the boring stuff that i need to say, but which you don't really need to read

the grant writing so far has involved a lot of copying of boilerplate text and finding synonyms and alternative sentence constructions, i.e. not the total hell i was worried it might be. also, the advisor is actually working on it with us, which is unprecedented (for me), and a little bit cool. the war has been going a little less well on other fronts, particularly with the ex-boss who is giving me all kinds of strange grief about reprocessing the data in 851 different ways. also, the meta-analysis paper is all kinds of horrible, and needs to be fixed post-haste. etc. aargh. AARGH.

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1. apologies go out to all the people who have been ignored and snubbed by me this week.
2. the absolute only reason people drink pbr is because it's ass-cheap, right? someone please tell me there's not something i'm missing.
3. found a bottle of torres mas de plana '96 on sale for 20 bucks. awesome. am starting to stockpile for summer, when there will be plenty of occasion for byobs and armchair philosophy, and the shadow of this terrible time will become a distant memory.
4. to ls: thank you for the thing. it's been a good long while.