
okay that's it for today kiddies, i hope you learned a lot. see ya next time.
