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I wasn’t gonna do this today, but now I have to. On the bus with me today: - A guy with a rag under his hat that hangs down over his ears and neck. Today is the only cloudy day in the last two weeks and it is 15 degrees cooler than usual. But this guy looks like he is in the middle of a sun-baked camel ride across the Sahara. - A lady who apparently asked the bus . . . → Read More: On the bus: Friday morn (This is the beginning of an ongoing segment outlining our current greatest concerns in grad school) I feel like a kid in a candy store. Except I’ve got to choose one area of the Walmart-size candy store and only eat the candies within arm’s reach for the next several years. I’m still excited to be getting candy, but you better believe I’ll be jumping up and down to see what the other kids are tasting on the other aisles. To . . . → Read More: Largest current hurdle: choosing a topic You must read a lot if you want to earn a Ph.D. This is not likely news to anyone, including me, but even I, the person who spent the last several months preparing for doctoral school, was surprised at exactly how much reading is required. In fact, I should be reading instead of typing this. Which is precisely the problem. The reading, because it is always there and may be done — at least in theory — at any time . . . → Read More: The eyes, they hurts! After an extended break, I bmolyneux, have recommitted to blogging. After discussion with lmolyneux, we have decided to repurpose the blog, shifting our focus from pure hilarity and awesomeness to center around our mutual struggle in our concurrent doctoral programs (mingled with hilarity and awesomeness). This will take a bit of effort on my part because as we speak my fingers yearn for comedy to burst from their tips, habit I guess. But for me (us) any writing is good . . . → Read More: Aaaaand we’re back! On the bus with me today: - A guy who has a nervous tick where he has to be tapping his fingers on his lips all the time. He tries to put his hand down in his lap but it pops back up there and his fingers start wiggling under his nose. Maybe he was a smoker and is trying to quit but the body has this hand-mouth connection it can’t let go of. His glasses hang around his neck . . . → Read More: On the bus: Friday a.m. It has come to my attention, through conversations with my colleagues and my own observations, that the girls here like to wear running shorts. Not just because it is hot and they need to stay cool, but because it is some sort of style here. I have begun collecting data to test the below hypothesis and will update this post as necessary. H1: female students at the University of Texas exhibit a disproportionate preference for running shorts. Methods: Each morning . . . → Read More: My first research project On the bus with me today: - A guy with a mole the size of a gumdrop above his lip. It was just like the guy in one of the Austin Powers films, can’t remember which, except I didn’t see this guy’s mole move at all. Guaca-MOLE-y. - There is always someone who is so wide they take up two seats. Today it is a woman using a pink Sony e-reader. - The guy across the aisle from . . . → Read More: On the bus: Wednesday a.m. On the bus with me today: - A tall skinny guy with a real bony walk who is either a vigorous painter or has rabies. He walked in with this white mess dribbled down his chin and I only realized it could be paint when I saw other paint splatters on his arm. - A guy with brown skin wearing a brown shirt and brown shorts. The only reason I know he was dressed at all is I could . . . → Read More: On the bus: Friday noon Moving wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t come with so many goodbyes. I mean, the packing and the work is just like any other work. It’s work, I hate it, I know. It has actually been refreshing in a way because we were able to get rid of a lot of junk AND get people to pay us money for it at a yard sale. What they didn’t realize is that we would have accepted just about any offer . . . → Read More: Goodbyes as relationship assessments Today I hit 5 million points earned for Folding@Home. It’s a distributed computing project run by Stanford that is working to research how proteins work in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many cancers. Proteins fold up in order to become a certain shape that allows them to perform specific functions in the body. And when they do not fold correctly, they can cause disease. So whenever I’m not playing games on the graphics card and . . . → Read More: 5 Million |
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