West of the Moon

Archive for May, 2006

safehome.

Every year, WisCon ends and my heart breaks a little bit. And then, every year, some airline or another takes my wee broken heart and stomps on it until I’m thoroughl downtrodden and defeated. I left the hotel at around 2:45pm Wisconsin time, I arrived at my home at around 2:45am California time.
Wait, [...]

Tags: wiscon

Graduation: the ceremony

Getting ready to leave the house on Thursday morning, Matt and I agreed that “regalia” is a really good word.
So here’s the thing. The night before graduation, we were out for dinner with my family, and in the middle of dinner my mother turned to me, looked me straight in the eye, and asked [...]

Tags: berkeley, commencement, graduate school, ph.d., regalia

Graduation: the paperwork.

I called the manuscript finished about a week before I actually officially filed it. That was the point where all of my advisors agreed that it was in good enough shape, that I didn’t need to rework the conclusion, and so on. That didn’t mean I was done, though. That just meant [...]

Tags: berkeley, dissertation, graduate school

Commencement.

Puffy hat and all.
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.

Tags: commencement, photos, puffy hat

impending, and acknowledgements.

This appears to actually be happening. I’m pinning down appointments for getting signature approvals on the manuscript, I picked up my robes yesterday, I’ve been getting logistical coordination emails from the department admin. I seem to actually be graduating.
Six years apparently isn’t that long for a doctorate, but it feels like forever. [...]

Tags: dissertation, graduate school

machine translation.

One of the many problems with having so many writers as friends is that their language games aren’t as much fun when I play them. Case in point, the machine translation exercise that David and Ben were playing around with. I took a paragraph from my dissertation, ran it through a few Google [...]

Tags: dissertation

Dissertation!

Dissertation!
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
I still need to get signatures from the professors on my committee, one of whom is out of town until the middle of next week, but still. Look at that!

Tags: dissertation, photos

words that start with “r”.

Where Haddayr leads, I’ll follow.

Reading. I’m a compulsive reader. I try to always have a book with me so that I can read while waiting in line at stores or for the bus, and I keep magazines in the bathroom so that I have something to read while brushing my teeth. (In [...]

Tags: lists

Johnny Cash.

Just so we’re clear on this? Johnny Damon is dead to me.
And he looks stupid with short hair. So there.

Tags: red sox nation