Don't blink; you might miss me

Other than a rather bizarre ode to Ingrid Bergman a couple days ago, I know I haven't been around on lj all that much lately. This is due to a combination of actually doing the things I'm supposed to be doing (like working on my dissertation and preparing to teach class and exercising and getting articles polished up to submit for publication and so on) and having lots of social engagements. I'm still trying to figure out how to negotiate having a really full RL schedule with the time I want to spend online.

So, just in case you've been wondering,

( Five Things That Have Made Me Very Happy in the Last Couple Weeks: )

( Five Things that Have Right Pissed me Off Lately )

Also, is anybody else unable to copy text from the update screen of lj, or is it just something wrong with what I'm doing?