research, ethics, grants, stats, and rats

Busy as hell here, thus not posting.

And when I do post, I should be working... but often enough I can't get into gear.

So, what's new:
Done with the NSF grant, and I want to be my advisor when I grow up. He was editing with me until 15 minutes before the grant deadline because I'm a procrastinating bitch.

Prelims and essays for profs which are smarter than God: I can really imagine one prof explaining to God why he doesn't exist and getting him to back down.

Research hasn't been happening much, not so much due to me but due to equipment malfunctioning.

Etc - I've been too busy to notice I don't have much of a social life or an artistic venue. Or maybe I just stopped caring. I've looked into dating people, but thus far... no one really gets my attention, when I do have time to talk to them. A lot of people at Cornell are very career focused... the first year of grad school especially demands I be a bit selfish with my time. Most people are as busy as I am, so it's slow going to find people who share my values. I have people to have a drink with or hang out with... but other than Mark and Tali, no one that I interact with more deeply now. It would help if I had a car: there's some people I knew from high school who it would be cool to see more of, but as it stands now that's kinda hard.

And most people I've are either non-academics who I can't speak nerdy to, or they have an academic stick up their ass (one guy explained to me the philosophical flaws of Harry Potter and how he could write it better).

Walking Away From Olemas - I got into pretty invigorating philosophical and scientific talk with a new friend last night, which was cool. It's been a while since I tried looking past the daily hassles to the big picture of why I live or what I want to accomplish with my life. I'll be going to Boise Idaho over Christmas (As well as stopping by Ann Arbor for a couple days) so I imagine some of those conversations will come up. I'm about to post on that next.

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