Things and stuff.
Welp, schoooooool started back up today, so I suppose I'll probably get scarce around here again. (Not that I ever really got not-scarce over the summer, but it's the thought that counts? Maybe?) I've just done something I've never done before: become a not-full-time student. I realized today, as I sat through an undergrad-laden lecture at 3:00 in the afternoon, that I had much more important things to do with my time. Like my thesis. I need to do my thesis. I had planned to take credit hours for my thesis this semester, but I never got the edits made to my research proposal that I had (foolishly) planned to do over the summer (when I was werkin' full time), so instead I had this filler class that I'd signed up for. Well, goodbye filler class. I don't want it, and I don't particularly need it. It's...how do you say?...not relevant to my interests. It's really not. As much as the subject matter is interesting, and as excited and engaging as the professor is, it's crunch time. Academic triage, if you will. So, after making several phone calls to check that my financial aid won't Go Horribly Wrong, I have dropped the filler class and become a half-time enrolled student. But I'll be working my butt off on my thesis, and now have more time to do it. It's for the best.
Oh! In other news,
">Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself and what he might become and where he might go." -Neil Armstrong
Oh! In other news,
R.I.P., Neil Armstrong, geek extraordinare and first man on the moon, who passed away this Saturday, aged 82.
Sic itur ad astra. (Thus one goes to the stars.)
Sic itur ad astra. (Thus one goes to the stars.)
">Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself and what he might become and where he might go." -Neil Armstrong