I just want to say that I was utterly charmed by this image on I Can Has Cheezburger this morning:



Awwwwww.

So, research is going well. It's harder than I expected, reading all day, and sooner or later I need to figure out what my project is . . . I've been reading a lot of Greek tragedy, though, and NOTHING is a loss when that's the case. Also, Prof. Casey has started doing some Greek with me. It feels really good to be doing Greek again . . . I'm starting to actually get excited about being able to work on translations instead of reading all these silly articles and books.

In my free time, I've been doing a lot of knitting and crafty stuff, which means that the new hobby blog has been seeing more action than the LJ. So, you should all go see the things I've been making! Speaking of the hobby blog, I'm looking into ways of crossposting my posts there to LiveJournal--stay tuned for updates on that.

Also, via CuteOverload, I just discovered The Daily Puppy, which . . . oh my gosh. I just sat here and gaped. It's got the overwhelming cuteness, and it appeals to the dog lover in me. (I've always been more of a dog person than a cat person.) The only problem? It's crashed Firefox on me twice in the past few minutes*. I'm all like, "zomg, adorable puppy!" when suddenly! "Firefox has encountered an error and must close." What gives, The Daily Puppy? This is my sad face: :(




* Granted, since it is Firefox, I can just open it back up and pick up browsing where I left off. The "restore session" feature has been my favorite ever since it came out. I constantly have tons of tabs open, and it's so nice to just be able to close the browser when I'm ready for bed, and be able to pick up where I left off. I often use it to open links I mean to blog about. They sit there for days or weeks in my tabs before I finally give in and close them. One such link was a page about knitting leprosy bandages for India--I couldn't make this up.

I've become so reliant on this feature that when it fails--say something opens in a new window and gets minimized, so that I end up inadvertantly closing my main window without closing Firefox, thus erasing all of the tabs I have open--I become very upset.

The Girl Scouts were selling cookies in the dining hall at dinner tonight. I walked passed, and three or four of them chorused, "Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?" All at the EXACT same time. I couldn't even LOOK at them as I walked past, or I would have died from the cuteness. I finally gave in and bought a box of Thin Mints and nearly died from the cuteness AGAIN as I watched them scramble all over each other to recommend the BEST low-fat cookie to the girl in front of me. (They had two varieties, and the girl buying them said, "Okay, if I put you in the corner and you could only have ONE cookie, which would you pick?" The two girls working the table immediately pointed to opposite boxes and I about died AGAIN.)

However, I managed to survive and get away without being overwhelmed. Now I'm free to be killed by the Thin Mints instead.

There've been so many people sick at my house lately, my budgie has started making coughing sounds. It's really adorable. She'll be singing along, and she just kind of works these sweet little coughs into her song. My mom asked me if I think she's okay and I assured her that the bird doesn't have a cold. It would figure though, that the one human noise she decided to imitate was coughing, not speech, wouldn't it?

I've been sneezing and coughy all day . . . wonder if I'm getting sick. (Of course, most of the time when I think I'm getting sick, I don't, so I'm not too worried.)