The school year started off with illness; Boston’s sudden colder weather gifted a cold to me. I’m currently fighting it as I type. Beyond that, it is just another school year. I’ve been making more of an effort to socialize, as research is rather a solo effort. As I had predicted, it would be rather [...]

A new record: being sick within the first 2 weeks of the school year. I think the sudden drop in temperature did it; we went from pretty nice warm 80s weather to a cooler, crisper 60s. Add in less sleep, time, and stress, and you get the fertile breeding ground for flu-ish feelings. I’m still [...]

Remember Scrubs? I happened to love that show, except for that random last season. Anyway, they had one of the better theme songs for a show. That’s about how I’m feeling really now. I am no Superman. The last week has been taxing on me. I came back from spring break with a mysterious illness [...]

I was hoping with all the extra precautions I took (frequent handwashing, exercise, rest, fluids, etc.) that I could avoid getting sick this academic year. Unfortunately, I have the on set of some kind of head cold. And it would have to hit during a busy academic time for me . It’s almost like Murphy’s [...]

I’ve completed 1 week of school. One week isn’t really that much, in terms of going to class. I go to class twice a week. Two 3-hour lectures one day, one 3-hour lecture another day. I was supposed to have a 4th class, but it was unfortunately canceled. The professor is very kind and said [...]

By sort of, I mean I’m going to try to maintain a constant practice. Keeping myself motivated to practice that much daily was difficult. I skirted it a few times (practicing mudras instead of really dancing), but I think I overall did a good job of maintaining a practice. I discovered that I can’t be [...]

I spent this past weekend doing strictly dance things. On Saturday, I went to the Ranya Renee workshop held in Pawtucket, RI. I went knowing nothing about Ranya, besides everyone loves her and that she put out a Baladi DVD that everyone swears by (I’ll soon find out why everyone swears by it- I just [...]

I’ve been sick, my flash drive died and now I have to make up working on calc problem writing that I lost on the dead flash drive, and one of my cats (the one in my icon on WordPress) has liver problems. Without being too dramatic, right now, I’m not sure if he’s going to [...]

Everything was completed yesterday, just in the nick of time to go to dance class. It was also done in the nick of time for me to get sick today. I suspect it has something to do with my heat being broken. While I was planning a more productive day than lying around in bed, [...]

There’s some suspicious strain of flu (or flu-like) symptoms going around the physics department. I think I’m the 4th or 5th person to get it. I think it was inevitable, since one of the people who was sick works in my lab. I’m glad to be done with finals at least. Now I just want [...]