7 posts tagged “i am screwed”
MY GOD, it's July already? What happened to the month of June?? *sob sob* I only finished a few items on my June To Do List, now my July To Do List is looking twice as big - UGH!!!
- Turned down four party invitations for this past weekend. I already went out on Friday night with a friend whom I haven't seen for months, so can't go out Saturday and Sunday again.
- What the hell?? The sun comes out and all of a sudden everybody wants to party? There is no sympathy for the swamped *sigh*.
- More parties this week. Mandatory attendance for two of them:
- Wednesday going on a cruise around Manhattan, already paid for it and invited guests so can't flake out.
- Saturday office picnic - department funder is going to show so need to start preparing small talk material. Com'on I'm totally worth my paycheck!
- Saw the American Ballet Theatre production of "Sleeping Beauty" at the Metropolitan Opera House last week.
- TOTAL DISASTER!! Of course Gillian Murphy is still the best, but there should be a law against bad choreography.
- Finally finished "Bush at War" by Bob Woodward. Must blog about it on VOX.
- Poor Colin Powell, he never had a chance. How can rationality prevail when the president trusts his own "gut instincts" (aka "truthiness" ala Steven Colbert) more than reason?
- I beat God of War on PlayStation2! Yay!! Even with a glitch at the end, I still prevailed. I am now the new God of War!!
- No wonder the gaming industry has a hard time breaking into female consumership - Kratos (the protagonist) is really ugly. If it weren't for the cool Greek mythology sceneries I would totally ditch this game based on his looks.
- My first sole author manuscript got rejected by the journal *sob sob*...
- It was a really prestigious journal, and it was a special issue, so I was glad that they even decided to send it out for peer review. Got some helpful comments back, totaling 11 pages - pretty rare for reviewers to write this much. So ultimately it turned out well, will work on revising the paper and send it out to another journal.
- Finished entering all my dissertation references into EndNote - 385 thus far. Now I just need to finish READING all of them... damn it.
Oh no!! Is Slackenerny going to graduate BEFORE ME???? NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! This can't be happending. The only man you can count on to be nonaccountable is joining the Real World? My entire world will go upside down! I am going through a paradigm shift *intercept existential crisis.OMG where the f**k is my thesis? I am freaking out!!
It's survival of the fittest out there. But I don't think I'm fit, at all. How did I even make it this far? Apart from a few hours at the office the day before, I've just been trapped in my apartment. It's been four days of hiding. Today will be the fifth. There are only so many sick days you can legitimately claim. Thursday I will have to go out again, this time to the university, put on a pretty face, professional clothes, and convey assurance and presence. I wish I can defy the laws of physics.
The Buddhists say that within every second is an eternity. My God, am I missing something here? Because I really don't need to live forever.
It's funny at work because my office-mate now tip-toes a bit around me. I cut myself and he accidentally saw the scars. He made a subtle acknowledgement, but has been a gentleman about it. I know they look scary, but actually they are not deep at all. I really wanted to apologize but, go figure, he has a phd in you-know-what and I don't really want to subject myself. Now I don't know what I should do to let him know that it's still okay to tell me all his problems, that I don't mind listening to them. Then again, on the other hand, I have been a lot more productive at the office now that there is peace and quiet.
This is such a wonderful and complex world. I don't want to feel safe only when I am tucked away beneath the duvet or lying in a wooden box six feet under the ground. I've started building a little herb garden. Maybe having some soil within arm's reach will help compensate. To the person who invented down duvets and pillows, I wholeheartedly thank you.
Which cartoon character best represents you?
Submitted by Know It All.
What's the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?
Here are some awesome comics from PhD, Pile Higher and Deeper, the graduate student comic strip by Jorge Cham:
Wait, just read their graphic usage agreement.. too complicated. (I'm getting my PhD, I specialize in laziness.) So below are the links to the two awesome graphs instead of me putting them up here. (If you search for Jorge Cham or "i am screwed" in my tag pool you can see them in my photo collection. I think I can get away with that one....) I hope you are just a tad bit less lazy than me. So here are the links:
Graduate Student Weekly Output Level Analysis
Overall Motivation Level by Years of Study
I am so screwed...
