PARTY Re: Just keeping us going

[corinthum]

Kelly glances wearily away from her computer screen, surveying the
massive piles of paper completely obscuring her desk.  With her brain
well past the saturation point, a break is called for.  She pushes the
fifty open windows on her computer screen out of the way, opens the
Catalogue portal, and dives through into another world to find
herself... at a desk surrounded by massive piles of paper.  

Hmmm, when did my real life start resembling my Catalogue one so closely?

Well, hello again, everyone.  It's nice to see a little conversation 
around this dusty office again.  Not much to report about myself
lately.  Like Ginger, I also gave up the HP boards after the last
book.  I found Book 7 thoroughly enjoyable, although I still think the
quality of the series peaked with GoF.  However, my favorite part of
the message boards had always been the wild theorizing, and of course
that had to end when the series was completed.  Though I still feel
like we should do something with all those neatly-sorted files sitting
out there in the middle of the office...

As for real life, I take my general exam in just under a month, which
is the big whopping test where I present the research I've done so far
and then get quizzed on pretty much everything I've learned in my
life, and then they decide whether I have what it takes to do
PhD-level research.  So I've spent the last month reading, and
programming, and reading some more, and cursing wildly at my computer
screen, and then falling asleep with for loops and ODE solvers and
zooplankton feeding flashing before my eyes.

So yeah, not too exciting.  But if anyone decides to do anything about
those files, I might be able to help.  After generals, that is.  No
life, fictional or otherwise, allowed before then.

-Kelly, wishing Ginger congrats on the Red Wings' victory this
afternoon, but... Penguins all the way!