All's Quiet on the Western Front...

[skkyechan]

Really, too quiet. It was a bit of a lonely weekend.

My lab-mates (along with any other Geo grad students back from AGU) continued our celebration of Lars' achievement at the local Woodstocks. The pizza was better than I remembered, though that may be because it was a different restaurant in a completely different city. They all went off to continue drinking, and I decided to head off home. Said goodbye to Stevan, Sanja's husband-- he was heading back home to Serbia, where Sanja will join him in ten days. Ten very long days for her-- I can completely sympathize. But she's got her own Orals to deal with on Thursday, so hopefully she won't have enough time to be sad.

I got a call from one of my good friends from GOC, Emily-- she's at a paid internship in DC working for some sort of start-up political company of sorts. I hadn't talked to her since graduation-- sounds like we may miss each other in LA, but there may be tentative plans to see each other while I'm out visiting nalroth in December/January. (Squee!!! 17 days from now I'll be cuddled in his arms! <3! )

Saturday was less than fun... made a mistake and went and watched The Chronicles of Narnia with a labmate, when I promised I'd see it with nalroth. *sigh* I felt guilty the whole way through, and it kind of put a damper on it. Suffice it to say I've learned my lesson, and I am once again absolutely astounded by what a wonderful and understanding boyfriend I have. After the movie I managed to get a little work done on my phylogeny project, but overall I was too worn out to get much done.

Today I woke up early, chatted with my love before he started on his return trip from Connecticut, and got into lab. It was distinctly odd being in the Geology building on a weekend-- but also very peaceful. I think I may make a habit of it, whatever weekend I don't have plans with friends or nalroth's unavailable. Spent a good six hours working on the phylogeny project-- and that's just data entry and running the analyses! I have the information here in front of me to go over for trends and results stuff. Hopefully the paper won't turn out too bad. *cringe*

*sigh* I wonder very, very often if this is really what I should be doing. I spend all my free time thinking on creative things, like stories bouncing around in my head, video game ideas, drawing, crafting, etc... I mean, what will I do with my PhD, anywho? I'd like to teach-- but I'm really only prepared to teach Bio classes, and what Bio department's going to hire someone with a PhD in Geology? Heh... makes me shake my head every time I realize that I'm getting a PhD in Geology without having taken a single geology class so far. That'll change next quarter, but it's fun to boast about now.

Anywho, I think I'm going to try to keep up on these every day or two updates-- it'll help keep those I don't happen to catch very often updated on my life.

In other news, I'm out of Nutella. D:

Also: All I want for Christmas is a little love!

Comments

[braunian.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think about the same thing you're thinking about: "should I live my dream, or use my dream to supplement my life?" If you don't go into teaching (and instead get a job at a geology firm) you could make some good money and you might have time left over for your fun projects, instead of reading the newspaper every evening like my father

If you take up your pastime as work, it might lose its impetus as fun. Erin should respond to this; she has a job in video games now. I don't know if that's what she's always wanted, but it is more creative than the average job, and it'd be interesting to know if it takes away from her writing in any way.

[skkyechan.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I'm always worried that committing myself to a more artistic means of gaining employment will ruin it for me. Plus, contrary to popular belief, I'm just not talented enough to make it professionally. Unless I have some latent talent in jewelry-making, glass-blowing, or wood-working (all of which I hope to investigate!), that is.

Also.. I really do think I'd like teaching. I catch myself thinking about that almost as often as I think about artistic endeavors. Research is interesting, but my heart is simply just not in it.

[zhai.livejournal.com]

...Plus, contrary to popular belief, I'm just not talented enough to make it professionally.

...$#*&@#.

[skkyechan.livejournal.com]

You might want to get that checked, m'dear. :>

[zhai.livejournal.com]

I will get a thorough evaluation. :>

[zhai.livejournal.com]

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*dies*