Time log

[tarigwaemir]

Durant Avenue on the Feast of St. Jude

Muscles feel like jello. Also, bloated like a blimp. Took painkillers, so I don't actually feel the pain of the cramps, but I can still feel the tension sitting like a knot/clot in my abdomen. -_-

One of those late-night entries.

[1:57] Two 1,000-word essays plus four 500-word essays plus two essays of indeterminate length (one for previous research and one to describe "leisure activities"). Steve keeps suggesting that I mention activity in fandom as promoting freedom of speech...ahahaha. I don't make a secret out of being in fandom, but I don't see the need to advertise it either. I think I'll vaguely mention writing a personal blog. I also do have a science-related blog that I could actually link to. I've only really started updating it regularly in the past, uh, week though. >_> Maybe if I keep posting regularly, no one will notice.

Listening to Caroline's "Sunrise (Sunset Mix)" on the iPod Nano at the moment. Did I ever mention I named my Nano Li Po? Li Bai in Pinyin. I think I ought to rename my third-generation iPod Tu Fu to match.

Li Bai drinking alone (with the moon, his shadow, & 37 translators): 37 translations of a famous Li Po poem.

Speaking of Asian poets...

Hwang Chin-i: Folk Heroine and Poet: Article on Hwang Jin-i. I will have to dig up her hanshi sometime; I've only read her sijo.

[3:34] One of the fellowships I'm applying to requires four short essays (~300 words each), plus a description of previous research, plus a personal essay about how I've spent my leisure time since entering college. (Ahahaha.) Three out of the four essays are done! I also finished touching up and editing my previous research essay from past fellowship applications.

My likelihood of getting any of these fellowships is rather low, but I felt that I should make the attempt. After all, I will probably be writing applications for the rest of my life. My best chance is with the NSF, I think, but I feel pessimistic. I wish I felt less pessimistic actually; no one is going to give a fellowship to an applicant who doesn't think she deserves it. I'm pretty good at faking confidence usually, but I wonder if it's going to be good enough. Oh well. I am convinced my project deserves to be funded, so maybe I can write a good research proposal at the very least. Of course the project already has plenty of funding--it's me who wants independent funding--but we'll just ignore that part...

I haven't gotten any labwork done. Had very little to report at lab meeting today. -_- Well, at least I wasn't the only one. By the end of this week, I will finish testing all the deletion strains, I swear, even if I have to stay until 3 AM in lab again. -_-

Note to self: order primers!

[4:11] Feeling blocked again. Maybe I should doze off for an hour and then see if the panic returns.

[9:04] And by an hour, I meant four. Great.

Yours &c.

Comments

[love_archived]

Sounds like you needed the sleep. I hate periods. T_T

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

..s-some of those translations are ridiculously flowery ._.

Aww, it sounds like you needed the sleep though

[tokyofish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am always ridiculously zapped of energy and prone to crashing for hours on my period too. T__T

Ganbatte ne! I will be confident that you will get a Fellowship for you, then, and you can be confident that I will pass the Bar!

[angelyrique.livejournal.com]

Oh, the worst time of the month. ~___~

Applying to fellowships, eh? There was an article in the WSJ today about how good fellowships could be. The White House fellowship gets a 100,000 stipend...! That sounds like a hefty stipend...
Though I do understand that the people applying and receiving these fellowships are probably a lot older and established in their current careers. Or so it sounded like.

My depressing point of the day: 내 아라시 크럽박스를 닫았어!!!! 아!!!! 왜!?!?! 한국말 진짜로 배워야되겠어 . T___T
Horribly spelled?

[troisroyaumes]

It's "클럽박스가 닫았어" but otherwise no mistakes. ^_^ Er, my sympathies?

[tryogeru.livejournal.com]

God, best thing in the world is a tummy warmer and some blankets and a fistful of painkillers. Oh, and lately I've found one of those vibrating massager thingies sometimes helps with that clot-y feeling/pain in the abdomen, and the ache in my back.

One of these days I'll stop talking about it and get on one of those "no period" pills. And then cry "Hallelujah" and take over the world because I'm no longer completely incapacitated for like, four days every month.

[troisroyaumes]

Massager thing sounds nice. ;_;

I have to admit, as much as I hate the idea of taking hormones, whenever I get my period I think it just might be worth it.