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So, Beth tells me today that not only can I attend the outdoor concerts for SOSFest for free but that one of my absolute favorite bands is playing… well of course I attend! We walked down to Whyte Ave together and catch The Fugitives live! It was a wonderful concert — not as good as… Continue reading And fun things reward a paper written: SOSFest and Much Ado About Nothing!

Paper is written, proofread, and sent. Gotta love productivity! (note that I had been working on this paper since December essentially, but managed to do more than half of the work in the last week, thus my enthusiasm) (note also that while it may be summer vacation from classes, the grad student never gets a… Continue reading Woohoo! Paper is written!

Indeed, I've finally caught up on the ridiculous email backlog that has been plaguing me ever since I started traveling this summer break. If I even tackle half of the paper I'm hoping to finish writing, I'll be pretty happy with myself today. Goals for the day: – write as much of the paper I'm… Continue reading And I'm (temporarily) caught up!

When I was a child, I wanted to be a librarian so I could read all the books in the library. Now I highly doubt I could ever read *ALL* the books in the library… heck I'm having a hard enough time reading all the books in *MY* library… but I'm well on my way… Continue reading Writer's Block: Where I want to be

Okay, I don't blog often about movies. I don't recall ever having really done an in depth post about them, but JD and I watched the film The Hangover today and well, having been to Vegas three times now, I have a few thoughts I guess. I guess there may be spoilers if you haven't… Continue reading Thoughts on the movie The Hangover

Okay, so it's not quite the first week of July anymore. This means that I am probably a little further behind on the self-imposed deadline for the paper I'm writing than I would like to be, but I'm mostly caught up on my distractions. Indeed: I finally managed to wade through all the district administrator… Continue reading Organizing: done for the moment… working and catching up: nearly on target!

What do I *hope* to do in the summer, less school-filled, months usually? Organize. Get rid of stuff I don't need and organize what I do. Usually I never get around to doing this. That said, sometimes I do. So yesterday was one of those days. I managed to organize a pile of CKI papers.… Continue reading Organizing organizing organizing and yes, organizing

I thought I'd try and answer this one, as I hadn't answered one of these questions in a while. And well… I'd say that Beatles tunes are pretty high on the list (though I'm the biggest fan of versions from Across the Universe, or Sgt. Pepper Live feat. Cheap Trick, neither of which being performed… Continue reading Writer's Block: More than words

… yesterday JD had me take the side off of my computer. He wanted to see (thanks to my webcam) the inside of it to know whether or not it would be compatible with other gizmos and gadgets — mostly because I'm not terribly knowledgeable about that kind of thing, really. Well, in the process… Continue reading Showing off my lack of hardware skills…

… but I happen to think it's rather an amusing take on the Hitler meme. And it's gotten a surprising amount of press in the past 48 hours. In other news, yesterday I attended an excellent CKI meeting. It's the first time I've seen the UofA CKI club meet over the summer months so that… Continue reading Not sure if you caught this video…