Time, Cranberries, and Grad Students

Time is a funny thing. The funny thing about it is that it has apparantley gone into fast forward. Does it seem like 2006 just flew by to anyone else? I mean I feel like I just started grad school and now I'm graduating in May. And I feel like my years are coming by faster, but I don't see a very clear future ahead of me. Professionally, yes. Personally, no. I just don't want to get old. I think the fact that I am about to be in the real world is freaking me out. You mean I can't be a student anymore? oh well, one more reason to go for the PhD. I just wish time would slow down. Especially between now and Tuesday, because these are my last days off before the semester starts again.

Second rant...The Cranberries. Maybe I'm a decade late on this one, but why the hell did they have to turn so shitty (the band, not the fruit. I actually enjoy the fruit dried). I put on "everybody else is doing it so why can't we" today and I just felt like melting as soon as I heard "i still do". What a damn good album! That whole album just brings me back to the nineties. The days of being a "goth", writing bad poetry, and listening to the cranberries (yeah..one of these things just doesn't belong here..one of these things just isn't the same...i.e. cranberries + goth = how?). Then I listened to "no need to argue" which is an equally as good album. Absolutely amazing. Same retro feeling. Even "to the faithful departed" was o.k. But come on...what the hell was up with "wake up and smell the coffee"? that album was crap as was anything else that they've put out. It's just sad to know that they'll never be the same again. (see above complaint about time).

And finally, once again thanks to Nicole, please enjoy this very short but hilarious video on grad students: