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This has been a rough week. Really it's been a rough two weeks, but the last few days especially. Father's Day is not a day I traditionally cope well with, though at least this year there wasn't the MASSIVE ONSLAUGHT of marketing like last year (I wasn't the only one who noticed, so I know I'm not crazy). Also I've been sore from massage therapy and the massive pressure changes in Chicago have been bugging me.

My traditional response to both pain and anxiety is sleep. Because when you are asleep, nothing can bother you, and it gets you that much closer to whatever horrible thing you have to get past before you can go back to being normal. So I have slept a lot this week. You know that sleep debt scientists say we all have? I think I've paid mine off, because I woke up at five this morning WIDE AWAKE. And since my grocery delivery will be here by nine, possibly as early as seven-thirty, I figured why try to go back to sleep?

So I got up and dyed my hair black. Well, I had the hair dye and some time to kill...

Comments

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

You should have joined a different graduate program. :) I decided I should put off dying my hair a bizarre color until after my candidacy exam, but I'm pretty sure no one on my committee would really care.

[nakki.livejournal.com]

Oh I haven't found a program yet, this fall is the Great Graduate School Application Extravaganza! So if I dye my hair now it will be redonkulus while I'm first applying to schools. Which is ok if I get in to MIT ('cause my prof won't care) but not ok if I have to apply to my second choice schools :-/

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

Good luck with applying! Next year you can return to crazy hair dying ways :)

(P.S. I applied to a bunch of schools a couple years back, so if you want any advice, I know lots about applications and interviews. I'm in biology.)