Second draft of the dissertation is done, and being sent off to my two readers tomorrow morning, bright and early. Kinko’s closes at 8pm on sundays, but opens at 6. I am going to run over there and send it off.

Then I’m going to settle in for a very long day of guilt-free diablo 2 playing.

editing the damned thing now. I’ll be done with all of those this afternoon, will go print it out tomorrow and send it out, and get on to the next step. It’s seriously cutting into my vidjagaming time.

to report recently, I do have an announcement, but that’ll have to wait. I don’t feel like blogging about it yet. It’s not big.

Just doing some spring cleaning on the computers in my household. I took apart the desktop yesterday to airblast it out, and reinstalled an ancient cd-rw drive in it (something like 8×8x4)…my external one that I had had for 6 or 7 years finally bit the dust. Sure this one is slow, but it reads discs a lot better than the dvd drive…or at least, discs that have a few odd scratches on them so no complaints.

I cleaned some files on my win98 laptop as well yesterday, and today I”ve got my winxp laptop hooked up to the external monitor and am cleaning a bunch of programs off of it that I don’t use any longer and which are just taking up space. Since it is relegated to backup, a lot of them have to do with the web design that I no longer do so that stuff is getting deleted.

Other than that, a nice easy week in the vida del froydo…just taking care of stuff that I haven’t gotten around to in a while.

Apparently the authorities have found him now.

how do you MISPLACE someone like that? I mean, just look at uhaul rentals in the last couple days in the city, I suppose…you could track them down.

My favorite part of this entire story is when they quoted the arrest warrant as saying “The defendant has avoided the custody proceeding and has concealed the child”…
“Ma’am, what’s the gigantic 555lb hump behind the couch?”
“umm…old national geographics…”
“Very well…when we find him, you’re in trouble.”

tonight I’ll scan through it, and tomorrow…EDIT!

is officially done, and grades have been entered…heeeelllloooooo job search!

so far, I have talked to 3 different techs, one more, MAYBE THEN I’ll have an account number and the amount that we owe for the bill.

There had better not be a late charge.

Make that 5.

Nope 6 people.

Make that 8 now.

Finally got someone who knew what was going on, successfully paid the bill.

has given me nothin’ but troubles. The monitor has officially hit the crapper. Doesn’t turn on, no glow, no nothing.

I’ve ordered a cap kit for about $5 and with about 3 hours of soldering, hope to have the board in tip top shape.

If it doesn’t work, then the next step is a new monitor for the price of about $300 with shipping.

I’m hoping that it doesn’t come to that, but we’ll see. If it does, then it’s pretty useless until I gets me a job. (*hint hint* if anyone needs a mythology teacher/professor/researcher/tutor who can also teach composition, just let me know)

I’m done going over what I could have done differently at the interview. I think I’ve realized exactly why no part timer has been hired the last three years: we’ve become too comfortable here. Instead of having that edge, and talking about the things that we COULD do for the students, for the department, for the college, we only talked about what has been done for those three.

There was no “hey, I’m thinking into the future here…this is what I could do” for each of the questions, rather it was “hey, thanks for asking the question, here’s what I have done”…unfortunately, that lacks the same energy and the same type of answer that the new people are giving. I don’t blame the committee at all for going with someone who offered quite a bit of possibility. Why not hire someone who has that as opposed to someone who has said “I’m already doing that here…”

No brainer, folks. Why hire someone who’s already doing that for the department, as opposed to someone who can bring in new ideas?

I only wish I’d thought of that before the interview, but that’s ok. Now I’m doubly prepared for the next interview, wherever it may be.

the best part of slumdog millionaire is any time the announcer of the gameshow says “who wants to be a millonaire”

I don’t know why, but I find the missing “i” hilarious.

There’s an oxnard on the map, I’m about 5 miles east of that. There was some mild shaking going on, thought it was the wind…it wasn’t.

The map