Monthly Archive for April, 2005

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Pro productive.

Published on April 25, 2005 in Daily Rambling, I'm healthy and Me and my Winemonkey. Closed

This weekend I did the following things:
1. Found a bridesmaid dress that did not make me look pregnant or ugly.
2. Had drinks with Porter and my sister, served by the most contrary and contrite man on earth.
2.5 Went to yoga class. Turns out that I love yoga. And I am going to go every week, even if it means eating Raman noodles to save up the money for it.
3. Planted zucchini in my garden. Began thinking that I should plant something else cool.
4. Made a knitting case for my knitting needles. It is the coolest thing I have EVER made with the sewing machine. I am going to make a few more and see if I can sell them.
5. Washed someone else’s kitchen floor. It was Winemonkey’s. He was sick and it was filthy. How can boys live in such dirt?
6. Made my famous chicken soup. Alright, it isn’t famous, but it is delicious and perfect for one sick Winemonkey.
7. Watched Lawrence of Arabia. I really liked it. Even if it was 3.75 hours long. Not bad for the 60′s.
8. Knitted and frogged a bag for my mom. This week in knitting class I am going to have to learn how to take out stitches without having to start from the beginning.
9. Got a crappy night’s sleep while dreaming of dead bodies. Thanks Stiff!

As soon as I find my camera’s battery charger I will take pictures of my knitting needle case and post them. It is really cool.

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The DD.

Published on April 22, 2005 in Daily Rambling and Dissing the dissertation. Closed

Doom’s Day. Drunk Dress-trying on. Damn David’s! (Bridal that is…)

Yes. I am psyching myself up for this fiasco.

Yesterday during seminar I heard the most funny question asked.

Professor who does computer modeling: Is this computationally intensive?
Computer-brained graduate student: Fairly computationally intensive. Blah Blah Blah a bunch of numbers and RAM and crap that equals 72 hours of run time…
Professor who does computer modeling: I would run that thing into the ground.

This is my life…. EVERY FREAKING DAY PEOPLE!

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New Directions.

Published on April 21, 2005 in Daily Rambling. Closed

Lots of things in the works over here. I am gearing up to start a yoga class in May. Hopefully I will be able to stick with it. The major constraint is money, with time running a close second. I looked at my calendar and almost had a coronary, but then I realized I had no time to schedule it, so I guess that won’t be happening either. I start a glass fusing class towards the end of May, but I think that I will be able to work yoga around it.

Last night the Big A and I watched Shaun of the Dead. It was pretty funny, considering I don’t really like zombie movies. Afterwards we laid around and listened to music. I love doing this. It is probably one of my all tme favorite activities. I generally like to pick something mellow and just veg out. It was so relaxing that today feels like a Friday. And to continue the trend, I am going to put on some music when I get home tonight and do the very same thing… but maybe knit… and hopefully tomorrow will feel like a Friday too.

Tomorrow is also the dreaded trip to David’s Bridal. Porter asked what would make it more tolerable and I said, “About three martinis.” So I think that we are going to go get drinks before our appointment. Because that is the only thing that will make the experience un-life-threatening. Right now the thought of David’s Bridal sends me into fits. And they aren’t pretty!

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CA blogs.

Published on April 20, 2005 in reader input. Closed

In particular, Sacramento/Napa/Sonoma blogs. I want to find you. Please help me! If you know of any good blogs by people in these areas, direct me to them! I want to see what kind of down and dirty times are to be had in what sufacely appears to be two bar towns. Okay… that isn’t true. Sacramento is not a two bar town. But St. Helena? Yeah. Two bars. Calistoga? Maybe three. Wonemonkey and I need to find some inexpensive local activities before we drown in a sea of weekend domestication!

Live music in Sacramento? Tell me about it! I would like to see some local bands. (This goes for the other two valleys as well.)

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I am a knitwit.

Published on April 20, 2005 in Crafty and Daily Rambling. Closed

I just started taking a knitting class. Like crochet, I began trying to teach myself a bunch of times before it actually stuck. And like crochet, recently it just started clicking. And I haven’t been able to stop. Here is a time line of the past 24 hours:

6:00-8:00 pm(last night) – knitting class. Where I learn how to knit and perl (for a tenth time) continental style. During this time, I buy the needles to make the infamous Stitch-n-Bitch cat hat. I discover that knitting in the round is like the TOTAL SHIT and I want to never stop going around in circles!

8:00-10:00 pm – Decide that I haven’t gotten enough at the knitting class, so Porter and I head to our local coffee shop to hang out and knit some more. I AM UNSTOPPABLE!

11:00 – 12:00 am – Get home and realize that I have not satisfied my craving for knitting. Proceed to knit myself to sleep.

6:40 am – awoken by some weird-ass dream about espionage. Commence knitting.

8:30 am – realized that I an suppose to be showered and out of the house at this time, but I am neither showered or out of the house yet. Spastically run around, getting shit together for the day.

9:30 am – arrive in the parking lot on campus and convince myself that I need to sit through the David Duchovny interview on Fresh Air… while… you guessed it… knitting IN THE CAR!

I was a little disappointed in the Fresh Air interview. First of all, where is Terry Gross? There are lots of other people filling in for her these past few years. And secondly? David – he sounds so boring and blah… sad really.

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Four years for this.

Published on April 19, 2005 in Dissing the dissertation. Closed

So my boss asked me to review a paper that a peer-reviewed journal asked him to review. Now, my understanding is this is a fairly common practice. A professor is too busy to review something so they pass it onto a student who is competent in the area that the paper is about. So this to me suggests two things:
1. That my boss thinks I am competent enough to review a paper about the fate and transport of chromium in the atmosphere.
2. That he must be REALLY busy if he wants me to hack this paper up.

So then I start reading the paper. And I realize that perhaps I got the short end of the stick. This paper sucks. I mean it sucks to the point that I would rather wipe my butt with it than read it. And since I have been writing my own paper on chromium in the atmosphere and my paper is like a million times better than this paper, maybe I should just submit my paper as is and see what happens. I mean, comparatively I must have put like a zillion times more effort into my paper and I don’t even think my paper is very good. Apparently it is okay to turn in a piece of crap for your first time. I don’t know, maybe I am wrong about that.

Then I started thinking how much of a waste of time it is to review such crap. Another morning wasted? Nothing new to see here.

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