cameo entry or blog piracy?
to tell you the truth i really don't care that much. the content of an upcoming entry will surely center around the PhD comics creator lecture tonight at the Rackham graduate school at Michigan. it's hard for me to summarize how impressive this ostensibly simple lecture was, but all the grad students (which was by far the majority in attendance) were definitely entertained, and little time went by that was not filled with laughter or a feeling of sympathy and comfort in knowing that there are a TON of people going through the same things (whether its deadlines, funding, crazy advisors, comparisons to other professions, moving on with life, etc).
i have previewed this lecture in earlier entries, so i won't get much into it now, but again many thanks to nick (one of kara's best friends & physics genius - i was especially impressed since he had intelligent questions to ask about the fish tanks when he visited back in august) for introducing me to this, and since kara and i are big fans of the comic it seemed fitting that we were the ones to attend (although all of you whom i told about the talk seriously missed out!!! andrea and brenda ended up going independently, so i'm thinking my punishment will be on its way sometime in the near future for that incident).
anyway, i digress (as usual). for this entry i'm taking excerpts from kara's blog(s) since we're basically talking about the same stuff and i actually need to get some work done right now so i can't write my own material for this round. from travels (and adventures) with kara:
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Tonight I am attending a lecture by Jorge Cham, creator of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic that Nick, Solomon, and I rave about. (I'm going with Solomon, appropriately.) I'm even going to meet Solomon at Panchero's (the OTHER burrito place) to give it another try, although I'm sure it won't change my mind about the superiority of Big Ten Burritos. (Which is being strongly encouraged by the Big Ten Conference to change its name.)
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Thanks for the validation, Jorge Cham!
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--more on that pancheros issue later, i think we reached an decent compromise today.
anyway, that's all for now since i need to get my work done. i'll be back with my own material in due time, and yes, sarah, the last 'epic' entry DOES count for more than one and therefore i'm still definitely ahead. i'll also comment that janine did a nice job responding to our 'blog entry support group' comments, and i like the bullet format too, haha.
meanwhile beth and i are trying to come up with a decent way to practically quantify work productivity. we both realize that we don't get much done, even when we have the best of intentions. therefore i proposed we have a contest in the hopes that competition may move us both to getting more work done. if anyone has good ideas on how to measure this sort of productivity, let me know, although a competition of this sort may be against my very nature (no matter how competitive i am). we'll see. and no, time spent in front of a computer is NOT a good way to measure such things...
well cameo entry or blog piracy, i don't know...but since i have a job waiting for me as captain of a pirate ship (yet to be named) that will pillage vessels waiting to enter the panama canal (min $100k cash per boat people!!!) i'm going to go with the latter. heck, that panamanian pirate idea wasn't even mine! i'm going to make a GREAT pirate! ok i'm off to make the final decisions on my crew... <:><
music: "Move Along" - The All-American Rejects
random pic: thanks to erin i now have several more pics from the SPH Mardi Gras Crawl from this past January (i think it was January). anyway, here i am pirating a photo-op...ok enough with all this pirate talk for now.
julia, janine, beth, me
i have previewed this lecture in earlier entries, so i won't get much into it now, but again many thanks to nick (one of kara's best friends & physics genius - i was especially impressed since he had intelligent questions to ask about the fish tanks when he visited back in august) for introducing me to this, and since kara and i are big fans of the comic it seemed fitting that we were the ones to attend (although all of you whom i told about the talk seriously missed out!!! andrea and brenda ended up going independently, so i'm thinking my punishment will be on its way sometime in the near future for that incident).
anyway, i digress (as usual). for this entry i'm taking excerpts from kara's blog(s) since we're basically talking about the same stuff and i actually need to get some work done right now so i can't write my own material for this round. from travels (and adventures) with kara:
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Tonight I am attending a lecture by Jorge Cham, creator of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic that Nick, Solomon, and I rave about. (I'm going with Solomon, appropriately.) I'm even going to meet Solomon at Panchero's (the OTHER burrito place) to give it another try, although I'm sure it won't change my mind about the superiority of Big Ten Burritos. (Which is being strongly encouraged by the Big Ten Conference to change its name.)
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lessons from jorge cham
1. Definitions- Laziness: Not wanting to do anything.
- Procrastination: Not wanting to do anything NOW.
- My advisor (probably) doesn't think I'm an idiot (because...)
- My advisor doesn't think about me (at all).
PROCRASTINATION IS OKAY.
Thanks for the validation, Jorge Cham!
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--more on that pancheros issue later, i think we reached an decent compromise today.
anyway, that's all for now since i need to get my work done. i'll be back with my own material in due time, and yes, sarah, the last 'epic' entry DOES count for more than one and therefore i'm still definitely ahead. i'll also comment that janine did a nice job responding to our 'blog entry support group' comments, and i like the bullet format too, haha.
meanwhile beth and i are trying to come up with a decent way to practically quantify work productivity. we both realize that we don't get much done, even when we have the best of intentions. therefore i proposed we have a contest in the hopes that competition may move us both to getting more work done. if anyone has good ideas on how to measure this sort of productivity, let me know, although a competition of this sort may be against my very nature (no matter how competitive i am). we'll see. and no, time spent in front of a computer is NOT a good way to measure such things...
well cameo entry or blog piracy, i don't know...but since i have a job waiting for me as captain of a pirate ship (yet to be named) that will pillage vessels waiting to enter the panama canal (min $100k cash per boat people!!!) i'm going to go with the latter. heck, that panamanian pirate idea wasn't even mine! i'm going to make a GREAT pirate! ok i'm off to make the final decisions on my crew... <:><
music: "Move Along" - The All-American Rejects
random pic: thanks to erin i now have several more pics from the SPH Mardi Gras Crawl from this past January (i think it was January). anyway, here i am pirating a photo-op...ok enough with all this pirate talk for now.
julia, janine, beth, me
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