yay for platypuses

I just got back from platypuses, and she was amazingly amazing as always and talked some sense into me. And really I just needed to be held.

I ended up breaking the fast at 5:30 on 2 chocolate chip cookies from hillel, but then didn't eat anything else for the next 3 hours. But eventually I heated up some deli-roll and I'm finally pareve again. So I can eat delicious chocolatey chocolate. (Though I do have pareve chocolate but it's not the same. boroparkpyro, you can sympathize with my addiction to Swiss chocolate, right?) So I probably should have something a bit more substantial before going to sleep, though I'm tempted not to.

I still need to find a source for my thesis meeting tomorrow. I'm not that worried since I have until 4pm and I have nothing from 10:15 on. Even if I take an hour for lunch that's 5 hours to do work. But at the same time I'm a bit scared. I've done nothing for the Jewish Studies thesis. My bibliography is based on my anthro one plus whatever other sources I was told by Stern to read. But those were for my original thesis and not my new idea of looking at the non-orthodox movements. Where can I find sources? And where can I find a non-archaeological article on miqva'ot or niddah or something that's 6 or less printed pages? All of my "short" chapters are at least 10 pages, and most are closer to 30...

And it's supposed to be something that inspires me. My inspiration is all archaeological at this point.

Maybe I can copy something out of Neusner, but that has no modern day applications. Maybe there's something in some fo my anthologies...

And I took some pictures which I'll put up tomorrow morning. (Including platypuses holding Edgar, with one really clear shot.) I wanted to test out the night mode, but I realized that pulling out a 275$ camera in West Philly late at night is not such a good idea. So no artistic shots of the highrises at night. Sorry, folks.

And platypuses is jealous of my zoom. And thinks my camera is shiny (which it is). So I'm content with my choice.

And the extra battery arrived today. Huzzah!

Hobbit Thesis!

Usually I don't log in or post to LJ on computers that are not my own, but right now that isn't so much an option.

An update: My charger overloaded again, the computer has about 30% battery left, but the charger still won't charge, even when I left it alone for a few hours.

So I will not be on IM for the time being, and I'll be using my precious laptop battery only to e-mail myself things that I need, or upload pictures since I can't do that on another computer.

So this is really just a note that I'm not avoiding anyone, I just don't have the ability to talk to people online right now.

E-mail me at theyellowhobbit[at]gmail[dot]com, or if you want to give me shiny things for my thesis (once again, thank you, groovin_reuven for the pictures. And maric23, I still haven't had a chance to read through the article you sent me, but hopefully I'll have time soon. And I used mayim rabim as one of my sources in the bibliography I have due today) email me at HobbitThesis[at]gmail[dot]com. Yes, that's right, my theses have their own g-mail account because they are independent entites to whom I am a slave. They have their own personalities, desires, hopes, fears, humor... But they're close enough that they don't mind sharing a Gmail account. This is what happens when you give me 100 invites, Google. And my theses are very happy that "HobbitThesis" wasn't already taken. I'd be annoyed, but amused if it had been. Would anyone else have a hobbit thesis?
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*edit* Never mind, it's fine. Though I have a thesis seminar and other things tonight, so I think I'm signing off. I'll upload the pictures and add another entry for that, but that's it. I will try to not be online (besides e-mail) until I've done my 1 hour/500 words/whatever for the day. And I have to practice mincha. And go gymming. So if you see me on LJ (or IM) before I've completed a significant amount of work, please yell at me to be productive. (And big capital letters work really well for that, especially if you're boroparkpyro and have magical getting Rachel to work powers.) For all of you who don't have much going on right now, I would appreciate if you send me your work-doing abilities. I'll trade you for my procrastination skills. And we can switch back when I've written the theses.

I'm sorry, I just have to post this

I finished my progress report and sent it in, so that qualifies as getting something done. This is too witty to not post:

( a poem )

Tada!

Edgar!!!

Edgar, fruit, and randomness

Sep 25, 2006 - 9 Photos

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I just did some gymming. Endorphins make everything better. Shoot. I just sneezed. I'm coming down with something. But I can't allow that to happen until a week from now. Then I can be as sick as I want to be. Or as my body wants to be.

Anyways, back to gymming. I forgot a lot of the exercises that honkyredvan had shown me last week. I need to gym along with her again. She's not going tomorrow, though. I did get in a bunch of reps on the machines, crunches, and some free weights (they have 7.5lb ones in the normal weight room, so I think that's a good number for my right arm for now. The left should probably do 2.5 or something, though I was doing 5 today). And then ellipticalling. Between everything I spent the amount of time it takes to go through a listening of the 2 mincha recordings at the gym.(16 + 21= 37 minutes)

I really need to figure out my schedule, and include more real-life socializing time. Or get involved in something. But I don't know what that something would be. Right now, I have plenty of work time, and plenty of goof off online time, but very little fun with the masses time. So when you penn people spontaniously do something fun, give me a call, because for howevermuch I say I'm thesisizing, I usually can use a break, and I've been putting in more than my fair share of work right now. And I need to be pulled out of my archaeological cocoon.

Of course now I want to do work for Ben, except it's almost my bedtime. I guess I can extend it to 12:30 and see what happens.