Sunday, October 12, 2008

quick update...

so yeah... did i warn you that i suck at blogging and don't post for months? well, if i didn't here's the official warning.....

WARNING: THIS BLOG IS POORLY UPDATED

... um better late than never? 

so, as expected, life is SUPER busy. i've been studying like a madman for my upcoming comprehensive exam, collecting data for 1) peter allen's GraspIt project at columbia (the 6-page Haptics conference paper is due Wednesday), 2) marco's VR collaboration in pisa, italy before he goes there next month, and 3) the experiment i have to present at neuroscience in a month. That's in addition to checking over all the data from the UCSD PD project that everyone wants to publish asap, but sorry peoples, i'm putting that one on the backburner until after SfN. 

for some reason i'm much more sane than i probably should be. maybe the stress bubble will pop in a week when the exam comes around and i'll turn into a nutjob, but for now, all is good. probably because i'm keeping a good balance... eating healthy, running everyday, having a great time playing soccer/softball, going out with friends (a beer or two is good for the brain, right?). oh! and my paper got accepted!! wish it was a bit earlier in the year so i could get a hard copy at the conference, but hey, i'm not complaining :). i'm really looking forward to SfN. i know a lot of people going, so it should be tons of fun. 

i'm also probably in a good mood because the cubs got swept in the 1st round of the playoffs again and the ny giants look great this season. i miss going to the cards games (the game today against the cowboys was unbelievable!) but it's nice having the free time. the suns season will get into full gear soon too, so i'm looking forward to that. 

the only things that suck right now are college football and the stock market. oh well, guess ya can't have everything.... 

til next time.

1 comment:

Valerie Griswold said...

So I totally had to check out your blog once I saw you had one, and I love it! You are so funny. I did not know that tidbit about the mold. I definitely crossed the line with some raspberry jam last week and I will definitely not be doing that again in the future, thanks for the heads up, haha!

Hope you're not going too crazy getting ready for orals, we'll have to get margaritas again when they're over!