whiskey is not for kitties.

finally, a barbie i can relate to!

grad school barbie. she should also come with a monthly financial statement which tells her that she's up to her ears in debt and the grad barbie car (16 years old, complete with rust stains and a seatbelt that doesn't exactly work!). The grad barbie crumby apartment where all her furniture is used or from ikea and she's missing essential pieces (i.e. like a diningroom table), and her neighbors are crazy.

i heart phd

totally want this shirt.

it's always crazy in academia

how the heck did three weeks of my summer go by??? okay, so work has been extremely busy. it's been good though. i did my first interview ever yesterday. yay me. i got stuck in a horrible rain/hail storm on the way there and had to pull over to the side of I-91. it was fabulous. i've been reading a book that will probably be hugely influential in my own work about family and work. i have another interview schedule tomorrow. hopefully without the raging storm, but it's been very stormy up here in the last week, so i might still get stuck on the side of I-91 hating the rain, thunder, lightning and big-rig trucks who drive 55 when they should pull over too.

i did however, in all this craziness, take a break to spend some time with some aquatic mammals. dustin, laura and i drove out to gloucester, ma for whale-watching last sunday. it was so great. (if you have seen pics yet, click here) the humpbacks come up to the area in the late spring/early summer to eat and they eat for about 6 months before heading down south where they fast for about 5-6 months. pretty cool huh? we drove down from there to salem for dinner and then headed back to our little homes in western mass.

anyway, i'm playing texas hold'em this friday with laura, dustin, and mj. good times. too bad they don't sell yeungling up here. i hope to somehow enjoy my weekend perhaps with a little more photography :-).

in an effort to completely waste time

i have posted several video-links. please enjoy!

spock's crib. "holla"

in tribute to the wedding season, i give you pacabel's canon. yes.

in honor of the worldcup...

may not be appropriate for some adults, i.e. those without a sense of humor

the sunshine people represent my brother austin when we were kids (wait - how'd i get so old to say "when were were kids"? if there were another group of rainy/violent people, they would represent my brother preston and my reaction to the happy sunshine group.

a real simpson intro. awesome.

please excuse my extreme lack of blogging...

...i have no life.

i started the RA. it's really great. i love what i'm doing and what i'm researching. it's tough and sometimes more stressful than necessary but i like it nonetheless. i have my first interview next week, which means a lot of work practicing until then. i need to basically have the interview schedule memorized. good times.

more at another time, i.e. when i don't have a splitting headache.

anyway, for your entertainment, here's seth macfarlane's speech at harvard. all we had at UD was some crumby historian-author. :-\.

still being in school means that you haven't achieved adulthood yet.

how hot is your mac? so hot.

macs are hot. no, literally. as i previously mentioned, in what is the dumbest decision of the summer, i've opted for no air conditioning. this decision is not only detrimental to me and my furry little cat, but also affecting my laptop apparently. i've had my pb on a coolpad and despite that, with the hot-ass weather we've been having, it was very very hot to the touch.

rubberbands.

i have three rubberbands that i use to keep my blinds out of the way when the windows are open (apparently they have a tendency to fly off if allowed to be free while the wild-wind is a-blowin'). anyway, zoe hates this and is constantly trying to take them off. apparently, she succeeded a two nights ago, because when i woke up yesterday, the blinds were down. i tried to collect the evidence, but, ahem, she had hidden all three of the rubberbands. where you ask? she ate all of them. oh yes. ate them. all of them. she seems to be doing fine. but i hope she learns that the rubberbands are better serving as tie-backs rather than as an appetizer.

life, otherwise, has been insanely busy. sometimes i feel in over my head and i need to constantly remind myself that i belong here and that i'm more than able to do this job. constantly.

back to work. more later, i think.