paraesthesia

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

...Although, Gog's link to the TechSunny Rocket was definitely a desperado's dream come true. ;P

I can _totally_ identify with the strip today!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lease.png

...Although, maybe instead of building legos it's that I play RPGs, and, instead of thinking about Batman, I am thinking about traveling the backroads of Country X! Haha. WTF does it mean anymore to be an adult??

Okies, well, silence from this end for a bit, no? 3 months or something? Hmmmm.

Anyhoo, got my Master's done back in May, now just reviewing for my %^$*&#@ board exam (to get my license). Let's just say that, so far, the going hasn't been easy. I am _exhausted_ by this whole process. I'm also not entirely sure that being at people's beck and call the rest of my life is something I am all that enthused to do. Sigh. 'Am ruminating on whether being some sort of researcher wouldn't be more interesting - although, with only a Master's, I couldn't do much except corral participants and specimens for study. Sigh.

Lots of reading of books for pleasure has also put me in the mood for writing - but, eh, haven't written a creative thing since high school or early college, and feel a course would be in order before anything decent flowed from my pen/fingertips. It's funny that I swing at least once per decade between wanting to be a retiring academic type and wanting to be active with people on a daily basis. Must be hormonal! ;)

Forayed into SL briefly Sat night - it was nice to pop in again after almost a year's absence. In fact, it was just pleasant enough (and not too laggy) that I might do it again sometime in the near future. Hee. Thanks, Zozo, for being, well, a *lovecat*! Murrrrr! ^.^

'Hope y'all are well out there....

I've been a bit silent of late. I'm finishing up my program and going on job interviews. 'Been spending a lot of time thinking about how I am moving into a new part of my life - not just for work, but on a personal level. I haven't been motivated to post much here - have been to introspective, I guess.

Anyone? WTF was that today??

Stolen from catsarah

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Did anyone see today's xkcd?? Fursuits are on there!

Found on Citrus Soldier

Madame catsarah is the source...

My Political Views
I am a left social moderate
Left: 6.45, Authoritarian: 0.43

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My Foreign Policy Views
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My Culture War Stance
Score: -4.16

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Interesnaya!

...A new job
...A radically higher level of professional responsibility (I will be delivering babies independently at some point this year)
...The twilight of my reproductive years (my mother hit menopause very early and, after having worked in high risk L&D for almost 6 years, I would never personally encourage a woman to get pregnant past the age of 40)
...Pushing 40
...Figuring out if I can be "ok" with who I am and, more importantly, be "ok" with the limitations that come with who I am
...A hobby (or two or three) that I can really sink into and that I can utilize to occupy some of the hours that I've spent in the past feeling sorry for myself
...Writing
...Doing research (for work, outside of work, and/or totally unrelated to work)
...Getting more and regular exercise
...Learning to say "no" without feeling guilty

Rather looking forward to this year - here's to hoping excellent things come my way (and yours!).

:)

via her royal furryness, catsarah...

Say you were meeting a new person, blind date, new friend, who knows, and you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words.

Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. What would you put in the box?

1) A memory stick with a sampling of the music I like
2) A memory stick with a sampling of some of my own photos and some UrbEx photos
3) A book about Eliz I by Allison Weir
4) Pine needles
5) A copy of "Some Like It Hot" w/ Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon
6) A random, Lonely Planet travel guide
7) Some Russian Caravan tea
8) A bunch of lavender
9) A plushie microbe
10) A pregnancy wheel
11) My pocket guidebook to "Managing Contraception"
12) The Jawa action figure toy I've owned since I was 7 years old (from the first "Star Wars")

...*smile* That was fun, Cats! Thanks! :D

This was posted on dragontrap's LJ....Way cool! And this short is the basis of a Tim Burton film coming out next year. :DDDDDD Happy Day, Y'all!

Meme-o-rama courtesy of: shockwave77598

Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Sorceror   Control is the name of your game. You are a studied tactician and scientist and you seek a kingdom where things make sense, damn the morals, even if you have to create it. You are cold, calm and calculating.
Vampire
Demon
Ghost
Cthulu Spawn
Werewolf
Incubus/Succubus
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This quiz is hysterical! Best line in the answer selections: "A circle of stones in the full-moonlit woods and a boombox playing Canadian folk-rock." ROFL!!!!!

Oof! My internal clock woke me at 6:30 this morning! O.o I bought one of those light box things for sun therapy in the winter time...I sit near it for 30" each morning to get the "brain is happy!" effect. I think it's actually doing a much better job resetting my sleep clock than the happy brain stuff (although, resetting the clock may have to do with happy brain stuff, I'm not sure). I'm *wiped* now around 10 or 11p, crash out for 7.5-8 hours and then am UP. I mean, there's no lolling in bed action anymore; I have to get OUT OF BED! Wild. Problem is, I can't go to bed at 10 or 11p all of the time - some evenings, I have to work until 11:30p or, like tonight, I have a holiday party to attend. I've flipped through the light box manual and it says to stay awake longer at night, you need to do another 30" sitting at a lesser light intensity in the early evening. So, in about an hour, when it's completely pitch black outside, I will try that and see if my eyeballs can stay open tonight. Hmph.

I may, however, be a lost cause today - I've done waaay too much already. I'm pooped. I did a very brisk walk/run this morning and then dove right into laundry/dishes/putting together a table for my foyer....I haven't been this busy in awhile. I'm not even sure coffee would do much right now. I suppose I could make a cup of black tea and read for a bit....

Hm, my yap has been shut for a bit - prolly a good thing. Anyhoo, just finished up my penultimate semester of grad school. Woot! One more to go and I can catch babies for a living. I have to admit, I'm a bit nervous -- prolly will be for at least the first year or so of whatever job I get.

Ho-hum, not much else going on in the Para world. 'Got me new Studio15 Dell lappie, but f*ing Windows Vista is being shit about accepting files from my old lappie (with WindowsXP installed on it). *sigh* So, I have my best nerd buddy fiddling around with it. I still have to cackle at how big it is compared to those wafer-thin Macbooks. Damn, you, Apple!

There's snow on the ground here which is nice - although a little wild for how early it is in the season (hell, it's not even technically winter yet!). Plans to do a roadtrip to the Big Easy have fallen through, so now I am contemplating just heading over Columbus, OH-way and bugging an old friend of mine. I will go absolutely lulu if I have to hang out in Chicago the entire winter. Enough cannot be said for changing your location at least once a year, even if for only a few days. I'd've liked to have gone somewhere a bit toastier, but, meh, not to be. *shrug*

'Hope all you furries'n'humans out there are well. *hug*