my fingers are KILLING me, I say, KILLING me!

Firstly, you really should scroll down to my past few posts because there are some really funny pics. OK, at least I think they are funny. And by this point, I should have piqued your insatiable curiosity, so go ahead! I'm not tracking your scrolling or mouse movements here (yet...aint it fun to read a researcher's blog? mwhahahha. We're so hypertextual).

Secondly, for all those days you've nearly died of curiosity about what grad students do, I provide to you today, dear readership, a Photo Essay Montage (a.k.a., a way for me to take a break from very concentrated work at the comptuer before I go googly-eyed for the night). Ah, the the much anticipated Most Interesting Scenes of the Glamour of Grad School. Knowledge is Power!

Enjoy, ok, I have to remember this is a 'break' and not 'the end of the work night'. Tootles!

Exhibit A: Why have one computer when you can work on two at once? It's easier than me figuring out how to merge my EndNote libraries....

Exhibit B: I'm an 'article' kinda girl myself, primarily...

Exhibit C: the astute viewer will note that (A) it has gotten darker but that (B) the pile is smaller...

Exhibit D: someday my Moleskine brand notebooks will fetch a pretty penny on Ebay (for the record, I have been using Moleskines for years and am pleased to see they have become 'trendy').

Exhibit E: it's a tad hot and stuffy in here. Makes reading and thinking real fun. Thank goodness my tiny "Nancy Drew's Guide To Life" is at the ready, all the time...

OK, I hope this has been an enriching moment of your life. I'm going to finish this pile and then head to bed to be fit for Tomorrow, the Day of Mass Writing. Geeking out is fun, but it's more fun without looming deadlines. Oh well, there are times in life we have to do things we don't necessarily ENJOY at the time. Tough nookies!

and now, your moment of zen...

Sunrise at Dewey Beach, Delaware, August 14, 2006...for best results: enlarge pic.

I'm just too busy mentally to dedicate time to telling you how I spontaneously went 'camping' in Delaware after our cruise, and where I made profit on the one-cent slots in Atlantic City hitting the one-armed bandits with my grandma. God bless the New Jersey shore and Delaware beaches for their excellence. Cape May-Any Day! Rah!

You can find other post-cruise-o-rama nuggets at Ginapalooza.

So instead, today, a calming photo to ease my nerves...back to work with deadlines looming and trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill! Wish me luck!

A few seconds later can bring something entirely new...