14. July 2009 by admin.

So I’m at the LSA right now and it’s fun… I’m meeting new people and I’m taking a bunch of courses, it’s not too intense, but it’s tiring… I also miss Tom a lot

I just got my visa for Australia… unfortunately, my advisor decided not to go… because she would need to make up two classes… I was really hoping she’d go… but Tom said he’d go with me and make a trip out of it… since for me it’s just as expensive to go for a week as it would be to go for the weekend, I figured staying for a week would make the 15 hour flight worth while…

My advisor (very generously) offered to help pay my ticket to Australia with her research grant… I want to accept but I don’t know how to phrase it… “yes please, that’d be awesome” sounds a bit too brief… I’m uncomfortable talking about money… which I should get over…

I would like school to start, funny enough… because I’ve been inefficient with my personal projects, like my paper, and I need the structure that school provides to get this stuff done… I wish Hagit would tell me I need to finish my paper in the next two weeks… because I totally can… I just need to make myself do it. Maybe I should ask her to require me to have the paper done by the beginning of the school year… I do well when there’s a deadline for her… it gives me a time frame to work with, which makes me START

I should get back to doing homework… to get it done and do some reading for my paper…

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1. July 2009 by admin.

He won’t tell me what happens next. It’s mean! I want to know! but I wuv him.

I haven’t managed to finish the books I had set out to read. I feel like a failure, but I won’t beat myself up. I will do my best over the next month to keep reading. I did find more references on my topic of interest and now I have an even more explicit outline of my second screening paper, but I don’t have the full paper yet, which is meh. I am sure I will have the paper complete before I’m back in LA, I’d be too embarrassed to show up without at least a first draft.

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