Monthly Archives: December 2008

now if only I felt good enough to celebrate (cp) 0

Don’t ask me how, but I managed to pull this semester out of my… head. So that’s another 12 hours in the bag, taking me to 108 hours of straight 4.0.
Not that I can relax on the home stretch: the next semester will be 4 classes plus writing my Dee thesis, plus grad school application.
Courtesans [...]

Well, that was not fun (cp) 0

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 [...]

Honor, Offer (cp) 0

Well, several speeches later (listening to, not delivering), I’m now a member of Phi Beta Kappa. All told there seemed to be about a hundred new inductees, of whom maybe a half were present. Given that undergraduate enrollment is about 30,000-35,000, I was expecting more. I was also surprised that I only knew one other [...]