oceantheorem | (no subject)

It's been a long week. Last night as I was drifting off to sleep, I thought how nice it was that we'd been somewhere stable and ours for two whole weeks. Then I remembered we've only been in this house for one week.

Today I get a door. This will be nice, because then I can keep the cat out of my room. He has an annoying tendency to get hungry in the extremely small hours of the morning. This morning, for instance, he woke me at 5 am. And I haven't been able to go back to sleep.
Not tomorrow, my friends. Tomorrow morning I will sleep blissfully uninterrupted by felines.

I'm still not really unpacked. My progress has been hampered by the onslaught of undergraduates, who have purchased all the furniture in New Haven. Alas, what's a poor grad student to do? Two thirds of the furniture I wanted to buy last weekend was "temporarily out of stock." And the internet tells me that the bookcase I wanted from Staples is discontinued. This is disheartening. Hopefully today at least I will be able to get the desk I wanted from IKEA.

I started qualifying last week. I've done a bad job of focusing so far. I've managed to read two and a half papers in four days. I'm gonna have to get much better about ignoring everything and everyone around me, or I'll never get through this. I have my first faculty meeting on Thursday, and I need to get through four more papers before then--and I need to have read them in serious, serious detail. *sigh* I also need to pick papers to read next week... Aaaaand there went all my free time.

Also, I signed up for WoW. I couldn't help it. I've been resisting for years, and my resolve finally broke down. I played way too much this weekend, but from now on there will be strict time limits, which I will set in proportion to how many papers I've read per day.

I've been mostly ignoring livejournal for the last week. I'll try to get caught up later today....

I'm gonna try again to go back to sleep now....