Pseudonymous Ramblings by Psychobunny

Mix: Illness, Academic Software, Pseudonymity, Litigiousness

I have nothing of substance to add. I just needed to say for the record that I'm not dead, I'm just ignoring the blog in favor of getting actual work done. I have an exam tomorrow in abnormal psychology, and I haven't studied as much as I'd like to yet.

Skinny Roomie gave me a very nasty cold last week. The rats have their immune systems inbred practically out of them, so now I have to wear a mask when taking care of them. Breathing while wearing this mask fogs up my glasses (and I cannot poke myself in the eye for contacts), so I guess it's a good thing my vision isn't so bad that I can't go without them for a few hours. Also, I got these really weird cold pills that have a flavored capsule. The reason for putting flavoring in a pill you're supposed to swallow continues to elude me.

I cannot get ClickOnce deployment to work for me, so I need to upgrade to a paid version of Visual Studio 2005. I can't download the trial version because you have to uninstall the free version first, and if I do that, I'll lose all my projects. Since the project I need to deploy has over 5000 lines of code, I really don't want to risk losing it all. The program I'm looking at is regularly priced $800. The academic version is $129. Nice discount, but that's still several weeks of grocery money (not to mention that I'd need a DVD drive to install it, and ever since that CD exploded, all I have is a regular CD burner). I'm going to see how generous the family decides to get with birthday money. (Hey! I just realized that I'm going to be 21 in a month! That should be fun.)

We had to give Dr. Way-Too-Generous a pseudonym for him to use to post our grades today, and all I could think of that was distinctive (so I wouldn't have to remember whether I was Wonder Woman 1, 2, 3, or infinity) was Psychobunny. I'm just frantically hoping he doesn't decide to type "psychobunny blogger" or something like that into some search engine.

I'm trying to come up with ideas for a couple of research proposals I have to submit by the end of the semester (one for a class in research methods and the other for my honors thesis). Dr. Candid Advice tells everyone in the research methods class to do a project that is related to the work of the professors you're looking at as potential advisors for grad school, but we're required to do human research for the class. Doing a study in behavioral pharmacology with humans is, as Dr. CA told me, not only very hard to get approved here but it invites lawsuits anywhere. And the rest of the research I want to do involves programming, and I can't get deployment to work for me. (Grrr...) So it's back to the drawing board, I guess.

posted by Psychobunny at 4:02 PM