grad school grind

I'm tired. That's all there is to it.

I wake up early around 6:55AM, scramble around, and try to leave the house around 7:20AM. I sit in traffic for over an hour with my mom, staring at bumpers and breaklights, feeling my lifeforce drain away. I hopefully arrive at the Seattle U campus around 8:30AM, just in time to walk and meet my carpool with some other grad students to our assigned school. I'm then in school from 9AM-3:45PM.

I get back to Seattle U campus around 4:15PM, and hang around the computer lab to check e-mail. If I'm lucky, Shiv is home so I can visit her at her apartment, until my Mom gets off work at around 5:30PM. She picks me up around 6:00PM and we fight traffic as we head back down south, hopefully arriving home in about hour, around 7:00PM.

I then eat dinner while I do my assigned readings of books/articles and write papers. If I have some spare time, it's usually after 11PM, where I work on either work for the Wing Luke Museum or other misc. projects, watch a movie, or play some video games to relax (current favorites: WoW, WC3, Gameboy Advance). I then succumb to sleep around 1-2AM, only to repeat the process again.

Commuting everyday sucks, but I think I've given up hope of finding a place to live that's in walking/biking distance of campus. A friend and I scoped out some places, the most promising being a huge 2LDK in Chinatown for around $700/month, but parking was kinda iffy and there was a lot of paperwork and red tape to cut through (another Federally subsidized joint). I guess I have to resign myself to being tired all the time nowadays and having no life.

Sometimes, I think the only thing that keeps me moving is the kids.


.:.


graduate-level LEGOs

It hasn't all been joyless work, though. Recently, I got to work on a more personal project for class - the assignment was that I had to synthesize something artistic that would combine the many themes that the class has been reading about and discussing.

Not being one to conform, I decided to do something subtle, a little ambiguous, fun, and simple: an online children's photo storybook using LEGOs that I call, "Joe and the Mysterious Stranger".

You could say I was inspired by the Brick Testament.
posted by G at 11:38 PM   |

in?scrip?tion (n-skrip-shun)n.
1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
4. The usually informal dedication of an artistic work.
5. Jeremiah 31:33