Summer Semester Grant – Amount applied for, with documentation
Academic expenses:
$2859
Living expenses:
$4524
Total requested:
$7383
Amount received:
$500
Categories: edjukashun, money in money out
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- 6 . May . 2011 – 6:20 pm
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- By CP
Finally off the damn crutches!
Now I need a snazzy cane — maybe one with a sword in it. Or a flask.
Categories: this daily life
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- 3 . February . 2009 – 2:52 pm
- Author:
- By CP
Got in a wreck yesterday (Wed. the 10th). That plastic bodywork on Saturns may be resistant to door dings, but not when you get T-boned at 35 mph or so.
The good news: it wasn’t bad enough to be admitted in-patient.
The bad news: I have three breaks in my pelvis from being sandwiched between the door [...]
Categories: this daily life
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- 11 . December . 2008 – 11:49 pm
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- By CP
Depending on whether there’s a last minute change of course, we could be more or less directly in the path of Hurricane Ike this weekend. Suddenly, I’m not so happy about being next to a creek, or having that huge oak tree overhanging our roof.
Categories: miscellany, this daily life
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- 10 . September . 2008 – 10:46 am
- Author:
- By CP
Ashburn (just a few artsy-fartsy shots that were still in the camera).
Austin (will be adding to these regularly).
A Horde of Fuzzy Pantses (to steal K2’s title).
VVS 1968-71 (pics from my misspent youth).
Walnut Creek (which runs behind the empty lot next door to us).
Categories: this daily life
Tagged: dogs, home, local, school
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- 26 . August . 2008 – 3:00 pm
- Author:
- By CP
If I know that your book has sloppy summarizing and outright errors in the areas in which I have some knowledge, it’s pretty damn hard for me to trust you on subjects where I don’t. Most recent culprit: The Magic Circle of Rudolph II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague, by Peter Marshall. Too bad, [...]
Categories: research
Tagged: hermetics, reviews
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- 22 . August . 2008 – 1:21 pm
- Author:
- By CP
Just got word my proposal for a Senior Honors Thesis has been approved. This is a 60-80 page paper that will be researched and written over the next two semesters as part of my undergraduate program.
Here’s what I’ll be working on:
Dr. John Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, and Authorship of the ‘Angelic Conversations’
This paper will [...]
Categories: edjukashun, research
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- 22 . August . 2008 – 1:04 pm
- Author:
- By CP
None of my random house-related projects have been of a size or type to warrant a construction or remodeling permit. If I follow through on building a deck to cover (or outright replace) the existing concrete patio, that seemed like something that might need a permit. Maybe. It seems it’s pretty widespread for low-elevation (1′ [...]
Categories: bureaucratis hell, exteriors
Tagged: construction, garden, landscape
- Published:
- 28 . March . 2008 – 10:57 pm
- Author:
- By k2