Woman of Leisure

So, I think I could get used to this whole being unemployed thing… if only the pay was better. The other day I was just chillaxin’ at a coffee shop on Dunbar, reading a book and drinking my coffee and it turned out that the guy at the next table was a local radio talk […] →Read more

Necromouse

This might just be the coolest photo* I’ve ever seen: Props to Rick for sending this to me (and for appreciating that I would appreciate it). *Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Necromouse12hd.jpg (Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License) →Read more

Unemployed, Homeless, Hopelessly in Debt… with a Doctorate!

Well, the paperwork has all been filed, the forms filled out in triplicate. I’ve dotted all the t’s and crossed all the i’s. My thesis has been submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies! I have officially, 100% completed my Ph.D. I am officially, for the first time in 24 years, not a student! I […] →Read more

On Notice

For those of you who are fans of the Colbert Report, you will appreciate this pic. For those who haven’t seen the show, I’ll give some background. On the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert has a segment called “On Notice” — when things make him angry, he puts them “on notice.” (Things that make him really, […] →Read more

Always Welcome

I found a new sign to put on my front door: (Photo by: Sarah) →Read more

Embracing My Inner Geek

Since so many people* were asking where they too could get a cool blogging shirt, I decided that it was high time I embraced my inner geek and joined the ThinkGeek.com Affiliate program. Basically, what this means is that I’ve added a lovely graphic onto my blog (look to your right) and if you click […] →Read more

I heart weekends!

But not for the reason that you think. As I’ve discussed before, weekends are rather meaningless to me, as my schedule is rather unconventional. But the past few weekends have been good because there are some smoking hot guys fixing a roof down the street from me. They only seem to work there on the […] →Read more

The Transportation Adventures of Therese

It is a well known fact that Translink hates Sarah. Recent developments, however, suggest that Therese may be the antithesis of Sarah in Translink-related matters. The entire time that Therese was here, we never missed a bus and we never had to wait more than 2 minutes for one to show up… every connection showed […] →Read more

Absentminded professor

So, I’ve been wandering around in a daze since Tuesday*. It seems like I really couldn’t imagine a time beyond the defence and, even though I had been making plans for future events, I really couldn’t keep any of them in my head. Case in point: my friend Therese is visiting. Now, I knew that […] →Read more

D-Day

When we last left off, our intrepid young doctoral candidate and her trusty PPP had just had dinner at the Eatery. As expected, I did not get much sleep that night, as I was waaaay too nervous to sleep. I did some last minute reading/cramming and even found a crazy typo as I was reading […] →Read more