No longer breaking my back installing Ikea furniture. That ‘Jerker’ desk is heavy as hell, but oh so nice to actually use.
Just found out that Muriel Maffre is going to teach the intro ballet class at Stanford. I’m equally scared and excited.
Finally working on the fantasy basketball model again. Trying to implement the little tricks that John Chambers suggested. Programming in R is sometimes fun. Hopefully I can salvage something out of the 8th pick. Excited that the fantasy season is only 2 months away. Not so excited that people want to go to Vegas again.
Google Girl was back in Wednesday’s class.
Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone” was on the radio. What a great song.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and sometimes life isn’t terrible.
GRE words already evaporating at a precipitous rate. Trying to unlearn as much as possible.
Taking a break from The Bible and reading Sandra Tsing Loh’s Depth Takes a Holiday. Good stuff. I like her style. That she’s hapa (her dad’s Chinese!), B.S. physics and a writer doesn’t hurt.
Google Girl is back in class!
Moving this weekend. Packing sucks. It’s also hot, so moving things sucks.
It’s so hot here, I can’t sleep and it’s past 2am. Global warming makes lack of air conditioning a farce.
Trying to write a little more these days. I’m not sure if I really want to publish some of these things or not. (All two of) You’ll have to wait and see.
Going to try to make SFB’s Stern Grove performance this Sunday. Unfortunately, Elana Altman isn’t listed in the cast. Ah well.
Taking the GRE tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll do too well on it, hopefully will get about the same as last time. It sucks that the scores expire. I’m already in grad school. Why do I have to take it again to apply to Ph.D. programs?
There’s a conundrum about what sort of messenger bag/backpack situation I should use given that I’ll be living off campus next year. Carting around books, hw, laptop, and activity gear is going to be a major (back) pain (you know, from carrying all that stuff around). So far, I’m eyeing either a Timbuk2, Waterfield Designs, or Spire bag, depending largely on how much money I really want to spend on a bag.
Finished reading the New Testament. I’m not sure if I want to go through the effort of reading through the Old Testament. It’s a lot longer.
I think I’ve accumulated too much stuff. Moving every once in a while is nice because it forces me to throw things away. Unfortunately, never enough. I’m all out of boxes somehow.
If Windows 7 and the Lynnfield Nehalem processors come out soon enough, maybe I can build a new desktop and get rid of this old one, which would save me a box. A new laptop would be nice, too.
There are a bunch of clips of Marit Larsen singing “Lucky” with Jason Mraz. Pretty adorable.