How many existential crises can one (thesis) survive?
I feel crippled by the unknown unknowns. I feel rundown and disheartened and it seems just entirely impossible to make any headway on anything.
Is this one of those things where it will all just suddenly come together? I can't really count on that. I don't know where to go from here, because I don't even know where here is.
Ugh. Aimless. I don't mind being lost when I have nowhere to be, but May is closer and closer and I have no idea how to get there.
Sigh.
Somebody dial whine-one-one and get me a wah-mbulance.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The future:
Champaign, St. Louis, a cabin in the woods of southern Missouri, Houston, Las Vegas, Puerto Rico.
All between now and February. I am so excited and uhhh...
Apropos or what?
All between now and February. I am so excited and uhhh...
Apropos or what?
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
My first comic ever
Yay comics!
Which is to say:
On Monday I went to the lecture that Bill Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner gave about To Teach: the journey, in comics. Getting some behind-the-scenes info on the construction of this (wowza) book was really great, but the comic workshop that Ryan led for John's class (plus Lee) afterward really blew my mind. I didn't want to stop drawing, despite my penchant for reminding people I'm not a draw-er. (I'm also not a drawer.) So here I present my first comic ever:
And if you're curious about the Exquisite Corpse-style comics we made as a class about Mr. John Ploof... well I'm gonna try to figure out how to post that PDF collection here, too.
Oh, like T H I S .
Which is to say:
On Monday I went to the lecture that Bill Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner gave about To Teach: the journey, in comics. Getting some behind-the-scenes info on the construction of this (wowza) book was really great, but the comic workshop that Ryan led for John's class (plus Lee) afterward really blew my mind. I didn't want to stop drawing, despite my penchant for reminding people I'm not a draw-er. (I'm also not a drawer.) So here I present my first comic ever:
And if you're curious about the Exquisite Corpse-style comics we made as a class about Mr. John Ploof... well I'm gonna try to figure out how to post that PDF collection here, too.
Oh, like T H I S .
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
cat cam
http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/
the starting point. didn't buy it form here though.. think i found it on a geek website because it was sold out every where else.
some amazing photo's from mr. lee
http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_cc_u.htm
the starting point. didn't buy it form here though.. think i found it on a geek website because it was sold out every where else.
some amazing photo's from mr. lee
http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_cc_u.htm
blog plug
I've got my fieldwork blgo up and running, and I'd be delighted if you all would follow me. I wanna look real popular when my adviser checks up on me!
http://saicfieldwork.blogspot.com/
Also: For the past couple of days, I get light headed every time I sneeze. What do we think about that? I'm sure (more) caffeine will fix it, while combating the cold medicine-induced drowsiness.
Blarg.
Snake oil.
http://saicfieldwork.blogspot.com/
Also: For the past couple of days, I get light headed every time I sneeze. What do we think about that? I'm sure (more) caffeine will fix it, while combating the cold medicine-induced drowsiness.
Blarg.
Snake oil.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Woo.hoo.
Allergies. Gyah. Hard. to teach. 2 doz freshmen. While on Sudafed.
Kill me.
In the meantime:
- Went to Marwen last week and it was pretty amazing.
- GO RANGERS! I don't care about you but that means you're 10M times better than the Yankees!
- Fieldwork FINALLY progressing alsdkfhaldufgalijfbakl but my confirmed site won't start til January. Hope fieldwork adviser doesn't mind... I have much surveying and interviewing to do in the meantime. Also I need to start a proper fieldwork blog. WHOA!
- G and I have cooked an absurd amount of food in the past week or so. This includes a root veggie pot pie (almost all ingredients from our CSA farm share!), a cheddar rosemary apple pie, vegan chili (til we added the cheese), fancy stuffed peppers, pumpkin pancakes, samosas.... duh.licious. And gym-inducing.
This is all I can do right now. Crunch time. I forgot that I kind of like this feeling.
To do tonight (you can stop reading):
- Make fieldwork blog.
- Email freshmen video playlist.
- Be useful on the Ning.
- Read a lot for John's midterm assignment.
readysetgo
Kill me.
In the meantime:
- Went to Marwen last week and it was pretty amazing.
- GO RANGERS! I don't care about you but that means you're 10M times better than the Yankees!
- Fieldwork FINALLY progressing alsdkfhaldufgalijfbakl but my confirmed site won't start til January. Hope fieldwork adviser doesn't mind... I have much surveying and interviewing to do in the meantime. Also I need to start a proper fieldwork blog. WHOA!
- G and I have cooked an absurd amount of food in the past week or so. This includes a root veggie pot pie (almost all ingredients from our CSA farm share!), a cheddar rosemary apple pie, vegan chili (til we added the cheese), fancy stuffed peppers, pumpkin pancakes, samosas.... duh.licious. And gym-inducing.
This is all I can do right now. Crunch time. I forgot that I kind of like this feeling.
To do tonight (you can stop reading):
- Make fieldwork blog.
- Email freshmen video playlist.
- Be useful on the Ning.
- Read a lot for John's midterm assignment.
readysetgo
Saturday, October 9, 2010
We should make an app for that
This time of year can be a little overwhelming. Not even including school. The problem is that just as baseball is getting condensed enough that I can really focus on it and commit to one team or another (as my team is so often such a colossal letdown), college football and the NFL are getting in gear. Post season baseball will always... I think always.... take precedence over any other games that are, but it's hard not to feel a little schizophrenic switching constantly between the many, MANY channels that are home to various ball games to check on this or that.
So I said today, "We should make an app for this."
The app itself is not so brilliant: just a simple interface that allows you to put in which games you are watching and get alarms as a quarter/half/period/inning/half time begins/ends. Yeah. Basic but useful. For all I know this already exists in some form.
More worth noting I think is the phrase, "We should make an app for that." We should make an app for having too many TV channels. We should make an app for our incredibly overtaxed multitasking brain centers. We should make an app to make things even eeeeeasier, even though it is through pursuing ease that we breed astonishing complexity.
Our approaches to problem solving and question answering have changed so much. In the past few months, I have used Google to find campsites and roadside attractions, to stream sporting events and bad reality TV, to look up my own new home address, to learn how to make omelets... There is just no excuse to not know pretty much everything. And there's no incentive to remember any of it. And I just had to ask my boyfriend for help remembering the word "incentive". I could have looked up "motivation" on thesaurus.com and probably would have gotten to it pretty quick, but I figured in light of this entry I'd ask something other than the internet for help for once.
So I said today, "We should make an app for this."
The app itself is not so brilliant: just a simple interface that allows you to put in which games you are watching and get alarms as a quarter/half/period/inning/half time begins/ends. Yeah. Basic but useful. For all I know this already exists in some form.
More worth noting I think is the phrase, "We should make an app for that." We should make an app for having too many TV channels. We should make an app for our incredibly overtaxed multitasking brain centers. We should make an app to make things even eeeeeasier, even though it is through pursuing ease that we breed astonishing complexity.
Our approaches to problem solving and question answering have changed so much. In the past few months, I have used Google to find campsites and roadside attractions, to stream sporting events and bad reality TV, to look up my own new home address, to learn how to make omelets... There is just no excuse to not know pretty much everything. And there's no incentive to remember any of it. And I just had to ask my boyfriend for help remembering the word "incentive". I could have looked up "motivation" on thesaurus.com and probably would have gotten to it pretty quick, but I figured in light of this entry I'd ask something other than the internet for help for once.
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