Sorry for the lack of posting.
Currently on spring break.
More to come shortly.

If you're not interested in academics, the following might be fairly boring, but if you are, please continue.

So i went to see another grad student present his paper, and a couple of the profs who were there were debating whether he should use less technical language in order to attract a larger audience. I feel in general that a lot of academics (and social science in particular, as that's what I'm familiar with) unnecessarily uses jargon. I understand if certain words have specific meanings within a discipline and therefore it makes sense to use them, but it seems that a lot of the time the terminology actually obscures the meaning. Like when political science papers talk about 'institutions', what does that mean? there are many examples like that, i feel, when the meaning ofthe term is abstracted away, and often its not clear in a specific instance or paper what specifically they mean. (BTW, this isn't a critic on the specific paper from today, as the author explained what he meant and the limits of his measures and whatnot, just a general peeve that I was reminded of). Especially as someone who is not familiar with a lot of the literature, I feel that a good chunk of my time is taken up just trying to figure out what these people are talking about when they use terms that don't have an obvious meaning (or have many meanings) for the average person. I probably do it too when i write, but i hope not.

Given my apparent failure in the attempting to date department as of late :), I think I may take a break from girls for a while. At least as far as actively pursuing anyone or seeking someone to pursue. Don't know how long it will last, but for the time being...

So CF last night was really good. Among other things, it confirmed that Radiohead was right. "God loves His children" (Bonus points for anyone who knows which song that's from).

So concerning the thing w/ the person, I kinda have the impression that either she's not interested and is hoping that ignoring it will cause it to go away, or she doesn't realize what's going on. Either, however, doesn't bode particularly well. Alas.

Hi all.
So I am good in general. a bit tired still (or again) but good.
Concerning the situation, I got a smal glimmer of hope today, but i still don't know how it will turn out. If only I could figure out what the other party was thinking :)
I have some pretty great friends. That's kind of awesome isn't it.

Thank you God. You're very good to me.

Wondering if I should be feeling a bit unloved (not in general, but from a particular individual). Alas,

Didn't sleep in the gov building last night :)
Still waiting on...
I'm not sure how to interpret the lack of response. Maybe its just a busy time. Still...a bit discouraging, I do admit. I guess its largely out of my hands now though.

tired. slept in the gov building again last night. why do i do this to myself, I ask in my head. why am i asking myself questions so formally, i ask in reply. So i can blog about them, I respond, still internally. You are such a dork, I respond to my response.

My friends birthday dinner was good last night-he invited a few extra people along. We had good food and times. And a certain other friend is back in the States now, and I am looking forward to talking to him (after talking to him like every day for a year or so?, its been about two weeks (not counting last night) so I probably have a lot of catching up to do).

Ok, TODAY is unbelievably cold outside. My face started to go numb during the walk over to the gov. building. Now i'm inside and reasonably warm though, so its ok.

Happy birthday to one of my favorite thai loving, math-doing, grad school getting into former roommates!

a watched pot never boils, the saying says. I don't think that's true. Perhaps I should run an experiment of some sort.

So if the weather report is to be believed, it is ridiculously cold outside right now. Alas.

As I wake up this morning, the angst meter is on low to moderate :)

Got to see an old friend (and his brother, also a friend) in New Haven last night. It was good times-went out to a bar for a while (after my roommate renewed his assertion that I need to either start drinking or learn how to drive), where the same roommate didn't get us into any fights despite yelling things to antagonize the Yale crowd:)
Then we rented The Island, though we all fell asleep on it at some point (though I woke up to see most of it minus 10 or 20 minutes in the middle). Drove back today-its snowing now :(, but we had good times so its ok.

Wondering whether I should get my hopes up or down concerning the other thing is a bit less fun, but I guess thats how this works. Hope I'm not putting her in an awkward position or anything like that-I wouldn't want to make her needlessly uncomfortable.

Playing the waiting game. It's cool though. I think maybe there's something there, maybe there isn't-I do wish I could tell though. But if things stay the way they have been that will still be cool (of course, I would prefer more, but that isn't up to me). I do hope that things won't be too awkward or anything if nothing more comes of it-that would be something i'd regret. Oh well, out of my hands right now.

Going to New Haven tonight, visiting an old friend. good times.

Been kind of slack on the posts I know-its been a busy few weeks. Will trhy to have some more in the future

hey.

Pulling almost all-nighters to read for class is probably not the most productive way to spend your time.

Still being patient with...

Back on earth, so to speak.
must have patience

Cold (health and temperature-wise).
happiness on the inside.
Thinking it was what it seemed to be.

That's right, I'm happy.
I'm also tired from getting way to little sleep the past week.
But mainly very happy.

Elated