Though he was not my advisor, I received the most advice from him. He treated me with the same respect whether I was a masters student or a doc student, and he genuinely cared about my progress even though it had no relation to his own career.

Think about that for a sec. Some of the people I’ve met on campus, I don’t think I could say the same thing about. I wish more professors would use Bill as an example and take the time to care about students, even ones who barely know them, whose lives they have a profound effect on.

It was through a meeting with Bill Winn that made me certain that UW was for me. Now? Not so certain.

I got a phone message today from a detective at missing persons, but there were no details in the message… When I got to my cubicle in Miller, I found that the detective who had called was talking to other students about whether they’ve seen one of our professors, Bill Winn. I saw him yesterday at 10 or 10:30. Apparently, he left campus in his car (without his PDA) and had planned to be back for a noon meeting… but no one has seen him since.

During all this stress of writing papers and finishing up the quarter, this situation dropped down to remind me that there are more important things in life than writing papers…

I hope he is okay and is found soon.

Found a great cafe that has a nice comics reading library which are for sale right near campus. Went there with Amit to study… after walking around FOREVER trying to find a place that had an outlet we could use since my laptop battery died. I think I’ll try to go there lots… but a huge problem is there is no restroom! 🙁

The logistics of getting to campus and then walking to the off-campus location of my next meeting WITH food seemed like too much a pain. Also, of course, I just woke up and by the time I got there, I’d have to leave in 30 min.

yep… miasma

I’ve been staring at the same Word document for 4 days now with little inspiration to write… bleh.

I was in a meeting today with the TEP people and at one point I had a very, very strong sense of deja vu. I mean, I could practically predict what a couple people were going to say. Most times I have deja vu, I just shrug it off, but this time it was so prolonged… like a good minute or so, that I wrote it down during the meeting. Anyway… I just wanted to capture the fact that it happened. 😛

I need to go out and kick a ball around… and remember how much I SUCK at it… sheesh.

Robin and I have been watching Freaks and Geeks on DVD from the library. It’s a TV show set in 1980 that lasted one season in 1999-2000 that’s about two traditionally ostracized groups of kids in high school. One group represents the stoner/smoker/hang-out-under-the-bleachers type–the Freaks. The other group are the nerdy D&D/straight-As/bad-at-sports type–the Geeks.

My brother said I should watch it and that it represented our high school experience really well. Other than being a tad 7-10 years earlier than when we went to high school and the fact that we didn’t really interact with the “freak” group (a better description might be punk and maybe nowadays goth, but I’m just pulling that out of my ass) and that I don’t think we were nearly as girl-obsessed as the guys in the show… yeah, we were geeks. But we knew that already…

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