Not very happy at the moment, but I got a laptop and a copy of Effective Java, and bought a domain and hosting:

HAEDUS.ORG

Got Lubuntu installed on my new Chromebook. Cannot recommend :/ It's not bad, but there are probably much easier machines to work with.

I now have a Master's of Science degree. Granted, it's just a formality that I needed to apply for various grants, but I do have it now, so that's nice.

Please accept my congratulations, as a pure formality, of course.

As a fellow holder of a spurious MSc (my PhD program gives one to you as a kind of "one third of the way there!" checkpoint), welcome to the club! Again, purely as a formality.

quoting Rhetorica, Illúbequía: Dis, Major Belt 1:

As a fellow holder of a spurious MSc (my PhD program gives one to you as a kind of "one third of the way there!" checkpoint), welcome to the club! Again, purely as a formality.

That's actually the kind of M.S. I have: granted en route to my Ph.D., without a thesis, and not a terminal degree, but necessary for the application I made (and will be making again, because like hell I'm going to give up despite failure the first time around) to the FNR in the magical land known as Luxembourg for a Ph.D. research grant. And thanks.

quoting Jipí, Alkali Metal, Canada:

Please accept my congratulations, as a pure formality, of course.

Said congratulations as part of a formality are most formally accepted.

That reminds me I need to organize me an MA thesis topic and evaluating professors when I'm back in Germany … A colleague of mine at the Linguistics department suggested I might want to look into adjective morphosyntax (placement and inflection) in Middle High German across texts in a corpus of different  genres that I would compile for this purpose.

finished with courses as a student FOREVER. now just a shitload of writing to go...

Felicitats! Congratulations! Gourc'hemmenoù! Agivendetz!

I still remember that feeling when I finished university and I thought "I won't be a student again, at least in years. No more impossible teachers, no more crazy timetables, no more exams".

Congratulations to all of you who have finished with school for the semester, or forever.

The marking is done. Or it would be, if I weren't perpetually getting bombarded with junk reminders to send in trivia. "Hey, this student was apparently only enrolled for one class. Can you give me his attendance records?"

So close to going on vacation. So fucking close. A friend of mine defended last night though, that was cool. And he showed me  paper on why you shouldn't residualize your data before doing a linear mixed-effects model.

New Dwarf Fortress release! Watching my miners do what I actually want them to do is so relieving...

I'm so excited for the next EVE release. Also, my vacation that's starting today. Also also, I bought lipstick for the first time.

quoting dhok, Priest:

New Dwarf Fortress release! Watching my miners do what I actually want them to do is so relieving...

capitalist life-chooser

[doge_style]Wow. Very New Yorker. Such sexy. Much impress. So lipstick[/doge_style]

quoting Morrígan, Marquise:

I'm so excited for the next EVE release. Also, my vacation that's starting today. Also also, I bought lipstick for the first time.

Dayum girl!

dat jacket

Morrígan looks gorgeous, as always, though I'm not a huge fan of the lipstick or the glasses (I hate the look of large-rimmed glasses).

On my side, though, I back in North Carolina for vacation. I super happy.

I GOT A FULL-TIME JOB

Specifically I got a call center job for a cruise line, with full benefits, which I had blown off work at my previous job to go interview clotheshopping for, which caused me to lose that job. I didn't handle that one very well, but now I have no regrets at all.