on a treadmill

I have very vivid dreams, but usually they’re pretty boring and predictable. Not last night’s, though. I didn’t remember it until half way through this morning and I called Jo to tell her about it right away. She thought it was pretty nuts. I have no clue what it could mean.
In my dream I had [...]

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nightmares about incomplete sentences?

I can now add a new kind of stress dream to my grad school experience.
For years grad school stress dreams have almost become predictable– always comprising of something like presenting without knowing what to say at a conference, running late to a meeting or conference presentation, or the ever-dreaded sounding really dumb at a thesis/phd [...]

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strange dreams

The last few nights I’ve had some very vivid dreams. Very vivid, and very odd. They’re probably stress dreams, and given the most recent Ms. Mentor column, they’re pretty common.
In one, I was at a wedding. It was here in town, on the east side, and it might have been the wedding of two women [...]

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hug a world leader day

I had a dream last night that it was “hug a world leader day”. I was in a huge multi-level auditorium, with hundreds of people, and thousands upon thousands of world leaders. Senators, presidents, kings, queens, prime ministers etc. And those of us who weren’t world leaders got to go around and pick people to [...]

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putting up a good front

Although I’m putting up a pretty good front (relaxing, watching movies, reading and what not), I guess my subconsciousness is a little more worried than I thought about prelim results. Here’s a couple examples from my last 2 nights of sleep:
In one dream I am sitting in a class and I’m being assigned all kinds [...]

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a strange dream

Well, I said I probably wasn’t going to blog again before going to Maine, but here I go, blogging anyway.
I spent the weekend working frantically as planned. I’ve coded so much I think my eyes will fall out of my head. I still have more to do. I did take a few breaks. Mostly to [...]

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“but I’m not going to be that kind of doctor!”

That’s what I kept repeating in one of the stranger dreams I’ve ever had. I try not to blog much about my dreams because they are usually just the boring typical academic kind– not being prepared for a conference, not being able to articulate what I study, having them revoke my master’s degree because of [...]

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flu update

I slept like a rock last night and woke up feeling so much better. I think I had fever-induced dreams. I dreamt that people were poking me with writing utensils (pens, pensils etc.) and that they were hot.
Since I was able to lift my arms, and actually stand long enough to shower, I went into [...]

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a little boring for you

What are the two most boring things to blog about?
(1) The weather.
(2) Dreams.
So here's a post about both b/c the other details of my life right now would be even more boring, trust me.
Weather: It is damn cold here. I mean really damn cold. -12 to be exact, and that doesn't even include windchill. We [...]

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small things

Sometimes its just the small things in life…
Like when you email your final conference paper to the organizer, and then she emails everyone on the panel all the papers, and you realize yours is the only paper that doesn't have a cover sheet. Not only does it not have a cover sheet, it is lacking [...]

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strange dream

I always dream a lot, sometimes I remember them and sometimes I don't. This morning I remember having an especially odd dream last night. The first part was about Fiona Apple's new album coming out. Sony had finally released it to her and she was able to release it on an independent label. I was [...]

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mundane dreams

I've been having numerous dreams lately that are of a very strange, mundane sort. I also talk in my sleep sometimes and this has been happening more lately. Jo likes to mess around with me by having conversations with me when I talk in my sleep. The other night I was talking about needing something [...]

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moonshadow

The first song I ever remember is "Moonshadow" by Cat Stevens (I think I was 5?). He is on Larry King Live tonight (remote, of course, from the UK as he is a suspected terrorist). My dad must have been a huge Cat Stevens fan b/c it is not only the first music I remember, [...]

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I forgot all about that show

Alf. they had a mini marathon of this last night on TV Land. I could only stand one episode. My brother used to have a stuffed Alf doll that said "hey no problem". I was also struck by how ridiculous and stupid the laugh track was on that show. That was making Jo and I [...]

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