YL - deja vu?

In the continued rat race, it's back to social hermitage and into exam mode.

Shoshe - Snow with bad timing

My qualifying exam was supposed to be yesterday at midday, but it was delayed due to boot-deep snow (the top of the boot, not the bottom. The kind of snow that, for example, closes multiple airports and flight paths so half of your examination committee can't make it to town before your exam should have been halfway over). We postponed it till 3pm, and eventually until this morning. Saturday morning! It's an oral exam, where your committee members get to ask you whatever they want that might be remotely related to your research project or (very loosely defined) field of study. For 2 hours. Except that mine ended up taking 2 1/2 hours. It went okay though -- they weren't as mean as I expected.

In related news, one of the local coffee companies will give you a half-gallon of coffee in a nifty thermos/urn for $10 if you give them 24 hours notice, and apparently just trusts that you'll return the urn (they don't actually ask you to). Another local coffee company charges $24 for the same amount of coffee in a box, and a third charges $14 for a box of coffee, a variety of sweeteners, cups, and milk.

Yen Li - 1 day at a time?

It's been an interesting 7 days. I dont think I'd repeat it again but it was at least interesting. I passed my psych practical long case which is good. Just the written to go on Wed. And then life proceeds.

Well life is sorta proceeding anyway. I think if I just take it one day at a time and dont think about the future or how happy/unhappy I'm going to be, it wont matter so much. Yes, denial and just dont think about it. Yay for poor coping skills.