Category Archives: Personal

Back to Business

Well, finals are finished (all two that I took), and activity has quieted down for me with winter break upon us. I have a medical school interview on the 29th, a bit of work to finish, but overall things are well. Oh, and I got … Read More

Warped

I feel like a four-dimensional creature trapped in a universe of eleven dimensions. I shouldn’t feel those extra degrees of freedom, but they seem to be tugging from all directions. Must…get…a…grip…

Home for the Home Stretch

Well, I’m back in Reno for the last 5 days of this semester. I have just a few more secondaries to complete, two chemical synthesis labs to write up, various semester-end tasks to complete, and the list goes on. The good: * I bought a … Read More

Mad at Myself

I am at this weird stage, a state of being where I know that I have so much to do and so much on the line, yet bringing myself to complete tasks is extremely difficult. I procrastinate, finding anything but my work to occupy my … Read More

13 hours

I slept that long last night, waking up half-way through that to find myself soaked in sweat from my fever. Of course, I was too tired and unmotivated to do anything about it, so I went back to sleep. I felt a lot better upon … Read More

Sick

I was on such a roll yesterday, finishing my pChem problem set well in advance of going to bed, getting started on a mockup for the “UNR Chemistry Department web site”:http://www.chem.unr.edu/, and writing a secondary essay due in a few weeks (which I submitted this … Read More

Must Avoid Burnout

I will not succumb. I will not submit. I shall resist at all costs. Procrastinate I will not. It is 10 pm. Off to work.

Sell Your Soul

There come times when you must sell your soul in order to get ahead of the curve or stay in the game. I have done just that this weekend in order to stay afloat in this week of many tasks. Yesterday, Friday, I worked all … Read More

Whither my iPod?

Well, it’s been “over two weeks”:http://www.sensoryoutput.com/archives/2004/09/13/new-ipod-soon/ since I ordered (and paid for, argh!) my iPod from my university bookstore. They have an awful reputation of taking weeks to order and get Apple products, regardless of how new or strained Apple’s supply of said product is … Read More

Time Duality

Time plays an interesting role in the human drama—it can enslave us if we allow it or it can become a friend that takes us for a ride that is life. At times, I lament the former, as I lose sight of the latter, the … Read More