New Graduate Student

Last week ended on a fairly positive note and if today is any indication of how this week will go, it should be pretty decent. Basically, I've been offered a great opportunity but it isn't without some strife. I met with one of the profs in our program who I had never spent any time talking to before. At the end of last year, this prof handed a huge project over to Wisteria and, at the time, I was dying inside over it. Of course I never let on that this was the case because Generous Prof had...Read Full Story

I am always bewildered by the stupidity of others. Specifically, I am talking about Wisteria. She is clueless but thinks she's brilliant. Amazing. One of our profs felt sorry for her last year and basically handed her a project to take the lead on. This prof is one of our best so it really was a golden opportunity for Wisteria. Any moderately intelligent human being would have taken this chance and run with it, but not Wisteria. She took the opportunity but then dropped the ball and now...Read Full Story

Well, I have finally shaken Whisper! I found out that my new assistantship assignment is to one the department's most powerful professors (who I hear is a raging bitch) and I couldn't be happier. It may be short-lived happiness if it turns out that her reputation is accurate, but for right now, I'm just thrilled to finally be done with the wanker Whisper. My new prof is not associated with my grad program but is in a leadership position within my department. My association with this professor...Read Full Story

Finally it seems that I've convinced Andi to convince her Mom to meet me about 5-6 hours north of my town to pick up precious baby Bella. I guess I did such a good job convincing that Andi has decided that she has no time or patience for Bella right now and therefore has dropped her by my apartment here in glamorous-city-by-the-sea (GCBTS) so that I can care for her until we leave on Friday night. Poor Bella. She is such a sweet, gentle, lovable soul that just loves and loves more. She...Read Full Story

So Amber is officially graduated! The entire family is very proud of her. As luck would have it, she sat on one side of the stadium while we were  in the fourth row of the other side of the stadium. My mom spent the entire graduation standing on her side of the stadium just so she could get pictures of Amber walking. Poor Christopher was so bored (well, to tell the truth, so was I, but I have more practice at acting interested. I wonder how differently I’ll look at a graduation when...Read Full Story