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I’m in Soda Hall now, supposedly studying for the practice prelim I’ll be taking tomorrow (administered by some older, wiser grad students) in preparation for the real thing next week. In reality though, I’ve been following three nail-biting games on … Continue reading →

I’m taking the prelim in just over a week, and it’s been dominating my life: I’m behind in responding to emails and calling people, and I’ve hardly been exercising, reading, or playing any music. The good news is that I … Continue reading →

The news site is finally up! I’m calling it NewsDog for now (although I am also considering the hipper “NewsDogg”)… check it out at NewsDog Improvements are in the works but I’d like to see if it’s preliminarily useful before … Continue reading →

I’ve been devoting the past several nights to coding up that news site I mentioned in my previous entry. It’s nearly done, and I think it looks pretty good :)… I’m in the process of finding somewhere to host it. … Continue reading →

Wow, it’s been quite a long time since my last post. I customized the HTML style for this journal a bit, although most people (who read my entries through their Friends pages) won’t notice it. During my last couple of … Continue reading →

I asked my mom to wake me up early today. I’ve been at home for the past week, and before today I don’t think I’d gotten up before noon once. That led to a lot of tossing and turning at … Continue reading →

A little tribute to the Outdoor Life Network. My roommate Joel is an insane outdoorsman: he camps, rock climbs, and is an awesome mountain biker. He also loves watching OLN. I had never heard of this channel before, but I’ve … Continue reading →

There are three (principle) reasons why I’m not a good grad student. Today, kids, I’ll talk about one of them. We’ve been meeting twice a week to study for the PL prelim in the fall — a brutal oral exam … Continue reading →

One last thing about the Matrix: aren’t the Sentinels a total rip-off of the Ur-Quan from Star Control 2? Anyone who’s played the game has to agree with me. We had a really nice home-cooked Japanese dinner courtesy of Sarah, … Continue reading →

Dude, so it’s been an insane week so far. Moving out of IHouse and into our new place, saying goodbye to everyone, and participating in various extracurricular activies, including seeing the amusingly-named Greg Proops of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? … Continue reading →