Today was a good day where I actually went out and had fun times with friends.

After meeting for coding and then for one of my papers (which I shall need to look at more soon because I am spending way too much time with the coding project and not nearly enough time with my own research, which is bad especially given the time and with comps coming up), roommates and I went to play mini golf at this place in town.  It was a hell of a time, and I won the game!  Woo!  I rarely win mini golf because putting is fucking evil most times.  I did yell shenanigans a few times when things did not go the way they should have.  Then after the game we ate some ice cream followed by some turns in the batting cages.  I have not stepped into one of those in a long time but I did not do half bad!  Not outstanding, but not as bad as I remember the last time I went into one (which may actually may have been a lot due to my deteriorating depth perception and the fact that I was not wearing glasses like I was today).  I might try and go there more often, just to get back into batting and stuff.  Might need to bring up my bat from my softball days.

And then we nommed at the Roadhouse because steak is fucking fantastic.


Talked a bit about dissertation stuff and it was brought up that even if I found enough information to do an entire thing on intelligence and covert affairs (which is actually not very likely), it might make me less marketable if and when I go on the job market.  Instead, it is more likely to be beneficial to me as a piece of a bigger project about foreign affairs and the tug-of-war between the two elected branches and that kind of stuff.

I really do want to work on that, but I compartmentalize everything and it is sometimes difficult for me to do different projects without actually finishing one before starting the other.  Even final papers I mostly do one at a time, with the exception of editing them.  So having the coding project unfinished before starting work on my own stuff is somewhat uncomfortable.  However, I know I'm going to need to overcome that discomfort if I want to pass comps and start trying to get things out under review and all.


Started thinking about ex and stupid shit while on walk with pups before, but I pushed it to the side for the time being, which might not have been a great idea.  Let us see if any dreams occur tonight now.  Hopefully not.