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My day to day life is sometimes interesting, sometimes full of insight, and sometimes just plain weird. So, here for the very first time is the totally insane rantings and ravings of Catherine. I don't normally approve of sharing my thoughts with the internet at large, but what the heck. Let's give it a try, shall we?

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Perhaps a more relevant post...

Friday night I finished a first (the numbering gets muddy, but let's stick with first as it's the first time the boss has seen it since 2004 when he declared it "good enough for an assignment, I guess") draft of the literature review chapter (aka the monster chapter of doom that will not die), which came in at 11,600 words (not including pictures, which count as 1,000 each, right?) and entirely too much trauma.

4.1 chapters left to draft and edit. I'll be done before you know it.

Labels: hating myself, thesis ftw, writing

posted by Catherine, 1:29 PM | permanent link | (0) comments

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Okay universe, much is forgiven...

...because google could tell me what 0.03 g/cm^2 is in solar masses/parsec^2, and one of the builders outside is whistling beautifully.

I'm still not sure about this 'getting out of bed each morning' thing, but right now that's tomorrow's problem.

Labels: astronomy, depression, hating myself, music, thesis ftl, time and space, tired, web stuff

posted by Catherine, 3:22 PM | permanent link | (2) comments

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Bedtime thoughts...

I believe there's a big difference between the phrases "I want to hang out with you" and "I want you to hang out with me". I'm not sure other people feel the same way.

Anyway, after a long weekend of too much cleaning, marking and Meg Ryan movies, I'm feeling a little alone and miserable. So what are you doing next weekend? I'd like to hang out with you.

Labels: hating myself, lonely-Cat

posted by Catherine, 10:56 PM | permanent link | (3) comments

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Dear L...

Stop sending out group emails that make it seem like I am completely incompetent. I mean it.

Yes, we're missing 2.5 abstracts. I am well aware of that, given that I formatted the website / book so that those abstracts were just headings, and not proper outlines of their talks/poster. I even talked with the boss and we decided not to include the .5 of one person's abstract that we did have, preferring to leave hers out and include it in a page of errata after the fact, rather than have an unprofessional half-abstract in the book.

And yes, I have repeatedly chased those people up. By sending out your own chasing emails, you make me look completely incompetent in front of people from outside the university.

And yes, I am more capable than you to proofread this book. Just because you used to proofread joe's astronomy newsletter does not mean you have a better grasp of the English language than I. All it does is make you look like a bragging bitch.

Fuck you,
Me.

PS. "Monday lunchbox" is the most dumb name for a lunchtime meeting ever. I hope A smacks you down for it.

Labels: conferences, hating myself, stupid people, unhappiness, uni, wasting my life

posted by Catherine, 9:24 AM | permanent link | (0) comments

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

I want my sleep cycle back, you son of a bitch...

Dear PhD,
I'm so fucking sick of the nightmares. Make them go away again, and I promise I will finish this year. Please?
Just let me have one good night's sleep, and I'll even finish that chapter for you.
Stop making things harder than they already are.
No love,
Me.

Labels: hating myself, Inigo Montoya, losing sleep, phd, so I dreamed about my supervisor as Darth Mark - what does that mean?, the Harry Potter / Domus Prime crossover seems more likely every day

posted by Catherine, 7:34 AM | permanent link | (0) comments

Friday, February 09, 2007

So, at the end of three years...

I have:

1.5 (draft) chapters of my thesis written;
no real results to speak of (though I have duplicated the results of others, which I'm told is a good place to start);
only 1 year left in which to get this bitch done.

Is it any wonder I'm depressed?

Labels: astronomy, freakshow, hating myself, latex ftw (but not the fun sort of latex), never going to graduate, phd, thesis ftl, wasting my life

posted by Catherine, 10:54 PM | permanent link | (1) comments