onefixedstar | Is this life?

I handed in my last two papers of the term on Friday, fifteen minutes before the midnight deadline. Yay! I've been taking it easy since then, relatively speaking. (And not spending twelve hours a day at my computer, which has had a bit of an effect on my posting rate.) I spent most of the weekend at my parents' place, where I lost massive sums of poker chips to my younger siblings. Fortunately, poker chips only represent abstract numbers in our games, so the damage was to my pride rather than my pocketbook.

Today was spent today trying to figure out how to rearrange my apartment to make it a little more aesthetically pleasing. My tentative conclusions are that I have too much junk, not enough furniture, and definitely not enough storage space. Since I can't bring myself to get rid of the junk, it looks like the boxes currently sitting in my living room are going to have to stay there. (At least they make it look a little less empty, right?) I think if I move, I'll look for a place with a storage locker. Or maybe I can arrange for temporary possession of a car and ship them off to my parents' basement. 'Cause I know they'd love that...

Stuff I Need To Do:

- Buy a laptop so that I can work in my office
- Edit and defend my thesis
- Pick a dissertation topic
- Set up a supervisory committee
- Decide in what areas I want to write my comprehensive exams
- Set up my first comp committee
- Start studying for my first comp
- Start scoping out conferences, sources of funding, and publication opportunities
- Try to arrange for a research assistant position for the fall
- Begin prepping for the research practicum
- Figure out living arrangments for September
- Visit/reconnect with friends and family (and yes, that includes a trip to Montreal)
- Convince MacGuy and my various other non-native friends that Toronto is a really great city to live in

Yup, only a slightly busy summer ahead.

Is this life?

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