Grad school progress
It feels like I’ve been working all day, and yet I didn’t get so much done. I did however conquer a few tasks on my list, of both “have to do this” and “want to do this” types.
- Sent OSU recommendation forms to my recommending professors after a long and un-victorious fight with my black ink cartridge. A new cartridge will print about 10 pages of text before it mysteriously prints nothing at all, or just a few streaks here and there. A soft cleaning does nothing, and the printer doesn’t report an ink shortage. Its inconsistent behavior leads me to believe it’s not the cartridge drying out, but a driver, or some other piece of the hardware. But that makes less sense when you consider that it prints fine when you replace the cartridge. I’d just rather not have to pay $15 for 10 pages of text.
- E-mailed about 10 professors at other schools to
begask them if they’d work with me if I were admitted. Not looking forward to those responses; should have done this at the beginning of the process rather than somewhere in the middle. - Took my music out of the iTunes library, set up a sync between music on my harddrive and music on my external drive for backup purposes (and so I can play it from the desktop or laptop), and added it all to foobar instead. Feeling somewhat crippled now but mostly freer.
Using this flavor of foobar.
Now I can watch some Dexter, actually eat something for the day, and get some sleep before I have to accost my mail man for what happened to the mail I didn’t feel like bringing in for a few days.
Tags: getting things done, grad school, music, software